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 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 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 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 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 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.
Read MoreSelf-Sabotage
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I am prone to self-sabotage. I am the demon on my own shoulder, pulling at my hair, picking at my skin and telling myself that a little of this won't hurt, and a little of that, and a little bit more.
Read MoreThe greater your shadow becomes
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I'm not much of a gamer. I have random bursts of obsessively playing things and then I stop and play nothing for months and months and months. But sometimes you find a game that plants itself in your heart and never leaves. This is a homage to that game .
Read MoreIn Worship of the Sun
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This is a love letter to golden light and little pockets of wilderness in the middle of a bustling town. I was born in Oxfordshire, where the countryside is abundant and available within a short walk. When I first moved in with my other half back in 2016, I was worried about the lack of open, green spaces. In the Black Country, there isn't much sprawling countryside between towns, often there's nothing but a sign in the small space between streets to tell you where one ends and the next begins (at least, that's the case where we live).
Read MoreWitch, Cat, Moon I: A Study in Burgundy
Welcome to a small portion of the inside of my head, where my cat snuggles up close and the moon is never far away, and I am as magical as the things I dream about when no one is looking.
Read MoreA Spot of Tea
Every life is made up of moments, from teeny, tiny microscopic ones like that time you kicked a stone that little bit further than you ever have before to gigantic, towering moments like getting married, giving birth or landing your dream job. Most people, myself included, do not expect to have powerful, life-affirming creating-is-what-I-am-meant-to-be-doing-with-my-life moments while sat in a little study in a little house at the end of a not-so-little garden, in a little street in Oxford, balancing a teacup and saucer on their head while one of their closest friends pours tea into it under the direction of a mad-brilliant, creative genius. (Yes, it was all captured in camera.) But there it was, and here we are.
Read MoreThen came Easter
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Easter came far too quickly. I wasn't entirely prepared for it. When I decided to take more self-portraits, I didn't plan on creating an Easter-themed image but then, on one fateful late-night snack run, my other half and I came across an incredibly cute door wreath. You can tell I'm rubbing off on him because at exactly the same instant, we looked at one another and both exclaimed 'crown!'
Read MoreFrom in the Clouds
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Today is my birthday, and yesterday, Sparrow, my partner in crime helped me become a princess. She also took the shots at the end of this post, and had the mad and brilliant idea to make a cloud tree! It's the first time I've used clouds in a long time and I love it.
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