Yesterday I was all over town. I had a pretty busy day shooting 99 Bar & Kitchens new cocktail menu / refreshing some of their venue shots, Monkey House for some promotional stuff then finally Priory documenting their refurbished venue. All round good but exhausting day!

I can’t wait to show off the 99 cocktail shots as some are a little different than usual. They will get their own post once I have finished editing them so keep your eyes peeled.

In between all this stuff I managed to get access to the Monkey House roof to take some snaps of Aberdeen from above. Sadly we weren’t up for long and I only had my super wide lens with me but it was still good fun and I cant wait to get up there again.

Today I’m getting ready to go shoot Orchids new menu and looking forward to taking some interesting more creative drinks photos. That will be my last job before I’m off to Val Thorens to film the RGU Snowsports trip! (:

Some of you may have noticed my last post about my new camera if not you can give it a wee read here.
I got all the film developed from 2 sessions in the water - one from Sandend and one from Philorth. So chuffed with the results - and relieved that it worked - but it has taken a bit of getting used to.

As with any relatively old film camera there will be some initial creases to iron out and this Aqua Snappy is no exception. Some problems I’ve noticed include that IT LEAKS, sometimes wont load some rolls of film properly and there has been some glitchy dots appearing.

The leaking seems to have caused some further problems with the battery compartment and some fogging on the inside of the lens.

Most of these should be relatively simple to fix and it will definitely be worth it as the photos speak for themselves.

These are some of the photos from the first day in the water at Sandend. I noticed some minor leaking and now - looking at the two batches of photos - a lot less water droplets on the lens which is annoying as I was rather counter productively making an effort the keep the drips off at Philorth. (And about half the roll was unusable due to drips)

As you can see a lot of them are not perfectly sharp but I really like them and the added excitement of getting of film developed with no idea whether any of it will have worked / your camera body is full of sea water is always fun.

I love the shots from this camera and cant wait to start using it again after I sort out some of the issues.

Here’s a few from out of the water.

Hope you like them and there will be many more to come.

Just picked up my new Canon AS-6 (AKA ‘Aqua Snappy’) today and I love it so much already. It’s a 35mm point and shoot that can withstand underwater use of up to 10 meters and its YELLOW!

I’m going to use it to take some snaps whilst out in the water and it couldn’t have come at a better time as the surf looks like its going to be pretty good for the next few days on the East Coast… Perfect!

AKA Aqua Snappy

I will be heading up the coast tomorrow to find some waves shoot as much film as possible.

Here are some of my film photos from a previous trip to Thurso with David Finlayson - I’ve been looking at these and some photos still from the Globe surf movie ‘Strange Rumblings In Shangri La’ for some inspiration!

Fingers crossed the camera actually works!

Globe - ‘Strange Rumblings In Shangri La’