Missing the blue skies...

The weather in Leeds lately has been pretty standard Autumn English weather... which means rain. Rain and more rain.  So to cheer myself up, I've been looking at lovely blue sky photos from our visit to Filey in the summer. I figured they might cheer other people too.

Doesn't looking at these just brighten your day? Gosh I'd love to be back there right now with the fresh sea air and sunshine!

Camera: Canon EOS 750
Film: Lomo CN 400
Location: Filey, England

Holkham Hall in Black and White

As well as getting married in Norfolk, we also spent a week in the barns after the wedding with our families. We don't get to spend as much time at home as we would like with everyone, so it seemed like the perfect reason to celebrate all week long with the people we love and also play tourists in our own county.

One thing that I really wanted to do whilst we were there was visit Holkham Hall - Thomas's Dad works there and he gave me, my sister and my brother in law our very own tour around the hall and it was so amazing! He also got to show off his new daughter in law to his colleagues which I know he very much enjoyed.

I absolutely loved the details in each room, as you can see in these photos everything was so ornate and intricate, even the door handles and light switches! I was a little worried abut using black and white film as the colours were gorgeous but I'm pleased these worked out well, they give the hall a timeless look to them I think. I have some colour photos too (of course) but I'm glad I risked it with these photos as well.

If you're ever in the area I highly recommend a visit to the hall and the grounds as well and if you see someone working there called Paul definitely say hi!

Camera: Canon EOS 750
Film: West Yorkshire Cameras Black and White film (£4 a roll which I think is amazing)
Location: Holkham Hall, Norfolk

Harry Mungus

I have no idea how this nickname came about for Harry or even how it stuck, but it has and now I call him it fairly often. I don't think he really cares what you call him luckily as long as you give him attention or even better, feed him.

Most of this walk was spent as most of his walks on the beach are spent - searching for the perfect stone to bring home with him. Once he's got it, he holds onto it for dear life (though his head is turned by a biscuit if you time it right...). You can just see that he did manage to find one eventually in the last photo, phew!

Camera: Canon EOS 750
Film: Agfa Vista 200
Location: Holkham Beach, Norfolk

Our Mini Moon - Heptonstall Part II

One of the most fascinating things at Heptonstall was the church grounds with two churches on it - one a ruin and another church still in use that was built after the original church suffered substantial damage in a gale in the 1800's. Of course with the original being a ruin we had to go look around - I do love taking photos of ruins!

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I'm trying to think if we've been in a ruin that 'young' before - most of them are usually well over 200 years - whilst this one you could easily picture what it was like when it was a substantial building and being used regularly for its purpose. We definitely haven't been in church grounds with two buildings on it - that was a first and a really fascinating to see them next to each other like that.

Camera: Canon EOS 750
Film: Agfa Vista 200
Location: Heptonstall