At Court In Sepia

This shoot was taken today at Ashton Court. It was a lovely day being shady with occasional sunshine. For this shoot, I had the award-winning TV series 'Mad Men' in mind and its stylistic view of advertising executives living and working in New York during the late 1950s and '60s. I've only just begun watching this particular series, and I love it! Every single shot is like a painting, and the acting, not to mention the costumes, is wonderful.

Of course, whenever I try to shoot something in the style of a particular genre, it always veers off towards something else. Some aspects of the style have come through, such as my female model who I thought had a slight air of the character 'Joan' from the series.  She had never watched the series herself, but  I made her search the character, and since she is great at creating hairstyles, I had her do a take on Joan's hairstyles. This is what she came up with and I think it looks wonderful!

Mademoiselle: Sepia

Back from spending a week in Devon where I experimented with other shoots, staged in what I assume is a wheat field - More on that later.

Here is the Sepia selection from the 'Mademoiselle' series with the beautiful Rosalind Jana.

Birdman: Winning Entry

I submitted this shot into a competition on twitter (Hosted by Paul Groom Photography) which had the subject title of 'Out Of This World' and after the submission deadline, I found that I had won!

The composition of this shot was actually spontaneous. I was walking back off a beach in normandy (France) with my camera when I heard something strange. Turning, I saw a man walking behind me holding the sail of a wind surfer (I assume that this is what he is holding.) He looked so obscure that I simply had to take a shot. I don't actually think he saw me taking the picture - and my french was so rusty that I was not about to explain to him as I'd probably end up saying something along the lines of 'Will you feed my cat, she has a frog on her head?' - but I am thankful to him as he won me the competition. So, if your out there Man In The Shot, i sincerely thank you. Or as the french would say - Merci!