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Experiments with Expired Film

| SallyT

A few months ago I visited a car boot sale/indoor flea market at Tynemouth, a gorgeous seaside town near Newcastle, with my sister, I ended up buying a few old cameras which didn’t work (a strange habit that I can’t kick!) and a bag of expired films, standard 35mm and 120. I had no idea what the results would be like apart from that the colour and contrast would be altered.

I took my little 35mm automatic camera (also from a market… there’s a trend developing here..) to January’s birthday parties. Now, I hardly ever go out at the moment so two parties in the same month was a big deal! Olivia turned 21 and one of my best friends Katie turned 23, in Newcastle and London respectively, and both were equally… shall we say… lively.

Here are the best of a very bad bunch of photographs I had developed today. I know their ‘look’ is all over the shop but there is something so fascinating with film, and I love the strange colours and crazy contrast, even if it did steal a lot of the detail.

I still have about 5 rolls of 120 film to develop but my favourite camera shop here seems to have closed its doors and I’m still scouting out a suitable replacement 😦

Sally xx

PS doesn’t Katie look like the perfect ‘Birthday Girl’.. and also a little like Princess Peach from Mario Bros??

Another few Alice snaps and a bit of chit-chat…

| SallyT

I know, I know… I tease too much. The full Alice shoot from a few weeks ago is going to be blogged this week on Brides Up North, but I just couldn’t resist sharing a handful more instant photos. I promise that as soon as they’re revealed I’ll put them all up here too for your perusal.

I am holding my first ever competition in time for Valentine’s Day, you and your beloved could win a Love Shoot…. Check it out here and give it a go ❤

On Saturday I met up with a lovely bride and her mother to chat all things ‘wedding’.. and ended up nattering on about a few nightmare scenarios, including (horrifyingly!) the bride’s mum’s wedding in which the priest had had a few too many sherries and drunkenly began the ‘marriage’ by reading out the funeral ceremony…?! As mishaps go it can’t get much worse than that! *touch wood!*

On Sunday I had an exciting Skype meeting, but more on that later……………

And finally, today I took some promo photos for a feature on an up-and-coming broadcast journalist.. as well as finding out that Andrew & Meri’s winter wedding will be gracing the pages of Whimsical Wonderland Weddings this week too!

Did you all have a good weekend?

Sally xx

PS Yes I have painted my scraggy nails since these photos were taken!

Olivia turned 21….

| SallyT

Last week my little sister Olivia turned the grand old age of 21!

I daren’t develop the film camera photos from the house party, so here is my favourite moment from her birthday dinner (closely followed by Grandma & Grandad turning up in sombreros and ponchos thinking it was a Mexican-themed evening… it wasn’t), when Viv tried to steal O’s thunder by diving to blow out her birthday candles!

Happy birthday Liviboo xxx

New Camera!

| SallyT

Just a little indulgent post to thrive over my new camera! I’m going to get out over the weekend and play about with it properly, but for now I’m happy running around the house experimenting with the controls (I’ve always been on Nikon, this is my first Canon) and taking a few snaps. Here are a few first pics, Viv was being my model as usual as well as taking pics of the junk/decoration around the house (piece of trivia: that is Liam Gallagher’s tambourine in the second photo).

Also I daren’t say too much yet, but I has a few very exciting pieces of news to share, hopefully by the end of the week, and I’ve literally be dancing around for the past few days. One includes a 1950s film set, one includes travel and one is a project of my very own….. EEK!

Sally xx