The first photoswap photos...

Sometimes I doubt why I put the photoswap together each year - I'm not the most organised person and on top of that, every year someone gets disappointed by either the mail or their partner and waiting for the films to be sent often the most tense part for me... but then the photos start to appear in the Flickr group and my heart skips a little beat and I remember exactly why I put the swap on.

So here are some photos from the swap so far that make my heart skip and remind me of the excitement and joy of film.

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Eep, that face! Photo taken by Clio and sent to Amy.

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I love these colours! Photo taken by Michelle and sent to Kelly Ann

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The light is so pretty! Photo taken by Jazzy and sent to Nadine

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So simple and stunning! Photo taken by Kelly Ann and sent to Michelle

There are many more photos in the Flickr group and I've loved looking through them all, I think that I get just as excited when they start to appear as the swappers involved :)

Hello Autumn...

As I walked down the hill to work today, I finally started to see evidence that it was Autumn, the air was crisp, the sun was low and glowing across the fields... and as I walked along my own photos started to flash in my head. I can't think of any times this has happened before, but once I started to think about it, the more I wanted to see more of my Autumn photos, so here are some of my favourites from the past few years.

I guess thats probably enough photos... I should really get those films developed so I have something new to share soon :)

Getting myself back out there...

I've been really struggling with blogging lately - more in terms of being a part of the blogging community, than actually wanting to blog (When I develop those films from Whitby, I'll have more photos than I'll know what to do with, assuming they are all ok).

The blogs I tend to read are blogs that I have read for years... blog that I truly love reading and in turn bloggers who have become friends and although I try to read new blogs, its hard to find the enthusiasm to get myself out there with a new/different crowd who seem much more savvy, confident and frankly, a little intimidating.

In many ways I've become a bit of a blogging recluse - I've had my blog popularity (at its height 1000 subscribers, if you can believe that - I have no clue who these people were) and in all honesty, I didn't particularly enjoy it, mainly because it made me worry so much about my content and also, if these 1000 would stay liking me or if they even read my blog. I never started this blog to make money, get loads of followers or stress myself out... I wanted to make real connections with real people, not numbers, statistics or profile names.

Anyway, what I'm trying to say is that moving my blog was probably one of the best things that I've done this year (being considerate to myself and all that) and I am so thrilled that I now have a much more manageable and less intimidating 36 subscribers (according to Google Reader), so please, if you've came over here with me, leave a comment, say hi, ask a question, anything... and we can do this blogging community thing properly and get to know each other better.

p.s. Also, if you have any new blogs you've found lately (that don't intimidate you lol) I would love to see them too, any help would be much appreciated.