Conflicted and overexposed...

I'm having a love/hate relationship with the second half of photos from my last roll of ilford xp2.

On the one hand I am so disappointed with myself for not checking one of the fundamental switches on my diana mini (N not B, N not B) which means they are blurry and so overexposed... and the gardens at Harlow Carr were so pretty I was looking forward to sharing some lovely photos.

Yet on the other, I like the tones of the overexposure and the extreme grainyness of these photos - its almost like they've been painted with light...



What do you think? I'm completely torn over them...

Camera: Diana mini
Film: Ilford XP2 iso 400
Location: Harlow Carr Gardens, Harrogate

Love is in the air...

I'm at an age where a lot of my friends are getting married and honestly, I don't mind... I love attending weddings, even if I am the one sniffling to myself throughout the ceremony and speeches.

Last month I took my Diana Mini with my favourite Ilford XP2 film along to one of my university friend's amazing wedding and I'm in love with the results!


Everything about the entire wedding was beautiful and if anything I'm a little bit sad I didn't take more photos but I'm still very happy with the ones I did take.

700 followers giveaway - closed.

I've been on the edge of my seat for the past month slowly watching my followers creep closer and closer to 700... it's been so exciting as I never ever (ever) imagined that I could have so many dedicated, kind and amazing readers of my little blog. I am so incredibly glad and excited that you are all here and sticking around!!!

So to celebrate (I love a good celebration) I'm kicking off this week with a giveaway from one of my favourite shops and one of my favourite creative ladies!


If you've followed my blog for a while then you'll know that I adore Cassia Beck, I love her print shop: Cassia Beck, I love her collage shop: Violet May and I completely and utterly adore her vintage inspired print shop Lola's Room! (Vintage cameras and yellow tights anyone?)


And today, you can win: A 8x8 print of The Typewriter from Lola's Room.


How to enter: Visit Lola's Room and leave a comment with your favourite item.

This giveaway is now closed, thank you to everyone who entered.

p.s. 700 is pretty epic right, keep your eye out for a couple more celebrations this week!

York Diana Mini's

Taken on a diana mini date in York with the lovely Adele.

Camera: Diana Mini
Film: Lomography Colour Negative Iso 400

Have a great weekend!!

My 'Dear Photograph' fail...

Seeing the 'Dear Photograph' tumblr on so many blogs at the moment (even one of my best friends sent me the link) reminds me of my failed attempt at this kind of photograph with Thomas's family beach hut last August.



It doesn't look quite so impressive when

1. you're facing the wrong direction
2. there's a giant windbreak in the photo
3. you're holding the photo at a wonky angle...

I gave up after two attempts! haha!

Perhaps I'll try again soon...

p.s you see a better scan of the photo and more of the beach hut here. It's a bit out of date though as its been raised and now has steps again.

Meanwood Urban Farm...

It seems a little silly that I'm posting these now as our visit was over two months ago... but here we are.

I'm beginning to think that this day of sunshine (in April remember!) may have been the best weather that we've had this year which is hugely despressing. Summer has definitely not come to England and honestly its starting to bring me down a little. I'm fed up of wearing my coat and worrying about whether my feet will get wet everyday.

Looking at these little lambs faces is cheering me up though...



I'm also a fan of the lone sheep and the rabbits.

Camera: Diana Mini
Film: Ilford XP2 iso 400
Location: Meanwood Urban Farm, Leeds.

p.s. lack of sun = no photo taking = grumpy Rhianne.

Oh my...

I've been smitten with Just Noey's polaroid coasters for a while now (I love coasters!) and just this week 8 more designs have been added to the collection.

I want them all!

{all photos by Just Noey}

Everything must go SALE!

*** EVERYTHING MUST GO £5 SALE ***

As much as I love having my Etsy shop as an outlet for selling my photos, this year has become a little overwhelming for me - so I am going to be putting my shop in Vacation mode for a while until I know exactly where I want to go with it and what I want to do with my photos.

I never started using my cameras with the intention to sell photos and I'm still blown away that people want to buy any of them... and for that I would like to thank the blogging and etsy communities especially, you have been so supportive of my shop and blog and for that I am incredibly grateful.

It seems a waste to just shut my shop with things still in it, so if you have thought about buying a print, or maybe even some postcards from it, then now may be your last chance (I'm not saying it is, but it might be... I don't know yet)

EVERYTHING IS REDUCED TO £5
(which is around $8 I believe)

I was planning to do a fair at some point this year but that is now on hold as well, however, I was too eager with ordering my postcards so I have also added a Set of 4 Mystery Postcards listing where I will mix up 4 of the postcards that I have had printed for a lucky buyer.

This will be the only item that I will relist... I ordered quite a few, oops.

Thank you so much for your support again and thank you also if you buy something :)


p.s. If you could blog, tweet, RT this, that would be great, I really want everything to go.

p.p.s. You can still use the coupon "IAMEASILYDISTRACTED" if you are a reader of this blog.

p.p.p.s To all of you who run a sucessful etsy shop whilst working, you amaze me, it's a lot of hard work and your dedication is an inspiration!

TGI Friday...

{Doric Columns at Harlow Carr Gardens, Harrogate}

Can you believe I carried my fuji instax wide around with me for 4 hours last weekend and this was the only photo I took? I do love it though, the columns were hidden away and such a surprise when we found them that I couldn't resist taking a photo.

I'm so glad its Friday, this week has been exhausting for some reason and I'm looking forward to a lazy weekend.

Have a good weekend!

We like to collect things...

I often get asked what my boyfriend Thomas thinks of all my cameras around the house... and here's the great thing - he can't complain as he collects something too.
Records.
I brought Thomas a record player as a present about 5 years ago but its only recently that we've had the space to get more records and yesterday Thomas brought 4 boxes of 50 and 60's rock n roll records for a crazy bargain price.
Perhaps I have a bad influence on him...
(remember by box of cameras? Oops)
In case you were wondering, Thomas now has over 200 records... which makes my nearly 40 cameras seem quite small in comparison.
So really, people should now be asking me what I think of that :)

Oh my...

I need this print by Gemma Milly
(Seen on Decor8)

Gemma Milly
Portfolio :Blog : Flickr : Twitter

What Polaroids Were Made For...

Yesterday my friend Diana posted a polaroid of herself from when she was little and it reminded me that I had found one of me whilst hunting through some old family photos earlier in the year that I hadn't got around to posting.

As you can see both Diana and I used to rock the bowl-styled haircut with white tights look in the mid 80's.

Harlow Carr Gardens

On Saturday we took my Grandparents on the train to Harrogate and made our way out to the RHS Harlow Carr Gardens.

Although I took my diana mini with me - it had a black and white film in it - so I'm really glad I had my new phone to play with. The colours of the flowers and trees were absolutely gorgeous, it would have been a shame not to capture them somehow.

We spent a total of four hours looking around in the end which I hadn't expected, so we didn't even get to show them Harrogate properly.
Maybe next time...

p.s. My right sidebar seems to have vanished on this computer and a couple of others, I'm trying to figure out why so apologies if you can't see anything to the right.