A few weeks ago we drove up to Kielder lake for the day. We stumbled across a classic car ralley behind the local pub, surrounded by huge Canadian looking trees. Sometimes you just get lucky with things to photograph. We also had a wander around the holiday park and through the woods. I love that places like this are only an hour or so drive away from home.
Yesterday we visited Beamish Museum, who happened to have a festival celebrating everything 50s related. As soon as I attend an event like this I suddenly think I'm Martin Parr and start photographing everyone and everything, desperately trying to blend in and look inconspicuous. Which is difficult when you're shooting with the monster that is the RZ67.
I'm terrible for getting the fear about asking people for a portrait, but I did it a few times this day and it's made me want to be a little braver in future. Expect more portraits.
So you might remember a month ago we took a little road trip to Scotland and it rained none stop. It was horrendous. Read about it here if you enjoy other people's misery. This time we were incredibly lucky with the weather, our camping spots, everything.
We stayed on the edge of Loch Lomond, in Glen Coe and near Comrie and drove for miles in between, visiting everything we didn't get to see last time.
Now that I'm home, I feel like nothing looks quite as interesting without mountains in the distance.
As well as the trusty Mamiya RZ67 I took along a little Olympus OM10 for those cheesy holiday photos. Here's a few of them...
We drove back to the spot where our first wild camping attempt failed miserably last time (you know, in the patch of woodland behind the only building, which happened to be abandoned, in the open moors of Glen Coe) and found a family of deer that live there. They were so chill and came right up to us. Pim has never been so excited in his life, I think he thought they were bigger, much funner looking dogs.
I never thought that Scotland would have beaches like this. The 'Silver Sands' of Morar.
Last but not least, some iPhone photos...
