Peacock Blue at Leightons House

So funny story… but as mentioned previously we went to London for a few days and I was like ‘Yes, I have a digital camera, I can take as many photos as I want, can’t wait!’ and then… it rained. In London, I know, shocker. I had suitable boots and clothes of course (I do live in Yorkshire remember) but I was unprepared for the total horror I felt of letting my new shiny digital - extremely expensive and vulnerable - camera get wet. So lesson learned. Always take a back up film camera with me.

In the end, London was a super uncomfortable photography experience for me - not necessarily in a bad way. But I was pushed outside of my comfort zone 1. in that my safe outside space with all its light was gone because of the rain and 2. because I had zero experience using my new digital camera inside consistently.

I totally forgot how starting a new skillset feels so awful at the beginning - I think perhaps part of that is my own perfectionism and high expectations - but that feeling of not being good at something is not a feeling I endure well ha. I think the results turned out ok in the end, but not knowing how to fix any issues immediately or how to take the kind of photos I wanted to take straight away is a difficult learning curve.

That being said… I am obsessed with how the peacock blue colours turned out in these photos and I loved, loved, loved this location of Leighton’s House. I’d say that I was happy with 50% of the results that I took and for a new(ish) hobby, thats not too bad. I do have some more photos from here as I’m also hugely jealous of the studio in this house - gosh would I love an art studio like that. I’ll share photos of that soon!

Camera: FujiFilm TX-30ii
Location: Leightons House, London