so consistently inconsistent!

Hey there loves! If theres one thing you can rely on, its that I’ll be inconsistent with blogging but I am back - for a while at least. I had a nice break though - for one, I finished my masters, with a distrinction! Woop woop. And two, I enjoyed the summer and tried to relax as much as possible.

I have been waiting to post though and I’ve been waiting because I had to get films developed. Double woop woop! Funny how I spend ages researching a digital camera and finally buying one, to then take a film camera out with me too. I’ll be sharing a mixture of film and digital photos here for a while though and its going to be so fun!

These photos were taken about two years ago on trips to the beach - one visit to Great Yarmouth and one to Skegness - the funny thing is that I actually couldn’t tell you which photo is of which place - they really are very similar. So this post is a little celebration of the British seaside resort.

Although I think its safe to say that the last photo is Great Yarmouth haha, it is ‘great’ there.

These were taken with a new Kodak Ektar H35 half frame camera which I thought would be perfect to carry around with a digital camera - and it was. I can’t decide how I feel about the fuzzy camera focus on some of these photos though - its meant to look like that I imagine but I moved away from the toy camera look a while ago and I haven’t really missed it that much. What do you guys think? Perhaps I’ll dig out my Yashica half frame camera again.

Camera: Kodak Ektar H35 half frame camera
Film: Agfa Vista 200 (with its tell tale green shift ha!)
Locations: Great Yarmouth and Skegness, two classic British seaside locations!

Little details at Leighton House

Trust an artists house to have eye catching details… and a sculpture of despair.

So many luscious details - the textures, colours and overall gorgeousness of the house was a feast for my eyes!

Camera: FujiFilm TX-30ii
Location: Leightons House, London

Peacock Blue at Leightons House

So funny story… but as mentioned previously we went to London for a few days and I was like ‘Yes, I have a digital camera, I can take as many photos as I want, can’t wait!’ and then… it rained. In London, I know, shocker. I had suitable boots and clothes of course (I do live in Yorkshire remember) but I was unprepared for the total horror I felt of letting my new shiny digital - extremely expensive and vulnerable - camera get wet. So lesson learned. Always take a back up film camera with me.

In the end, London was a super uncomfortable photography experience for me - not necessarily in a bad way. But I was pushed outside of my comfort zone 1. in that my safe outside space with all its light was gone because of the rain and 2. because I had zero experience using my new digital camera inside consistently.

I totally forgot how starting a new skillset feels so awful at the beginning - I think perhaps part of that is my own perfectionism and high expectations - but that feeling of not being good at something is not a feeling I endure well ha. I think the results turned out ok in the end, but not knowing how to fix any issues immediately or how to take the kind of photos I wanted to take straight away is a difficult learning curve.

That being said… I am obsessed with how the peacock blue colours turned out in these photos and I loved, loved, loved this location of Leighton’s House. I’d say that I was happy with 50% of the results that I took and for a new(ish) hobby, thats not too bad. I do have some more photos from here as I’m also hugely jealous of the studio in this house - gosh would I love an art studio like that. I’ll share photos of that soon!

Camera: FujiFilm TX-30ii
Location: Leightons House, London