Crumbs

Little bits left on your face after a really good meal ! This is that, but they're photos from Fall '24 that I love and want to talk about more. All shot on 35mm with a Leica R5.

Hey it’s the first ever Crumbs!!! Thanks for being here *kisses your forehead.*

Ok, enough small talk.

1. Welcome to a photo of 2 people having the time of their lives. This was shot right around Halloween in York and I just really love how, even with all the other people around, the connection between the baby and the busker is so strong. *Insert something here about the gifts we all offer each other, and living for life’s smallest joys.*

2. London innit. Midafternoon tube on my way back to Char’s after a photo walk in Highgate Cemetery. That morning I’d gotten into a scrum with Royal Mail. I could wax on and on about the liminal surreality of London’s public transport system, but instead let’s just ogle at how ROUND this image is and call it a day.

3. Nosfer-foto. These leaves walked so that claw could run. (Or loom ominously I guess…) York again, and Halloween-time again.

4. A photo? An unattributed 19th century painting? Someone call Christie’s and get the authenticators booked. I’ll never tell.

   She’s a weird one. Sometimes I feel crazy for liking this one, because it’s just a landscape… right? But it's also kind of wild and magical and brooding and adventuresome and everything that you want from time spent in the Highlands.

5. A favorite skill I’ve acquired by living and traveling a lot in Scotland is that any time a film/show/whatever sneakily uses a Scottish location for filming I’ve got a 99.9999% success rate for identifying it. The secret is that lot of them are somewhere on the Isle of Skye. I’m aware that “Skye is cool” is not a hot take - it’s barely a lukewarm one as the island struggles with over tourism every summer

   BUT

   I stand by the fact that it is hard to truly grasp just how wholly awesome Skye is unless you are there on an early morning watching the sun and clouds and eons old Lewissian Gneiss* do crazy things after having dunked your face in a freezing river (the Slig) so that the faeries will grant you everlasting hotness of visage. It slaps.

*Lewisian Gneiss is the super old rock that makes up a lot of Scotland’s geological DNA. For those of you unacquainted, she says it’s Gneiss to meet you.