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.

Photography, The Feather CollectiveElou CarrollJuly 12, 2018portrait photography, conceptual photography, fine art photography, photography, the feather collectiveComment

And if you need me, I’ll be Dreaming

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.

PhotographyElou CarrollJuly 2, 2018self portrait photography, photography, fine art photography, conceptual photographyComment

The 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.

The Feather Collective, PhotographyElou CarrollJune 28, 2018photography, portrait photography, fine art photographyComment

There’s a red moon rising

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.

PhotographyElou CarrollJune 25, 2018self portrait photography, conceptual photography, fine art photographyComment

I’ll ask the birches

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.

PhotographyElou CarrollJune 18, 2018photography, self portrait photographyComment

Plant 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.

The Feather Collective, PhotographyElou CarrollJune 14, 2018portrait photography, photography, the feather collectiveComment

Over and over and over

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.

PhotographyElou CarrollJune 11, 2018self portrait photography, conceptual photography, photography, fine art photographyComment

A 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?

The Feather Collective, PhotographyElou CarrollJune 7, 2018photography, portrait photography, surrealism, the feather collectiveComment

Collecting stars in Cloud Bay

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.

PhotographyElou CarrollJune 4, 2018photography, conceptual photography, self portrait photography, cloudiverse Comment