Flowers, Lace-up Boots, and Purple Hair

 These are the photos from the aforementioned shoot with Jazz done in April. As I mentioned in my last post, Jazz has been staying over for a couple of days while my sister and father are in Melbourne. There aren't many photos as some of them were taken by my sister on Jazz's camera haven't yet been dug up from Jazz's computer storage. This first photo was the only one I could get and you can see that it's been seriously edited. But I still love the photo.


Jazz and I managed to do another photoshoot while she stayed over, but instead of doing more, we were perfectly content with watching movies, indulging in chocolate, drinking tea, and talking.

The photoshoot took place in Jazz's garden, using the vibrant flowers for backgrounds, in hair, etc. Jazz and I took photos with our cameras while Ireland was the model, with a short brown wig, green lips, green eye make-up, and a green bow in her hair. Then we went back up to the house, where Jazz put on a purple wig and purple beads, a pink top, and the knee high lace up boots I gave her. Then Ireland and I did her make-up, a different thing on each eye (the one below done by me) and gave her purple lipstick. 

We then took her out into the garden with cameras and, after learning from last time when we got prickles in our feet, shoes.

 Jazz has the most huge, amazing eyes I've seen, and it was so much fun to do her eyes with different coloured eye shadows, even though it was my first time doing eye make-up.

 It wasn't exactly an outfit shoot as it was mostly close-ups and make-up, but I couldn't stop taking photos of the shoes. I gave these shoes to her the time we stayed over, and when she stayed over here, I gave her some converse that I had outgrown, with similar taste in cool shoes, and her having much smaller feet, it's perfect.

Just a little update

It's been quite a while since I last updated my blog, so here I am. My sister, Ireland is currently in Melbourne with our dad to see a Scottish Motorbike Trials...err...thing. So my gorgeous godsister, Jazz, is staying over for a few days - which means lots of fun, craziness and photoshoots...which will probably show up here after I get round to posting the photos from our previous shoot together (which was when I took the photo above.)

The weather recently has been rather grey, but I'm sure it will go back to cerulean blue skies in no time - that's the weather lately, either not a cloud in the sky or so many clouds you can't see the sky. But I've always been more of a "grey day" kind of girl, as I love cold weather and rugging up, and it was the perfect time to cuddle up and read when I had several new books to do just that (the reading involving barely ever coming out of my room until the book was done, and then moving on to the next.)

I recently got an album from a new favourite musician Florence + the Machine and have been loving the songs from the album Between two lungs. Not sure if that would be an interest to anyone, but she certainly has a very distinct and lovely voice, and the songs in her albums never all sound the same.

Anyway, hopefully the next post won't have too much distance in between.

There's flowers in my hair

I was very happy with the result of this photo, as well as not having the need to edit it (as the light of the afternoon was on my side.)  It was only just starting to rain, the few droplets that caught in my mum's hair reflecting light, as well as the effect of the little droplet on my camera screen - I'm definitely proud of this photo, and it had been so much fun running around the property finding different flowers to put in her hair. After collecting some from weeds (such as the pea flower), different types of grass, paw-paw trees, and flowers from the garden, put together,  I had all sorts of different flowers and colours to work with.

It didn't take too long to plait my mum's hair with the flowers, and then when I finished I grabbed my much loved new camera and took her out onto our veranda to get a couple of shots.

I'm still sorting through the photos from my shoot with my darling god-sister, Jazz (which I mentioned in my previous post) and am finding it hard to choose what photos to put up.
I haven't been able to do an outfit post recently (after failed attempts at shoots and because of the obnoxious rain that pours down every time I turn my camera on) but will hope to do a shoot with my sister, Ireland, soon. Well, that's all for now - the idea of curling up in a shawl with a cup of tea and a book is calling to me.

A goodbye to some much loved shoes

(Photo taken by me)

First off, I'm starting with a little farewell to these beautiful shoes that I bought when I was nine, on a visit to Melbourne in late April.
Only in a couple weeks it would have been the four year anniversary for these beautiful shoes that I have worn almost everywhere, with pretty much the only sign of 'wear and tear' being a partially melted patch on the sole from putting my very well dressed feet too close to a camp fire.
They lasted me a long time, as I only recently outgrew them, and gave them to my beautiful god sister - Jazz, who is wearing them in the picture to the left which is part of a shoot we did while I stayed over. I'll post some of the photos soon after I sort through the photos.
So, yeah, I'm doing a goodbye for shoes :) I did love them a lot and am still very attached to them, but it was worth it to see Jazz's face when she put them on and they fit perfectly.

