Read MoreOnce upon a time there lived a queen. Oh, so beautiful and oh, so terrible. Her beauty held such power that the Lords and Ladies of the court quaked and quivered and banished her to the depths of the forest.
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Like the light of angels (part two)
When I posted the first set of Angel images from our jaunt in the forest, I mentioned there would be a part two. Voila! These images looked so different to the other set that I didn't want to post them together, where one set was filled with drama from both the light and the action, these are soft, muted, calm.
Read MoreThe spaces in between
And now for something a little different. I enjoy the between spaces, that hazy time between sleeping and waking, standing over a threshold in winter when the inside is toasty warm and the outside is chilly and cold, the gaps between your fingers when you stop holding someone's hand and the phantom digits that sit there. These photos are from an in-between space.
Read MoreAll was golden (Thomas Oscar Miles Workshop: Part Three)
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I love autumn. I love the colours, I love the jumpers and the fun scented candles that seem to only come out when the leaves are turning. It's no surprise, then, that in the height of summer I decided to take all of the greenery and paint it gold.
Read MoreAll painted with rainbows
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There are lots of little patches of magic in Sparrow's little house. This is one of them.
Read MoreOur Lady of the Sea (Thomas Oscar Miles Workshop: Part Two)
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I don't think I can accurately express quite how much I love that dark blue curtain. It's great when you find a rich background which is, at the same time, simple. Especially when both the accessories and the costume on your model are quite busy! This is another little set from the Conceptual Workshop I attended in July hosted by Thomas Oscar Miles.
Read MoreThe Song of the Pearl Keepers
My favourite thing is creating magic. There is very little that I enjoy more than creating little pockets of whimsy with my favourites. Sparrow and Wren never fail to make my heart happy.
Read MoreLike the light of angels (part one)
I have taken a lot of magical photographs in my time but none are as magical as these. The first image in this blog post is quite possibly the most wonderful photo I have ever taken. But I never expected to take these.
Read MoreFor your Queendom of Gold (Thomas Oscar Miles Workshop: Part One)
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Yesterday (keen, I know), I had the absolute pleasure of attending Thomas Oscar Miles' first ever photography workshop alongside Katie Howey and Caroline Victoria, featuring the incredible talents of Nicolé Dawn Makeup Artist and Miss Rosie Lea.
Read MoreOn the wings of white butterflies
Confession: I love white butterflies much more than colourful ones. But butterflies aren't where these images originated. These images started with a dress. This dress.
Read MoreAnd if you need me I'll be dreaming
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The day I took this photo, I slept longer than I intended to. The day before I got up very early, drove a lot and got back very late. It's apt that this was the photograph I had planned for a day on which I would be so tired.
Read MoreThe Fawn
Would you believe me if I told you it was tipping it down less than an hour before we shot these photographs? When I jumped in my car to head to Sparrow's I was begging the sky to keep itself to itself. Loudly. As soon as I got into Oxford, however, the rains started. Noooo.
Read MoreThere's a red moon rising
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Something surreal created on a scorcher of a Sunday. It's surprising what you can achieve with just a novelty moon lamp, a black bed sheet and yourself.
Read MoreI'll ask the birches
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Have you ever spotted the tiniest patch of scenery that a) is in a really unexpected place and b) is really aesthetically pleasing? This was one of those.
Read MorePlant Mother
Have you ever scrambled across the tiniest, cutest, most deliciously styled house ever to collect every single plant in the building just for the shot? We have.
Read MoreOver and over and over
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Sometimes ideas float around in my head for a while and turn out differently than I expect and not necessarily in a bad way. This is one of those ideas, and I will be revisiting it again in the future.
Read MoreA little light reading
There is nothing more magical than reading a book, having the words paint pictures in your head in a way nothing else can, so when Sparrow suggested making our own little slice of magic using a book, who was I to refuse?
Read MoreCollecting stars in Cloud Bay
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Once upon a time, a girl who looks very much like me but with a face that was seven years younger and less hair on one side of her head, dreamed up a Cloudiverse, crowded with characters and packed with places that were just as whimsical as she was.
Read MoreThe Mourning of Peregrine Carter
When Sparrow asks to you bring something black and moody to wear, you know you're going to end up creating something wonderful. I am not lying when I say I wish I could look like this every single day.
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I'll wait for you in the library
There are certain faces that you can take photos of for the rest of forever and never want to stop. This is the owner of one of those faces. This is Wren, and she is beautiful, and this is another set from the Saturday of Five Photoshoots with my little, feathered collective.
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