Amanda | February 28, 2011
February went by oh so quickly and today I’m announcing the new theme for Twelve. Twelve is a monthly photographic project that you can read more about here. The pool was full of lots of red and pink hues and loving embraces for February, which truly warmed my heart. The theme for March is: Home [...]
Category: Photography |
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Tags: Photography Project, Twelve
Amanda | February 25, 2011
Whilst sitting in a cafe last weekend, an older man in an adjacent booth, called out to me to inquire about my camera. He wanted to know if it was a manual Nikon as he had suspected. “No, it’s a Yashica.”, I replied, “My Nikon is at home.” He then launched into a conversation about [...]
Category: Cafe Life, Photography |
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Tags: cameras, film, Photography, Strangers
Amanda | February 23, 2011
I’m more about the pictures than the words right now. I’ve been playing with an expired pack of 669 that has sat on a shelf for the last few years. I love the colours even with the ghostly chemical splotches. Do you enjoy using films or cameras that are a bit experimental or do you [...]
Category: Creativity, Photography |
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Tags: film, Polaroid
Amanda | February 16, 2011
If you follow me, Jen or Susannah on twitter*, I’m sure you’ve already heard our recent excitement. Yesterday we delivered our final manuscript and artwork to the publisher and I cannot not tell you how good it feels. It has been a long and exciting process full of emotion, late nights and hundreds of emails [...]
Category: Instant Love Book, Photography |
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Tags: Our Polaroid Book, Polaroid, writing
Amanda | February 7, 2011
Some time ago, a publisher in Korea contacted me about including some of my Polaroids in a book called Polaroid Day. The book has been released in Korea and I was lucky enough to receive an artist copy from the publishers. I was so thrilled to see my Polaroids in the book, especially as one [...]
Category: News, Photography |
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Tags: Polaroid, Polaroid Day, Published
Amanda | February 4, 2011
When I first started my Twelve photography project, I thought it would be fun to share some of the photographs that people added to the pool here on the blog. I had no idea that there would have been so many people taking part and obviously I can’t share all the photos that are currently [...]
Category: Photography |
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Tags: Photography Project, Twelve
Amanda | February 2, 2011
The first Wandering Neighbourhoods for 2011 is a snowy wintery edition around my local neighbourhood- nowhere in particular, just local streets in Vancouver all holding hands to create one glorious, white snow field. This is the first instalment of two as my trigger finger was a little shutter button happy on snow day. I feel [...]
Category: Living Abroad, Photography, Wandering Neighbh'ds |
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Tags: film, Snow, Vancouver, Wandering Neighbh'ds, winter