{Guest Post} For the Easily Distracted

If you have been following indieBerries for a while, you may know my (small) obsession with film photography. There is something about film that captures moments and memories in a way that digital cameras just can. not. If you don't believe me - have a look at my Lomo London post or my Reading Festival Snaps or some old pics from the Philippines with my Diana F+ that have some awesome double exposures. (Even the pic above is an unedited film pic from Warr's 1960s Kodak coloursnap)

I'm not sure what it is about film that I love so much - it could be the raw-graininess that makes each picture feel so gritty and real, it could be the "preciousness" of each photo, it could be the unpredictability of the film/camera/light/subject combo or maybe it's just the pure excitement of waiting to collect your pictures from the lab at the end of a roll of film.

When I first started playing around with film photography I scoured the internet for other people who were also into using film cameras and came across one of my favourite photo-blogs ever - For the Easily Distracted - I remember seeing that name come up and thinking "haha lol. that's totally me"

*CLICK*

And that is how I came across today's guest blogger!

Rhianne blogs from Leeds, England and her blog is filled with the most gorgeous analogue photography of her life and the beautiful things around her. She has an army of cameras that i've VERY jealous of! She is super knowledgable about film/camera/lighting etc and informed me that the cool "swishings" that appeared on some of my film photos were due to me swinging the camera around on my arm. haha -  def gonna try some more of that very scientific arm-swingin' technique! Today she is sharing some of her gorgeous photos with us!

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Hey Indieberries lovers! My name's Rhianne and I'm so excited to be here on Che's blog - I can't even remember how I found Indieberries now but I've been a huge fan of Che for what feels like years. Che even wrote an amazing guest post for me about Paris last year, so it seems only fair that I repay the favour.

I would have loved to be sharing a doodle, or something hilarious (like Che does so often) but after thinking about it, I realised that I just wasn't as funny or artistically talented as she is... (its ok, I'm alright with that... honest) so instead I'm sharing something I am good at - photos. And photos of one of my favourite places too - Kirkstall Abbey.

  {Wedding bells perhaps? See what I did there...}



I hope you enjoyed looking at these, it was a beautiful day and I tried to catch as much of that beauty and light as I could.

 And Che and Warr - I hope you have a truly amazing wedding day and honeymoon, I'm looking forward to seeing the gorgeousness that I know will be your wedding photos.

Rhianne x

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Thank you so much Rhianne! I absolutely LOVE all your photos (esp the wedding bells for good measure!) 

If you fall madly in love with Rhiannes pics, (like I'm sure you will) - you can go and check out some of the prints (pillows/canvases/tote bags/hoodies) she is selling on Society 6 - and how awesome is this iPhone case?!

You can see more of Rhiannes amazing pics on her blog - For the Easily Distracted and you can keep up to date with her photo-explorations by following her on twitter @forthedistractd

If you are thinking of getting into film photography - Rhianne's blog has an awesome "photos by camera" category so you can have a look at the kind of pictures each camera takes and see which kind you like the most. { DO IT }

PS. Let me just tell you - Rhianne snapped these amazing pics on a Canon EOS 750 that she found in a charity shop for £3.99. 

I KNOW.

{Film} Random

These are two film pictures from a picnic we had in London at the end of Summer.

I have no more time to write anything else

So

Go read The Oatmeal.

because it's hilarious.

xxx  smooches  xxx

Film: Reading Music Festival

Here are a few of the film snaps that Warren had secretly developed after I left London. This little collection is from our trip up to Reading after Warren surprised me with tickets to The Reading Music Festival to see Florence and the Machine for my birthday.

We arrived the day before and stayed a little outside Reading itself on a hotel-boat on the river - it was awesome (run by an old South African couple - and on our first night after the ol' boat captain found out we were South African - he stayed up drinking talking to us and telling us his whole long life-story right up until how he came to be running a hotel boat in the middle of The Reading Countryside. We had a grand time with him and his stories haha. Then when his wife came and told him to leave us alone - we stayed up later playing scrabble, chatting, drinking red wine and listening to the rain:

it was perfect.
(the pic above is an instagram pic not a film pic)

The next day we set off on our walk to the festival and it was a lot more of a walk than we anticipated.

Also. it rained. we got wet.

But, 

being a festival

being so happy 

being so excited to spend the day jamming together

we didn't mind :)

And the rest are a few snaps from the festival {after we eventually got there (in the end we hailed down a cab - which was essential since it took us about 15 minutes by car)}

Epic man and cup tower. 

I think we watched this guy for a good half an hour until we got bored.

Last year we went to the Reading Festival with a big crowd of (Aussie) People - and it was loads of fun - this year was just as awesome being able to jam the two of us on our own :)

YAY for sunshine!!

 

I love how moody the sky is in these pics.

Also - The Warr spotted a magical something billowing in the wind - 

Warr: Che! Look at that sign. it's got peace love and happiness all over it! It's totally you. You should have a picture with that!

Che: YEAH! YEAH it IS! 

"Hey hippie with a flag on a stick! You are awesome! I wanna take a picture with you! No, not you - your flag - you just stay right there and don't move! Warren! take a picture!"

 

*snap*

We hugged it out. it was awesome.

Sigh, these pictures make me SO happy!!

such good memories.

(jamming to the vaccines, the shins, kasabian, florence and this guy) 

Warr - let's do that again soon?!

Film: Turkey

I was having a bit of a miserable day the other day so the lovely fiance decided to drop-box me (yeah i just made that into a verb) some of the film pictures that he had developed since I left London. I didn't know he'd had them developed - so it was such a nice surprise! Here are a few from our trip to Turkey - 

 

The Bodrum Castle and the Museum of underwater archaeology.

Gumusluk little docking bay

Kodak 1960

Warr has recently got his hands on a Kodak 1960s Colour snap - we are still learning to get the different settings right - but we have had so much fun snapping it along with us on our adventures. I love the interesting light leaks that creep into the shots and the fuzzy/blurriness makes for some really awesome "moody" pics.