Along the River in York...

Today is the first day of my 11 days off work and already we've had breakfast outside, I've got two loads of washing out on the line (I love having a clothes line) and we're about to go to town for vintage shopping and lunch, yeay!! Although looking through these photos, I could quite happily go back to York and walk along the river again with a mint choc chip ice cream!

I love that they all have a slightly purple shade to them - has anyone ever experienced that with Ilford XP2 film before? I don't know if its because it was so sunny or if it would have happened during development...

We're going away with family and visting friends next week so I have some amazing guest posts coming up to kep my blog company. I can't wait to relax, take lots of photos, see the people I love and forget about work for the week.

Happy Easter and happy weekend!! See you in 11 days!

York Instax Mini's...

Considering how many cameras I usually take out with me - I was quite restrained when we went to York and I only took 2 - my diana mini and my fuji instax mini. Between Myself, Adele and Thomas we did have 6 cameras, so if I'd taken anymore we probably would have all ended up with the same photos!

I thought these turned out really well, very cute and they really show off how sunny and lovely the day was.

If you want to see more photos from the day, Adele just posted some photos taken with her beautiful yellow holga, they are gorgeous!

p.s. she also has a picture of us jumping, it is all kinds of amazing. I love her! Why didn't we meet up sooner?!?!

Giveaway Winner!

I completely forgot to announce a winner for last weeks giveaway yesterday, but as it was a rather impromtu giveaway, I don't think it matters so much that it was extended by a day...

So, I am delighted to announce that the winner is Deb from Pipistrelle, who has two lovely etsy shops herself - one for photography and one for her crochet work - and has always been very supportive of my photos.

Yeay Deb!! I'll email you asap!

The good news is that if you didn't win this giveaway - you still have a chance to win one of my prints over Michelle's gorgeous blog Lovely by M. Hurray!

Looking up at York with a Diana Mini

As part of Adele's weekend in Yorkshire, Thomas and I took her to York for the day. The weather was absolutely stunning so we both took our Diana Mini's - it was so much fun to take photos with another lomographer and to see how differently we looked at things.

I really do like to look up when I visit places... (to the point of where I just relabelled some of my posts upon realisation, haha)

I remember during one of my first lectures at university, one of the lecturers (guesses on who it was G and C) talked about how everyone walks around looking down and they miss so much of the world above them. I guess I really hate the idea of missing out on anything and I've been fascinated with the idea of looking up everywhere I've been ever since...

I've only been to York two times before this and neither of those times I had a film camera, so I loved every minute we were there!

p.s. Adele is actually the cutest thing ever! Here's proof...