Activities

We love seeing your pictures in our Mortal Muses pools on Flickr and featuring our favourites on our blog. By joining the Mortal Muses community, you can share your work with us and with others, and you will also have the opportunity to meet like-minded people who love photography! Here are the posts associated with our regular Activities. Jump in and get involved!

Mobile Monday — pictures taken with mobile phones. We feature a selection every Monday
Everyday Beauty — images that capture the beauty of everyday life
Film Friday — pictures shot on film. Old school! We feature a selection every Friday
Theme pools — every month we announce a new theme, and invite you to post images inspired by or related to it

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Peel-Apart Film

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I recently returned from the Shutter Sisters Oasis retreat (where 5 of us Muses got to be together in person...

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November in black and white

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We hope you will join the Muses for a month of black and white in November. If you live in...

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Mobile Monday: a few phoneography apps

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Since I’m a film dork, my app reviews are of course, on film related apps. Pocket Light Meter and Lo-mob...

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Film Friday | Polaroid

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I don’t actually shoot in film. However, I can say that I first learned photography basics using one of my...

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comfort on a plate

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If in the future you and I should sit down together for a meal you should know that I will...

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Self-Portraits, Mobile Photography-Style

This past year has found me experimenting with all types of new things in my photography. As I scroll through...

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Diana+

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Lomography, the Austrian company recreating vintage cameras, embraces an attitude to photography that resonates with me – they say it’s...

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Film Friday | Black and White

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It’s expensive and a hassle both to get hold of and developed, but oh how I love the look of...

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Everyday Beauty: Urban Harvest

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It’s that time of year when apples abound. We get ours each week from our CSA. If you are not...

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A Comfortable Hike.

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I often find comfort in the woods, the awes of nature, the stillness, the quiet, where listening closely brings you the...

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Photo App Love: VSCO CAM

I like things simple. I strive for simplicity, generally, in my life and definitely in my photo processing workflow. This...

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Mobile Monday – Feeling of Fall

The air here in my corner of the world seems to have turned from crisp to cold and I am...

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Finding Myself in a Polaroid

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If you are a freelance writer or photographer chances are you have been asked, at some point, to submit a...

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Everyday Beauty ~ Delightful Details

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You’ve been looking into the details of your lives lately and sharing them in our Everyday Beauty Flickr Group. You’ve been looking down...

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Comfort in the Seasons

With these October days upon us, I’m ever conscious of the shift in seasons. I watch the days grow shorter,...

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Newly Converted

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Up until a few months ago, I was anti all things Apple related…including the infamous iPhone. For those of you...

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Film, Fun and Friendship

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My oldest and dearest friend, Tamsin, who came to Aldeburgh and witnessed me falling head over heels in love with...

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A selection of Squares in film

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My first date with a film camera was with a Rollei and ever since then I have been enchanted by...

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Creature Comforts

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Not only are they cute, fun, and loveable, animals are known to provide great comfort to humans in times of...

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Two Inspiring Photography Books I Read This Week

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In a world before “blur” and “bokeh” and wide aperture were “the thing,” photographers took much more care to be...

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