Birds, flying, in a snowy sky

A Woodland Wedding of Wonder

At the weekend two very lovely people that I am delighted to call friends got themselves hitched. I snapped away throughout the day and saved some of the pictures to share with you here...

Self-penned vows under boughs

Gathering for group shots...

The bride and bridesmaids made all their own bouquets and the groom and best man made their own buttonholes!

Just lovely

The bride and groom

THERE WERE SOFA SWINGS IN THE WOODS

Bridesmaids of beauty (above and below)

More wonder and gorgeousness than you could shake a stick at.

Big Dance Walk 2012

I photographed Tom Goodwin and Petra Soor's Big Dance Walk in 2010 - back then it was the hottest day of the year and the grass in Footscray Meadows was all sorts of shades of brown and gold, crisp and sere. This year's event in Oxlea Meadows was almost the exact opposite; everything bursting with chlorophyll and rich black mud squishing underfoot. The Big Dance Walk is a gentle, involving, meditative and joyful piece performed by adults, children, and older people and having experienced it in such extremely different ways reflects the richness of life itself and the rewards and wonder both of aging and of being young; and of being out of the city and into the green. For more Big Dance events see their website bigdance2012.com

 How beautiful are these two women?

 Like actual models...

Making My Own Museum, IV

My cousin Ellie at the Pitt Rivers, Oxford.

Making My Own Museum, III

Making My Own Museum, II

Second of three sets from the Natural History Museum.

Making My Own Museum, I

 

From the Natural History Museum.

Adam and Eve in the 21st century: work in progress

 Captions L-R 'What are WE doing here?' - 'UGH!' - 'No signal...'

Caption: 'We will stride forth like colossi to conquer this new world'

 

Captions L-R: 'Although it is charming here...' - 'Perhaps we should accept our lot?' - 'We'll live and love in harmony'.

I don't usually like to show people my work until it's 'done' - or at least, as 'done' as possible. Which usually means 'done' until I look at it again six months down the line and hate it and begin all over again. But I have been faffing with this mini-project for over a month and it's time to get it out there. 

I am trying something new with this - I wanted to get the feel of a comic book or photo-story. You probably can't read the little captions at the bottom of each frame so I'll write them up underneath.

It would be great to get any comments on what you think of these - does it work for you? What about the layout? (I had envisaged these as three separate prints, hanging one above the other with the squared-off set in the middle and the portrait-landscape-portrait at the top, as above). I hope you like them - having them in the public sphere will certainly make it easier for me to see them with a clear eye.

Tumblr Town

Yesterday Lisa acted as my stand-in for some lighting tests ahead of my photoshoot on Sunday. Feeling silly (who, us?!), we decided to try and create the perfect Tumblr shots when we were done with the tests. Results are below. Yes! Overexposed. Yes! Ever so slightly out-of-focus. Yes! Pouty and with middle distance stare. Yes! Feather in hair and floaty dress. Yes! Bokeh. (If it had been full length, you'd have seen that she was also pigeon-toed). HOWEVER...isn't it actually rather gorgeous? Obviously the fact that Lisa is extremely beautiful helps the lovely atmosphere, but who wouldn't like to live in perpetual sunshine in a wooded glade? 

No wonder so many people want to visit Tumblr Town, even if real life looks nothing like it. Lisa's blog, Hawk and Fallow, is here.