fashion

Pink dress

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I’ve admired Gary Sandy‘s photography for a while, having seen lots of his beautiful, glowy new work popping up on my facebook newsfeed every now and then, and we’d communicated over the last couple of years about shooting together. Last month we managed to get a date together and do some fashion/commercial/look book-style stuff! I wanted to look ‘fresh’ and youthful and just a little different from my usual, dreamy, romantic style – we thought we might do some quirky/contemporary make up for some of the shots, but the make up artist scheduled to come along didn’t make it in the end, so I had to do it myself and the shoot nearly didn’t go ahead at all (the weather was forecast to be terrible, so we were texting each other at around 3am, trying to work out whether to do the shoot or not)! Anyway, because of this last minute confusion, the photoshoot ended up being quite a quick one, but Gary is great to work with, didn’t mind me carrying my mug of tea outside with us at his farm (I’m the slowest tea-drinker in the world), and I hope we get to do something together again at some point.

Below are some shots from one of the outfits/sets we did. There will be more, but I’m too keen to show these off already! The dress was kindly provided by Gary.

August is my last full month of modelling in the UK, then I’m off modelling and backpacking around various places on the globe intermittently until mid-December! At the moment, I’m not completely sure what I’ll be doing next year and I probably won’t know until Christmas time-ish, but if I’m still modelling I hope I get to do more stuff like this!

…And here’s another one Gary’s just edited… ‘The lynx effect’:

Hope you like them!

Front cover – Practical Photoshop

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I’m currently on the front cover of the very first issue of ‘Practical Photoshop’, a new magazine full of tips and know-how for the more digitally-inclined photographer. It looks like it’s a brilliant magazine, so I’m proud to be on/in it. Below is the cover, plus some of the (many) pages I’m shown on. It’s out now – go get it (if you want it)!

I think I’ve been neglecting the more ‘commercial’ side of my modelling over the last year or so. I have got some absolutely brilliant artistic/figure nude projects coming up between now and the end of the year which I’m really excited about, and I’m proud of my artistic portfolio and how far I’ve come since I started 2.5 years ago, but I’d like to redress the balance between my ‘art’ and ‘commercial’ modelling too. I suppose the best way to do that is to show more images of me in a commercial setting, so people know that I can do it just as comfortably as the artistic stuff. It’s fun to give a big grin to the camera and be light and happy for lifestyle shots and to have these two very different prongs to my modelling… spike. 🙂

Yerbury Boudoir Training

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I had four exciting shoots this last week, one of which was for Faye and Trevor Yerbury‘s Boudoir Workshop at a beautiful hotel (The Greenway) in Cheltenham. It was a perfect opportunity to wear some new lingerie sets, I thought. The day went very well. The Yerburys are an impressive husband and wife team who have both won a ridiculous amount of awards individually – they have a genuine enthusiasm for creating beautiful images, and for passing on the necessary skills. I have unexpectedly been sent lots of the images from the day (both from the Yerburys and the delegates), which is always a nice bonus!

The following were taken by Yvonne Lorraine (one of the delegates at the workshop):

This was taken by Barbara Leatham (another delegate):

(Rocking the demonic look:)

By Faye Yerbury:
 (Rolling around the floor while a room full of people take shots, as one does:)

Obviously, there are lot of similar-ish photos here, but they’re all slightly different and the delegates had the chance to direct me individually as well as snapping all at once. If you think you might be interested in getting some tips and know-how from the Yerburys, you can find information about their upcoming workshops (based all around the country) on their facebook group: ‘Boudoir Academy‘. I’ll be modelling for them again soon… Maybe see you there? 🙂

Rebecca Parker

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I worked with Rebecca Parker at the end of August. If you haven’t seen her creations before, you really should go and look at her website. Her images are exquisite – a wonderful mixture of dreaminess, drama, strangeness and simplicity. Rebecca does all of her photography and digital manipulation/processing herself, and now also does the make up (including mine, below). I think she’s secretly a control freak… Only joking. The multi-talent definitely runs in the family: Moonmomma made the beautiful pearl and blue-green headdresses I’m wearing below and they combine efforts often on various things. What a crafty team!

I’m so glad we were able to do these while I was in Birmingham on the way to a shoot in Manchester. Rebecca was exactly how I hoped she would be, after emailing each other for quite a long time, and I think we have such similar tastes that I totally trust her creative vision. The location was ‘Gentleshaw’, and we rocked some heather for some portraits, some lazy lavender fashion and then some mean gypsy styles indoors. Here is the evidence so far (there will be more images to come):

I also want to show this image I’ve recently seen. I flippin’ love it and keep going back to stare at it. Wow:

 

Rebecca will soon be organising some workshops/classes, to share her knowledge and techniques with other photographers and creative types. Definitely contact her for more info if you’re interested, and do feel free to hint heavily that I should be the model she demonstrates on… 😉