Autumn in the park

This is the local park where I walk the dogs, now the clocks have changed it feels like winter is just around the corner. Makes you want to curl up in front of the fire with a good book.

More lomography

When I spent the day at a lomography workshop recently I took some black and white film shots like the one above but I also got to play with the Diana camera and took some colour film. It is like a toy camera, so light and easy to take streets shots etc because it doesn't really look real. I quite like this one, it gives you a feel of a cold rainy London day.

I am also linking up to Lisa's fantastic creative exchange, do have a look.

Lomography

I had great fun recently using a lomo lc wide camera to take street shots, it was wonderful to use film again.

Autumn evenings

It is getting darker earlier, the evenings have a distinct autumnal feel to them.

Street scenes

I took some street shots at Southbank near the Tate the other day, there is so much going on there. I loved this man reading a book oblivious to all around him. This couple were absorbed in face painting.

More simple things...

simple things

Enjoying simple everyday things at the moment. Thought the cotton wool looked so good in this little jar I had to photograph it.

Learning new things

Yesterday we spent the day in the darkroom learning how to make photograms. These are made by placing objects directly on photographic paper and switching the light on and off to make the exposure. No film or camera is involved.
I decided to use the wonderful clematis heads that look all fluffy and woolly as they die on the branches, I added some lavender and scattered some seeds across the whole page to make it look like everything was blowing in the wind and this is the result.

I really enjoyed being in the darkroom learning this technique but I am finding the rest of the course hard as it is all very technical and maths based (I have never been able to do maths). The theory is that once you know the maths the passion will come but I am of the view that it is passion first, a bit of technical and then a bit of luck! what do you think?