10|10 October DIY wood wall

Hey everyone! I promised to participate in the 10-10 circle this month so here I am again. It’s been quite a stress to get this post up and running on time but I made it. Enjoy and don’t forget to get going along the, smallish, circle until you come back to my post. (It takes two so you can do this 🙂 )

For this months 10 on 10 I’ll be sharing a project that I finished quite a while ago. When scrolling my phone’s film roll I came across the pics I took of the process. I had this wall in my room that wasn’t finished. Pinterest showed me this wooden wall where you stain a bunch of boards and slam ‘em on your wall. I quite liked that idea so I got to work. This is how it went down.

The wall. Stripped from trim etcetera

I chose boards with a width of 8 cm so there would be a nice number of rows. These got chopped up in various lengths.

I mixed two colors in various ratios to create an even colorscheme. They also had to blend in with the floor I want to install.

I spent one week of evenings of staining multiple layers onto the board.

Two sample board with the two plain colors I chose to blend.

Then the weekend came and the fun part began. Half done half satisfied :).

A little bit of black paint was used to cover up holes in the boards. Works like a charm.

At some point you need to cut out some parts. My measurement skills were tested and deemed worthy.

Nearly finished. Just that top part where you can see a white line. On the floor is the electrical tacker I rented for the job. 

And that’s it. Done. I am very pleased with the results!

That’s it people. I hope you enjoyed this peek I my room. Maybe I’ve even inspired you? Do you DIY or not?

 

Also don’t forget to check out what Sam has been up to!

See you next month (or sooner)

10|10 September ‘Holiday in Friesland’

I’ve been wanting to get back into the 10 on 10 circle I participated in before. After wishing and wanting there’s the actual doing right? These ten pics are taken from a roll of Cinestill 800 I shot during our vacation in Friesland; a province in the Netherlands. It was out of date which gave some side effects with developing. Some colors are a little off and my nephew hasn’t got greenish spots on his arm.

A picture…

Hey folks!

First let me say it feels a bit weird to be writing this blog. It’s been ages since I spent as much as a thought on my blog. Well that’s not totally true but you get the idea right?

Second I’d love to show you this picture I took of my brother and his family. This is (roughly) how it went down.

At Christmas day we celebrated at our church and my sister in law had asked me if I could shoot a picture of them some time during our gathering.

10|10 Circle October ‘Our back yard’

Hey, I’m back. Finally, after three(!) months. What happened? I got a full-time job. Yay for me of course because now there’s more stability in my days and income. That’s very nice. But it’s also pretty shocking how few time there’s left to do whatever you want.

Enough about that, about these pictures… A few months back I shot a roll of Ilford HP 5 which is a black and white film. These were taken in our back yard to experiment with this film. I found that black and white is a bit trickier to use than colour. This is best shown with this first picture.

10|10 Circle June ‘Benjamin and Stephanie’

It’s the most wonderful time of the month. I’m talking about that time where I post ten of my pictures, then link through to the next person in our circle of happy photo taking and sharing. Unfortunately I missed last month due to ill planning from my side. But I’m happy to have my stuff in order for this round!

For this month I asked my brother and his girlfriend if I could shoot them. On beautiful Portra 400 by Kodak. As the name suggests, it’s made for portraits. Since I’ve never shot it before I was very curious as of how it would turn out. As you can see below it turned out pretty well and yes I’ve fell in love with this film. The look and feel of them are just amazing don’t you think?

10|10 Circle April ‘Look at this photograph’

This month is about polaroids. I got some fresh packs in the mail and really wanted to see how it would turn out. Well, I’m excited I can tell you. It’s not that I shot the best pictures as in technically a good photo. But the look and feel and the fact that they make great memories, makes that I really love these shots. Now, these packs are quite expensive at twenty bucks for eight shots. So I decided to just shoot one pack instead of one and two shots of the second pack I bought. 

10|10 Circle March 2015: A sunny afternoon

Recently, like … last Saturday, I joined a 10|10 circle with fellow Clever Cookie graduates. We post ten pics on the tenth of each month and then link up to one of the others in the circle. In this way you, the viewer/reader and us of course, can click through the circle en look at all of our pictures of that month. An inspiring and challenging thing to do but I’m so up for it. I really want to get into photography and develop some serious skills and routine. So that’s one thing I hope to get out of this circle.

Holga

Holga is best cool. Ik denk dat ik dat wel zo kan stellen. Holga? Ja, een cameramerk uit China. Zij maakten van die goedkope plastic, lo-fi ‘speelgoed’camera’s in de jaren tachtig. Erg leuk ‘speelgoed’ kan ik je zeggen! Er zijn verschillende modellen en een aantal lenzen voor op een (D)SLR. The foto’s hierbeneden zijn met zo’n lens gemaakt. Deze heb ik op mijn Canon 400D gezet. Daarnaast heb ik een pinhole Holga. Zo gauw ik die foto’s heb zal ik die ook posten.

Blogging in 2015: Kicking it off with a challenge

Het is 2015. Al een paar dagen inmiddels dus hoog tijd voor een blog. Dit jaar is voor mij het jaar van groei. Groei als persoon en elke dag een klein beetje meer. Het jaar van kleine stapjes, want zo kom je vooruit. De weg naar het doel is namelijk minstens zo belangrijk als het bereiken van het doel. Maar daarover later meer. Ik wil het nu hebben over boeken.

Via Facebook kwam ik een leeslijst tegen met 50 categorieën. De bedoeling is voor elke categorie een boek uit te zoeken en deze uiteraard te lezen. Die lijst is een van de uitdagingen van 2015. En een stevige want een boek per week betekent dat ik flink door moet lezen.

A Family, A Van and Norway

Overview of the route we took – via Google Maps

Or maybe I should’ve called  this ‘Berries, a Crane and the Sea’. Because that’s what I’m about to show you. But there is a story to these pictures and that’s where the family, van and Norway come in.

The story goes like this. I’ve been on a trip to help a friend and his family move to Norway. Together with another driver I drove a big van with all their stuff up to Norway. We unpacked, stayed for the night and before the sun was up we were off, heading home again. So basically we’ve been driving for two days with a few stops, some hours on a ferry and a six hours night of sleep. In between that I tried to squeeze some photo-taking.