A new camera, a new perspective

Nope, not a new film camera but a new phone with a fancy new camera in it. Sure its digital - but hurray, a new camera to play with! And boy have a I played with it a lot in the last 24 hours - I'm actually really surprised by that - but in just 24 hours, my photography love has burst into life again and I LOVE all these photos! 

I've had a bit of a weird week this week anyway - for the past two years I've been relearning everything that I do - which sounds dramatic - and I guess it kind of is... but yes - relearning.  CBT helped with that a lot - essentially in teaching me that I had to relearn things and showing me how and that it's ok to have to learn but now that's its been a while and I've been through the cycle of relearning, forgetting - trying the same old ways without realising - failing and then finally remembering that I have to do things differently - its started to sink in and actually stick. I've noticed the sticking more this week. I've loved myself a little bit more this week.

When I say everything it really does feel like everything - its hard and a little heartbreaking sometimes - the letting go. But yesterday, in using a new camera and HAVING to do things a bit different,  I realised that I've been trying to apply the same old tricks to photography - using the cameras I used to love, using the films I used to love - and instead of trying something new to reignite my passion - I've been pushing the same old ideas hoping they will work like they used to. A bit like a toddler trying to push a rectangle block into a square hole - the shapes almost there but not quite right.

(I can honestly say that I never realised I was this stubborn about things - a little stubborn sure - who isn't? But this stubborn?!)

So, now that I have a new digital camera to play with - I'm thinking its time that I got a new film camera to play with too - something that's a square fitting into the square hole - does anyone have any recommendations? I'd love some help with finding a new camera as I have no idea where to start!! Tell me your favourite camera and what you love about it - I want to hear all about it.

p.s. You may have realised I've started writing more recently - I don't really know why - but I'm really pleased - I've missed this.

Some phone photos from the last few days

I was hoping to share more photos from Croatia today, but I've accidentally locked myself out of my Flickr account - urgh it is such a fuss, I can't remember my new ID  as I had to change it because BT were deleting their Yahoo emails, but now they're not - so who knows what's going on there - but either way no Flickr for Rhianne at the moment, boo! I'm hoping to sort that out ASAP.

So... instead, here are some pretty photos that I've taken on my phone from the weekend and couple of days walking to work. The Autumn sunshine has been rather lovely (in between the rain of course) and I'm loving the golden colours everywhere at the moment. In fact I took 3 rolls of film over the weekend too, I can't wait to drop those in to be developed. 

August in photos

It's September! Can you believe that? I'm excited because for me that means its finally my birthday month and the month we go away for a week, woohoo!

August was a pretty busy month and although I didn't take loads of photos, I really like the ones above, I think they capture everything that I got up to quite well. 

#peonywatch

If you follow me on Instagram, you know that I've been sharing photos of the peonies in our front garden again this year and one of my followers there Christie suggested that I make a gif of all the photos, so here it is! I love, love, love it!

(Although I do think one of the photos is out of order but it took so long for this one to upload onto Pacasion, I'm leaving it as it is...)