medium format mess-up

so this is the result of my attempt with the pentax 645. when santa dropped it down my chimney he did so without a lens, so i had to source one of my own (save up to get one) before i could try it out. after reading several online manuals i thought i had it cracked, though in true fran style i managed to mess it up. so the shutterspeed was too slow and, evidently, we got some shake that outkast would be proud of it, but, also in true fran style, i'm seeing the positive side and some of them don't look so bad.

was trying to explore with light and colour, though maybe next time i'll have to align my compass properly first.

dramatically inspiring stuff, and for more DRAMA DRAMA DRAMA you can follow me on instagram - coz my life is so dramatic!

lazy social snaps

mel and alycia at Netil360

sexy doig

holly, sophie, elli and abbi at duke of edinburgh

kash and sophie at cirqe le soir

kash and holly at crown and shuttle

some yung thugs at brewdog (true identities unknown)

while probably not hugely inspiring or with messages that transcend all states of humanity, these are some more recent photos of the hot shot lives we lead. The two at the top are from when I got on the wrong train at Croydon and ended up getting off at salfords and wandering around 'til the next train. oh and then it started raining. and there was this weird dude that was tending to a bonfire who was watching me walk around haha. 

cirqe le soir was kinda crazy, i mean if you're just judging by the porn-lined private room we were in initially. the evening was conducted around routine parades of 'freaks'; barely dressed exotic dancers in animal heads, menaical clowns and gimps clad in leopard print suits, to name a few. an overweight man without eyebrows and dressed in a nappy is force feed easter eggs, while a woman dressed like a man and a man dressed like a woman grind on each other at the end of the stage. so, yeah, kind of a different night than i was expecting, but it was really cool, very american horror story, and we got in for free, got free drinks all night (much to elli's detriment) and learnt kash can whip out a lap dance at the spin of a wheel.

all taken on the trusty olympus. 

W.L.S.C

These are all photos i took from West London Social Club 004: Spring Ting at Sporting Clube De Londres in April (bar the two polaroids I took for jai). featuring some people I know and some people I don't, and the guy who walked into my shot. 

keeping this one short and sweet, but for those who can't get enough go to my insta and follow me.

spice up your life

house gang

ELLIOT, ME (pink fluffball) AND KATIE - WLSC

GOOSE, LLOYD, LEWIS AND SKINO - WLSC

elli & holly

SPICE UP YOUR LIFE AND GET OUT THERE AND ENJOY IT! 

all these pictures are basically my friends and stuff that we do coz thats what inspires me, i got some amazing friends and an ailing memory so photos definitely help. I guess its also just nice to capture the world, find some permanence in the uncertain times we're living in (that was 50,000 ft deep).

a lot of these photos are from West London Social Club, a night run across various top spots in, you guessed it, WEST LONDON. what follows is an evening at the arcade, drinks in brixton and random snaps from emma's birthday. the polaroids are from that super hot day in April (i think?) and we sat in the park and didn't wear suncream and got REALLL burnt. 

shots are taken on the olympus and the polaroid. the olympus has been my go to at the minute coz its so easy to take around,  and so much quicker than my manual focus. so expect more from this guy but i'll try include some others.

don't forget to check that gram for minute-by-minute updates of what quinoa salad i'm eating today.

where the road leeds

well, the road led me to leeds.  One of my favourite tattoo artists is based up in Leeds, so after deciding this year I was going to start building on my collection I went up to see Dan, also know as demondance. As the round trip was pretty much five hours, not only had I ensured I had O.J.:Made in America downloaded on the iPad, I thought I would make a day of it and do some exploring while I was there. Taken around the city centre and on my treacherous journey to the tattoo shop, the photos were all shot on the Canon EON 500 before I had to return it to its rightful owner. sad times.

Getting the tattoo was a great experience, I always love meeting the artists and see where they tattoo, and understand where their work is coming from. I've started writing a new project recently and need to follow up with some photographs - and some other stuff - so I can present something. i'm yet to bring a fully realised 'thing' out there so should really try get that all together soon.

as always, for life-changing posts on your insta feed head to those pics on the gram.