Beningbrough Hall Details

I'm not sure if I've talked about my Canon EOS 750 before have I? Not to be confused with an EOS 750D though - this baby is all film. I can't even remember how much I paid for this little gem now but I found it in a charity shop early last year (or late 2013 maybe?) and then left it alone in our house for most of last year after taking a test roll of film.

However this year its the only camera I've really wanted to pick up. With everything going on in real life - all I've wanted from my photography is for it to be easy and simple - and this camera is so easy and simple enough for an SLR camera that you still have enough control on the final image but you don't necessarily have to worry about all the details. Right now, this camera is exactly what I need and I've been so pleased with the results too.

The lovely Siobhan shared a lovely post today about her iPhone portraits and how the best camera is the one you have on you - and its so true - you don't need an all singing, all dancing, fully manual camera to get the best photos - you need the camera that works for you and with you when you need it.  

Right now I'm not feeling my Zenit or OM-10 - but I necessarily don't want as simple as a toy camera (although it is Holga week next week, which I'll talk about soon) so my Canon EOS 750 is a happy medium which gives me results like these photos above.  It also looks enough like a digital camera that I don't get so many funny looks walking around with it as well ha.

What camera do you love at the moment? Is it the same as perhaps 6 months ago? Let me know.

Camera: Canon EOS 750
Film: Lomo CN 400
Location: Beningbrough Hall

Beningbrough Hall Garden and Greenhouse

Ok, first - there are a lot of photos in this post. I just couldn't being myself to separate it into two posts, they all look so great next to each other.  I'm a little sad that we weren't at the hall a little later in the year to see blooms and greens, but at the same time, you can really see the amount of work and love that has gone into preparing the gardens here and I think that's something worth celebrating too.

I can't believe I left this roll of film to just sit in my bag for so long! I'll definitely not be leaving it months next time I take photos haha. Although looking at developed films where you'd almost forgotten the photos you'd taken does have its charms as well (its almost as exciting as the photo swap thinking about it!)

Camera: Canon EOS 750
Film: Lomo CN 400
Location: Beningbrough Hall

A week of yellow...

My lovely blog friend Laura from Cardboard Cities has been hosting a week of yellow on her Instagram this week and sharing the most stunning yellow photos which I have just loved seeing (you all know that I love yellow right? I'm sure I've mentioned it before haha). 

Even though I haven't taken part with my digital photos on my phone or Instagram - I realised that I had a lot of yellow photos in my batch of films I got developed this week and today - to celebrate Laura's week of yellow - seemed like a good time to share those photos. Hurray for yellow!

If you want even more yellow - which of course you do - check out all the images for the #aweekofyellow tag here - and if thats not enough - check out my all time favourite Instagram tag ever #yellowisitmeyourelookingfor as well (second favourite is anything puppy related, third is crochet... in case you were wondering...).

Can you ever see too much yellow wonderfulness? I think not!

Camera: Canon EOS 750
Films: Kodak 200 & Lomo CN 400
Location: Various

*New photos - woohoo!*

I don't want to over excite people - but I've taken film photos this year AND finally had them developed. Oh yeah!  I am over excited of course and not sure where to start with posting them as I want to share them all, right now! So I'll revert back to the old plan of chronological order.

So.... first up is a visit to Beningbrough Hall we made in March with Thomas's parents. I really loved looking around the hall as not only was it gorgeous architecutre but they had paintings from the National Gallery hanging around too - so cultured! You can see an Instagram photo I took of the Royal portrait they had hanging here - such a lovely light location for such a big painting.

I hope you enjoy looking at them as much as I enjoyed taking them, I can't wait to share more!

Camera: Canon EOS 750
FIlm: Lomo CN 400
location: Beningbrough Hall

p.s. I usually host my photos on Flickr but these are uploaded via Squarespace as Flickr have altered the HTML coding format and once again tested my patience as a loyal paying customer. If you used to like clicking through to see my photos, I will still be uploading my photos onto Flickr for the time being, but you'll have to use the Flickr link in my sidebar rather than clicking the images.  If anyone knows how to change the HTML and turn off all the 'extras' Flickr have kindly added please let me know.