Danielle Lancashire

“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

📷 Moody Friend.

A crow perched on the Millennium Bridge, looking over a London Skyline under dramatic cloudy skies.

The term “Content Creator” really needs to die before AI finishes killing the arts - people devaluing themselves and their work by reducing it to “content” to be mindlessly consumed is what lets arbitrarily generated mediocrity win 😭

I do love to make unexpected friends on winter walks ❄️🐿️📷

Framed between two tree trunks is a snow topped birdhouse topped with snow. In the birdhouse is a squirrel munching on a nut.

I’ve been posting too many sunset photos (I’m not that sorry) - but I’m really tempted to make some wallpapers out of this.

Mainland Spain, Gibraltar, and Ceuta in a single shot on a clear day is pretty beautiful tbqh.

Marbella, December 2023.

A sunset over Spain, Gibraltar, and Ceuta. The sea is rough but painterly, with swashes of blues and whites. The sky is a gradient of deep orange on the horizon going through yellow to blue hour hues.