Icicle Icicle

I arrived back at my house today to find some crazily deep snow..and some amazing icicles! I've never seen real icicles like this before in England. I think they're fascinating, such pretty things to be created just from frozen water.






Images from my camera.

American Life

Researching into some West Coast positioned internships this week reminded me of my road trip around California a few years ago. We started in Nevada and did a night in Vegas; possibly the most surreal night of my life..our hotel had a rollercoaster in it. We then went down to Arizona to see the Grand Canyon, and then into California to do Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Carmel, Redondo Bay, Hollywood, LA & Anaheim. Amazing scenery, beautiful sunshine and some great photo opportunities.

Vegas

Flying over the Grand Canyon

Yosemite National Park

San Francisco Harbour

The Hollywood Hills



On the last day of our trip we visited Redondo Bay, where some of the OC was filmed. We saw the Bait Shop, the pier and the café!







Images from my camera.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to all my readers and followers, thanks for all the support over the last few months, it's very much appreciated!



Is it a white Christmas where you are?


Image from my camera.

Wish You Were Here

I had planned to share some of my fashion sketches today that I've been working on for my Digital Design module. Using a software that's new to me - Lectra - I've been learning to use both Kaledo Print & Kaledo Style over the last 10 weeks.
Our brief was to create a collection with three different garments, three different prints and three colourways for each print, along with a colour palette and supporting research. I managed to finish my collection today, complete with prints and illustrations for the garments..but unfortunately the computer decided it would be a perfect time to delete the entire file I was working on and all its back-up files just as I was getting ready to print.

So instead, this is a photo I took on holiday this year in Florida. My friend told me she thought it was actually a postcard! Wish you were here?


Image from my camera.

Cool Britannia

Another 'compact' photoshoot for an amateur competition with the theme of patriotism and British culture from the Brit pop era.









All images from my camera.

Femme avec Ombrelle (deux)

Again, a photo taken several years ago in Cahors, France, with a terrible camera. Something about the movement in the shot attracted my attention though.



Model: Alex Clarke
Photography and editing is my own work.

The Seven Deadly Sins: Alice

SLOTH


GREED


LUST


VANITY


GLUTTONY


ENVY


WRATH



My photography brief last year was 'Your own original take on the Seven Deadly Sins'. Alice in Wonderland is my favourite story, so I combined the two together. I think the Envy shot is my favourite.


Models: Katy Beckett, Mya Chavda, Shelby Clark, Jake Fearey, Amy Groom, Daisy Isham, Sean Sadler, Marina Walker.
All the photography and editing is my own work.

Might as well jump!

Some dance photography shots I took on a day out at the beach with some of the members of my county dance troupe - HYDC:InPulse, in September 2008. To see an example of work by our dance troupe click here.

Photography: My own.
Models: Chloe Robb & Georgina Mandefield

Images sourced from my camera.

On the Street: Miami

It's true, everyone in Miami is so well dressed! And not necessarily typically 'well' dressed either. I saw so many unusual takes on the grunge, modernism and colour blocking Spring/Summer 2009 trends whilst there in August this year. These are two shots I managed to snap from across the street.



Images sourced from my camera.

Femme Avec Ombrelle

Shoot for an amateur photography competition, before I had any kind of decent camera...these were taken on a very basic digital compact with a very low image quality!

Model: Jess Liu

Images sourced from my (very old Kodak) camera,

Upside Down

Captured outside Leeds University Union last week.


Image source: my camera.