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quince blossom
Instant Photography

Polaroid Spectra 2

This is a great little Polaroid camera if you simply want something you can point and shoot with and not worry too much about focusing or lighting. Whilst it’s quite a big hunk of plastic to carry around, I…

sloes
Digital Photography

Signs

I love this time of year – when you get to see little signs that winter might finally be thinking about finishing. Today, in amongst the wintry berries and christmassy robins I spotted catkins AND snowdrops. Yay! All taken this afternoon with…

new forest pony
Digital Photography

Hooray for sunshine!

As you’ll be able to tell from the photos below, I went to the seaside today! Here’s a little vlog I made about it using my phone – looks like 2012 is going to be the year of the…

100 days of winter on flickr
Film Inspiration Life Photography

Halfway!

If my maths is correct (there’s a very good chance it isn’t) we are now half-way through 100 Days of Winter! Half-way! In 50 days time we will have reached the end of February and be relishing the prospect of…

wine
Film Photography

A new adventure

I can’t believe I made a vlog yesterday! I can’t believe I made another video today, too! I know they’re not brilliant but they never will be unless I practice. All I’ve done so far is talk into my…

statue of Issac Watts
Film Photography

Midwinter miscellanea at 800 ISO

There’s a teeny tiny bit of brightness left in the sky and it is well past 4.30 – wonderful! Not this sky though – I took this one a few days ago when the sun was setting at about lunch time! (Exaggerating.…

new forest pony
Digital Photography

Friday quickie plus some random photos

This week has taken a fair bit of stamina (and coffee) to get through – but here I am, out the other side and unbelievably germ-free after a week of being in the Petri-dish that is a large open-plan office…

the queen by eve arnold
Inspiration Photography

Eve Arnold

As a woman and an artist, Eve Arnold was an inspiration. There’s a nice collection of her work available on the Guardian website, including images of Marilyn Monroe which are her most well-known. The collection misses out my favourite photo of…

wintry trees
Digital Life Photography

Bleak mid winter

How are you liking the return to normal life after the holidays? I have to say, I do miss my precious daylight – I’m so pleased we’ve reached the point where the days are very, very slowly beginning to…