i want to love you, PYT, pretty young thing!

Happy one year anniversary to us!

Ich leibe martinerhof

I am currently desperate to return to this hotel and indeed Austria in general. For 11 easters me, my family and a big group of friends, work colleagues, relatives have descended on this hotel ( for 6 consecutive years ) and others nearby and had the best times that at the moment i can't seem to shake from my head. Which is nice as I am eager to hang on to these very fond memories, but I am totally saddened that these holidays will literally never happen again. I took these family holidays for granted and though I had many tear tantrums, tired and cold and young, they were invaluable and lovely times. Austria is so wonderful and I have countless memories of everything I absorbed as a teenager and child. I loved the hotel rooms and their wooden ceilings and single pillows that were super thick, and how the hotels kind of scared me too. And the smell of suncream on my nose and my parents in their ski jackets and mums head bands. And my instructors and how much i thought they were the coolest people in the world because of their accents, tans and sunglasses! And skiing through a forest where i couldn't see another person so sang really loudly haha.

PENTAX ME SUPER

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My grandpa passed away 11 years ago, and so i would have only been ten. Of course, old enough for ample memories of my grandpa. Amongst trips to the park in his maroon metro and birthday parties at my grandparents house, the underlying main memory is his use of his cameras. I wouldn't have taken much notice at the time of him taking photos of me, but i know he was a keen snapper. Fast forward 11 years and now i thoroughly enjoy taking photos, not that i am particualy skilled in this field i may add, but I feel to an extent that I am now passed on with the photo-geek-gene baton! Which i am very happy about. It never struck me until the last month to actually chase up what happened to his cameras. My uncle passed on my grandpa's camera bag and it is quite the gold mine. The bag includes an expired film from '94, unused. 2 flashes, another japanese camera, some books, cable releases etc. It's all very exciting. So I have put a film through it, and here is the result. Unfortunately grainy and underexposed in some cases, i think potentially a result of not having batteries in the camera which power the light sensor LED thingy. But I am still fond of these photos :)

tat time

Tuesday 15th of September and Frankie has had some pretty flowers slapped onto her thigh via Jamie Greaves! They are lovely.

Me and Tom raced up to Leeds one sunday morning to see diego and Tom got some more shading done on his arm. I got to meet Salvador who made me want a baby, right there and then! Cute doesn't quite do him justice :)

On August 13th Me and Frank headed to Essex for me to get some roses on my feet from tiny miss becca. It was fun and painful too, ( this photo captures the water retention that shortly followed, quite perfectly i feel... pregnant lady ankles! ). The shop was a beaut!! I'd like to go back one daayy.

birthday girl.

My birthday was lovely, and of course, included nandos, AND a surprise of friends with party poppers and lambrini! I am spoilt rotten.

Along with other lovely presents i was lucky enough to get some more polaroids, which of course are so precious these days in this dying age of the little nippers! So i have 10 special shots to take and i thought me and Tom, pre birthday outing was a nice opportunity as he looked super nice!

ps i am in love with an athiest.

ektachrome, this is mo. mo, this is ektachrome

I am having a wonderful summer break and turned 21 this week. Being back home is just as good as I had hoped it would be as the 2nd year at uni came to a close and i was super desperado to be back home and with my friends. I have been neglecting using slide film in my lca, and Tom generously coughed up some nice ektachrome film for me to use which came in very useful on my birthday week, due to being whisked away to Brighton for 3 nights, with not only Tom but my 2 best friends too :) happy days.. I really like some of the results, my favourites can be seen here, however i think in some cases the whole 'over saturation' 'high contrast' look is a bit O.T.T in this film. I think i will revert back to fuji's 400 slide offerings. Never the less, good fun trying out new films :)

my blog is messing up i'm uploading alot of photos onto it but only a few show up! shitty.