Vintage Tea Party: Bridal Session

Hello everyone! I thought I'd drop into your thursday and brighten up your screens with a conception that I worked on not too long ago. I would love to write and type a beautiful and extensive description of the whole idea, but unfortunately, my battery is about to die here while I am on the road, and I figured the photos were more important than my regular babble, so I will fill in the story later. For now, enjoy the photos from this styled shoot :) I hope you love the images as much as I do!

Team: Myself, Bailie, Form Over Function (who took care of the details/decoration you see)
Hair/makeup: Amy Chan
Dresses: Pretty In White
Hair accessories: Pin me Up Couture
Models Kaitlin Hawkins and Melissa Hanes

Thank you to Amy who tirelessly put together what was in my head and turned it into reality in terms of hair and makeup. Your patiences with me and my changes was incredibly appreciated :)

And thank you to Pin Me Up Couture who always generously allow their beautiful hair pieces to be showcased and used in my shoots :)

And thank you to Pretty In White, who lent me these FABULOUS gowns for the shoot. You girls always know what I want, and go to all ends to make it happen. Much love to you!!

The decorations you see here in this shoot were all provided and put together by Form Over Function. Thank you for your vision.

And thank you to the models who worked so hard even through the cold and impending storm on the day :)

These last few frames to the end are all shot on film, and not edited (straight out of camera). Love love love my film! :D














Happy Thursday everyone!! Will update this post properly later this evening! :D

xx

A growing fetish...

I am going to unleash a secret here today. One that is rather embarrasing, but I figured that since it is a Friday and the weekend is coming, and spring is officially hitting our doorsteps, you'll overlook this tiny piece of insanity from me.

You see, I'm stressed. June - August was an overwhelmingly CRAZY (with capital letters and many exclamation marks) time for me, and if you know me, I can honestly handle a large amount of stress. So when I say I am overwhelmed, you know the anxiety is at a deliriously inappropriate level :P So I do a various number of things when I am feeling stressed. The list kind of goes like this:

1. Sing
2. Procrastinate (:P don't we all??)
3. Eat
4. Eat some more
5. Procrastinate again :P
6. And here is the weirdest one... I like putting on my favorite shoes of the moment and just walking around in them in my house! Yes, that's right... it doesn't matter what I am wearing that day, I'll put them on, and they make me feel ALL THAT MUCH BETTER. Seriously :) I'm weird, I KNOW.

And because I was stressed this morning, I did just that today :)

Oh I have to say, because stress levels have been on the high recently, I have amassed quite a collection lately!! I used to be someone who was only into clothes...but I think the fetish has migrated to SHOES now!! And I have to say they all each have a piece in my shoe lover heart :P That inclues my Steve Maddens (courtesy of the hubby - THANK YOU!!), my H&M pumps, my Charles and Keiths, my Vincci+ , my Kenneth coles, and the like :P

Have a look :)

Don't hate!! :P

So girls, if you see me drooling over your pretty pumps or shoes on your wedding day or shoot, and I can't stop talking about them, you'll understand it's because I just adore your impeccable taste! :D

Girls, tell me what are your favourite shoes?? Or better still, send me a pic or leave an image link in the comment bar! I wanna see!! It will really help to kick start my crazy weekend on a good note! :D

Have a beautiful friday everyone!

Love from the shoe-fetish photographer!
xox

An Autumn Bridal Session: Meg + Emma

One cool afternoon in my favourite season of the year, Autumn, my friends and I packed our things, loaded the boot, and let rubber meet cement to embark on a fun conceptual project we had been planning the prior few weeks.

There is just something magical about Autumn. The whole world starts to change colour, and the metamorphosis brings about the most gorgeous warmth to the skin of mother nature. Deep yellows, fiery reds, cinnamon browns, and sun-kissed oranges fill the kaleidescope that is before our eyes. Maybe it is because I was born in this season, or maybe it is the delicate balance of cool breezes in a still lukewarm air, but I just adore Autumn in all its subtle magnificence.

So, when the opportunity came to partner up again with the fabulousness of bridal couture designers Pretty in White to shoot something special in this season, I was thrilled!! And what made it better, was that my beautiful friends Tracy and Paul of Eclektic were on the team to help turn this shoot into a reality :)

Here are my favourites from the afternoon :)

Starting off with the film set:

Models: Meg and Emma
Hair/Makeup: Roxy2Foxy
Flowers: Cannisia Florist
Dresses: Pretty In White
Props: Mine :)
Styling: Myself + Tracy :)
Hair accessories: Pin Me Up Couture

I LOVE FILM!!! :D Just the fact that you can shoot as is, and NOT edit a single frame is amazing. I love this medium to bits :) All photos below are not edited. Only the frame was added in photoshop.

Meet Meg :)

Meet Emma :)

And here is the DIGITAL set :)

We started off with some of the more ethereal pieces in Pretty In White's Celestial collection :)

And then moved to some bridal pieces later in the day :)

I love the following frames :)

The below shot was set up by Tracy :) Thank you for taking my props and making them look pretty Tracy!! :D

And probably my favourite frame from the day :)


Hope you enjoyed that!!

Have a gorgeous wednesday and week ahead everyone! I have an INSANE rest of the month so I hope to stay in touch with you via this blog, otherwise, I'll DEFINITELY be on my facebook fanpage so do join that if you want extra photos, tips/tricks, and news outside of this blog! :D

much love!

xox