It’s been quite a busy 6 weeks of summer this year. I had planned many photography trips and the majority of them were carried out successfully. However, the unforeseeable events that interrupt your plans in life did make an appearance. This meant that I didn’t get as much done as I had wanted to, but most mini-adventures did go to plan. I do plan to write about these individually and share the photographs from these trips in more detail, but at the moment I just wanted to provide an overview.
At the start of the summer break I visited my family. This actually coincided with quite an important date as it was the 20th year anniversary since my Father’s brain haemorrhage. A subject/project which I have photographed previously in my personal work. It was therefore important for me to take my camera and make sure I photographed something on this day.
I had then planned to take an extended trip to North Wales. My in
tention was to camp and travel around Snowdonia and explore and practice with some landscape photography. I wanted to experiment with some different film types as well as testing out different pack weights. I wanted to do some hiking and test out different combinations of gear and how much weight would be comfortable to carry. However, as I departed for my trip I was informed that my Mom had been taken into hospital. She was to have her gall bladder removed, so I spent a week at the hospital and with family instead. After the operation and once my Mom had been discharged, I managed to continue my Wales trip but just a shorter version of it
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< Early morning bed head, camping in Llanberis
In August I then flew out to Poland with Maggie. We had planned to spend 2 weeks with her family and then attend a friends wedding in the middle of the trip. We were fortunate enough to borrow a car and this gave me a perfect opportunity to start a project i’ve had in mind since my first visit to Poland.
We visited the Masurian Lake District and travelled around the local villages. A lot of time was also spent with Maggie educating me in the art of mushroom picking, something which i’m not sure I enjoy just yet, I think I need more practice. However the wild mushrooms of Poland do taste great and I was informed that this year has been a very good year for mushrooms! I will be sure to post more on my time in Poland soon and introduce the project I started shooting while I was out there.
Anyway, now that I am back, I have one batch of film that is in the process of being scanned. I have the other batch of film waiting to be sent off for development. I will be sure to start sharing my images as soon as possible.
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