A Note On a Rainy Night

I originally wrote this as a zine for an event in the winter of 2025.

I have an old Olympus XZ-1 digital camera from around 2010 I found in a drawer recently.

While we were in Granville we went to Mont St Michel, Normandy's premier tourist trap, and the model for the design of Minas Tirith in the Lord of the Rings films.

I went on holiday to France in July, with the worst possible timing to arrive in Paris via train on their hottest day in history (39 ºC).

I’ve actually been reading a lot lately, but it’s mostly been archaeological papers for research reasons, which will not be of much interest to a general audience.

Mini travel journal made with Polaroid stickers

I seemed to read books that were either depressing, memoirs, or both in April.

There are a lot of different art vending machines in Vienna.

Vienna has excellent and cheap public transport.

Here's a quick roundup of what I read between October and March.

I found some more photos of Weyer an der Enns, an idyllic mountain town in the Kalkalpen national park.

The Albertina museum has a sister gallery around the corner that specialises in modern art (where I saw the Yoshitomo Nara exhibition).

When I used to travel a lot for work, I think people sometimes got the impression from my photos that I was swanning around fantastic landscapes and world-standard art museums all the time, but the reality was much more mundane.

I wanted to go in the astronaut exhibition, but it was ridiculously expensive. €14 for a pretty small exhibition space attached to a room full of vintage Leicas.

The Albertina is one of the most popular art museums in Vienna.

20% off prints, calendars, books and more on my online shop with code 2026 until Monday 4th January emmafalconer.bigcartel.com

I don’t see the point in setting restrictive, onerous or miserable New Year’s resolutions, it just seems counter-productive.

A new book project due out early 2026 - sample chapter

Viking re-enactment at Pegwell Bay

Expired Ilford HP5 around Europe and the UK

What I read over the summer of 2025.

2026 illustration calendars are here, and they’re a little cheaper this year- £8, as I’ve managed to find a cheaper supply of the paper.

A visit to an ancient Celtic salt mine in the Salzkammergut

A visit to the archaeological museum in Hallein, home of the Celts