Review: Film

A while ago I bought a mint condition Polaroid Sum LMS and a boat load of 600 film for my wife for her birthday.  I know, nice, aren’t I? Anyway, I also got her some of the Impossible Project‘s ‘Silver Shade’ film – a new experimental Polaroid style film – it takes whimsical images in a kind of pale sepia black and white style,…

Shack

In the 1920’s, there was a small seaside town with ramshackle fishing shacks, beautiful wooden clapper-board holiday homes and the start of a tourist industry. Now, the town is a city, having grown exponentially from the boom years of the 1950’s to today, where it now has over 100,000 people Some of the old houses are still there, hidden amongst the new, some restored,…

down down

I hit one of my lard milestones this morning. 10kg lost so far (thats 22lbs for my American friends) It doesn’t really feel like much has gone, but that’s quite a lot of pork pies and chocolate bars that are no longer around my hips.  Well, not hips, middle and chin probably. So, what is 10kg?

Fremantle

I love Fremantle.  It’s the closest thing to a town with charm here. For all the beauty and space and cleanliness of Western Australia, its all a bit new, which means that most places near here are modern and somewhat lacking in character. Ok, totally lacking in character. Perth is the same, most of it is pretty new, and the bits that are older…

Hasselblad

It’s overdue – the shots from the ‘blad are here and I’m very happy with them 🙂 I’ve said this before, but there seems to be a lightness of touch that film has in the way it renders some light conditions that digital can’t reproduce, or at least I can’t reproduce it!

Went for a walk

When the kids go their father’s house every other weekend, Saturday is the ritual lazy morning day. Jay and I chill on the sofa, have a late breakfast and catch up with each other’s lives.  Well, it’s hard when we’re busy during the week to get a solid block of time to not have to think about other stuff. Today we decided to go…

films

I finally got around to developing some film – its been sat in my cameras for ages, a few from the Trip 35 and three from the Hassleblad. I’m going to try to take a few more photos this week as I’m up in the city every day – I just need to take an hour after work to point and shoot at a…

tripski – final part

We had some other nice days, went out for lunch – actually, there’s a story there all by itself Never go to Pizza Express in Sevenoaks – they were terrible, forgot our order, lied to cover it up and told us it was ‘just in the oven’ but 1/2 hour later it still hadn’t arrived, stuffed up with the deserts and eventually, after nearly…

Tripski – part 3

We went to see some of my close friends mid week. They live not too far from where I used to live in England.  Not too far away from where Ella and Henry were born and grew up. Ella remembers the place, her old friends, her school and snippets of the old house.  She’s sometimes a bit sad about it – I kinda feel…

Tripski, part 1

So, as you know, I went to England to see my beautiful kids.  England, land of the village pub, the Darling Buds of May, long summer evenings, rambling footpaths and history going back millenia. Well, it wasn’t like that.  The sun didn’t shine.  It rained all the time.  It was freezing.  The cloudbase was 3 feet above the ground – so much so it…