New love of my life! CHANEL lippy!!

I got this for my birthday and it has to be the new love of my life!!!

Rouge Coco 23 Rouge Orage

Outfit post number one.

Me being in front of the camera is usually a massive no no. i end up talking or laughing and all in all not looking to beautiful. So you will have to bare with me while i try and get the hang of taking outfit pictures. No one ever explains the difficulty of trying to take photos of yourself... firstly i couldn't find anything to lean the camera on, then when i finally did i couldn't get the timing right and kept running back and forth like a headless chicken... then i started to hear laughing and cheering and realised the builders next door where could see me and where laughing at my attempts to pose (yes i did you like a champion idiot). Eventually I did get some barely decent photographs with only a few battle scars. Despite the madness of taking my first outfit photograph i am aiming to do more!!! (help me) so stay tuned ;)

Any way back to the main purpose of this post, the outfit!

shorts, topshop, present from santa

blouse, asos, January sales treat

tights, primark

wedges, new look

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Kissing kate.

I've been sorting through the files on my computer and came across these photographs that I took back in october and completely forgot to post them.

Mandy Lynne

While looking at http://thedrifterandthegypsy.blogspot.com/ another of my favourite blogs (which is written by a 16 year old photographer oh my! ). I found some photographs by Mandy Lynne and they honestly took my breath away . I googled her and found hat she has her own amazing website with blog shop and portfolio.http://www.mandylynne.com/. What i loved most was her photo series that all tell there own story's i think this is so clever. It was so hard to choose my favourite images but here's a few. enjoy.

This photograph is her and her husband on there 12th wedding anniversary. I think shes really captured the love and happiness within the image

I dont have a clue how she achieved this image but it is truly magical. I would love to find out how its done.

These last photos make me smile, there so fun. Sometimes we think to much about how to create something and it looses all its fun.

Anerversary.

Ive been doing so much reflecting on the past years this week, what with new years and my birthday just around the corner. I think that becoming another year older always makes your wonder about how your doing? whether you have reached your goals?

But today i am reflecting about love. I have been with my boy for four years today, and i couldn't be happier. I don't claim to know what love is but i know that i feel it. he is the first thing i think about when i wake up and the last thing i think about before i go to sleep. he is the person i want to call when something funny happens. He is my best friend. I don't know how else to say it except, i simply love him. Real love.

Over the past four years my life has changed so much, for the better. I have achieved so much that i am proud of. Had so many adventures. And none of it would have happened without my boy by my side supporting me with everything.

Festivities. Christmas, New Year and Love.

My new years resolution is to look after you my dear little blog. I see so much inspiration everyday.. and i want to begin to share it. Not just with other people but a bit selfishly for me.i want to have a place to keep all the lovely things and people i find on this amazing world wide web.

my christmas has been so lovely warm and snuggly. with family friends and fires. I have spent the whole time feeling very very lucky.

But i haven't had any time to be creative so that begins today!!! Ive missed it too much.

Happy new year!!

Its having a voice without actually speaking, a conversation with Reo Bartosz.

I know i have mention Reo and her amazing talent before and i'm sure i will continue too, but for any one who wanted to find out a bit more heres a feature i wrote about her.

‘It’s having a voice without actually speaking’

A conversation with ground-breaking

conceptual photographer Reo Bartosz

By Hannah Cross-Phillipson

The world of Reo Bartosz is a world of endless possibility. Her photography explores fantasy worlds as well as harsh realities. She pictures a strange feline whisperer, or a frozen corpse, or women transforming into or maybe merging with trees, their running feet taking root. Reo frequently uses her own body as her subject and her canvas to create characters in a myriad of imaginative, dark and intriguing stories.

I met Reo in the coffee bar of the City Art Gallery in Manchester. She arrived before me and I first caught sight of her against the window with the steam from her cappuccino wafting around her white-blond hair and making her look even more beautiful and other-worldly than ever. Her attention was elsewhere, she seems absorbed in her thoughts and I imagined she was planning her next image,

She turned and smiled. Suddenly the moment was lost and we were just two young women meeting for a coffee. But I wanted to know more about the other Reo and the world she goes into, and invited us into with her photography.

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‘There are no boundaries …’

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I began by asking her how her interest in photography began. She explained that

she’d always known that she wanted to do something creative and had always loved photography - just hadn’t known that that’s what she wanted to do with her life. In college she experimented with a range of media and found only photography could express the images in her head.

“Photography enables me to become more creative, there are no boundaries; you can be as creative as you want” she explained. “The quote that’s on my website says it all, it encapsulates what photography is for me: ‘photography isn't just taking a snapshot, it's having a voice without actually speaking. That’s what it enables to me to do, it lets me express myself, and express my emotions.”

We began to talk about style and influences. Reo admitted she does not feel she has a style of her own yet as she is still developing and learning. She does however have a passion for the more conceptual side of photography. At this point she found it hard to express her motivation in words but it was clear to me that the thought of creating emotion and strong reaction in a viewer is one of her main ambitions and she wants to develop that.

Everything is inspiration for me

After seeing how ambitious she is, I wanted to know more about the inspiration behind that ambition. “I don’t have one specific thing that gives me inspiration”, Reo said. “Inspiration is everything. Music is very inspirational to me. I put my headphones on, I listen to some emotive music and sketch out ideas. That’s when I really get the creative juices flowing.”

I asked her whether there was any advice she would give to anyone who wanted to work in photography, based on her own experiences. “Be careful - it’s a ‘dog eat dog’ world. I had always thought that about the fashion industry but I’ve found out that’s it’s the same for photography. Everyone is out for himself or herself.”

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I didn’t think it would take over

as much as it has done –

it’s almost as if I need it …”

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Photography has clearly become really important to Reo. That was very apparent to me as we talked and Reo confirmed it. “I didn’t think it would take over as much as it has done its almost as if I need it”, she confessed. “Everything I look at… everything I say … everything I think of … that could be a photo. That’s a opportunity.“

Ambition radiates from Reo so when I brought up the subject of the future she was quite passionate. “Well, I don’t want to be scraping pennies out the sofa when I’m 30. I want to be successful by then, I want people to respect me as an artist. I want my work to be seen and noticed. I just feel that there are people, who are not mega successful but are more successful then I am, that look down their noses at me. I want to get to the stage where those people respect my work and me.”

Throughout the interview I had complimented Reo on her work, which I admire greatly. She was gracious in receiving my comments, but I felt she was not really convinced that other people could value her work. She will always push herself further to make people think, and to mess with or break the rules and conventions. When I thanked her for her time, she almost seemed more grateful to me for choosing her as the subject.