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

York Railway Museum

I’ve had these photos sat for a while now as we visited not too long after my Grandad died. My Grandad loved trains and his particular favourite was the Mallard which sits pride of place in the museum.

Its been over 7 years since my Grandad died now - which offends me so much - and I still get those punches in the stomach of devastating loss regularly. More so when we do activities I know he just would have loved doing with my nephews and definitely when both boys get so excited about trains. I know they’re little and kids love trains, but I like the idea that interests like that can be in the blood sometimes.

Camera: Canon EOS 750
Film: Kodak 400 TX
Location: Railway Museum, York