Knivskjellodden

Being related to a geographer means looking at: northernmost points, a variety of peatbogs, cool rocks, and other amazing geological features.
These are pictures from our hike to the northernmost point of mainland Europe, on the Knivskjellodden peninsula. The cool colours are due to the film being 10 years out of date. I'm glad it still worked!

Almost 9km from the car park...



Looking towards Nordkapp across the Barents sea.



A little rest on the way back.



The weather started to close in.

Endings

Many things have ended for me in the past few months; my twenties(!), summer, and a wonderful duel.

Mostly though, I'd love to show you the duel on Neosynthesis.net
My sparring partner was the amazing Deyan and our theme was Food! The idea is to follow each other's photos, challenging and inspiring one another, with everyone winning in the end. Some of my best photos have been products of Deyan-duels, (this was our third so far).
I always have so many ideas, some of which just don't fit during the course of the duel. Here's my never-seen-before reject for the finale...



{Aurevoir mon petit choufleur}
Taken with a vintage polaroid camera and expired polaroid film.

A huge thank you to Deyan for being an inspiration as always. If you've not seen his truly awe-dropping photography before you can also find his prints at deviantart (I'm lucky to have some gracing my own walls.)

And lastly, my stock of polaroid film is running low. I can't quite comprehend that the film itself is being discontinued :( For more info see save polaroid.

Colour

Each season or so I find a different way to make a colour palette which includes purple. In the past I've been inspired by dairy milk chocolate wrappers, glimmers of light on oilslick hues (when petrol prices shot up, gah!), and the chromatic abberations of old black ink. Any excuse really to use my favourite colour; though in truth it's a particular shade of dusky plum.


Recently I've been returning to nature, using natural dyes to make the most amazing colours. What better time to appreciate them than twilight, when magic is in the air and the heady scent of fragrant blooms swirls around us.
(The photograph is my own, taken with my Holga camera; I dyed the samples of fabric myself too.)