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 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 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 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 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.
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 MoreOf Masks and Shards
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This week was an experiment in both colour and technique, and I was fully expecting to not get any pictures I liked but that's what my mission to create consistently is all about. I want to learn new things and create outside of my comfort zone .
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I've been feeling fuzzy
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I've been feeling fuzzy lately - like there's static in my brain while it is simultaneously filled with syrup. Everything has been slow and crackly and like it may not actually be there. When I've tried to concentrate, my brain, the poor thing, has been pulled this way and that, all the while getting stuck in the syrupy. fuzzy sludge. It's not been a good brain week.
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.
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And the Sea blushed
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It takes a special kind of person to wear a thin dress and launch themselves sea-ward on a chilly morning in October when the clouds are rolling in and there's not a hint of sun in the overcast sky. It's a very lucky kind of person who knows one.
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