oops

So, I've finally lost my two year battle to get into London College of Fashion. I've worked so so hard, and I really feel like I deserved a place..but I don't think this was meant to be for me. I have a place at a really awesome uni, and even if I didn't dream of going there, I still think it could be really great.

I'm really sad right now, but I'm certainly not going to let that stop me. Good things don't come easy! This whole university process showed me that you definitely can't plan your life, even if you have been trying since you were a little girl..things just have their own ways of working out. And isn't it all more worth it when you can say you really worked hard for it?

From now on my only plan in life is just to be oh so successful at what I do, and be happy...who cares how it happens, as long as it does eh.





Amidst my 4am sad rambling, I've rediscovered this song that made me fall in love with Sunset Rubdown. I'm always blown away, I love them so much. I was trying to find a youtube video that wasn't going to ruin it, I'd rather there was no visual but hey, enjoy...

Raf Simon for DM

I haven't felt this way about mens shoes since the 80's comeback brought us an abundance of amazing hi-tops, leaving me drooly mouthed and longing for man sized feet to replace my size 36 stumps. This used to be a big problem for me, back in the day when I couldn't walk in heels and all I could dream about was mens fashion.

These sandal boots by Raf Simon for Dr Martens are just candy to my eyes, and I would gladly give up half of my shoe collection for a pair of these in 36s! Yum!

These are available at Oki-Ni along with more greatness, but these are my personal fave.

A Bad Girl And

A bad blogger, I'm stuck...

But please devote love to GuteLuft who are constantly sharing their wisdom and inspiration (with no help of mine.)

Ginger Noix

This post is loong overdue, and I don't why I've been putting it off for so long. It's probably because I've become increasingly lazy since acquiring a horrible little job, which is also why I've got a bunch of concepts and photo ideas piling up without being used.

But anyways, I've gotten to know a great little ginger lady called Jesse, who also happens to be an awesome designer. She did all the styling, and designed the lovely lacy top, and white architectural hoodie. We have lots more ideas, so hopefully we'll be getting some stuff done very soon!

The first image is a photo from a black and white film that took 3 weeks to develop and cost me £10!! The film sucked, which is the worst part, and that's why I had to be creative with the post processing..but I don't even know if I can use the rest of the pictures, it's that bad.

Anyway, enjoy..










Have I mentioned that Jesse is a Ginger lover? She even has her very own ginger loving blog, with plenty of orange spotting.. check it out, and show some love for the ginge!

Ginger Noix

All photos taken with my point and shoot film camera, film SLR, and Canon 350d.

Glass

Had two evening shoots last week with a very beautiful Grecian!

For the first shoot I wanted to carry on with the theme of my previous one with Nuala, using the 'pop' element..but I guess it didn't quite go to plan. I came unprepared, and even forgot to charge my camera. I thankfully got to borrow a lovely Nikon off Amy's boyfriend, (which made a nice sound when I clicked the shutter). The quality was really good, but I'm not too happy with my editing, I just couldn't get it right. I do still like them, and Amy did a great job..posing through the cardboard was difficult and uncomfortable, but it doesn't show in the pictures at all.

The second shoot took place in a studio that a friend of ours Jesse rents in the centre of Cambridge. It's really spacious, and the whole building is filled with little treasures everywhere that would be really good to use in shoots. I began with an idea in my head that I ended up scrapping completely, and went with something sponteneous using the glass beads that Jesse had bought to use in her designs. I like them, they are light hearted and simple, which is nice when I've been exhausting myself with complicated ideas.

Me and Jesse have so many ideas for shoots, so I hope I'm going to be this busy for a while to come..I'm feeling very inspired at the moment.

Flickr

So who's got problems?

Found this book today, which I bought for a generous 5p at salvation army! It's filled with awful make up tips and bad photo effects, but that's exactly the sort of thing I look for in a book I bought for nothing.

This dress looks amazing! ^

I found a fair few other books today on mine and Dales big charity shop hunt, and I'll post the images from them onto Guteluft later on. You should check it out anyway, it's constantly being updated, and it is of course the most interesting blog around.

I have been shooting so much lately, and I haven't had much time off to finish my editing...so I'm not going to post them until everything is done, which will take a while. It's been completely exhausting, but will hopefully be worth it when I'm done, and when I get my films back. I'm hoping to be way more active from now on as I'm more driven, and finally have some amazing creative people to work with in this ghost town.

Pop Art

Right, first shoot using my new lights. The beautiful Nuala who has posed for me so many times, and is for sure one of my favourite people to work with.
I still have a lot to learn about studio lighting, but I like what I've got so far. Admittedly there wasn't a lot of variety in my pictures, but here are 3 shots that are each lit a bit differently. (The above picture is just a snap of how the set looked..very quaint.) I would love to be able to do some full body shots in a proper studio.

I was also testing my editing skills, so I've been frantically going through a lot of different tutorials, learning a lot in these past few days. I know it's not perfect, and it's still not how I want it to be, but I love the feeling of having learned something new!

If anyone has any advise on how to get skin to retain detail after airbrushing, message me please!