Plastic Fantastic - Life through a Lomo

From top left, clockwise - 1) Truman's Brewery, Brick Lane, London 2) The Cotswolds 3) Flying 'home' - Melbourne to London 4) Garden in Yarra Glen

Some of you out there may have seen Daniel carrying around a new camera that Monique gave him for Christmas...a Lomography Diana F+...if you’re interested, read up on the history...it’s pretty interesting!

Having now shot four rolls of film, the learning curve has been painful. The first two rolls were 75% failure, thankfully the second two rolls were much better. Shooting on film is amazing – such a drastically different mindset from digital, and the anticipation of waiting to get the film processed in palpable.

The coolest thing though is the images... soft focus, vignetting, low contrast and high saturation gives the images such an incredible emotive quality. It is becoming quite addictive!

As English as it gets - The Cotswolds

We enjoyed at sensational weekend away in the Cotswolds over Easter (yes, we know it’s been a while since we’ve updated the blog...sincerest apologies!!).

Anyway, the Cotswolds were amazing - quintessentially English in every possible way. Green rolling hills, quaint villages, countless tea rooms, spring lambs, daffodils, ancient pubs....even the weather was classically English – overcast, cold and drizzly all weekend. Normally that would have been pretty irritating...but for some reason it wouldn’t have felt quite right any other way. 

We’re not exaggerating by saying that being in the Cotswolds is a little bit like stepping into a story book. It’s almost hard to image that such a places exists outside of fairy tales and children’s stories – so much so that when we saw a Royal Mail van parked in a small village, we half expected to see Postman Pat and his black and white cat.

We spent four days meandering from town to town, spending a fair chuck of time in tea rooms and pubs – it was that sort of weekend.