Weekend Love...

I love love love unplanned weekends - they are always the most relaxing and fun. There are no worries about where you are meant to be when or who you are meant to be with. Just Me, Boyfriend and whatever we want to do.

Whatever we wanted this weekend seemed to involve lots of yummy food and drinks - which isn't really a surprise. On Friday night we went for Tapas and cocktails with friends where we shared so much delicious food.

On Saturday we went for a pub lunch - I had risotto, which I am obsessed with at the moment and Boyfriend had a Ploughman's platter.

All of the food was amazing and the condiments were delightful especially the onion marmalade - I think I'm going to have to try making some. I especially loved the wallpaper and the old men playing cards with their pints!

p.s. please ignore my fascination with our feet everywhere we go :)

Holga vs Digital

It wasn't until I got the roll of film processed with the Scarborough photos on that I remembered that I took a photo with each camera in order to do a comparison...

I'm really amazed by how much brighter the colours in the holga are and how much wider the digital photo is.

Even though the focus is slightly off on the holga (and theres an annoying person in the photo!) I think that it captured the moment much better than the digital camera - it was a gorgeous day and the sky and sea were stunning!

Though of course I still love them both!

We have great friends!!

Remember how excited I was when I posted on Friday...? Well our weekend was ruined by Boyfriend finding out that he didn't get the job he interviewed for - even though he has been doing the job for 2 years and was the best person qualified for it...(I'm not going to bitch about it here but the way it was dealt with was disgusting )

Luckily we have awesome friends who distracted us and kept us happy over the weekend!

We went on swings, had a bbq, walked around an abbey and along the river and we ate lots of yummy baked cheescake! Its just a shame the weekend had to end... sigh

More photos of Birmingham...

I really like Birmingham - it has a certain charm. There are lots of lovely areas, like the Bullring and around the museum but it was the more run down area of Digbeth that really captured me. We took a wrong turn on Saturday and found ourselves wandering away from the main road around the mostly run down and abandoned industrial buildings.

I watched a programme on TV about a photographer a few weeks ago* and this area reminded me of his work and his attitude. He said (this is from memory, sorry if it's not completely right)

"I was told once to take pictures of the beautiful things around me... and I said, there are no beautiful things around me... and the person responded, well take pictures of the ugly things then. So I did."

I love how taking a picture of something can turn something considered ugly into something really quite beautiful!

*UPDATE: The photographer was William Eggleston, I couldn't find exactly what he said - but I did find this quote - I think its something I might aim to do!

"'I only ever take one picture of one thing. Literally. Never two. So then that picture is taken and then the next one is waiting somewhere else."