December Flower Update Extra

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This is a few extra pictures of the clematis plant I got from Blossoms Florist this month and give them a sort of painting look to them.

December Flower Update

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Here are the flower updates for the month with a bit … just a bit … of a christmas feeling about them. In a year of change whem we said a sad goodbye to Goldsmith Flowers and a warm welcome to Blossoms Florist, I hope for some stability and continuity in 2020

Pour Esther - pavane pour une infante défunte

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In your prayers please spend a thought for my friend, someone we worked with back at the start of the the year Esther Oyediji (aka Queen Esther). When we had the shoot together none of us knew that Esther was in fact pregnant at the time with her first born child. It was only recently that she asked whether I would like to do a maternity shoot with her? However by this time I was already fully booked up unfortunately and had to decline the kind offer.

Sadly since that time Esther has informed me that she and her husband have lost their baby son. I do not know the reasons why and I never asked, but it was heart breaking enough to know their little boy has gone. Life is not always fair and can seem so arbitrarily random and cruel at times like these. Still we will be seeing Esther back in the studio early next year, but until then please spare a place in your thoughts and prayers for her and her husband

… and their little boy, Daniel.

God be with you and your family at this time and always. Try to remember that although it seems dark now, there is always a tomorrow Esther x

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Projects - Geoff Amos Shoot

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Now heres an interesting person. Meet Geoff Amos, Geoff is a retiree, a magician, ex-DJ, male character model and all round great person to work with. Geoff was highlighted to me by the owner of the studio I use as a possible shoot candidate so I got in touch and he agreed. Geoff has often been cast as characters like Fagin, Jack the Ripper, chimney sweeps (think Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins). So we did a bit of the victorian look with his many props as well as a more modern take, with Geoff slicked back hair and fags. We wanted to give him a menacing old school gangster look and he did it perfectly. The photographs were done jointly between Tyler Dyce and myself (Tyler’s pictures are the the ones without borders) Tyler and I both think Geoff was amazing and can not wait to get him back in the new year. One more thing. I have placed his pictures in the ‘Projects’ folder as they are not really fashion pieces. Please enjoy and thanks to Geoff Amos, Tyler Dyce, Tari Klopp and studio owner Lee Henshaw.

Projects - Sound Of The Suburbs

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I have been once again capturing my surrounds and showing them in a de-saturated, bleak fashion. I quite enjoy these, it doesn’t expend too much effort and can look effective.

November Flowers Update

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Its coming to the end of this year, so the summer feel to the pictures is changing ever so slightly. Here then are the flower collection for November. Please enjoy.

October Digital Art

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This months collection of digital art features a collectic subjects from Asia and Africa to emaciated women to Jesus on a telegraph pole. Please dont be offended.

*New* - Projects - Sound Of The Suburbs

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This may take a bit of explaining, but I have made a new folder on the site called ‘Projects.’ The first project is an ongoing one I have named ‘Sound Of The Suburbs’ after the punk anthem by The Members. It is supposed to show mundane things we all take for granted and often ignore. Some pictured in a desoaute way. Here are the first four.

Amy and the umbrella shoot

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This is a little doodle and practice shoot using the lensbaby sweet 80 and a new lens for the Nikon. This featurs my dearest love in her best unlaced boots and white umbrella. We had a good time, then went home and had a pizza.

Beauty Shots featuring Tyler Dyce

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Very few shoots are not complete without a showing from this amazing model, Tyler Dyce. I have now photographed her getting towards sixty times. And still going strong. So here is Tyler in beauty shot mode. Thanks to Tyler and Karen Hegarty MUA for her hair and makeup.

Beauty Shots - Introducing Cee Cee x

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Welcome to rhe studio this month, all the way from Kettering, lovely new model Cee Ceex. Cee Cee came to me through a bombardment of messages and likes on Purpleport and Instagram and I thought I would give her a go. I am a strong believe that beauty comes in all shapes and sizes, colours and sexes and Cee Cee is a lovely plus sized model. She brought her Mum with her and did a great job. Looking forward to seeing her again. i So thanks here to Cee Cee, her Mum and to Karen Hegarty Mua for hair and makeup.

October Flower Update

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Welcome back for the autumn offer of flowers taken in our home studio (out house). Hope you like them as a lot of work does go into them. Please enjoy …

September Digital Art

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I have noy done this in a while, but this months Digital Art gallery is inspired by brilliant and hugely talented UK Artist and painter Scott Tetlow. I found his work so compelling that i wanted to emulate it. And here are the results, I hope they live up to the pictutes they are inspired upon? I would highly recomend you check out the original artist Scott Tetlow here at www.scotttetlowartist.co.uk/ Picture titles coutesy of Prefab Sprout.

The Jinn Shoot featuring Christine Cain

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Kicking off this septembers model galleries we welcome Chinese beauty, all the way from San Francisco, Miss Christine Cain. She is playing the part of a Genie or Jinn as they are known in Islamic Myth. Jinn are not the happy nice characters of Disney film, rather a malevolent being of true nastiness. Thankfully Christine Cain is everything but the character here. So thank you to her and brilliant makeup artist Karen Hegarty MUA. A special mention to second model Tyler Dyce and studio owner Lee Henshaw.

The Jinn Shoot featuring Tyler Dyce

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So as I have said before a Jinn is something from Islamic myth which we would call a Genie. So here is mine and the makeup artists take Karen Hegarty MUA, on the subject using the ever lovely Tyler Dyce as blank canvas. It cost a bit to pull this shoot off, but I think it was worth it. Thanks to Tyler Dyce, Karen Hegarty MUA and second model Christine Cain. Special mention also to studio owner Lee Henshaw for his pad.