Ok, so last week I put up a post with my first developed 35mm photo on my new (to me) Canon FTb QL 35mm camera. In that post I explained how I only had one photo due to the film being completely blank other than that one frame and how I also shot a black and white film which I was waiting to receive back from Ilford Labs for developing.

I received it back on Saturday, and thank the lord, it was fine and I received a load of prints. I was soon happy that it came out because a couple reasons; 1. I actually like some of the photos on it, and 2. It means my new camera isn’t broken.

Of course this does mean one of 2 things when it comes to the other film, the film was either a dud, or Jessops fucked up the developing… I’m going with the film probably being a dud to be fair.

But nonetheless, the black and white film came out so I scanned in a few of my favourite pictures and posted them below. Hopefully I will be posting plenty more successful prints in the future!

Winchester had a ComicCon this weekend which we took a visit to.

Not gonna lie, it was very small and wasn’t very busy. There was mainly trade stalls to be fair. But I went with some friends of mine who have a 6 month old (which I have also posted pictures of before when she was just born), so I basically just took loads of pictures of her, and her name is Winny-Rae so WinCon was quite a suitable name.

So have a few pictures of this adorable little girl.

Recently I’ve been very busy growing up. We are whiskers away from buying our first house, we have started planning our wedding etc etc.

I really wanted to document this whole thing in photo’s, which I normally do quite a bit, but I always find with digital you rely on the fact you can take a picture, then retake/delete it if you don’t like it, or the levels/exposure isn’t quite right and all that.

I’ve always admired the rawness of 35mm, for the simple fact, you point and shoot, then thats it, you might not be happy with the outcome, or you might be, but you won’t know until it’s developed and then thats it. So I decided to buy a 1970s Canon 35mm off eBay from a charity shop and a few films to “have a go” with.

It’s been about 10 years since I’ve taken any 35mm and I never actually owned a 35mm SLR before now (purely because of the price it costs to buy/develop films and prints and also for the reasons mentioned above – not ideal if you’re taking pictures for a client and they want to see the pictures ASAP with no room for error), so I wasn’t expecting much. I took one black and white film and a colour film.

I’m still waiting for the Black and White film to return from Ilford Labs, which hopefully should be any day now, but I really hope it didn’t come out like the colour film did…. Unfortunately my whole colour film was blank, apart from the very last frame. Now this could be a number of things, from a shitty film, a problem with the camera or even the developers at Jessops fucking it up, so I’m eagerly awaiting the Black and White film to come back, just to see if the camera is a dud or it was just coincidence that the first film I took anything with was a dud…

Despite that, I scanned the only picture I have from my new camera and posted it below anyway, because that single picture cost me just under £15…

I have a couple of mates that play football Saturday’s for a team called Herriard. I watched a few of their matches last year, including 2 cup finals which they one both of.

This year I’ve watched pretty much all their matches, apart from a few where I was either in Iceland or on my FA Level 1 Coaching course (which I passed, well done to me).

Herald decided to make an Instagram page recently – @herriardsports – and asked me if I would bring my camera along to some of the games and get some shits of them playing. I agreed, despite never taking any football pictures before in my life. I enjoy watching Herriard, they play some really good football, and they are all safe as fuck too.

I’ll probably take more pictures in the future, and maybe put a bit more effort in next time instead of staying sat in the same cold wet spot keeping my heavily pregnant friend company.

My best mate (and soon to be best man) asked me to take some snaps of his Granddads 80th birthday party.

I like taking photo’s of party’s, mainly because despite the fact they always start off slow, once the alcohol is flowing, you see a side of people you don’t usually see, and they really come out of their shell.