Facinating Mummies

Caryn and I also went to the Mummy Exhibit, you are going to start to think all we did was go to Exhibits and Galleries, we are so cultured, haha. Again we were not allowed to take any photos, but it was amazing.  It was such an interesting new way of looking at mummies with the x rays and digital imaging of the insides of the wrapped up mummies. I did get a couple postcards of the artifacts so I have those to share.

Pinchy Pinchy

I like making the wee crab for the post card so much that I really wanted to make a big one which is cook cause I haven't drawn very much lately so it is nice to be inspired! I do now feel like the rose isn't neccisary if I would have just moved the crab down a bit, maybe if I had made the rose a but bigger it wouldn't feel so much like a space filler but it was fun to use new colours in that style.

 Sorry about the rubbish photos for these two I am just actually quite proud that I remembered to take pictures through each process, should have maybe took one of the sketch...

Edvard Munch Exhibit

The National Gallery of Modern Art is showing an personal collection of Edvard Munch of over 50 lithographs and wood cuts, including a rare lithograph of the infamous, "The Scream". Needless to say I was pretty excited to go to it, I have wanted to go to the Museum of Modern Art mostly because I have been to most of the major galleries in Edinburgh except this one, but previuos to this I didn't really have the inclanation to go. With the added draw of Edvard Munch I mostly mentioned it in every conversation with Caryn so I think she got the hint that I wanted to go, though I am pretty sure I can safely say she enjoyed it as well!

The National Gallery of Modern Art

 The Front Garden

Because we weren't allowed to take photos inside the actual exhibit, Caryn got me this shadow box. I should have taken a picture of the instructions, it was basicall cut, fold, glue haha what more could you need! It looks aweosme though!

I wish I could have been more brazen and took photos but I'm not so I don't have any. Seeing them was really exciting though! I also took fairly similar photos with the holga of the outside of the gallery so once I finish that roll undoubtedly you will see them again. Though I think this time it will be black and white.

I also did a wee postcard, hope Tiffany and Danny like it!

Holga 2; Edinburgh Zoo

I think I am getting the hang of this! Caryn was just here  so that meant that I get to go to the zoo! Which also meant great opportunity to take some more photos with my Holga and see if I can't figure it out some more! Unfortunately I had a slight disaster and the back fell off my camera and I think I lost most of my panda pictures. So now I keep a pony tail around the camera and that has seemed to keep it in place for now until I can find some gaffa tape. But I still got one great one and one pretty cool double exposure if not a little dark, I should probably invest in photoshop and then I could fix these things but thats a project for a later day I think.

So when I realised that the back was off I just finished up the roll so I could start a new one so there are quite a few pictures of the sunbears, I almost think that the back falling off made the pictures a bit brighter. Probably No but some came out awesome!

The Sun Bears just got fed so they were out and about getting their food!

  The black but in the centre is a Sun Bear I swear!

I was really impressed with the Panda exhibit, when they said that you would be going in with groups of 50 I really thought that it would be horrible to try to get a good photo or even a opportunity to see them but they did a great job!

Tian Tian

Yang Guang

The King penguins were awasy so there was no penguin parade, but the gentoos were nesting so watching them steal eachothers pebbles for nests was pretty funny, definately worth the trade off for the penguin parade.

And after all of that walking I felt about the same a the Sea Lion.

I really wanted to get this film developed so I ran on my lunch break taking photos along the way to finish off the roll and I got surprisingly good photos!

I have another film in the works, a black and white one this time! I am super excited to take more photos with this one, so far I took some at the National Gallery of Modern Art, we were there for the Edvard Munch exhibit of Lithographs but more on that soon!

Holga

So very recently I got my first analogue camera that I know (mostly) how to use, I do have the Ensign Ranger II but I don't really know how confident I am with actually trying it out! So I decided to start small and work my way up to big! Introducing the Holga 120CFN..

Now I am chalking this up to inexperience cause I messed up quite a few of these photos! But it was my first film and I wanted to try a whole bunch of things on it!

So here are a couple of picture I really liked.

Double Exposure of Castle and Cherry Tree.

St Giles. 

I have two more rolls at the printers and this time I am getting it on CD as well so hopefully no more pictures of pictures.

So hopefully more from me soon cause Caryn is visiting so I am sure I will have lots to post about!