Here is a little selection of 'head and shoulder' portraits, all shot with studio lighting and backgrounds. With such a simple composition it is easy to create repetitive portraits! The use of varied lighting, styling and emotion creates quite the opposite. They all have one thing in common; they are beautiful girls.

'Festival of Light'

Every Year in Pukekura Park, New Plymouth, New Zealand, there is a festival of light. It starts in December and finishes in January, It was one of my highlights from a trip to New Zealand recently. As you walk through the park there is a creative use of light within and around the plants, trees, on the lake and projected onto water. I didn't have a tripod with me to take clean, documentive shots. Instead I had fun playing with a longer exposure and movement. Each image has come straight from the camera 'as is'


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Nudge

Woosh

Haste

Mutlti Star

Side Sway

Ghost

Blue Fern

Green

Bounce

Falling

Knots

Hair by Rumours

MUA: Maddy Fearn

Lets Dance

Dance teachers; Richard Pucci & Kate Hewitt.

SHE

Light & Shade

 A little studio fashion shoot incorporating colour and hard light.

Verity in 'Hamlyn'

 A taster from an exciting shoot at Cockpit Arts, Holburn, London. 

Styling - Elisabeth Hamlyn Knitwear

Make up - Maddy Fearn

Model - Verity Anderson

My London Eye

During the couple on months spent in London this summer, I got out and about quite a bit. Generally always with camera, even if it was my phone! It is hard to make a wee cut but here goes.
Each image sparks a memory of who I was with and where I was coming from and going to:

Elisabeth Hamlyn

Stephen Pucci