So what’s this all about? Well you have to do something in this dystopian world so I thought I would do a bunch of things just for the fun of it. So collected here is a few of the best oil on water creations done on my dining table. Some apple blossom photographed in my mini studio after it fell of the tree. An interesting pot plant and slowed down water droplets into a cup.
Hope you enjoy them?
What a differenc a month makes. I am talking about Covid 19 or Coronavirus as its called, but before that I would like to make a mention about someone we have lost. One of my dear friends and regular model Monalisa Moyo lost her mother to cancer a few weeks ago. Her mother, Mrs Midress Kana was a sweet woman and Monalisa’s best friend in life. I would see her on the occasions when she would bring Monalisa and her son Brian to the shoots. In truth I never knew her as well as perhaps I should have done. I should really have taken the time to get to know her and have no excuses. Yet I knew her well enogh to know she was ‘good people.’ Mrs Midress Kana was in her mid forties and originated in what was once Rhodesia, now todays Zimbabwe.
God be with you and those you loved, now and forever Mrs Kana.
So the world has been swept with the angel of death, known as Covid 19 the Coronavirus. It has effected everybody and everything. Life has been put on hold with no clear idea when it will return. So with this in mind I have had to cancel April and May’s model shoots. A real pain in the neck but there is nothing else to do. I have some flower images I could edit from my collection of shoots I have put away for a rainy day, but they won’’t last long. We will have to see what happens and soon as the world is better, carry on. Take care of yourselves and hope to see you all in April.
Music: ‘Andantino’ Eight English Dances. Sir Malcolm Arnold
This month is a piece of digital art I have long wanted to do. To remember one of Northampton’s favourite sons … The classical composer, the late Sir Malcolm Arnold. He created such great pieces of music, many for film like ‘Bridge over the River Kwia’, ‘Whistle Down the wind,’ ‘The Inn of Sixth Happiness,’ and ‘The heroes of Telemark,’ but to name a few. He also created opera and music for dance included here are his eight English Dances - which are some of my favourite pieces of music. Very melodic. Please enjoy the images and why not buy the music here https://www.amazon.co.uk/Arnold-Orchestral-Dances-Sir-Malcolm/dp/B000027QVJ/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=english+dances+sir+malcolm+arnold&qid=1585574340&s=music&sr=1-3
Model: Roxie Music: ‘Fastlove’ George Michael
I had a shoot all lined up with my friend Lee Henshaws girlfriend Roxie at his studio. I had to rearrange the times due to it clash with the funeral of Monalisa’s mother. So we ran a bit late. I had taken some inspiration from a shoot by Lindsay Adler in New York, but I think I got the wrong materials for the job and it proved impossible. Still I quite liked the results we got from it, sadly I don’t think the model does. Oh well … you can’t win them all …. Sometimes you get the bear and sometimes the bear gets you. …. Thanks anyway to model Roxie, to Lee Henshaw and to wonderful hair and makeup artist Karen Hegarty MUA.
This month I have rested the holga lens images and gone more for the pinhole lens takes as they look a lot better. I don’t know how long I can go on doing this as the florist is proberbly closed down with all this virus shit that going around. I do hope she re-opens and I can start again?
Thanks for coming back to this months collection of flowers and models, introducing a new model Suzanne L. and a new style of Pinhole lens images section.
Model: Tyler Dyce Music: ‘Dance Tonight’ Lucy Pearl
Welcome to the first studio shoot of the year starting off with model for all seasons, Tyler Dyce. This was an Avant-Garde themed shoot which for the most part worked, that was until one of the lights blow up. We had to go back to a mixture of natural light and fresnel for a portrait session. Tyler was brilliant as always and brought her boyfriend along to the shoot which was great as he turned out very helpful on set as well as being a genuinly nice guy. So thanks to model Tyler Dyce. To makeup artist Karen Hegarty MUA. To Angelo and to Lee Henshaw for his studio. A special thanks also to my wife Amy for her little fashion creation she made for Tyler. I really appreciate that. Thanks and love x
Model: Suzanne L. Music: ‘LaLa’ Lucy Pearl
Have a big welcome for our new model this month, all the way from Sheffield, the lovely Suzanne L. Suzanne is a great model with a very classic look, one that suited the theme of this shoot. Avant-Garde. I really enjoyed working with this lovely woman and would happiy do so again. I hope you like the pictures. Thanks then to Suzanne L. To Karen Hegarty MUA for her makeup and hair. To Angelo for his assistance and Lee Henshaw for his studio hire.
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.
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 !
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.
Model: Lee Henshaw Music: ‘Warm Shadow’ Fink from ‘The Walking Dead’ Soundtrack
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?
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.
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 …
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.
