Bubbles

Putting this up in a rush but here are some bubble shots I took with my mini model when in Devon.

The Flames of Liberation

Snazzy title, eh? Anyway, I figured it was about time to burn my old school books. All of them (Muhaha!). Here you shall find excerpts from 'Far From The Madding Crowd' (Hardy, last shot) 'Composed Upon Westminster Bridge' (Wordsworth, second shot) and a couple of my own notes. Did I feel guilty about burning all the work I had done? A little. But it was actually quite liberating. 

Paradise

Now it is time for a break with some more natural photos whilst we wait for the next photo shoot to commence (If I can get it right, its going to look awesome!)

Most of these shots were taken in different places and at different times of day. All of them, however, were taken in Devon - my second home. My obsession with the sky continues. Not joking, half my camera is always full up with sky/cloud pictures. I guess its a guilty pleasure in some ways.

Vintage White Lace & Green 2

Ok, I couldn't resist it. There were a few more pictures of this lovely model that I had to just put up. Enjoy!

Vintage White Lace & Green

Here is a shoot I did a couple of days ago. I shot in Ashton Court and once again utilized my grandma's wonderful vintage clothing collection. I actually had a little trouble in deciding which shots would be used in the post - I liked so many of them! 

When I had arranged the shoot with the model, I knew that I'd wanted her to try on the green dress (used once before here) so I spent an hour or two hunting through many, many boxes for the particular piece. Through hunting though, I found this white lace dress - a piece that I'd never seen before. 

I initially had a different idea for the white dress, but to be honest I think it worked a lot better this way. When looking at the model's fantastically wild hair paired with the white dress, I was vaguely tempted to do a Wuthering Heights/Catherine Earnshaw shoot. But for that, I realized I would need a moor and also grey or dark weather. Instead, I decided on using the sun whilst we still had it and promptly dropped the idea.

The model was wonderful to work with, she didn't even complain when I made her walk through a ring of stinging nettles to get to a particular tree! I must admit, as always, I had been considering this model for quite some time before I finally decided on using her, but I'm glad I did. We had funny conversations to and from the location, agreeing on how awful we both were at giving directions, making comparisons on how stupid and yet adorable our cats were, and relating to various 'incidents' that had previously happened.

All in all, a great day!

(Oh yes, and just in case you were wondering, the apple in the 5th shot is not a Twilight representation. Got it in the charity shop. Thought it was cute)

Roz Shoot 3: Yellow Dress

Again, another gorgeous day (Rosalind Jana must have brought the sun with her when she arrived!), so much so that we decided to take a walk and take some pictures along the way.

We walked through Clifton, nipping into various charity shops and having a glance into 'Lahloo' cafe, my most favorite place to be as they make the best cheese scones and darjeeling tea. We went there for brunch on our last morning and I can say confidentially that we thoroughly enjoyed our time there. (Roz would recommend the french toast).

From there we strolled up onto the Downs, taking pictures among a large patch of yellow flowers on the way there, then resting for a bit as we discussed reality and general philosophical points on life.

On our way back - amongst getting harassed by leering, middle-aged men who had nothing better to do than to drink themselves silly at three in the afternoon and harass young girls - we bought some cold drinks and sat in the park. What a wonderful day.

Roz Shoot 2: Bath

We took a trip to Bath on the second day. I wore my Mulberry trench coat because when we left it was grey, so I reckoned the weather would stay like that - boy was I wrong. It was the hottest day I think we probably had all year, so unfortunately the trench spent most of the day slung over my arm.

For this shoot it was so unbelievably hot that we couldn't stay in the sun too long. I couldn't understand how Roz was able to jump and run about for the camera in the heat. I was only crouched on the floor for a short while until I said, 'to the shade!' and we joined many other families under the shade in an island of trees.

Most of our day was spent walking around. We visited various shops, pushing past great waves of tourists. We ate a wonderful lunch whilst looking out on the river and witnessing a wedding party moving onto a small ferry as they were sung off by three women dressed as lollipop ladies. ...No, I wasn't hallucinating. 

On our travels around Bath we visited an amazing vintage and antiques market, witnessed the biggest array of hats squashed into the smallest of shops and visited a fascinating hands-on exhibition by the astounding Robert Race. 

Again, modeled and styled by Rosalind Jana.