Had the most enjoyable time with my beau, Rob over Easter. Now that he's in the Royal Navy I don't get to see him much. So it was bliss when he was down visiting me in Southampton over Easter. This is one of my favourite spots in Southampton, especially when the sun is setting. Taken on the 6 April 2015 in Palmerston Park. I've been wanting to get some really nice pictures of us as a couple, not just another selfie but a professional one! So it was nice having a day enjoying each other's company walking in the sun. For this set up I used my new Manfrotto BeFree Compact Lightweight Travel Tripod (really loving it - it's so light and small to carry around) and my remote control and voila! Mind you the portraits of me are wonderfully captured by Rob - his photo skills are getting rather impressive! That's 3+ years of dating a photographer!

Looking forward to posting more summery pics soon.

Had a great time on this impromptu shoot photographing my former colleague, Lois. What a beautiful darling she is! Spring sun shining, only 20 minutes to shoot and what great fun and lovely pictures we made in that time! Photographed in Palmerston Park in Southampton, 10th April 2015. I've been wanting to photograph Lois for a while and on her penultimate day at work finally managed to do a shoot together. Hopefully get to work again in the near future. I enjoyed this spontaneous feel to this shoot so much that I'm going to photograph another stunning colleague of mine coming soon...

Yay, summer is coming!

I've been going through my extensive catalogue of many unedited photos and came across these lovely portraits of Shiho Kaneko with make up by Zaynab Bostan. These images were taken on 20 March 2013 during my second year of studying BA Photography at Southampton Solent University. Many of the make up students were creating their final major project images (creative dissertation) and so I worked with talented Zaynab on her 'The Multicultural' project. Her idea was mixing cultures, ethnicities and different make up inspirations on different faces. I really liked her concept and visually exploring multiculturalism through make up and photography. It's been almost 2 years and it's nice going back on old images and refreshing them. I still feel these images are contemporary. I feel Zaynab really worked on bringing out Shiho's beautiful features and making a wonderfully unique look. Certainly fun to work with creative make-up artists and transform the face!