Ghosts

I like this photo because it's a double exposure and you can see the faint image of a woman just behind the woman on the right. 

I also found a page on Flickr with lots of staged Victorian 'spirit' photos here.

Ooh la la

This rather glamourous lady came from a pack of negatives that I blogged about a few months ago (see the original post here). I have been meaning to get all the negatives developed for a while but I haven't managed to find the time to go to the darkroom yet. It's all work work work!

freaky photo

I recently inherited a bag full of old cameras and lenses (seriously FULL) more camera equipment than you could shake a stick at. So pleased with the addition to my camera collection. So far I have all sorts of half broken cameras, and of course the trusty polaroid and lomo, because I like the idea that the photos never come out as you planned. Sometimes worse, but often better. This photo was probably not intended to come out like this, but I think it's better this way. 

Adventures in France

I am very jealous of Toby (the boyfriend). After I flew back home from Barcelona, he drove back through France and stayed with his uncle for a bit. They ended up exploring the house next door which had been empty since the War and was being knocked down. In it they found all sorts of treasures and I turned green when he told me about them (bikes, photo albums, furniture etc etc). Luckily he bought me back a small stash of lovely things, including this little envelope with negatives in it. They're a mix of family photos from around the 1900s - 1930s or so. When the dark room at Uni opens I'll be straight in there to develop them.

Baseball

These are a couple of things I picked up in New York, intended as presents, that have somehow made it into my own private stash of 'stuff'. I couldn't work out if they were actually that old (ironically enough, I was born in 1988) or if they were a joke. SO I opened one (1989, just to be safe) and ate the stick of gum inside. It's definitely as old as I am. 

Stamps

I love charity shops. I was mourning the loss of one of the best ones in Brighton when I found that it had actually just moved round the corner. I'm not saying which one it is but it's amazing because it looks rubbish so no one 'cool' goes in so the prices are still low (unlike cool places like oxfam) and they always have lots of wool, National Geographics, School Atlases and stamps for next to nothing! I bought 5 pages of stamps the other day, mostly from America and Germany. I am so excited about the Germans ones, which I'll post as soon as I get round to scanning them. Someone said it was a shame they had the rummer stamp on them but I think it looks better like that because it means they've actually been used. 

Valet ticket.

Yes, I'm disgusting, I picked this up out of a gutter.

holiday snaps

I can't work out if this photo is actually two photos composited together. I also wish I knew where it was. Someone suggested Pompeii? hrmm...

sewing

I just got back to brighton and I'm feeling the need to procrastinate further by catching up on some sewing instead of doing some proper work!

Churchill

A proof I found on the floor of the letterpress room. I'm not sure who did it but it's part of a book of dying words of famous people called 'Famous Last Words' which L2 Graphics have been working on.

happy

This is one of the best photos I've ever found! and I was lucky enough to find the two halves. I love this woman's face. What on earth did she find so amusing when she was having her photo done? 

ginger

nice little beer mat... lives on the wall next to my desk.

winter

The bad weather is back : (