Another film roll processed! It was our second one in the last seven months. The prints came out very beautiful although the digital ones need a lot of tweaking. It is really handy to have a professional in the house who has the capability of 'Photoshoping' and spends hours mixing colours, adjusting contrast and highlights, cropping and sharpening images.
Every photo came out as a mirror image though. Did they processed the film the other way round? In the pictures, the village looks as if it is on the left side where as it is actually on the right side of the beach. Shots taken when paddling back from the picnic look like they were taken when we were heading towards Troup Head. And my beautiful ring looked like it was put on the right ring finger instead of the left! Again, Photoshop and Photoshopman came to the rescue, although it is not very assuring to know that a reputable photo printing shop in Aberdeen is incapable of processing a film the right way round.
A few weeks ago, I received an email from an old schoolmate down in England who is interested in visiting Scotland soon from just reading about it in this blog. How very lovely! I could go on and on about things to do in Aberdeenshire and the east coast, so I would suggest for her to rent a car with her friends, drive an hour away to a village by the sea called Crovie, stay in a cottage there for a week (or a long weekend even), have wine/tea while watching the sunset every evening, look for seals and dolphins, go hill walking, continue driving along the coast passing all the small villages and towns and take photos of the happy people in Scotland. If they are brave enough, I can hook them up with the local guy who can give them a couple of surfing lessons in Banff. I know somebody who knows a guy who knows a guy.
I arrived in what used to be a somber place. It was cold and grey and I was surrounded by the granite buildings, grey skies, people wearing dark clothes all the time and mingers. He he. My fellow non British friends started to moan over coffee, or tea about the weather and having nothing much to do in the city. The coffee meetings turned into night-outs, night-outs turned into dinner parties, dinner parties turned into BBQs, BBQs turned into skiing trips, skiing trips turned into road/camping trips and the road/camping trips turned into casual dinner and dinner turned into companionship. Four years and nine months later, I am proud to declare that it is still cold and grey sometimes but I've had more companionship in this place than I had in a much warmer and brighter country in the past. The Scots are amazing people to be friends with, as well as people who have lived here long enough and learn to adopt its friendliness and sense of humour.
I will be sad to leave but knowing that one day I will return, I look forward to be in Western Australia soon. A job offer came up a few weeks ago and it was a no brainer for my fiance and I to take it up and leave Scotland behind for a while. Crovie is a very special place for both of us and I love it dearly. Knowing that I am about to spend my last few weeks in this wee village, I can only soak it up and enjoy the last Scottish sun before moving to the southern hemisphere for a new adventure.
Thank you to everyone who has made Scotland a very wonderful place for me. I hope I have made a life long friendship with yous and that you don't hate me for going to live as far away as I could be on the other side of the globe. I look forward to seeing you in the land down under - possibly for a wedding next year and weekends of Skyping before occasional visits back in Scotland.
It has been a great pleasure. Let's keep in touch.
Much love,
Flo x
Every photo came out as a mirror image though. Did they processed the film the other way round? In the pictures, the village looks as if it is on the left side where as it is actually on the right side of the beach. Shots taken when paddling back from the picnic look like they were taken when we were heading towards Troup Head. And my beautiful ring looked like it was put on the right ring finger instead of the left! Again, Photoshop and Photoshopman came to the rescue, although it is not very assuring to know that a reputable photo printing shop in Aberdeen is incapable of processing a film the right way round.
Yours truly, paddling along Troup Head after the proposal. Taken by Jamie on a 35mm redscale film.
A few weeks ago, I received an email from an old schoolmate down in England who is interested in visiting Scotland soon from just reading about it in this blog. How very lovely! I could go on and on about things to do in Aberdeenshire and the east coast, so I would suggest for her to rent a car with her friends, drive an hour away to a village by the sea called Crovie, stay in a cottage there for a week (or a long weekend even), have wine/tea while watching the sunset every evening, look for seals and dolphins, go hill walking, continue driving along the coast passing all the small villages and towns and take photos of the happy people in Scotland. If they are brave enough, I can hook them up with the local guy who can give them a couple of surfing lessons in Banff. I know somebody who knows a guy who knows a guy.
I arrived in what used to be a somber place. It was cold and grey and I was surrounded by the granite buildings, grey skies, people wearing dark clothes all the time and mingers. He he. My fellow non British friends started to moan over coffee, or tea about the weather and having nothing much to do in the city. The coffee meetings turned into night-outs, night-outs turned into dinner parties, dinner parties turned into BBQs, BBQs turned into skiing trips, skiing trips turned into road/camping trips and the road/camping trips turned into casual dinner and dinner turned into companionship. Four years and nine months later, I am proud to declare that it is still cold and grey sometimes but I've had more companionship in this place than I had in a much warmer and brighter country in the past. The Scots are amazing people to be friends with, as well as people who have lived here long enough and learn to adopt its friendliness and sense of humour.
I will be sad to leave but knowing that one day I will return, I look forward to be in Western Australia soon. A job offer came up a few weeks ago and it was a no brainer for my fiance and I to take it up and leave Scotland behind for a while. Crovie is a very special place for both of us and I love it dearly. Knowing that I am about to spend my last few weeks in this wee village, I can only soak it up and enjoy the last Scottish sun before moving to the southern hemisphere for a new adventure.
Thank you to everyone who has made Scotland a very wonderful place for me. I hope I have made a life long friendship with yous and that you don't hate me for going to live as far away as I could be on the other side of the globe. I look forward to seeing you in the land down under - possibly for a wedding next year and weekends of Skyping before occasional visits back in Scotland.
It has been a great pleasure. Let's keep in touch.
Much love,
Flo x
2 comments:
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You'll be missed Monkey!!
I will be very sad to see you go, but you leave behind a blazin' trail of happy memories and scars of past adventures!!
Good luck with your next chapter and I very much look forward to stalking you on the other side of the world (more of a challenge than when you're living on my doorstep! lol).
loves always xxx
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