After the coffees gone...

In terms of being a blogger I'm pretty rubbish at taking photos of my food and drinks... I usually just want to eat or drink whatever is in front of me. Also sometimes I think tables of food can look too pretty, too stylised, too seemingly perfect in photos. I rarely compose a scene, I just react and take photos of what I see (and like) and set tables of food or drink never last for long, especially around me (ha).

However, I've become quite taken with these photos of finished coffees and snacks (I had a scone in the top photo and a teacake in the bottom in case you are wondering, they were both tasty. Oh and decaf cappuccinos to drink.) from a couple of weekends ago. I always check we've never left anything behind leaving a table and for some reason that weekend I noticed that actually we leave behind quite a lot. But there's something so organic to the mess, the used cups and saucers - to how different people place their spoons, to how the chairs have been pushed into the table... and even though I looked a little odd, I snapped these two shots as quickly as I could.

I'm starting to sense another unplanned theme of photos to take in the future, hurray!

Feeding the birds...

Same spot, different people... fat birds.

Camera: Olympus OM-10
Film: Fuji Superia 200
Location: Saltaire, England

The evil squirrel...

We have squirrels that visit our garden. They drive me mad as they eat all the bird food, destroy the bird feeders (the current destroyed total is 4, including one that was meant to be squirrel proof!) and get in fights with the birds brave enough to stand their ground (so far a robin and a blackbird, both are feisty so I'm not surprised).

I am definitely on the birds side - yet a couple of my Twitter friends, who don't have pest squirrels in their country (I believe, Yahoo answers did verify but that isn't exactly concrete evidence) let alone their back garden have sided with squirrels over the birds.

So we're agreeing to disagree and to keep my friends happy I took a couple of pictures of one of the evil/cute (depending on your point of view) squirrels for them to see.

I personally like that I have proof of them being thieving vandals haha.

Camera: Olympus OM-10
Film: Fuji Superia
Location: Leeds
 

p.s. Sorry if you do love squirrels. I'll agree that they are cute looking - but then so are mice and foxes and I don't particularly want either of those in my garden either...

My little Projecteo

I'm so excited to be sharing this post with you today (I know, everyone says that, but I am) because this is the first time I've been approached through my blog (in five years) to collaborate with a company and their product and I've actually thought 'hell yes!' when replying rather than replying with my usual 'unfortunately this isn't a product I am interested in...'.

Good things do come to those who wait it seems.

I first heard of Projecteo when I saw them on Diana's blog Our City Lights and I know that Diana loves working with them and their various other projects and products. And I must say that I can see why - all contact with the Projecteo team has been great and they are incredibly patient too.

As a film photographer who works (and studied) in a digital field, I am fascinated by this little device as it combines both the analogue and digital worlds so wonderfully. It is a mini projector for your Instagram photos that uses a single frame of 35mm slide film to create the wheel.  This works brilliantly well as film is so sensitive to light that the tiny images on the frame still have all the detail needed to create a projection of your image and as they use real slide film, the colours are beautifully vivid and exciting. It is also so fun to see your Instagram photos in a different format rather than just on your phone.

I made a little digital Instagram video of my photo choices (there are of course photos of Harry in there haha) as well as taking film photos of the projector and so far I've really enjoyed showing it to people and sharing my photos in a more accessible way and I'm starting to think that these little projectors would make a great gift for someone.

Thanks Projecteo for contacting me and wanting to share with me, it's been a delight.

Camera: Olympus OM-10
Film: Fuji Superia 400
Product: Projecteo Mini Projector
 

p.s. As I mentioned before this is a collaborative post with Projecteo (my first ever and my first product photo shoot in our living room, so exciting!) however all words, photos and opinions are my own and it's been great fun to write, I hope you've enjoyed it.