River Wear & Roker Beach on Film

These photos are from a while ago but they basically sum up my ideal day. A long walk, lots of dogs and the beach! These photos are from when we took Eva on the train up to Dixon parents in Sunderland. His parents live pretty super close to the River Wear and you can walk right up it to the coast. It was super misty and rainy, but warm. The pups spent a lot of time cooling off in the water. Eva absolutely despises being wet but she was always the first one in and the swam the furthest out... I think she might have been trying to impress her uncles. I was pretty proud of her. I wish Leeds had a beach.

Camera: Olympus XA2 // Film: Expired 2004, ISO 200.

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Filey & Scarborough on Film.

I wasn't going to post this for a while (because my last post was photos too!!) but its SO dark here all the time now so I don't have chance to take and photos for new posts. Sucks working 9-5 in winter.

I love using expired film, the unpredictable photos you get are the reason I love to shoot with film. The problem with expired film is the ISO lowers the longer a film is expired, basically meaning your photos will be duller... which is a bit of a problem in England in October when I shot these. I generally get my film from eBay; I have no idea of its life before it gets into my hands so it may be lower than it would during its natural deterioration. This film was a ISO 200, and expired in 2006 so they're kind of dull. BUT I still really love how they came out.

I took these whilst on our log cabin trip. It was a really dull the two days we made the trip to the coast from the cabin, which kind of sucked. I regret not taking more photos, like I always do. I love boats and all the equipment that comes with them, and how the outside of sea-front shops look, but I hardly took any photos of them. I definitely need to go back; maybe when its a little brighter.

Camera: Olympus XA2 // Film: ISO 200, expired 2006.

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Outside on Film

These photos have no running theme, really. They're taken in Leeds and back at my parents in South Yorkshire over the space of a month(ish) but I'm so happy with how they came out I really wanted to share them. I carry my Olympus XA almost everywhere and I'm trying to get into the habit of taking photographs of anything that I like the look of. This batch is a pretty good example of that! I love taking photographs of trees (which you can see from this older post), the second portrait photo of the peeling bark tree is my probably a favourite of any photo I've ever taken. I really love the shadows in the one of Dixon throwing a ball for Eva and the flare on the Keep Out tree is amazing. Getting film developed will never not excite me.

 

Camera: Olympus XA // Film: Expired 2006, ISO 200.

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Trees.

When I first got these photos back I was really disappointed. 27 photos all with no real consistency taken over a few months (between February and May) and a lot were blurred too due to bad lighting. When I got home I had a look through them on my computer, and realised a bunch of them actually went together really well! Some are Golden Acre Park, some are Hall Park, some are right on my street or buy our local train station. I just love the way trees look on film. (I suppose I always have). I particularly love the lilac-hue on the first few and the hidden wood pigeon in the first. 

Camera: Olympus XA2 // Film: Not sure on brand, expired ISO 200.

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Langsett Reservoir on Film.

Last weekend Dixon and me jumped on a train with the pup to visit my parents. We met up with my brothers, their fiancees and their pups and all went for a walk around Langsett reservoir. I've been super excited for Eva to meet up with their dogs for ages, I was so happy that they got along so well. She was running around and having the best time with them.

I completely forgot to pack my dslr which bummed me out, but I had my new Split Camera with me which worked out perfectly as I got through a full roll in the couple of hours we were there. I really need to learn to be less precious with film, especially when using a camera for the first time. Anyway, Langsett Reservoir is so beautiful. I have never been before and even though it was super windy, dull (as you'll see in the photos) and pretty rainy I was blown away. We saw toads, Lapwings and Red Grouse! So I was pretty happy.

And the photos themselves, okay, they could have been brighter (but on a dull day with expired film, I didn't expect much colour) but I got some pretty nice prints! I love the ghosty look of some of them and how in some you can't tell where trees start or finish. I forgot to take the second shot on a couple so they just had a black bar on them and a couple were blurred, but lesson learnt! Can't wait to give it another try on a brighter day. Here are my favourites:

 // Camera- Split-Cam // Film used- Fujifilm: Superia 200 Exp. 2006 //

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Barcelona On Film - 2

Camera: Olympus XA2 // Film: Fujicolor C200 Expired: 2006.
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Can you tell I'm short from the angle of some of these photos? Ha. They're from the second film from our Barcelona trip. Some of the photos turned out great, but I know I missed a load of amazing shots. The film didn't pull through properly and I didn't realise until half way through the day, boo! By then the day had got a little dull.

You can see in all of the photos too how green it is, that city is full of trees. The beautiful architecture mixed in with natures makes it my favourite place. The first photo is the view over the city and out to sea from Park Guell. You can see Sagrada Familia on the left, it looked pretty amazing from up there. 

You can see more of the photos from this film on my flickr.