Snow around where I live

So these have been sitting in my scans folder waiting for Winter to come around again so I wasn’t posting snow photos in August haha. These were taken on a gloriously snowy day - I want to say last year but it was likely 2020 to be honest - where the snow (and ice) was crisp, the air was fresh and my feet were cold!

I’m just about to go on ou Christmas break, so just wanted to pop on and say happy holidays to everyone and wish you all a wonderful new year. I will be back in the new year this time - I’m about to schedule some posts right now haha.

Camera: Olympus OM-10
Film:Fuji Superia 200
Location: Leeds

Around Where I Live

I had a quick search in my archives and Squarespace informs me that I haven’t shared an official post in this series since 2017. I feel a little in a daze at the moment, like the last 2/3/4 years have passed me by in a hazy blur. I wonder if its grief, illness, pandemic-ness… and came to the conclusion that its all of it. I remember reading once that when someone you love so much dies, a part of you just stops moving forward whilst the rest of you keeps going through time… maybe that part of me was bigger than I anticipated.

Anyway, I’m very lucky to love where I live, expecially during lockdowns and isolations lately - it really is a lovely place with amazing history, access to nature and I love sharing photos of it. So here are a few more for you.

Camera: Olympus OM-10
Film: Fuji Superia 200

Out of Focus

I mentioned in my first post sharing photos from the Fujifilm Zoom Date 1000 that I failed a little bit with taking risks with the focusing. I’ve debated about sharing these photos here because ‘technically’ they’re not great - at all. But there is something kind of ethereal about them still - that soft (fail) focus on film you know?

Also, and I’ve written about this many times before, there is such a tendency on the internet to only share your very best. Now, I’m not selling you anything or trying to encourage you to buy my best things - instead I’m trying to share my experience with you - and that experience with this camera is that the focus on it doesn’t quite match my aspirations haha.

It is hard not to think ‘well if I’d used this camera, or another camera’ these photos would be exactly as I wanted them - and I think that comes from the place of taking a ‘perfect’ photo - rather than that place of accepting the equipment, the situation and the choices that you’ve made. I do tend to overthink things (I’m sure you’ve never noticed ha) but in sharing these photos here, theres a (begrudging) acceptance of these photos just as they are and I think theres something really important in that as a learning process as well as that constant trying to get the perfect photo all the time.

Camera: Fujifilm Zoom Date 1000
Film: Lomography CN 400
Location: Leeds

Winter appropriate weather photos

The weather here in the UK was a bit bizarre in February with some very warm weather for about a week or so. However just before that we had some season and month appropriate weather - and it looked rather atmospheric, so I of course took photos.

Even though we’ve been in our house for nearly two years now, I still can’t believe our luck living so close to so much open space - especially only being a few miles out of a big city. I very much enjoyed getting to see it in its Winter glory as well.

Camera: Fujifilm Zoom Date 1000
Film: Lomography CN 400
Location: Leeds