found this song by chance on youtube, and have been listening to it a lot lately. Just thought I would share :)

(Yay I think I figured out how to embed videos.. third time lucky?)

a few images

Being so busy writing the CCS essay, putting together a portfolio, and working on my project, I have found little time to go through the images from my workshop with Lara Jade, but I have managed to edit a couple so far! The workshop was amazing, it was so great to meet Lara, and learn from her. There were 9 of us in the workshop in total, and we had 2 models to work with as well as a creative team consisting of a hair stylist, clothing stylist and makeup artist. We had a couple locations to shoot it, one of which was a studio setting, which was great fun to get experience working with studio lights and a terrific model at the same time.

For all images: Taken and retouched by me
Model: Sam  
Styling: KP
Make Up: LM
Hair: LL

Now there are over 600 more images to go through... Should find a lot more good ones! Hope you enjoy looking at these, I am quite happy with the outcomes. It was such an amazing day at the workshop! xx

Is finding it hard..

... to contain her excitement!! I get to meet the fabulous Lara Jade in just over a week, for a fabulous full day workshop in London. She has been one of my favourite photographers for years now. One of the reasons she is so inspiring is besides taking beautiful fashion and editorial images, she is my age, yet had been published in many magazines, worked with amazing companies and models, and has been sponsored by a few companies as well. I am really looking forward to learning from her, and learning more about the industry that I hope to get into one day, in hopefully the not-too-far future. It'll be amazing to see what it is like to shoot in a real studio, use professional lighting, and work with a great model and hair/makeup team. This will definitely be the experience of a lifetime.

New fav song and band!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX7nMCRSqJU&feature=feedlik

Been listening to this a lot lately, as well as a lot of Boyce Avenue's music. They do the best covers! Really good for a relaxing evening :-)

I am so excited! I have been having a bit of a difficult time finding photographers who photograph landscapes in unconventional and unusual ways, and I just found Sally Mann's work. I did not know before that she worked with landscape, I thought she mainly worked in portraiture with her family. I have loved her photos since first being introduced to them, and now looking forward to looking into her landscape photography.

scanning and developing

I feel like I have been doing a lot of shooting and developing lately. And I plan on spending most of the day at school scanning my negatives, so we shall see how things turn out! Have two rolls of 36 B&W to scan, and one colour roll of 24. Also have another one or two rolls of colour to get deveoped! It's quite exciting! :-)

The work thus far...