Downtown Halifax Model shoot

During my 2 week stay in Halifax my trigger finger was getting itchy so I was very happy when model/mum/pilot Ashleigh contacted me to do a shoot for her portfolio. It was one of the only sunny days we got while we were out east and I was very happy to spend it with this naturally talented model and she even put up with the freezing wind on top of citadel hill :)

Winter Wanderings

I can now safely say that winter is over. I haven't put my winter coat on since before we left for Halifax and my winter hat has only come out of its hidy hole once, for a crazy hat party. It was one hell of a long winter, everyone who hears my accent comments that it was the worst winter to have been living in London that they can remember and with that 'snowapocalypse' that we had in December and the following snow storms I can definitely see what they meant. When II say that I'll be returning home for this winter therefore our summer people ask if i will miss the cold during the next year and a half of me chasing the summer around the globe? Nope. Will I miss how pretty the snow makes everything when it's freshly fallen? Yes.

A few months ago I showed you a series I had taken during fall with some Impossible project film. I've now started a spring series and will do a summer series before leaving London at the end of August.

Smash the cake session!

Being and only child, there was never a lack of photographs taken of me. Walking into my mums house is a statement to that, but if there was one session that I would love to have captured it would be a cake smash session!

It's no secret that I love my cake and will incorporate it in to any session I do but I just love doing these shoots, sometimes the kids can be totally into it and are total cakoholics like me or sometimes they are a little more wary why all of a sudden they are allowed to tear apart something, when they've been taught all of their short life not to, just like little Julien was in this session, not that you would ever know from the photos!

Chicago visit to see Vivian Maier

I was talking about the visit to Chicago awhile ago on the blog and on Facebook and I have been really slow with getting these photos up, even on my Lomography page. The reason? Most of these Lomographs are a little blurry on my part, I should have taken a faster film because of the overcast weather and shooting inside, but the lab I took them to, which wasn't my normal lab must have had problems with their machine and I have scratches, dust, spots and development splotches all over the negatives, which in most cases makes them look like they have another layer of blurriness over them but some I think it helps them to look even more like they were taken in the 60's when Vivian Maier was taking photos in Chicago, which was the reason we were going to Chicago to see her first exhibition and why I decided to not take a digital camera. Even though some of them aren't great, this is the kind of photography I love, going to a place I haven't been before and shooting a series.

Taking a photo of my road trip buddy Tyler through one of Vivian Maiers viewfinders.

Check out the development splotches in the photo above!

Have you ever had a roll of film ruined by a lab?