Sharing the love...

After an upsetting weekend in the news, I thought today would be a good day to spread some love and share my favourite blogs here. I finally finished putting my blogroll together on Friday and now its ready for you all to check out.

You can see the selection here but for the full list and little descriptions of each blog, check out my blogroll page here! 

Let them eat cake...

Hmmm cake! I don't about you but I love cake, so a club dedicated to cakes is one of my favourite things, especially when I all I have to do is turn up and not even make anything... the perks of being a guest of my amazing friend Clare (who has her own blog here - if you like cake, you should definitely read it!)  Clare is part of the Clandestine Cake Club where bakers bring a cake, meet other keen bakers and eat (and talk) cake... which is pretty much all you need from a meet up right?

I snuck a few photos at the last meet up that I went to - though not too many as it was getting dark (and I was eating cake, lets be honest...). Clare's cake is the third photo - a lemon meringue cake - and it was delicious!

Camera: Olympus OM-10
Film: Agfa Vista 200
Location: Leeds

Leeds through their eyes: Dianne

I love seeing how others take photos of Leeds with film cameras, so I was incredibly excited to see Dianne's photos of Leeds on her blog and when I asked if she minded me sharing her photos here, she said yes. Huzzah!

Dianne named these photos Dirty Leeds and that in particular made me laugh - I often forget just how industrial and downtrodden areas of Leeds can be, but I think Dianne's caught it perfectly.

You can see more 'Leeds through their eyes' photos here.

Photographer: Dianne Tanner
Camera: Mamiya 135EF

These photos are used with Diannes's permission so please do not reuse them.

Frocktober

If you were reading my blog a couple of years ago, you may remember that to support my dear blog friend Anna from Much Love, Anna, I took part in Frocktober during October 2011. In Australia, Frocktober is officially associated with the Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation and for every day in October Anna wore a dress to raise funds and awareness for the Foundation. 

Although I didn't manage the whole month like Anna did, I did manage 21 days out 31, which I was really pleased with. This year, Anna is again taking part in Frocktober and as well as wearing a dress every day, Anna is also sharing a film photo of a dress on her Frocktober Tumblr page - Frocks on Film

I love this idea, its been so fun to check Anna's Tumblr every day and see her new photo and I'm particularly taken with the idea of a specific theme photo project as well. Anna captures the dresses so beautifully with great compositions and a sensitive approach to the light which I think gives a lovely result.

You can find Anna's tumblr page here and if you want to support Anna and donate, then you can do that here. 

{All photos taken by Anna and used with her permission. Please do not share them.}