A new phone means... camera apps!

You would think as someone who uses mostly film that I wouldn't be interested in camera apps that recreate the look of retro cameras... but I've always loved the look of Instagram and Hipstamatic - especially Naomi, Nicole and Katrina's photos - its such a great way to capture fun memories without worrying about the cost or if something might go wrong developing, or you've left the shutter on B instead of N...

And now I have my own to play with - hurray!

Here are some photos that I've been experimenting with this morning whilst waiting for the bus and walking to work.

Admittedly it's an android and not an iphone - and after trying a number of camera apps yesterday there is only one I really like - Vignette - some of them look better aesthetically than others and some were just terrible but I'm quite taken with the final results of Vignette - especially the grungy instant transfer one frame.

What do you think of camera apps? I would love to know - I can't wait to use this phone to finally upload fun snapshots onto twitter - even if it just an amazing sandwich!

p.s. thinking about it I used to use Poladroid and Rollip all the time when I first started blogging, its not much different... sometimes I just need to take photos whatever the camera.

Location: my walk to work just outside Leeds
Camera: HTC Desire Camera with Vignette App.
Effect: Grungy Instant Transfer 1 frame with either the toy camera, portra or velvia effect

(I think these will be my top 3 choices)

Rollright Stones

During our week away in April we took a small detour through the beautiful English countryside (which I love more and more) to a place called The Rollright Stones.

It truly amazes me that I have never heard of these before as they are just as old as Stone Henge* and also as mysterious in their origins, it was truly amazing to look at these stones and know that they were so so much older than everything around them.

and I also took just the one photo with my diana mini... I love the colours that were captured so beautifully in the sunshine with the Yashica Samurai above but something about the soft tones of the Ilford black and white film just takes my breath away.

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*Thinking about it, its a good thing we didn't go to Stone Henge as I'm not sure Thomas could resist the Spinal Tap jokes... haha.

Location: The Rollright Stones., England
Camera: Yashica Samurai (C) and Diana Mini (B&W)
Film: Lomography Colour Negagive iso 400 and Ilford XP2 iso 400 (B&W)

Forgotten holga photos...

I'll be honest, I haven't been very good at taking my holga out recently... I've been too distracted by my other cameras. It's ok though as I still love her and when I do take her out again it will be the right time to use her...

However, I did finally finish a film in there that I started at the beginning of the year and I completely forgot about these photos!

I kind of love that I've had these developed now as it is exceptionally warm and sunny in Leeds today and its hard to believe that it was really that cold and that snowy... Yeay Summer!

Have a wonderful weekend everyone, I'm hoping the sunshine stays around!