St Margaret's Loch

I am officially addicted to my Pentax, this is the most film I have shot since getting into cameras, and you know what its awesome! So hopefully you don't mind post after post laden with photographs, cause hopefully that will be what is happening for a good while now. Although I probably need to wait until payday until I get anymore printed. So possibly a reprieve is coming up for you.

These photos are from a wee walk up Arthur's Seat and around Holyrood Park to the ruined abbey, St Anthony's Chapel and St Margaret's Loch, for a wee visit with the swans. It was a gorgeous day, one that makes you think that summer is here and here to stay. Unfortunately summer is still waiting but it was a brilliant day for a picnic and some photographs.

 

100 Days Happy 50-56

So I had a weeks worth of holidays to use up and so use them up I did, so this weeks worth of happy has been especially good because its also been very relaxing. I didn't have too many plans but still got out and did stuff too. So its been a good week. And we are past the half way mark for 100 Days Happy, so that is also pretty cool. I can't help but wonder if it is helping me relax and feel happier and notice happy things, this week it would have been hard not to.

1. Started using my Valentines Threads for my cross stitch

2. Bath bombs!

3. The ever growing camera collection, they got some use this week.

4. First photos back from the Pentax

5. Roslin Chapel

6. Botanics greenhouses

7. Dr Sketchy's is back!

Pentax K1000

So I mentioned the other day in one of my 100 Days Happy posts, that I bought a new camera while out at the flea market. Well it turned out that there was already a roll of film in the camera, and a couple pictures had been taken. So not knowing what kind of film was in the camera, and just with a hope that all the settings were correct, I set out to fill up the film and see how the camera was. And now I got them back, and unfortunately they seem a little under exposed, for the most part as most of the photos are a little grey, but it was a good lesson on making sure your settings are correct, because in this case some things were a little off. But all in all I got some photos I really like and the couple that were on the roll already look really cool, and I wonder where they are from. But first here are some of my shots.

Firstly Daniel and I went around Lauriston Castle, and the next day it was nice out so I took a meandering walk through the Dean War Memorial Graveyard, the Modern Art Gallery Grounds and up past the Castle on my way to Trumps, the photography store.

The ones from Lauriston Castle are not quite as crisp but I still like them anyway.

The scans aren't of the best quality, but they are pretty good, the pictures are better, one day I will work out how to use my scanner better.

And here's where they start to get a bit better, 

And these are the found photos on my camera, she said she never took very good photos, but I think these are brilliant. Hopefully I will remember to try to return her pictures if I make it to the next flea market.

I am off to Roslin tomorrow, so hopefully I get some good pictures again.

Photography, Comedy and Walking

Its been another pretty busy week, which is exciting because I haven't just been working, I have been out doing stuff. So its going to be a long one again, luckily it is mostly pictures and not loads of me talking. 

So yes doing stuff! A lot of that has to do with Hayley, she has been inviting me out for a lot of things. So its been a lot of fun. First things first Hayley and I went to the Stand again, and it was really good, even though there was no seats left, so it was just standing room. We got to see some really great comedians and were surprised because John Bishop from telly turned up and did a wee set! We were a bit disappointing with Brendon Burns, pretty well all of his material I had heard before so it wasn't very exciting. He was still funny but still dissapointing.

We came home pretty early after that, Dixon had a gig but Hayley and I just missed out seeing them play. But since Darren and Mhairi were in town from Troon, we went for a walk with them and their daughter Brody and Jura their dog (she's a Norwegian Elkhound, not a husky as many people tried to point out, much to the dismay of Darren and Mhairi.). Dixon needed convincing since his hangover wanted him to stay home, but walking down Cramond way is always lovely and hopefully that will have made him feel a bit better. 

More exciting things? I know I have been up to a lot! The Stills Gallery I mentioned in a previous post had another great workshop on. Technically it was for the Luminate festival which celebrate creativity while aging and has exhibits and events for all ages. Which was lucky for me because I was really excited about this one. They showed you how to develop and enlarge a negative that you have in black and white. The course was for up to three people, and it turned out that today I was all by myself which meant that I got to learn loads. The instructor showed me not only how to develop a print but also a roll of film and a tour of the rest of the facility. I am hopefully going to be doing a lot more of that!

The first photos are the final prints and the graduated ones are the tests for how long they should be exposed.

And the day out today ended with a rainbow!