Rock N Roll Bride

A couple of months back in my search for engagement photos to help with Monqiue & James's shoot i was introduced to the blog Rock N Roll Bride ... & wow is all i can say. I have become hooked on the wonderful images that the fabulous pink haired gorgeousness that is Kat blogs about on a daily basis.

I had all kinds of preconceptions about portrait, engagement & most of all wedding photography, & i never wanted to fall into the that group. I'm no Annie Lebovitz but i wanted to be able to photography people & not fall into the posed cliche that i see every day. I wanted something different, images that people can return to day in & day & love well into their 80s. Photos that sum up who they are, in a way that's unique & interesting but honestly i didn't know how to go about this. But Kat's wonderful blog showed me the way (so to speak), showcasing the great wedding, engagement & portrait photography out there. Further she writes wonderful blogs about how to blog so us newbees out there can get it right.

Kat has given me a whole new insight into a world i would love to be a part of, & hopefully one day my images will grace her blog.

orange - inspiration avenue weekly challenge

This weeks "weekly challenge" in Inspiration Avenue was "orange". So here i was a little stuck for a while, i mean whilst many would think Halloween with this i don't, being British & all. Orange to me is bright & bold, it reminds me of summer, my second cat Sandy (if you hadn't already guessed he was one big ass ginger tom) & one of my favourite t-shirts. (if you want one check out Palmer Cash ... they are awesome, & i really cannot begin to describe how much i love to shop with them!!)

So i went back through my work to see what i already had, & nothing was really orange, or stood out to me. I mean i had some stuff i took out & about but nothing that screamed orange.

September is here but Autumn isn't appearing & as i said I'm not such a fan of Halloween, although i might still go out & buy a pumpkin for some photographic fun. & so i went literal ... i went an actual orange. Started photographing that on a bright red chopping board & then remembered i had some orange paper so ended up with the orange on orange paper & well I'm not sure you can get more "orange" than that. Although in taking the shots this isn't the one i thought I'd end up with but then that's half the fun of editing ... isn't it?

So anyways here's my submission for this weeks photo challenge ... hope you like it. & you have until Sunday to get your entry in ... have fun people!

new discovery on etsy ...

i just discovered this shop on etsy & WOW do i want this bag! anyways go check out the store, her bags are stunning. Stop by EightSeasons for the perfect tote!

ps. if my husband is reading this make a note!

art through the lens ...

I was lucky enough to be included within this website, amongst a group of fantastic photographers. Photographers come from all warps of life, we travel the world photographing anything & everything, viewing the world in a way no one else can. & that is what this article sets out to show. & whilst we are all different we all love photography, cameras & producing art through the lens.

Thank you Jes, & be sure to check out her shop on etsy ... Junquerevival.

more military life ...

how many pairs of shoes does the average guy own ... well my plan for this photo was to shoe the number of pairs of boots the average military guy owns, unfortunately i gave up searching because well whilst finding military clothing in our house is pretty easy to do, finding specific items is literally like looking for a needle in a haystack! So instead here are the boots my husband insists on keep in our bedroom ... yes our bedroom! they have since been removed.

a weekend in the black forest ...

The past 2 days i spent with my husband & two of our closest friends down in the black forest, seeing well a whole lot of trees amongst other things. I wish we'd had more time but you know the military, they don't always take our vacationing plans into account so we just had to make the most of the time we had.

Setting off at stupid o'clock Saturday morning we had a fun "road trip" down to the region stopping off at Alpirsbach, a little town in the middle of nowhere, home to a famous monastery & wow how about that a brewery! So we spent a couple of hours wondering around there, seeing the monastery & of course sampling the beer ... although guess who got to drive! yes that's right i missed out on this bit of fun.

So after the monastery we headed to Freiburg where we would be spending the night, the biggest city in the black forest it really wasn't that nice. We checked out the sights (including the church) & finally found ourselves a nice little Irish pub. Yes i rock at tracking down the Irish pubs where we succeeded in running up a nice little tab & i kicked ass at darts! From there it was just a short stumble back to the hotel & a wonderful nights sleep.

Our plan for Sunday was to head to Triberg to check out the waterfalls, the highest in Germany. They were ummmm pretty, full of tourists & not exactly as grand as i imagined but the town was pretty & we had fun. We hiked up to the top (not that far) & i had fun messing around with my new cable release for my camera, shooting slow shutter speed images of the waterfalls that is until it broke. I will be returning it tomorrow.

& then it was time for ice cream when i shot this, messing about with my camera in the ice cream shop & ended up with this image which i love. So that was my weekend, i got to see some cool stuff, take some new images, & experiment with all kinds of photographic stuff. I hope everyone else had a great one.

ants view ...

One of my favourite photographic "tricks" so to speak is to put the camera on the floor & take a picture, an ants view if you like. It creates a whole new perspective on the world, & allows you to see things you've never really noticed before. So here starts another new series of "ants views" of the world!

This image was shot in the Alpirsbach Monastery, Germany.