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Jersey beaches, cold sea swims, leaky flasks, sandy kites, strange hats found in cupboards that unleash alter egos, questionable CDs in unpredictably loud car stereos, towels with no arms so you get changed under (“mu-mu”s), NPCs who stare at you as you get changed in the rain by your Honda CRV (Barbie car / adventure wagon), frogs that need road signs, friends who lift forks to the sky to tempt seagulls, makeshift bbqs and communal teeth brushing at the end of the night. These are things I treasure and love to capture. You can’t capture games too easily but the they also feature prominently, and I was too busy trying to not lose at poker to capture any.

#35mm

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The other-worldly winter snowy sunny splendour of the Lake District last month.

We always seek some kind of coastline or mountain peak for our anniversary trip 🗻 but this time we also GOT ENGAGED FORREALS! 11 years into this life giving partnership. After years of chivvying and peer pressure from @minabored, we finally caved. Luckily it’s also something we’re extremely excited and happy about.

#ullswater #placefell #lakedistrict #35mm

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I made the pilgrimage to the Tarot Garden @giardinodeitarocchi_official by @niki_de_saint_phalle in the Tuscan countryside a few weeks ago and honestly I think it was more magnificent than even I had dreamed! 🌙

The attention to detail, the textures, the colours... every single piece of ceramic was cast and installed on site working with community to bring it to life. Niki worked on it for more than two decades and didn't quite manage to complete it before she died. She raised the funds to make it by making a perfume (!!)

The feeling walking up to it and seeing a skyline of these larger than life creations and nothing else in sight was truly magical. The water features brought this reviving energy to the park, and then as the storm clouds rolled in there was this incredible transformation in the mood of these tarot sculptures as they held court.

It is a seriously dreamlike and powerful place. If you are ever in Tuscany - GO!

Planning to post more detail on @softworld.world if you want more - I took a LOT of photos 🫠

#nikidesaintphalle #tarotgarden #35mm

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And more from the Tarot Garden 🌞 @giardinodeitarocchi_official, starting with a close-up of The Prophet, and I hope showing a sense of the mind-boggling detail and form of these sculptures.

#nikidesaintphalle #tarotgarden #35mm

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A few more snaps from our encounters in Oregon & Washington ~ frog rides, Twedes Cafe, hitching rides in SUVs, Multnomah Falls, neon fish in Pike Place Market, Rattlesnake Lake, hours immersed in the Avalon Arcade in SE Portland, Little Axe Records, downtown cinemas and gongs in the Portland Peculiarium 👁️ and thanks to @jerome_toole for shots 3 and 8 📸

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@enchantdforst
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#35mm #Portland #MultnomahFalls #northbend #rattlesnakelake

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@jerome_toole & I wanted to go to the Pacific North West for a long time, yearning for the pines and waterfalls of the Twin Peaks opening credits. This summer, spurred on by an invitation to our friends Nick & Marah’s wedding in Oregon, we finally ignored the cost and the carbon and the fact we couldn’t drive and WENT.

We’re both very bad at publishing our photos in a timely way, but I want to share more this year. So here is a tiny selection of the vastness - the crystal clear lakes, evening heat, epic waterfalls, gothic motels, wild swimming, endless neons, roadside sculptures, refill coffees, trails, mountains, forests, attractions and oddities we encountered.

Going to be sharing more of the best bizarre things on @softworld.world, especially at DIY Salem roadside amusement park (one of the best days out of our lives) @enchantdforst.

1. 100 year old independent cinema in Portland
2. Snoqualmie Falls, WA
3. Wicked Witch, Enchanted Forest
4. @twedescafe (the coffee & cherry pie was 👌)
5. Smokey the Bear! With a 6 pack!
6. Up top Little Si, North Bend, WA
7. Trails in National Park, Portland
8. Bliss, standing in the river, Troutdale, Oregon
9. Minutes before the best Mexican food of our lives in a family owned roadside restaurant/bar called Rio Bravo
10. Big Foot is everywhere

Thanks Nick & Marah, and thanks Jerome for standing for us doing something we wanted to do despite how little reasonable sense it made.

(BTW, we always thought you needed to be able to drive to visit the States, but actually the buses and Amtrak trains were great and cheap, it’s fine!)

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I love taking photos with my point + shoot 35mm camera. It’s an expensive hobby but I have never wanted to give it up. The experience of snapping in the moment always brings me joy, no matter how the photo comes out.

I’m determined to share more of them as I go in 2025 but to start with I am sharing a backlog of my favourite recent images, capturing some of the magic, friendship and weird things I encountered. Things I was grateful for, that spoke of human oddness and natural beauty.

Here’s part 1 - a few from Malta’s gorges and finest water parks, Glastonbury’s 4am hillside views and inspiring places where I did my best dancing, pure joy of large bouncing balls in Orbital’s set, Shoreham’s annual duck race (rubber ducks, down a river - a surprising number of friends initially thought this was gonna be with real ducks), a big sort out of brainchild things and rediscovering the happiness of long days manual labour in the sunny smell of grass and rubbish skips (all precious and reusable things kept or passed onto other crews for things to come), plus ferns unfurling in spring, exploring hidden delights in Scottish gardens and cafes.

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These ones are for fans of the British seaside. Always a big theme for me and my film camera! 🍦

Here’s some from all sorts of natural and made up places. The “English riviera” of Torbay on our honeymoon, Jersey’s honeycomb beaches, caves and magical islands, the shell/ice cream people and crabs of Glastonbury-On-Sea and the beach and bouncy castles of Babbacombe Model Village. Interspersed with the strongest and most proud looking anemones, African daisies and roses from those places, a couple of other joys from Glastonbury and finally the peaceful spot of our back garden in the heat of the summer.

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Just got 8 rolls of film back - it always feels like opening a treasure trove no matter how average the photos are, the joy is sweet and unbeatable 🐞 anyway, excited to have new things to share too and give technicolour space to this weird weird year. Will be mostly sharing on @softlife.life so I don’t spam yall. #35mm

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