The one and only sunflower to grow and bloom in my garden this year. Sep 2009.
Close up with bees.
Sometimes my compact digital camera really delivers – the super size photo shows great detail of the bees.
Archive for the ‘Photography’ Category
The Only Sunflower (Photography)
Posted by rachelcreative on September 21, 2009
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Penny Arcade – Holga (Photography)
Posted by rachelcreative on August 25, 2009
Penny Arcade machines in the Black Country Living Museum, Dudley, UK.
Taken with flash using Holga FN, Fuji Superia 100iso.
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Flash Dog Toys – Holga (Photography)
Posted by rachelcreative on August 15, 2009
Display of dog toys in a shop taken using flash on Holga FN, Fuji Superia 400.
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Trentham Spike – Holga (Photography)
Posted by rachelcreative on August 13, 2009
Part of a bridge support at Trentham Gardens in Staffordshire.
Taken with Holga FN, Fuji Superia.
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Snow Front – Vivi (Photography)
Posted by rachelcreative on July 24, 2009
A photo taken back in February 2009 from my recently developed roll of film. I’ll assure you there is no snow in the Midlands of England in July.
Taken with Vivitar Ultra Slim and Wide, Ilford XP2.
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Saltburn Pier – Vivi (Photography)
Posted by rachelcreative on July 24, 2009
Some lovely surprises from my latest developed film out of my Vivitar Ultra Slim and Wide.
Two photographs here from Saltburn when we were in the North East in August 2008.
Ilford Xp2.
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Rough With The Smooth – Vivi (Photography)
Posted by rachelcreative on July 23, 2009
Rough With The Smooth:
Taken, I think, in Beacon Park, Lichfield, Staffordshire.
Cows Beyond:
The Shugborough Estate, Staffordshire.
Taken on Vivitar Ultra Slim and Wide Ilford XP2 (C41).
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Stay At Home Holiday (Photography)
Posted by rachelcreative on July 21, 2009
What I did on my stay at home holiday … in pictures. Is it a staycation or a stoliday?
Friday and the First Weekend
Visit to farm shop and cake in garden centre cafe followed by a weekend of relaxing.
Monday
Birmingham Botanical Gardens (UK) and a picnic by the bird houses.
Loggerhead turtles …
… upside down jellyfish …
… and other creatures at the Birmingham Sealife Centre.
Tuesday
Chester Zoo with meerkats …
… giraffes …
… penguins and lots of animals I didn’t get to take photos of.
Wednesday
Stayed local in Lichfield with a full english breakfast, look around the cathedral and cake in their coffee shop, then a visit to Erasmus the bunny in the gardens of Erasmus Darwin House …
… a walk through town and to the library to pick up a pile of films on DVD.
Thursday, Friday and the Weekend
A bit of shopping, trip to the cinema, a drive out and more cake in more garden centre cafes then a weekend on the sofa watching the British Open Golf.
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Holga Photos and Operator Error
Posted by rachelcreative on June 25, 2009
After much excitment to get my latest Holga film back from processing I discover a series of operator errors. Or rather a single operator failure gone uncorrected through most of the film.
I left the camera setting on bulb – which to those not in the know means the setting that allows to leave the lens open for as long as you like to make long exposures, for instance in darker conditions.
This means most of the film is overexposed and blurry. Very bbllluurrryy.
But some of the pictures have a surreal swimming under water feel so I’m sharing them all online anyway.
So ..
- one successful photo of a ceiling light fitting (hmm)
- one underexposed random looking fence (I must have had my reasons at the time)
- a blurry meerkat with blurry meerkat baby in the middle of the frame (this could have be sooo good!)
- penguins at Twycross Zoo
- lots of blurry pics from the Lichfield Bower 2009 procession in May
- one blurry wedding picture
Ah well.
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Action Sampler Photographs
Posted by rachelcreative on May 28, 2009
This is my Action Sampler camera – now sadly broken after running just 2 films through it (I tried to “fix it” – oh well!).
Sports 35 Action Sampler
The camera has 4 lenses which fire sequentially to make 4 images, split seconds apart, on one 135 film frame.
The first film had lots of cat “action” shots and my husband running around the garden on my request. Also a few images from a wheelie walk around Birmingham city centre one grey afternoon.
Football Kick
He Shoots He Scores
Kitty Tummy Action
Hoodie
Urban Walk
The second film came from a stash of expired 135 film given to me by friends after moving house and discovering lots of film along with cameras. The first film from the batch I used in my Action Sampler turned out to already have a set of pictures on it from many years ago. So I got some interesting double exposures.
Penguin Sky Grass
Lazy Running
Cat on Skyline
Prehistoric Giraffes
Ugland Giraffes
Zoo Rollercoaster
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