Danielle Lancashire

I got my first hot shop blown foot into the box and safely annealed yesterday. It’s ugly as fuck but it’s on center, well attached, and stands straight 😅

Next week let’s see if I manage that with a stem too 😂

An optic molded cup on an overly large foot

New tools unpacked and tagged, excited to go make things with them 💖

A collection of glassblowing tools on top of a sofa, mostly with yellow tape on their handles.

I really do like finding the quiet spaces even in the busiest places.

I can’t say I particularly enjoy Venice, but the color and vibrancy are at least a nice break from the monotony of Berlin.

An image overlooking a canal, in the foreground is a covered boat, the lines lead up to a bridge, with a clear reflection in the water below. A single persons head can be seen peaking over the wall of the bridge. The colors are warm and inviting underneath a cold sun.A path runs to the right of a canal, on the left, a row of buildings run directly to the waters edge. The buildings are painted in reds and oranges, and warm whites. On the path a couple of people are enjoying the peace and sun.

I love picking things up from the flameworking studio 😅

A funky little guy - a multi colored blob of glass, with eyes and a derpy smileA pendant with purple and teal leaves inside A slightly misshapen black tumbler next to the funky dude and pendant

“Don’t talk to me or my son ever again”

Two glass ducks, one smaller than the other, sat on someone’s fingertips, there is a plant in the background.

How it started vs how it’s going, glassblowing edition.

One of the first cups I made a few months ago vs the last (and first twisty) cup I made in December.

Excited to keep learning 😅

A tall narrow cup, it has weird folds of glass caused by overheating thin glass during the blowing process.A small but level cup. It has optic ridges twisted into the walls. The sides are not _quite_ even.

Like all things glass, I kinda liked where this was going - so naturally it cracked as I was getting ready to anneal it 😂😭

A very cartoon looking frog made of glass on the end of a clear punty.

It’s my birthday tomorrow and I got myself the stupidest present and I love it (Leica iiia from 1937, I’m its second owner in that time)

Started working on a flameworking piece today. First up is a bunch of leaves, going autumnal 🍂

Yellow and orange pointed glass leaves on a metal table and graphite marver

It lost its body ridges bc I got it too hot, but hey… ugly pumpkin!

A purple glass pumpkin sat on a piece of wood. Yellow leaves are in the background.

All of my forms of artistic expression require weird equipment and a location outside of an apartment 🥲

It kinda sucks and I’m so seriously tempted to move out of the city a bit to have a garage to build a small flameworking studio in 😭

I learnt to make glass pumpkins today! 🎃

The inside of a glass annealer, the object of interest is the middle pumpkin

I’m spending today migrating some things from plain old HTTP+JSON to grpc/connect-rpc and I forgot how much I kinda love grpc tooling when working with Go (and you keep a “good enough” JSON API with connect too)

My home dev+scan setup for color film seems to work 😅

I’ve been avoiding shooting film this year after being unhappy with my “default” lab, so it’s nice that I can have the control that I want now.

This isn’t a good photo, but hey! I pulled it out of the film soup! And it isn’t weird! 📷🎉

A couple sat on a bank of golden leaves, a tree hangs above them with the last of its autumn hues. In front of them a large pond.

Self developing color film for the first time is highlighting a very annoying fact: Removing dust from color images is so much more work than from black and white (where it’s easy in post). Spending a lot of time with a cloth and isopropanol right now 😭

Upgraded my home development setup, I no longer need to do manual inversions or temp compensation 😅

I’m a sucker for a sunset, especially when you get a sky this pretty.

A sunset over Manhattan as seen from Williamsburg. The sky is awash with pastels. The city is full of lights on otherwise dark buildings.

A rare self portrait

A yellow brick wall is adorned with a small dirty mirror and above it sits a bright tube light. In the mirror you can see a girl in a yellow shirt taking a photo directly into the mirror.

Gone fishing 📸

Two men stand on a rocky outcrop in a river, one holding a fishing rod. The water is fast moving. A bridge is next to the fishermen. The forground and background are thick with trees.

Really gonna miss the PNW when I leave tomorrow - Brandenburg nominally has a bunch of forest areas, but the flatness and lack of natural features mean they get old pretty quick.

You can’t always pick your conditions when doing landscape photography, and this was a difficult scene to pull contrast between mountain tops and the sky from, but I like the way it kinda works in b/w. 📸

A black and white photo looking over a valley. The bottom of the valley has a small river running through it. The walls of the valley are dense with trees, to the point that it can be difficult to discern them. As you look towards the tops of the valleys, they fade from trees into snow and ice capped peaks filled with texture. The sky is overcast and blotchy.

Yesterday a friend took me to Mt Rainier for the first time and I think I have a new favourite place on earth. I still need to give this photo a bit more of a Lr pass, but it’s one I’m excited about because it involved going over the water on a fallen tree “bridge” 😅 📸

Yesterday I got to watch some glassblowing up close and it was incredible (and I’ve now booked an introductory class 🙈) 📸

A man shaping a glass vaseA man spinning out a glass vase

We didn’t get to see the aurora at its peak on Friday bc of the clouds (and I was too sick to go far enough to escape them), but we got to briefly see the aurora on Saturday <3 📸

The aurora borealis between two trees over a shadow-y lake

Spring is finally here 💖📷

Flowers in bloom with an out of focus background of green trees and the edge of a birthday party in the park