Shoot shoot shoot

Its shoot week this week. I was at one on Sunday, whilst another one was also happening that had loaned some of my Joolz Man pieces.
Preview pics of both:
Please note this guy is actually wearing a piece I had intended for a girl, but they really did use some of the guy stuff too!
Its fun to have my Joolz Man designs used in a shoot, it tends to hide behind the feminine designs I create. That quiet and unassuming joolz man!
I've got another shoot booked in for tomorrow. We're trying out a couple of different looks in the studio. Shall post some preview shots of that asap!
NB: details on both these shoot will be available as soon as I can put up the final photos.

Shoot shoot shoot

Hair pieces

Had some photos taken of my latest lot of hairpieces on Friday by lovely Pat Cameron. I've known Pat's son Toby for some years through a mutual friend and meeting his parents when I popped over to their property outside Dunkeld late on Friday afternoon was a real treat - they are absolutely lovely. I had received a text asking for product shots urgently and I was in quite a state as I was out of town for the weekend and didn't even have a camera with me - but I did have all my hairpieces, as I'd been planning on showing them to a few girls for the Dunkeld races (the races is why we were away for the weekend).
My friend Lu rang up their neighbours, as Pat is a photographer, and explained my dilemma, and Pat called back telling me to come over straight away so we could use the natural light (it was about 5pm by this time).
This is one of those times when I absolutely love the country. What had been a problem was resolved with a solution almost instantly due to the sharing and caring nature of the people around me. Pat was just so lovely, it took no time at all, and we had 15 photographs. I can't link them from Flickr at the moment but hopefully I'll be able to soon. In the meantime, you can see them on Pat's Flickr page here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/patnpete/sets/72157622793595814/

Hair pieces

Hobo Photoshoot

Photographs are up from the Hobo Photoshoot.

Eco-chic glamour is a look you can experiment with on any budget - in this shoot all the models’ clothes were found in second-hand stores.
Photographer: Peter Coulson
Models: Dythea, Alice & Kirsten
MUA: Natascha Verkaik
Jewellery: Joolz

Hobo Photoshoot

Snapshots of Russia

I have quite a fascination with Russia.
I think maybe I inherited it from my mother. She went there in the sixties with a friend. I can't imagine what it must have been like back then for two girls travelling around by themselves. One of them could read Russian, and the other could speak it - I can't remember which - but I'm guessing mum's friend was the one who could speak it as I think she had a Russian parent or something. Anyway, mum had Russian novels, we listened to Russian composers, and she had an authentic Matryoshka (Матрёшка) doll which I loved to play with.

I visited Russia in 2000 with my sister. We travelled on the Trans-Siberian railway from Moscow to Beijing via Irkutsk (Ирку́тск) (and Lake Baikal - о́зеро Байка́л) and through Mongolia. Its the only time I've really struggled with communication, as absolutely noone spoke English and nothing was written in English anywhere. I had to learn to read the cyrillic alphabet really fast! (I can't read it anymore, I really should brush up on it again, such a good skill to have - amazing how fast you can learn when you really have to!)

Anyway, I found this series of photography to be really captivating. A series of beautifully taken snapshots of life. Go have a look!
http://englishrussia.com/?p=2217

Snapshots of Russia