It was my birthday only about a week ago, which consisted of lots of relaxing, going for a walk, movies, a packet of skittles and being 'over the moon' when I received a beautiful dark cherry red Nikon Coolpix L120 camera!!! I've been taking photos of so many things (such as the photo above), I've been marching up the paddock to take photos of wildlife, playing with the focus and 21x optical zoom, and all the different settings, I think I love it quite a lot. Looking forward to experimenting with the camera options, and trying out all my ideas that are currently building up in my mind.
Well, off to search etsy for brogues, mary janes, converse, and tall boots.
-Willow

The Beauty of Monochrome

The velvet skirt was part of a two piece suit that was bought at a charity shop, I'm not sure where I got the black pyjama singlet from, and the lacy bodice over the top of that I think was a gift to my mum, but she doesn't like synthetic (although, I'm not a fan either) so she never wore it.

I'm wearing a cute little vintage watch from a charity shop, with a silver barbed wire bangle that I got as a gift,
and the vintage camera was bought for $5 at a market, the only make-up being a deep shade of red lipstick.

I love black and white in photos, the black & white option on a camera is a brilliant aid to making sort of boring locations look more interesting and whimsical in photos, which really helps with some of the places my sister and I do our photo shoots.
 These photos were taken this afternoon in an all monochrome shoot with my sister, and, as you can see in the first photo, my horse Gerrie, though you can't see them in any of the photos, I'm actually wearing vintage charity shopped heels, so next to me, Gerrie looks much shorter - though he is still rather short, and I am unfortunately outgrowing him.

There are, as there is for most things, ups and downs for being tall, my height, for not-yet-thirteen is 5 foot 8. Which some of the downs include: having to hunt down jeans that will not only fit well around my waist, but to be long enough for my legs, my back constantly being put out, and things like age misconception...such as when I went to high school for a couple of months, where teachers would think I was in the wrong class, trying to convince me that I had gotten lost, whilst leading me to a block where the 14 and 15 year olds were lining up outside the classrooms, clutching their books and talking non stop, while I had to search my pockets for my student ID to show that I was, in fact, a grade eight student.
I suppose I have my father to thank/blame for my height, as he stands at 6 foot 5. My sister, Ireland, who recently turned 15, is a similar height to me but a little taller, while my mum claims she is "the hobbit of the family."

On Saturday I will be going to stay with my god family for a while, and will be having many shoots with my stunning god sister, Jazz (and will be extremely happy to be snapping some shots with her good quality camera.) So we should find some creative themes and outfits to do, with different locations and props.
-Willow

Art, Clothes and Contemplations - restarted

Ok, so this is still my old blog (which was started December 21st), but my posts have been deleted, so I'm restarting it.

Art, Clothes and Contemplations  

I've  got a huge passion for art - drawing, painting, digital art, mood boards, designs and a big interest being photography - though I have big ideas when it comes to this, I have little skill, as well as the only practice of this being with a bad quality camera that would do strange things with zoom without permission as I took a shot.
I have a bit of an obsession with Tim Walker's photos at the moment, which inspires me to take my sister for a trod up the countryside, camera in hand, wearing whatever it is we manage to put together, as well as possibly lugging around the occasional prop.

Where we live, we're surrounded by hills and bush, trees, weeds and tall grass, as well as orchards and cattle. This aids my sister (Ireland) and I in interesting photos, but with the requirement of our shoes being caked in mud and our clothes having prickles and seeds that we picked up walking through the grass.

I love clothes, putting together outfits and styling myself, other people, or the models I draw in my designs, but I'm not a big fashion follower, I don't wear or like something because it's in this season, or if it's following a trend, sure, some trends may find themselves in this blog, but not because they're trends, because I like them, me and fashion have a bit of a love hate relationship (similar to the relationship I have with my extremely curly hair.) Lots of the clothes that will be on this blog will be vintage and/or charity shopped, second hand and hand-me-downs, and not to forget clothing that I've "borrowed" from the huge hoards and stocks of vintage from my mum, as well as a mixture of different things that suit all sorts of different personalities, I don't really have a particular style - it's simply "take what you like and leave the rest."

I'm a big reader, that loves to get my hands on a good book (have been interested in reading a few classics at the moment) as well as a love of good poetry, art and photography, I love writing - stories, occasional poem, I had also liked the idea of journalism for a bit there, and I even took interest in writing my assignments - writing is one of the reasons I started this blog, I had found that I really like it, as well as photography and a place to be able to share it.

Will be posting soon,

- Willow