7/28/2012

Lady Day

This is another ones of those shoots which I can't wait to get to. Shot yesterday, the model is burlesque starlet Luna DeLovely.

There are SO MANY amazing looks to this shoot, and I can't wait to share them all.

Here's a teaser.

7/11/2012

Talk Of The Town

Sometimes you do a shoot where no matter how exhausted you are, you just can't wait to download the images and start working on them.

Yesterday was one such shoot!

The day was always going to be a busy one. The morning was spent dropping off props from a shoot last week and then picking up vintage clothing from Red Bows Boutique for an editorial I'm shooting on Monday. Super excited about this one, as I'm picking up some necklaces from Tatty Devine, and have a few bits of wonderment sent down by Pearls & Swine.

But I digress. Never get me started talking about clothes and pieces for editorials...

The shoot in the evening was with a band who Tom and I had previously booked to play our club night, Whiskey Kittens. To say we were blown away doesn't even come close to it - they were incredible. Called The New Cut Gang, they are a bunch of lovely rock and rollers with the right amount of garage swagger and musical prowess to back it up.

I had expected to turn up at a run-of-the-mill practice room. Turns out it was a giant industrial space which manufactured iron girders. Dusty, mechanical and with glass panels in the rood letting in the most incredible streams of sunlight.

Here's a taster - as soon as I can, there will be lots more.

But in the mean time, listen to The New Cut Gang here.

6/28/2012

I've Got A Date With A Dream

Today's been the first real day of work since getting back from my half-holiday in the Lake District. Half holiday as I wasn't due back until Saturday, but a bizarre opportunity led me back to the Big Smoke on Tuesday night instead.

My heart and brain and still very much sat alongside a picnic-perfect hill with a cloudy mountain view, and will put a post together of photos once I have a chance.

I'm trying to get myself back into work mode and console myself by editing the photos shot in Brighton just before my holiday began. The photos are of cabaret starlet Luna DeLovely, modelling a range of silk lingerie made by the incredibly talented Ayten Gasson.

Expect another post or two in a few days time when I've caught up on my editing backlog. I'll also be preparing for a super-secret shoot early next week which I can't talk too much about, but am so excited for!

Until then,

D x

6/22/2012

Sentimental Journey.

We're off for a few days, looking forward to long train journeys and photographic adventures. See you next week! ♥

6/19/2012

Cherub Rock

One of the most regular reactions I get when people see photos of themselves is shock - they are surprised at how beautiful they look in the images. I've even had some girls so overwhelmed that they've been in tears as I've gone through the contact sheets with them.

There's this whole redundant notion of the "real" woman which serves to promote misery and body fascism.at both ends of the size-scale. Some people are naturally slim, some people aren't. Some have wide hips, some have small breasts, some have no waist. Whatever you're born with, it doesn't make any of these body types more or less real. We all have plus and negative points in our own minds about how we look, we don't need other people to reinforve negative notions.

Beauty is found in all shapes and sizes, and even within modelling, different types of clothes suit different body shapes. Open up any magazine, and you'll see slender women looking beautiful on the pages. This is just a little post to counter balance the girls rocking those curves. But remember - whatever spectrum of the dress size scale you're at, you ARE just as are a woman as anyone else and beautiful too.

First up, we have the beautiful Darkteaser for Pearls & Swine.