*NEW* To Flower Updates - Pinhole Lens Images.

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Late last year I obtained through crowd funding a pinhole lens to fit my Nikon camera. Its a specialist lens which you would not use every day, but good to use on subjects like flowers. So with this in mind I am adding onto the Flower Updates these new Pinlens pictures. Similar to the Holga Lens, everything is blurred, but can be very interesting. I am at some point going to try it out on a model, but thats for a later date. Please enjoy these.

February Flower Update

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This is it for another month. Here are all the flower images for February. Viewers may have noticed that everything is done in fours. Unlike before when I would go to the flower shop each week to get new plants, I now only go once a month and get four flowers. Even if its a five week month, I limit it to four. It saves time and energy, and looks even numerically…... So now you know !

Welcome back for 2020

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Hello and welcome back to my little space on the web and we start this yea off as we mean to continue. In a month that has brought us the Year of the Rat, Coronavirus and Brexit. Looking on the bright side things can only get better. So lots of exciting shoots coming up and being planned. Please come back at the end of each month to catch up. Thank you x.

Lee Henshaw - Portfolio Shoot

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My good friend and owner of Bodyline Studio, Mr. Lee Henshaw, wants to get back into modelling as a sideline, and this time fashion and commercial. So he asked me if I could help him by taken a few snaps. So that is what I did. Some taken on location and others in his studio. I think he still has the look at forty six. Good luck Lee, hope you get a second chance mate?

January Flower Update

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Fresh new year with a healthy offering of flower pictures to be going on with.. I have purchased a Pin Hole Lens for my Nikon and will try it out on next months flower pictures. I hope it works and I can show you all the results. Stay tuned.

Years end and a hope for a better tomorrow ....

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Is it just me or has this year flown by?

It did not seem all that long ago when I was pondering just what I would do with the rest of the year. I set myself some goals in January, and many of which I never achieved, but I still had fun trying. A few people I know did not make it through the year sadly and some so tragically young. But there is always another day so we go on and on until our days run out. To come in the new year is more shoots with Tyler Dyce and more with other great models like Christine Cain. I would also like to see the return of my old friend Monalisa Moyo. I miss her being around. Thank you to everyone for helping me this year with a special mention to my wife Amy for her behind the scenes help, advice and sandwiches. See you all in January …

December Digital Art

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Only three for the road this month, but I have tried to make them as real as possible for fantasy pictures. The first image is called ‘Aliens ate my head and the return of the lost test card people’. the middle image is called ‘Man of the woods’ and the final picture is titled ‘Lady Margaret’ Please enjoy.

Projects - Sound Of The Suburbs

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A few more snaps to add to the scrap book of odd things. These were taken near my house, as its not too far to walk. Thanks to ASDA and to 2nd Generation Unisex Hair Salon for there help.

Tyler Dyce - Chinese styled fashion shoot, December 2019

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No shoot would be complete without Tyler Dyce making a show. Here we have a Oriental themed shoot taken in the studio and then some colour grading in photoshop. Tyler was amazing as she always is and a brilliant model to work with. There will be more (much more) for her in 2020. So thanks here to Tyler and Christine Cain for modelling. To Karen Hegarty MUA for her hair and makeup. To Stef Edwards for his much needed help. And to Lee Henshaw for his studio.

Christine Cain - Chinese styled fashion shoot, December 2019

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It really great to welcome back the amazing and creative model all the way from San Fransico, the lovely Christine Cain. We last had Christine in the studio for the Jinn shoot a few months back, which she was brilliant at. So it was only natural to give her another turn. Thanks then to Christine and to Tyler Dyce for modelling. To Karen Hegarty MUA for her hair and makeup. To Stef Edwards for his help and Lee Henshaw for his studio lend.

December Flower Update Extra

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This is a few extra pictures of the clematis plant I got from Blossoms Florist this month and give them a sort of painting look to them.

December Flower Update

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Here are the flower updates for the month with a bit … just a bit … of a christmas feeling about them. In a year of change whem we said a sad goodbye to Goldsmith Flowers and a warm welcome to Blossoms Florist, I hope for some stability and continuity in 2020

Pour Esther - pavane pour une infante défunte

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In your prayers please spend a thought for my friend, someone we worked with back at the start of the the year Esther Oyediji (aka Queen Esther). When we had the shoot together none of us knew that Esther was in fact pregnant at the time with her first born child. It was only recently that she asked whether I would like to do a maternity shoot with her? However by this time I was already fully booked up unfortunately and had to decline the kind offer.

Sadly since that time Esther has informed me that she and her husband have lost their baby son. I do not know the reasons why and I never asked, but it was heart breaking enough to know their little boy has gone. Life is not always fair and can seem so arbitrarily random and cruel at times like these. Still we will be seeing Esther back in the studio early next year, but until then please spare a place in your thoughts and prayers for her and her husband

… and their little boy, Daniel.

God be with you and your family at this time and always. Try to remember that although it seems dark now, there is always a tomorrow Esther x

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Projects - Geoff Amos Shoot

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Now heres an interesting person. Meet Geoff Amos, Geoff is a retiree, a magician, ex-DJ, male character model and all round great person to work with. Geoff was highlighted to me by the owner of the studio I use as a possible shoot candidate so I got in touch and he agreed. Geoff has often been cast as characters like Fagin, Jack the Ripper, chimney sweeps (think Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins). So we did a bit of the victorian look with his many props as well as a more modern take, with Geoff slicked back hair and fags. We wanted to give him a menacing old school gangster look and he did it perfectly. The photographs were done jointly between Tyler Dyce and myself (Tyler’s pictures are the the ones without borders) Tyler and I both think Geoff was amazing and can not wait to get him back in the new year. One more thing. I have placed his pictures in the ‘Projects’ folder as they are not really fashion pieces. Please enjoy and thanks to Geoff Amos, Tyler Dyce, Tari Klopp and studio owner Lee Henshaw.