It's beginning to look a lot like...

Christmas!!

I'm overexcited already :) are you?

Gingerbread hot drinks and biscuits. I loveeee gingerbread!

The same desktop (and now phone)background I use every year and our first (perfect!) christmas card!

Putting up the tree listening to our one christmas record - Fairytale of New York!! Also perfect!

(we are working on getting more...)

The tree and my favourite christmas decoration, stacking Santas!

Ornaments! A grumpy pug, an angel from NYC, a yellow camera (I still love it Micaela!) and a lovely tree from a even lovelier best friend.

Christmas food!

Warm hats, on cold, glorious winter mornings.

Counting down the days...(and messing around with my phone haha) 

p.s. how fun are tilt shift affects on these apps... they are my new favourite thing!

This is what happens..

...when I don't take the photos of my phone for a couple of months... I digitally burst on my blog :) hahaha.

I didn't realise I took so many photos with it to be honest - I do wish that Instagram was on Android photos though - I love Vignette but it would be great to have an easier way to share my photos with people.

Happy Thanksgiving to those celebrating it - I'm not going to write a list, as right now I'm thankful for everything and thats a pretty big list...

p.s. I braved the self portrait on the end for Photo Meditations... 
despite my feet it was the only photo of me on there. I was sleepy.

Film vs digital quiz...

When I posted some of the photos that I took in Paris with my Yashica Samurai and the portra film, a few commenters were surprised by the quality of the photos that came from the SLR and professional film... so I thought I would have a little fun with you and put together a little quiz to see if people could really see the difference from quality film and digital photos..

So here goes, each set of photos has a digital photo Thomas and a film photo by Me from Paris but which side is the film and which side is the digital?

Set 1 - The Sacre Couer

Set 2 - Seine State along the river

Set 3 - Elephant outside the Musee D'Orsay

Set 4 - Arc de Triomphe detail 

 Set 5 - Inside the entrance of the Moulin Rouge.

If you click on the images it should show them bigger for more detail.

I would love to see your answers in the comments and I'm really intrigued to see how people will do, a couple of these look quite tough to me...

I'll post the answers next week, I want to try and get as many people to try this as possible so feel free to share the link with your friends :) and

good luck!!

p.s. Out of all our photos, these were the most similar that we took - 5 sets out of over 1500 photos. I still love seeing our photos next to each other, as even though they are the same subject they are still so different. (apart from maybe the elephant one lol. I'm not even sure how that happened haha)

My other happy place...

This weekend we had visitors and a free morning, so we went for a visit to the National Media Museum in Bradford... although I do love the entire museum, especially the gallerys, one floor in particular is exactly what I imagine my happy place to look like.

The Kodak Gallery...

So many cameras!!

I can happily spend ages walking around ohh and ahhing at cameras. And I get especially excited when I realise that I have another one thats in the museum that I didn't have the last time I went (two this time, woop!!)