Frocktober continued...

Hurray! I have reached 11 days straight of wearing skirts and dresses. Can you believe that? I still can't... and I'll say right now - I do miss my jeans. A lot.

Wearing skirts and dresses, has had some interesting reactions from people and honestly, I'm not appreciating the extra attention I seem to be getting. Although it has been nice getting the occasional compliment, I'm struggling to deal with the odd statements that are meant to be observatory but don't really seem that nice... 'Oh Rhianne, you look like a girl...' and 'Rhianne, you do look weird in skirts' being my favourites at the moment. Especially as I never felt that I didn't look like a girl before... or that I look weird in skirts. Perhaps I'm over thinking it too much.

Anyway, I knew that this month would be a challenge for me - both physically in what I will actually wear and mentally, in that I'm having to change how I look at my clothes and how I present myself and also accept that other people perhaps see me in a different way to how I thought.

Luckily, I am enjoying what I've been wearing (despite the UK's weather) and it's encouraging me to think that like Anna, I'm doing this for a good reason.

So, to support Anna and to encourage me, pop over to Anna's blog, read about her cause and perhaps even donate.

p.s. Can you believe the ridiculous difference between the first and last photo weather wise?

p.p.s. Anna has featured me, in my newest skirt, on her blog if you want to look.

I feel a bit out of place but its for a good cause right...

Autumn for Adele...

I have so many photos of my walk to work (see here, here, here and here for a few) but I can honestly say I never get bored of taking photos of it - it changes with each day and I love seeing how the seasons affect it. Isn't the Autumn light just beautiful in these too?

Happy weekend!

I'm off to Belfast with my girls, frock and cameras, which should be great fun!

See you next week.

p.s. I have no idea why the shadow looks so huge in the bottom left photo, or even what was next to me? I like to pretend its because I'm standing with Hagrid though, haha. Nerd.

Paris in Film: Ilford XP2 Part 2

I can't think of a roll of film where I've been so thrilled with the results that I've wanted to share almost every single photo on here - I'm that picky and these cameras are tricksy, sometimes things just don't work out. But the Ilford films I took in Paris are still blowing my mind with how well they turned out.

As with my Holga, I may have got a bit carried away with the double and multiple exposures with my diana mini. I love them so...

Also I took my first ever attempt at a panoramic photo in Paris looking out across the city from the Sacre Couer... and it worked!! Hurray!!

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Camera: Diana Mini
Film: Ilford XP2 iso 400
Location: Paris.

Paris in Film: my little Helga the Holga...

Today has been hectic and I miss Paris, especially as we were both so relaxed there...

I only used one film in my little holga whilst we were in Paris, I'm pretty sure she is feeling unloved right now, but the photos I did take I'm thrilled with.

I even tried a new film: Kodak Portra 160... these were taken with the Natural Colour (NC) film and I'm kind of smitten with it. It's a shame it's so expensive but from what I've seen with these its definitely worth the cost.

Camera: Holga 135bc
Film: Kodak Portra 160 NC
Location: Paris :)

p.s. After using my yashica samurai so much in Paris, I may have got a bit carried away with the fact I could do multiple exposures with both my holga and diana - I don't think that's a bad thing though...