Photography Challenge week 13 Portrait: High Key

I thought this week would be an easy one, but getting a high key portrait that overexposes enough of the shot without bleaching out everything was actually rather tricky when trying to do it intentionally.

This Week: 27/03/2016

This week has been a special one for me because I finally got myself a new camera! Exciting stuff I tell ya, however it's so pretty and shiny and new that I'm kind of afraid to use it outside of my house. So here are some pretty things from inside it.

My Penguin Clothbound Classics are possibly the prettiest thing I've ever owned.

Will Rory ever just wear normal clothes? I think not.

Curly Girls

 Rory with her little cousin who is actually younger but already taller. They're just a couple of super curly heads!

Photo challenge week 12 Artistic: Transportation

Severn Valley Railway Bridgnorth

Kate - 18/03/2016

A few taken this week's session at my home studio with the lovely Kate, who has the most clear skin I've ever seen on an adult. Really.

Photo Challenge Week 11: Landscape reflection

The last week or so Rory and I have been housebound trying to shift this hideous cold we both have in time for a wedding I was shooting on Saturday (didn't manage to rid myself of the bug, but did manage to keep my game face on), which has made this photo challenge business pretty tricky. I skipped last week, but I couldn't bring myself to miss it twice since I'm finding it to be so much fun, and so I was forced to use the 'landscapes' I had available to me. I shot these views of the my neighboring gardens reflected through a fractured, mirror tile box thing. Not the most dramatic landscape, but the effect is pretty cool I think. Definitely one to keep in mind for future reference.

This Week - 13/03/2016

This week we've been struck down with some kind of super cold, so there hasn't been much excitement going on. Boo!

Of Mothers and Daughters - 06/03/2016

My mother always used to say I was nothing like her, which I wasn't. While she was funny I was serious, she was passive while I was aggressive, I matched her lightness with my dark and while she was could simply let go of the experiences that wounded her I clung to injustices of my past like talismans. But being my mother, she had a unique ability to transform my less attractive traits into strengths, her belief in them making them true and now that she's gone and there's nobody to transform my rage into passion or my fear into strength. I don't have her mistakes to learn from or her eyes to see myself through and life has become something of an unknown path without a map, and it's tough navigate.

Socks with sandals with an evening dress in the middle of the day. I was a pretty stylish kid, I know.

But for every new year that I am a motherless daughter, I see how much stronger I have become without having her legs to hide behind when life gets tough, and I'm made aware of all of the ways I hope I can be just like my Mom. I hope I can be as warm and I hope I can be as good a friend. I hope I can obscure the things I'm afraid of so that my daughter won't inherit them from me and I hope that she can come to me with all her great burdens in life and rave at me until they are gone. I hope that when she hates me, and when she resolves that she'd rather be anything in the world than anything like me that I won't take it personally and know that growing up always involves growing away. And I hope that when I do eventually leave her here without me, that she will have made enough of her own life independent of me, that it won't be the end of her world, even if it's close.
 

Bridgnorth Castle Gardens - 04/03/2016

 

Bridgnorth Castle Gardens

 

Photography Challenge Week 9 Artistic: Shadows

 'Plato's Cave'