For the easily distracted…

I really hope you’re enjoyed this years August Break and also this week remembering Paris, I would go back again tomorrow if I could.
See you in September :)

Oh man, this first roll can reduce me to tears, it was just so perfect, the weather, the location, the company…
You can see my first post of photos here.

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This time last year we were flying to Paris. In some ways I can’t believe it’s been a year already and in others I feel like past year has possibly felt like one of the longest of my life and more time has passed than it has.

After we first left Paris I missed it terribly and I’m amazed to find that even though I don’t miss it as much as I did initially, I still miss Paris even now. It was a perfect getaway for us and part of me is already dreaming of the next time that we can go (as well as everywhere else in Europe!). So,  I’ve decided to spend the rest of August Break celebrating Paris, I looked through all my photos on here and of the 634 that I took only 194 were on here. That needs rectifying I think… so here are some photos taken with my favourite film/camera combination.

I shared this quote about Paris before, but I think it really does suit it so well, so I’m sharing it again.

“Paris? No, not this city. It’s too real and too beautiful. It never lets you forget anything.
It reaches in and opens you wide, and you stay that way.”
Jerry Mulligan, An American in Paris

 

Location: Paris, France
Film: Ilford XP2
Camera: Diana Mini

Everytime we go to Scarborough it feels different, we’ve has sunny, cold, warm, pleasant etc… but I think moody describes these pretty well.

I’m still loving this film!

{I just love this green door}

As well as taking multiple exposures with the Double Dip, I wanted to see how the single exposure results looked too and overall I really like them, they remind me of the La Sardina camera with the fuzzy edges.

Can you see the little black pug? It was barking at a pushchair and it really made me laugh.
I want one.

Such a cute station!

I did a post in June about photos I’d taken with type in them around Harrogate and looking through my recent Scarborough photos I noticed the same thing happening again.

The last one is my favourite.

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Hehe, I couldn’t help myself, I’m tempted to frame it for him.

Possibly the coolest thing ever!

*Please excuse my indulgent post title, the film is Kodak Gold lol, thats the only tenuous link… still it made me chuckle.

As part of my ‘take more photos’ goal for this year – I decided that I wanted to use more of the cameras that I haven’t actually used before in my collection. I am a little behind on these but I’m catching up and as long as I get 12 cameras done by the end of the year I’ll be happy.

I’m really very excited to be sharing this camera with you, it is the Double Dip by James Butler , a custom toy camera with an added multiple exposure switch – you can read more about the Double Dip here. I’d seen some results around the internet before I took any photos and I was fairly excited about taking this little silver baby out and I was not disappointed!

How fun is this camera? I love double exposures, I usually try to take my holga or diana with me when I go somewhere new but I’ve never had a camera dedicated to just multiple exposures alone, I think this camera will be going with me to new places now too.

I decided to post this today as 5 more Double Dip cameras are going on sale tomorrow at 9.30am GMT and if you love these results as much as I do,
I don’t think you’ll want to miss out!

You can also follow James on Twitter for more immediate information tomorrow morning.

{You can only just see my layer on the one above but how amazing is this shot by Davide, I had to include it!}

{Or his and hers…}

It’s nearly August again… which seems crazy to me. But the exciting news is that August means Susannah’s August Break, and once again I am excited to be taking part.

Like last year, I’m going to use this month to catch up on some film photos that I haven’t shared on here before, my Flickr is at over 3,000 photos now, so I can imagine there are a lot on there that aren’t on this blog, I can’t wait!!

Read more about The August Break here on Susannah’s blog, I hope to see you there!