Bempton Cliffs Panorama photos...

My little panorama plastic camera was an unexpected member of our family last weekend but I must admit, it was so much fun to play with.

Even though it doesn't have a true wide angle lens like the
vivatar slim and wide
(I would love one of those! Its at the top of my charity shop camera hunt list)
and the image is cropped by a template onto the negative I still love how the pictures turned out and it was so easy to carry around and snap away happily with.

{in fact the only problem I had with it was keeping my finger out of the way of the lens!}

{portrait panoramic photos are my favourite}

{you can just see both of our Dad's in this photo, I love it!}

Bempton Cliff's was also an unplanned part of our holiday however I think it may have been one of my favourite places we visited! On Thomas's Mum's birthday (only a few weeks ago) Thomas's Dad promised her that he would take her to see some puffins before her next birthday... he managed to fulfill his promise rather quickly as whilst we were there we saw 4 puffins! Two sleeping curled up and two standing on the cliffs.

Unfortunately none of us had a camera good enough to get a photo but they were absolutely stunning and a real highlight of our weekend.

Castle Howard with tape!

You may have already seen these on Katrina's blog or the notebook doodles but I'm blogging about it anyway because I am just so excited. When I first put my photoswap post together I spent hours looking for free tape strips to use and now Katrina from Pugly Pixel has some on her blog!

As soon as I saw them I knew I had to use them somehow today, so here are the photos from Castle Howard which we visited on the way back from our holiday with some fun use of tape. Hurray!

The mansion was absolutely beautiful and I now really want to watch Brideshead Revisited after looking around the house that it was filmed in.

We love Scarborough!

It's no secret that Thomas and I loooove Scarborough and we both were looking forward to going back and sharing our favourite places with our parents.
(For me it was the beach and the spa, for Thomas the amazing market vaults in town...)

Scarborough also has some great charity shops and I managed to pick up two more cameras for hardly any money - a cute kodak instamatic and a panorama wide pix 35mm camera. Needless to say I started using the second straight away and I can't wait to pick up the film from it on Friday!!

I think my fuji instax loved Scarborough too!

For more Scarborough photos click here, here or here...
{We really love Scarborough!}

Bridlington...

Having lived in Yorkshire for almost 4 years now I am slightly ashamed to admit that before Friday we had never been to Bridlington (or just Brid) and now that we finally have, I just want to go back again!

Aren't these the cutest doors?

A few fuji instax mini's, I love them both!

I'm not sure what happened here...

We only had a couple of hours before we needed to get to the caravan so we spent an hour looking around the Old Town and Priory, before getting the most amazing sandwiches from a local bakery and taking them down to the seafront to eat. (Food not pictured as it was very quickly devoured...)

We even managed a walk along the promenade, an ice cream and of course, a photo of our feet on the beach :)

p.s. can you just see my yashica autofocus in the bottom photo? I just dropped off 4 films to be processed so hopefully I should have more Brid photo next week, hurray!