The cat lady :D

I've always wanted a picture of me with one of my cats, so it was awesome to get a shot of me with not only 1 but 2. Its a shame the 3rd kept running out of shot :D Maybe next time we can get all three!

Sarah who is also the model - Artemis was up in Scotland last week and I was lucky enough to have her come stay with me. We had so much fun and it was nice to have another girl around the house to giggle with. I don't have many friends of my own sex and age so it was a welcome change. We didn't plan on shooting anything, it just kind of happened when we had nothing else to do.

I love the above shot, I think its because it doesn't really look like me - yet it does look like me. Strange but Sarah captured something I've not seen in a shot of me before, although I can't explain exactly what.

I was acting as a look out on Sarah and Simon Poles shoot, and while Sarah was having a quick 5 minute warm up I got up and had a little pose :D You can even see Simon in the 2nd fun shot.

I totally recommend you all to pop on over to see more of Sarahs work, not only is she a fantastic model but she is a great photographer too!

Sarah's work!


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Testing and chasing the sun!

Well I was making shapes today! Hurray :D
Its been awhile since I actively thought "I'm going to try something new" - usually it just kind of happens. I rarely photograph well from behind but I actually really rather like these. I had been wanting to do these as a self portrait but don't have a tripod which will stand 15 feet in the air so I had to ask Rory to hold the camera. We tried some front on shots but with me being limited in space it wasn't working at all.

Anyway I like them, its nice to do something a little different.

We also popped out this evening (although technically now with it being 1.21am it was yesterday evening).. This location is only 5 miles away, I'm sure we will be going back. We were fighting a little with the sun, it was running away behind the hill so we didn't have much time to mess around.

First two edits are mine.. The last one is Rorys.

I love the shape in this one, so much so that I really don't mind the grass covering my face..

Came across this hold tree, I love trees which have fallen over and exposing the roots we normally don't get to see. There was a little patch of light as well as some shadows from the tree's opposite so I thought it would be worthy of a little shot..

It was actually sunny but really chilly this evening, perhaps its the last day of summer. I hope not anyway!

Woah, only just noticed this is maybe the most images I've posted from a 20 minute shoot in my life.
I'm almost done.

This is an edit I done from a shoot last weekend when we were fighting with the sun - or begging it to stay where it was and not run away from us.

From this afternoon, we have had this recent collection of hats for 2 weeks now. We actually had to ask for a bit of an extension. So I'm glad it didn't rain all day:D

I have another small set with another hat but not got round to editing any yet, and they are quite similar to the nude shots above - only with hat and clothes on rather than skin.

Time for me to be off.. Bed is calling!!

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Inspiring others

Hey ho!

Me again. I think I'm getting the hang of this blog thingy now :-)
thanks to everyone for the messages on the random websites saying congrats on the book.. Appreciated!

I'm a Deviant Art addict, almost everything I do goes on there. A couple of weeks back I got a comment on one of my older images saying that they basically had used my body as a reference for a painting, I was well flattered. I did shoot with a sculptor last year but not seen what the resulting figure looks like so this comment on Deviant art was out of the blue.

I think its pretty cool and thought I would share it with you all - Artist - http://puzzle-thing.deviantart.com/ - and below it is the original photograph taken by Bob Falconer - http://www.modelmayhem.com/744669


Ohh and before anyone asks, No its not Osama Binladden checking out my backside :P
(Although I thought that too for a wee while)

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