Day tripping

We had a busy three days around Menorca in the car; driving down narrow dirt tracks to tropical beaches and into authentic Spanish towns to watch the world go by.

We went to a beautiful fishing village, Fornells and ate amazing seafood while watching fishermen sail off in their little boats in between very rich people with their fancy yachts.  

We also visited the old capital Ciutadella and walked through narrow streets admiring how different every house was and dreamt of living the Spanish life.

I've posted this so late, it now seems like years ago we went to Menorca! I'm not sure why it's taken me so long to post I wrote it pretty much as soon as we got back.  I sat and edited the pics on the VSCO app and really love the outcome but when the pictures are put together (along with some instagram photos) it all looks a bit over edited.  

I'm worried that I've lost the passion in taking the actual photos and focusing efforts in making any old thing look pretty afterwards.  

I'm definitely going to go back to my love of film photography where the content is important so you don't waste precious film and try and stop using all the fancy camera apps.

Though bear with me we took very few photos from a wedding this weekend and I wanted to blog the day so set instagram/VSCO to work and am happy for now.

So for now I will get to work on ordering some new films and plan the new journey....I also need to do some more bump pictures!!

Lessons learnt

When we were in London in the summer we went to the Lomography store and purchased some film.  The conditions to get the best photos from this film are bright sunshine and then lots of colours which will then come through beautifully.  Of course we're not experts and know this now we have had a film devleoped.  

The first part of our film was taken in London on a really cloudy day, in St Ives as the sun was going down and then on Sunday just gone when the sun did come out....hmm

Here are some of my favourites from the film.  Lesson learnt: put film in camera if conditions suit and use it up sooner than 6 months.

London

St Ives

Sunday wanderings

Brighton

My oh so lovely husband reminded me a couple of weeks ago that I had agreed to go to an away game for his beloved football team playing Brighton and Hove Albion.  And so last weekend we packed an overnight bag with unfortunately lots of lemsip and cough mixture and went to see the sights of the city.  We stayed at Motel Schmotel - probably the best guest house I've ever been to and couldn't recommend it enough!

Our weekend consisted of a couple of walks along the beach, getting lost in the Lanes, a mexican takeaway (swallowed down with the aforementioned lempsip and x-factor we rock!), two craft markets oh and a cold game of football that featured a last minute goal from the home team oops!