Photodorset and FiresSecret

I had a shoot recently with Photodorset in the forest, fields, avenue of trees, flowers and open spaces near my house in Oxfordshire, featuring another model, FiresSecret. The shots required were natural and relaxed ones – nothing overly posed, which made for a very pleasant shoot with lots of candid shots of FiresSecret and I chatting and joking around (there are LOTS of shots of us laughing at each other and being silly, which is always nice – maybe one day I’ll add a ‘bloopers’/’outtakes’ gallery to my website – I have plenty of material from this shoot alone!!)

These are some of my favourites:

Carl Grim, featuring Ivory Flame

I’m home from shooting in Dublin (more on that trip at a later date, I’m sure!) and flying to Spain tomorrow, so thought I’d sneak in another quick blog entry while I have the chance. These images were taken in March by photographer Carl Grim in Reading. This was my second shoot with the model Ivory Flame, who remains an inspiration to me as well as now being a friend. Hope you like them!

You think it’s just a normal day…

… Just hanging out in the studio with Mark Bigelow, standing on one leg, playing with shapes and silhouettes against an azure sky, merrily enjoying the space and the urge to explore the possibilities of oriental fingers…

Little (until afterwards) do you realise a little Ivory Flame-shaped ninja floating into the scene and hovering quietly behind you, ominously gravity-defying and waiting to pounce. This is actually how she entered the studio, you may assume.

(Dear Holly: This is the image I was talking about today.)

Seconds later, I got my own back (kind of):

Fun times!

… And still a LOT more to come from different sets.

This might sound immediately weird to anyone who doesn’t know instantly what I’m talking about, but some of these images remind me, for some reason, of little sand pictures of lizards I once bought in Tenerife.