February saw me head to Slovenia with my ma for a little city / mountain break! Here it is in all its grainy, rainy film glory. I absolutely loved this trip and really felt like we squeezes every last bit out of out of our time here.

India.. the highs and the lows!

Ahh looking back at these is making me miss South America so much! LOOK AT ALL THE COLOURS. I have continued love affair with film right in 2019 and when we decided to voyage around South America for 6 weeks from February there was no question which camera with would be trusty companion. As it turned out as much as I love these I do wish I had brought my digital with me too.. I also realised my lens had developed a kind of fault too which means it misses focus A LOT and there’s nothing more frustrating than thinking you nailed a shot to find out 8 weeks later when the films developed that you did in fact, not.

I always struggle with photography on trips; do I take my ‘work’ camera? Do I use my lightweight Fuji instead? Do I take no photos? When I switch my brain into ‘camera taking mode’ it can be hard to relax sometimes I end up making the whole trip about getting that incredible epic shot rather than enjoying the scene in front of me and interacting with people.

Part of this trip was switching off from work too, and re-forming my view on the medium that I work with. SO, I bought a film camera and vowed to only shoot film for this trip. Learning to use film again had been on my list for a long time and always got shoved to the bottom, but this trip away was about me pushing myself so off I went to the second hand camera store.

I’ve been so inspired this year with my travel photography work, and realised I don’t really share any of it! Travel & photography are probably my two biggest passions so exploring them together has been wonderful, and the perfect tonic to wedding season. It enables me to be creative not for a client or couple, but free to see and capture the world as I want.

So those who follow me over on Facebook, Instagram or sent me an email in November will have seen that I took a little internet / technology break for a month late last year, and amongst other places visited the incredible Cuba. There really are no words to describe the vibrancy and individuality of this country and the people who live there and as I'm no writer, I'll let my photos tell the story. It sounds odd but there, everything makes an amazing photo.