All the elements needed for a perfect day to go out and take photographs managed to align themselves today and so I got to do just that! These are all Polaroids, lovely, lovely Polaroids, but I was also toting…
Photography
One of things I do love about January is the dreaming and scheming that fills my brain for the year ahead. At the moment I am fixating on holidays and working out where to travel to. Somewhere that’s hot…
Today I realised that we’re definitely past that pesky winter solstice as it seemed really light at 4.30 this afternoon – hardly dark at all! I celebrated by throwing in a bunch of tulips with my supermarket shopping.…
I have a whole of the year in front of me and I’m determined to make the most of it – find the value in the small things and take some bigger steps, too.…
In answer to quite a few emails I’ve had, I have finally put together this little tutorial all about how to turn an everyday photo into something vintage-looking and textural. The instruction that follow are given for Photoshop, but…
The sea hasn’t quite frozen over yet, but phew, it’s getting close to it! This is Weston Shore in Southampton – the nearest seasidy place I could get to without exiting the city and braving unsalted roads. Now, this…
It is still cold. Very cold. Embedded in permafrost. I did manage to make it into the back garden though.…
I booked this week off work thinking I’d be out every day with my camera(s); off to various locations around the south, snapping and adventuring and having a thoroughly good time. Instead I am virtually housebound and slipping and…
It’s still oh so cold and England is still panicking. We are totally geared-up for drizzle, fog and general blustery inclemency but get totally fazed when the temperature drops to minus figures; and especially by snow. But, for all…
If you leave your warm-hearted, vintage polaroid camera in the car overnight (in sub-zero temperatures) I can tell you that the pictures you’ll get out if it the next day won’t be what you’re expecting! These were taken inside…