Light Floods

Ooooh look at me posing, aha!

Corrine Bailey Rae's cover - I Wanna Be Your Lover

Topic

Still computer less for now! I'm carrying around my life on a hard disk! It's quite different I feel like a travelling person, or like a bird you could say. Looking for my home. Any how! One day when the light was beaming through my window I was determined to get back into shooting self portraits, they are good ways of putting through emotions and feelings whilst portraying a sense of style even though they aren't polished and head to toe like looks on lookbook. I find shooting those awfully difficult . So I messed around on Manual mode and really managed to get some interesting light and angles going into the camera. This Leads me on to my topic of the post, there I went from wanting to do something in my day to taking these light inspired photos! Just because a few rays of light found their way into my room. Light really changes everything it touches what an amazing effect a little like snow.

Light helps plants grow, which helps the rest of the animals function. Light can provide energy, cheer people up and help people see clearly. It's amazing, just like water light is essential. Not to mention the thousands of people just like me who are inspired and amazed by something as 'basic' but brilliant such as light.As a photogrpaher, I need to learn how to control and manipulate light for it to work to my effect, you could almost say it's like a love affair between any photographer and light.

The shots are quite 'glam' which isn't usually me but it was hard to match up to the light so bold positions was the only way to stand out in the frame. I do miss having my face more often on my blog, as it makes it feel mine. Latest happenings have been around school and repairing everything that's broken really. Feeling unusually sleepy this week also. But nevertheless excited once again for the future! Trip planning is going well and have some more london pictures to show you guys from Sunday's little love art trip! Here are the rest of the pictures from the light spells! Please don't forget to comment/love/share/hype/follow! Ty ~
Oh and on another note, how amazing is this cover of Prince's song? Such an upbeat romance song! Love it!

The cloudscape we live under really gives amazing images for us to live under!

I would prefer a swan in my place, but I had to use what was available 

The cloud looked layered, darkest, dark, Light and glowing!

{Valentine's post} Love exhibition at the Darkroom

Roses are red

Mumford & Sons - Winter Winds

Feature

Small but brilliantly detailed

Been a while again, yes? Well you are all really quite lucky I managed to get this up today because my laptop is broken! Not completely but the internet on it is dead slow, and I mean really dead slow. It took an hour to upload one of the images. So here I am sitting on a tiny keyboard on my sisters netbook. On Sunday I managed to pop down to the Darkroom for a look at their 'love' exhibition which was all for charity. There were some great pieces and I really enjoyed the feel of the store in general. It's a sort of odd mix of interior furnishings to fashion. So people can be stylish in their home as well as out and about. Would have loved to have bought something but my wallet isn't that full at the moment, more like empty, finding work is hard for a student who isn't free half of Saturdays. There was a lot of fine detail in everything available in the shop, my dad particularly liked the heating. I managed to drag him along, even if it's not his 'thing'. The art pieces where really great. They were all one offs from different artists and designers. It was really good to see how all sorts of diferent views there were on 'love'. One of my particular favourites was a list of lots of different love songs on  large piece of paper, it stood out because it was quite different from anything else there. I have to say though that every one was interesting and brilliant in it's own way.

Another interesting thing to look at was the amount of jewellery, again interesting and almost ancient looking designs. No wonder the price tags are so high. There seems to be a lot of love and care around everything in this shop, from the cushions to the blankets and so on. The love exhibition was also a nice bonus to see. I might just wonder back in there when I have some spare cash to spend. So you know where to go if your wondering around London looking for an unusual store. 

One more great thing I got to see was 'The people's supermarket' as I turned the corner into Great Ormond street  I saw a rather familiar white store sign. I had seen an advert for a documentary on this place, so breifly checking it out and reading some interesting facts on the store windows about them, I caught the program on Tv and managed to point out to everyone 'I was there before it was famous' sort of. I spent the rest of the day going round taking pictures of pretty much anything. So here's my 'love' related post for Valentine's day. The day does manage to depress me but seeing all these love related things popping up everywhere does interest me and I think instead of moaning we should just accept the day for what it is, even if it's all about spending money. New self portraits up soon! I think they are some of the best ones so far! Can't wait to share them. Much love especially on Valentine's day and ty for reading as always, enjoy the photos! ~

You would definitely stand out
 from the crowd with this

Love comes in different colours

Here's that list of songs to get listening to

Let a little more light in

Was looking through my photography folder and found this old gem which I hadn't posted!

