This time last week I was in the quaint little village (possibly big enough to be a town?) of St Ives in Cornwall. For this particular jaunt I took just one camera with me; my 35mm film Pentax K1000.…
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Be warned, this whole post is basically just me me moaning about how today here in England it’s the first day of ‘summer hols’ for all school-age children (and teachers) and that I have to GO TO WORK. Every…
I’ve been feeling a bit trapped lately – not in a negative way, but I feel like I am tied to either my home / office / familiar places and am rarely get to escape for more than a…
When I was a kid I love playing ‘shop’ and my toy cash-register was my most prized possession. I still love shops, especially lovely little independent ones that I’ve never been to before. Any sort of shop, I really…
I thinking that we must now have past the end of ‘early spring’ and be in ‘mid spring’ (since the aforementioned blossom has made an appearance). So, I am having a round-up – a spring clean if you will;…
There are two things I know about Lyme Regis – it’s where Jane Austen played out a few dramatic scenes in her novels and it’s full of fossils. Just look at this fossil I found! And all I had…
Firstly, a quick observation which will be especially useful if you’re in the UK and shoot 35mm film. Boots (national chain of chemists) do a much, much better job of processing, scanning and printing photos than Tesco (giant UK…
It’s been one of those weeks that’s gone fast yet slow at the same time. Does that make sense? Work is MAD. End of financial year plus impending general election equals busy, busy, busy. I’ve gone and lost my…
Hooray for getting photos back from the lab! I take the 35mm films to the local supermarket – only 99p for development and 99p for putting on CD. I can’t complain about the price or the service but wish…
Somehow I missed out on any excursions with my camers(s) over the weekend, but, that’s OK as it means I get to go through and give an airing to some of the ones that didn’t quite make the first…