I’ve written before that I’ve always felt that in taking my photos that I’m searching for something… and I think that whatever part of me it is that drives me to take photos, probably knows what I actually need from my photos more than I do. Because once again, I spent a lot of my time on the beach last week embracing the quiet and beautiful scenes around me…
These were taken in both Cromer and Wells-Next-The-Sea and I love how peaceful both beaches look, especially in the black and white.
Location: Wells and Cromer, Norfolk
Camera: Refurbished LC-A
Film: Kodak BW400CN
I was going to wait to share these so that my photos had some kind of chronological order, but honestly my excitement got the best of me… (I’m sure you’ll see why when you look).
This spot in Hunstanton, overlooking the beautiful red chalk limestone and white chalk cliffs, has been one of my favourite places in Norfolk for a long time – in fact I remember doing a cubism project when I started high school using a photo of these cliffs which I loved.
I’m so glad that I finally got a chance to use this Kodak Ektar film in the sunshine as well
(I was extremely hopeful when I packed that one film haha).
Oh also, you may notice that some of the rocks have been separated into different colour piles – I actually didn’t notice at the time – Thomas’s parents pointed it out to me and apparently there is a man who moves the stones around (which I actually found an article on here too) to protect the cliffs. Ah man, I love Norfolk.
Camera: Refurb LC-A
Film: Kodak Ektar 100
Location: Hunstanton, Norfolk
Last week it felt like Spring had finally come to the UK (though you wouldn’t think it looking out of the window now… typical) and although it was windy and cold, it was sunny!! Sunshine, hurray! Oh sunshine, how I have missed you!
The second beach we visited in Norfolk (I’m not being chronological I know) was Hemsby. The beach road in Hemsby is one of those places that kind of has to be seen to believed, it has barely changed in my life time and I’m pretty sure my Dad said it looks the same as when he was younger too… it really is a throw back to how beaches used to be and people still love it for that.
However, we weren’t there for the shops, we were there for the beach and unfortunately due to coastal erosion that has changed a lot, but it is still absolutely beautiful.
Funnily enough these photos almost look like they’re from the 70′s don’t they… I didn’t actually expect it to be sunny during the week so I only had a bunch of 400 iso film with me so these are slightly overexposed and so orange that they almost look cross processed (I think thats a Lomo 400 quality as the Fuji Superia ones didn’t do that) but I actually really love them. The joys of film surprises :) Although next time I’ll either use a slower film or a slower shutter speed definitely.
Camera: Zenit B
Film: Lomography CN 400
Location: Hemsby, Norfolk
So even though I had post scheduled last week, Thomas and I were actually back in sunny (but windy) Norfolk for the week to celebrate various birthdays within our families. If you follow me on Instagram, you’ve probably seen a whole load of photos (I may have got carried away) from both Norfolk and our weekend here exploring Yorkshire. I couldn’t decide where to start with sharing photos so here are a few things we did with one photo from each of the (um, nine) rolls of film that I took in the past week.
{We spent a day on the Norfolk Broads for my Dad’s birthday}
{We went on the beach, not once…}
{Not twice…}
{but a total of 4 times, this little dude loved it!}
{We went for walks in the woods.}
{We drunk a lot of hot drinks…}
{Whilst planning our days}
{And we went to Fountains Abbey…}
{Where I took a lot of photos!}
I can not wait to share more photos of each location, I loved that I got the chance to take so many over the week.
Did I miss anything in blog land? I’m slowly catching up with blogs and comments this week, so let me know if you’ve posted anything really exciting I shouldn’t miss :)
Cameras: Refurb LC-A and Zenit B
Films: Lomo 400, Fuji Superia 400, Kodak Ektar Agfa Vista and Kodak BW400CN
Locations: Various
77. Thomas bought this home for dinner. He’s a keeper.
78. A lovely gift from an amazing friend.
79. I cheated with this but it made me smile.
80. I was so excited about this sunshine, but it turns out the weather was taunting me as…
81. Snow! Damnit.
82. Finally finished my big crochet project, now I need another one…
83. Spring is inside our house at least…
84. A pretty view from the bus.
85. Our local corner shop now sells these… uh oh.
~ You can see more of my 365 photos here and I’m sharing them on Instagram too ~
You can see the full set here.
Location: Blackpool Zoo
Film: Fuji Superia 400
Camera: Zenit B
Location: Blackpool Zoo
Film: Fuji Superia 400
Camera: Zenit B