14. develop all my films - rolls 2 & 3

Following on from my previous post about developing my films, these are rolls 2 & 3 from my initial selection. Can I just point out, in terms of storing the camera films I've shot on I literally keep them all together in a box. Nothing is labelled. It's a mixed up box of random camera films that I've shot on at some point with one of my various cameras. Admittedly a terrible system.

So when I was pulling out films to develop, the chances of pulling out two films from the same period and indeed same event is actually pretty slim. Yet somehow I did it. Of the initial 3 films I selected, all 3 of them were shot in 2013. Even weirder, 2 of them are from the same event. Spooky right?

Beginning of August 2013 Andy took me to Y Not festival. Compared to Glastonbury, Y Not is a pretty tiny festival. But pretty perfectly formed. It was an incredibly wet weekend. In fact heavy thunderstorms stopped several performances. Most notably for us Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip where Pip crowd surfed out of the tent and eventually wound up on Andy's head trying not to knock his glasses off. We kept getting evacuated back to our tents because thunderstorms and festival electricals do not mix. It was both terrifying and amazing. I remember it as being a really fun albeit soggy weekend. We should probably go again sometime.

I had forgotten how much I like photographing Andy using my film cameras. He's a very handsome man and he looks especially good on film. I'm sure there's something to be said for the best photographs being those where the photographer has a great love for the subject.

In Tents

If I told you I'd managed to have a few days holiday during my haitus what would you imagine? Would you imagine a short trip to somewhere European? A cultural weekend of art, food and beer? That'd be nice right? Whilst I did manage a few days holiday I shall confess we remained entirely on home soil and didn't even make it to a hotel. In fact we went camping. In Newquay. During a week forecasted to rain. And it was great.

This was my third trip to Newquay. Every time I've been I've camped. Thankfully I've been brought up with a healthy dose of camping holidays and festivals so I'm used to the camping lifestyle. In fact I would even go so far as to say I enjoy it. Utter madness.

The Pentax K1000 was once again the camera of choice. These are some of my favourite photos from the week.

It was nice to have a week off from everything even if we had gale force winds and I was pretty convinced we were going to end up in Oz. Yeah it might not have been the best weather but the company was exceptional and a good time was had by all. Especially on our last night when we got pretty drunk and did some pretty interesting dancing in Walkabout. Won't pretend that coming home to sleep in a proper bed and have a long shower wasn't the best feeling ever though.

There's a few more Newquay photos to be seen here. More will be added to that album eventually when I finish the partial roll I have in the Pentax K1000.

Laters,

P x