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Just thought I'd add in some photos taken a couple of weeks ago with photographer Sean B. We did an eight-hour day dotting around lots of different areas in the fringes of Oxfordshire. Plenty of nudity, as always, and a rather bemused cyclist. (Why do the cyclists always have to come up so fast from nowhere?! Only marginally slower than galloping horses (see Eve shoot, below)) Yes, these aren't the most recent shots I've done, but as this blog is so new I think it's OK to backtrack. Voila!





I don't think this one is hugely flattering, but I somehow really like it. I feel a bit like Tarzan, perhaps:



Who can resist a rape field?

In a Daydream

I've just received two images (well, two different versions of the same image) from a budding new photographer based in Oxford. I really love the romantic, classical, daydream feel to them. The image was originally shot in quite poor, natural light (it was very overcast that day), but the re-working and overlaying of the writing shows what a bit of creativity can do. I think I prefer the warmer one. What do you think?

Dublin

At the end of May, I spent five days in Dublin. I shot for two days with Des B and one day with Ciaran Whyte and his wife Lorraine. It was my first ever visit to Ireland, and I was made incredibly welcome during my stay. I had an amazing time seeing breathtaking scenery and generally soaking up some Irish luck (and working hard, of course). The final two days were spent sightseeing, as I'd brought my half-Irish boyfriend along for a combined trip. I succumbed to some tacky souvenir shopping at the end of our stay, but managed to keep it to a bare minimum: a pen covered in four-leaved clovers (for my writing!) and some Rip Curl flip-flops (couldn't handle climbing to the seventh floor of the Guinness Brewery without suitable footwear...). While we were in Ireland, the country seemed to be having a minor heatwave - it was utterly beautiful and sunny throughout.

Some woodland photos by Db_images - we did art nude in rose gardens, Wicklow's valleys, lochs and streams, woodland and Brittas Bay:




Some photos by Ciaran Whyte - we did gypsy fashion on the pier at Howth harbour, by the lighthouse and in ambient natural light in the grass. Incredible make-up artist was Kate O'Reilly.

Bluebells

Last month, I set my alarm for 6am and met a photographer to do a shoot in the bluebells near my house for two hours. We scouted around for the best views, maximum privacy, the best light and I generally frolicked around and sat in bluebells, sometimes in a white dress, sometimes naked, sometimes flicking away slugs and using the shapes of trees to create shapes and dynamic until 9am. I find modelling supremely relaxing. It’s working with artists, hobbiests, and those interested in creating something of beauty. I don't imagine my body is perfect (either my hips are too curvy or my breasts are too small; I’ve never worked out which it is and nor do I care) but it can be beautiful. I know how to use it and what it can express. Besides all this, I meet the most interesting people doing this job – people who do this 'on the side', full time photographers bored of shooting weddings day in day out, people who are just trying out their new cameras, or people who have an exact vision they need you to help bring to life. The first photographer here was an aircraft designer and engineering lecturer by day, an artist by.. dawn; a self-proclaimed ‘city boy’ who wore smart shoes in woodland – he does this to relax and create. I can relate to that – we all need something extra in our lives.

Here are three shots from the shoot, with the photographer Jeremy H:

The next day, I did the same thing again with another photographer, Russ B.


A few days later took me back to this glorious wood to play the part of Eve with the photographer Andrew K. I love how different all these images are, considering they were all shot in the same area!