Juniper-twig Geometer - Size: span ~40 mm

The other day when I was walking out of my room I was scared out of my skin by this massive Moth, I explained it to my sister as being a horse sized moth. Okay. Exaggeration, but my god it was huge. To be honest I was shit scared of it, but I also thought it was pretty. I don't know how or why it got there. But I'm glad it did. I thought I'd use my macro enhancer to do all the work, Also just so I didn't have to get real close to it. My camera did instead!

Also the Macro had one side effect, It showed up all the dog hairs my hoover won't pick up!

Experiment #2; Film.

I started thinking about when I last used film.

It was when I was going to London for a college project and I took a load of photos on film to show my journey. I enlarged them onto photographic paper and then presented them on foam mount. They got me a good mark at College and I now have them presented on my bedroom wall for all to see. (whomever goes in my bedroom that is!) I wanted to do it again to be honest. It was fun, So I'm taking my camera everywhere with me, and hoping to get some good snaps. The film I did in college happened to only be B&W. It was Ilford Pan 400. This time I went into boots and took a gander at all the rolls and chose Fuijifilm 400 (36 expo). This one is colour, Im hoping they come out well when they get developed in boots, theres something beautiful about not knowing if your film is going to come out well or not. I should probably show you my collection of Polaroids too. I'm quite fond of them.

Experiment #1; White wash.

Washed out's album is an album I can recommend to anyone who does artsy type things or just wants to cill out, It's very close to the XX's album also but not as good. I love the album artwork of it so I'm going to try and take that to a new level.

1.  I want to have a background, cut letters out from paper or card and have it say something.
2. Ater that I want to place the letters over the background and stick them firmly with blue tack or that of the same value.
3. Then I want to apply a white wash of two parts gouache to one part water.                                                               (This making the gouache a thick slippery mess to apply a good wash over the letters.)
4. After that is done properly and with no mess ups I want to let it dry completely and then peel the letters off of the background with the wash.
5. And I should end up with a white backdrop with filled in letters by the previous background chosen.

I'm pretty sure this has been done before and would be easier on photoshop, but I want to have a go in person. Face to face.

Images of my processes; - In order of progress.

As you can tell from the end I gave up with the 'it up' part.

It was too stressful cutting out form newspapers.