Modern Fairytales: Sleeping Beauty
I'd been dreaming of a modern fairytale series for a while, but it was winter and England in wintertime is generally cold, wet & windy - not ideal for outdoor shoots! Then Louise came to stay, bringing some of her gorgeous dresses with her, and we decided to do a...
Stepping up anyway
Gosh, it's been longer than I thought since I wrote over here! As ever in my world, both everything and very little has changed. I'm still running around doing multiple things, I'm still rarely seen without my camera, and I'm still very much my own boss. It's been a...
New Thing Thursday: lighting experiments
Welcome to New Thing Thursday! An excuse to learn/experiment with new things and blog about them. Some will be photography and some won't, and I'll probably use it across all my sites, so keep an eye out! Today it was photography based, so here we are... Lighting...
My Burlesquiversary – six years of burlesque & body confidence
A little bit of a personal post today - can we talk about burlesque? April 18th marked my six year burlesquiversary. (That is absolutely definitely a real word.) With my best friend Lou (she's on the right, I'm on the left, our stripes match!) at Fling festival 2013,...
MODEL CALL: Mythical Ink tattoo project
It's finally time to bring Mythical Ink to life. A project I conceived nearly five years ago now, it's high time I let it out into the wild! I'm looking for mythical, magical and fantasy based tattoos and their owners. I'm thinking pegasus, dragons, unicorns, wings,...
A body positive, burlesque weekend
If you've landed here, you'll know that body positivity is a strong influence in my work and in my attitude to life. Towards the end of last year, I had one of those moments where things just fitted together magically to make a wonderful weekend of bopo goodness! On...
Christmas moments
New year already! Christmas this year was a hard one, our first without Dad. Despite being a photographer, I had never before appreciated quite how precious photos are, once someone is gone, and that is the only record you have of their expressions, their smiles, the...
Steampunk Studio Shoot – first look
I was lucky enough to secure a place on a steampunk studio workshop shoot at the start of September, at my favourite local studio. Costume is one of my favourite things (both for me and to shoot), and it comes up a lot with Unfurling clients, so any excuse to...
Organising old images
Recently I've been thinking a lot about prints vs digital, and the dark side of social media again. I love my digital cameras just as much as my film ones, and for client work and experimental personal work there's nothing to beat them, really - especially as I've...