Eliza Dolittle - Pack up

Side Topic

Thought I'd spread some Love in this Post. I am really quite fed up of all this negativity, and people moaning about how depressing everything is. Mostly in School. Honestly people need to realise what is important in life, and I have been through some pretty dark stages in my life, and I still go through them. I have moved onto venting, which helps but gets me into a lot of trouble, but with this trouble I have a laugh and life keeps on being loud and upbeat! Here are some brilliant quotes to brighten your day:

"Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."  ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

"There are two things to aim at in life:  first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it.  Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second" ~Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts, 1931

"We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have."  ~Frederick Keonig

"A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness." ~Bernard de Fontenelle

"So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some."  ~Booth Tarkington

I'm not saying there is a problem telling the world you have a problem, just do it a maximum of two times per problem! Check out Life's little suprises it's a small sweet life update blog, but is so sweet and just happy which most blogs seem to be lacking! - Writ this a while ago, as part of a joint sort of message spreading with SarahBeanBlog (see reading list) Go see sarah's post here.

Ok I couldn't help it my friends are camera shy so here's some more food!

Wagammama's has to be my fave reataurant. What good food + good friends is all about!

Topic

Now what's a real friend to you? This definition is almost ever-changing in my head. At first I thought it was someone who could never do you wrong, but I think me myself was wrong about that. To be frank I don't even think that exists. A true friend is someone how laughs with you. Who doesn't bitch about you, who listens to you on a bad day (as long as it's not a bad day every day). Someone who simply gets you and you get them. I think that is all it should be. Friendship should be simple but at a deep level, if that makes sense. I can honestly now clearly see who are and aren't my friends, whilst before the borders may have been slightly hazy. 
Friends are amazing, it's just a dangerous thing to do is waste time with 'friends' who aren't in it for a long run. Although not all of my friends are into the same things as me, for some reason things just work and when they do you get a great feeling inside. Went out to wagammama's yesterday with some of my 'real friends' and had such an amazing simple but great night.
Travel

Unfortunately I didn't take this, it's a public domain image so free to use! 

Today I'm going to do a little city feature. Rio de Janeiro. What a place. A city build on rocks with gorgeous views and beaches, with vibrant people and buildings. A lot of people want to go Miami and Florida, but if you gave me the choice I'd pack my bags and head over to the ridiculously diverse mix of culture in Rio. Sure the crime rates are high in some areas but I'm sure the risk is worth it for uncovering such a beautiful place with your own eyes and ears. I would love to venture over to Brazil and enjoy the summer heat and mix of things in Rio. Not to mention it's home to one of the new 7 wonders of the world!

That's all for now! Please leave your comments below on what you think of all the topics! Don't forget to hit the Pump Aid charity widget on the right------> and get a free Corrine Bailey Rae song when you donate! Thanks so much for reading as usual and hope you guys have a great week! Please share/comment/tweet/love/hype/follow see you soon! ~

Looking for Location

I apologize for the bad quality of photos in the post

Corrine Bailey Rae - Is this Love

Update
Recently I've been out and about looking for Locations to film my Extended Project advertising campaign. Yet in winter everything always seems so much uglier. I came up with many concepts, one being based around a bridge on a canal in a sort of 'rough' neighbourhood. I also decided to attempt a lookbook while I was at it. Yet as usual my sister failed me and no matter how much work I put into the images, photoshopping and contrasting, I still ended up with horrible shots. There was about 5 to choose from so not much choice to begin with. I went to about 4 different bridges and unfortunately they were all disappointments. Perhaps I should look at locations during spring. I really want this to be good, perhaps even something to go into my portfolio. We'll see. I am sure in the end I will end up settling with something average as I originally wanted to do it abroad.

As for the song it has no relevance to the post but is one of my favourite Bob Marley songs ever, covered by only my favourite artist ever. I think it's definitely worth a listen! Let me know down in the comments what you think of it. Also if anyone has any good concepts or places they think would be good to film at, I would be really interested to hear!
The lighting conditions as you can see where dreadful and I'm definitely interested in buying a light diffuser, the problem is how much money I'm going to end up spending. It's an investment though, I can presume I will be using it again in the future.
Fashion


Some of the new Armani shots are up! I have to say they are pretty good! Nadal did a way better job than Ronaldo. Is it odd I was expecting them to keep Megan Fox? She's really good at this and if anyone saw her in 'the tip' she was brilliant but most of her shots never seem to leave me in awe, the one below is probably my favourite.

Image from Armani, (do not own it, did not shoot it (ha I wish)) 

End

So that's it! Sorry if it feels slightly rushed but I really wanted to post to see if anyone comes up with some good ideas! I picked out the first two themes from my little theme box and here they are: Hands and Paper. Hmm I can tell you I'm looking forward to reading this post as much as you are! Have a great rest of week, stay well and please fave/tweet/comment/love this post! Ty for reading ~

Under a tree in the sunshine? Spring hurry up!