Amanda | March 31, 2010
Are you trying hard to improve your photography by shooting as much as you can? Do you sometimes get stuck in a place where you are unsure which way to go next? When photography found me (yes it found me, I didn’t find it) I was consumed by wanting to shoot until my shutter finger [...]
Amanda | March 30, 2010
Do you like my pile of polas and letters? Today I love… letters from home, camelia petals, Small Magazine, book packages from Amazon, kind emails from Mocking Bird readers, Marry Me Peonies from Emerson Made, Nikki the cat who has decided our computer/TV room is her new sleeping room, Girl of All Work stationery, a [...]
Amanda | March 29, 2010
Can you feel it? That special feeling that happens in the in between days of Winter and Spring? Winter isn’t quite yet gone and Spring isn’t quite yet here allowing us to notice little snippets of happiness to come. Seeing as my last summer day was February 2009, I am crushing on Northern Hemispherian summer [...]
Amanda | March 26, 2010
Way back in the early 00′s, my first endeavours online were scattered between building dodgy geocities sites about my travels to chase U2 all over the UK and Ireland and starting up my first ever photoblog. I came across photoblogs by people like Alison, Myla, Dawn, Lynn and Lorissa and figured it was a great [...]
Amanda | March 24, 2010
I want you to buy film from The Impossible Project on Thursday. I want you to take bundles of Polaroids so that you have piles of them stacked on your shelves. I want you to watch this. I want you to look at this and this and this and this. And this one too. I [...]
Amanda | March 23, 2010
What’s In Your Kit is one of my favourite Mocking Bird features in which I interview photographers about their photography equipment. So far we have had interviews with One Love Photo, Canelle Et Vanille, Lisa Warninger, Elizabeth Messina and Brian Ferry. Today I would like to share an interview with the photographer behind Sacred Lotus [...]
Amanda | March 22, 2010
PX image by Brian Henry for The Impossible Project. Image © The Impossible Project. Happy days are here again! The most amazing announcement was made at The Impossible Project‘s press conference this morning in New York. Today it was announced that Polaroid film is back and will be available for purchase this week! Starting Thursday [...]
Amanda | March 22, 2010
As I make my way through my Vancouver wanderings, I am always drawn to mixes of colour. Even when the sun isn’t shining in this beautiful town, I can always find something cheery and bright to make my heart and camera sing a little sweeter. I do find that Vancouver is full of brilliant colours, [...]
