wales

Third batch of expired film from 2004. Llangrannog, portraits, and the most hipster photography I've ever taken. Put your iPhone fauxlaroid apps away. Step away from Instagram. This is how it's meant to be done.

More expired film from 2004. This must have been just after the return from Ireland.

I'm currently emptying my fridge of expired and exposed films. Towards the end of the week I sent nine such films for developing and scanning (on the cheap) and this is one of them that came back. It's always a little strange coming across pictures from the past that you've not seen before. It's also a bit strange when you find photographs of someone you lived with and loved for many years. What surprised me most, however, was the fact that I shot some portraits and didn't remember it!

I've always enjoyed landscape and cityscape photography. Buildings and architecture, mountains and seas: none of them move! The photographer has complete free-rein to bring the subject to life through lighting, composition and so forth. This also means the photographer has nobody to blame but themselves.

I feel that in 2010 I have probably reached a plateau with my landscape photography, though my architectural shots have improved (especially on my weekend in Edinburgh). In 2011 I shall have to invest in a landscape course to improve.