One of the biggest challenges to getting my blog active again was having someone to take photos of me. I could take photos until the cows come home, but struggle with having the set up to photograph myself. I find photography is a very dynamic activity (I’m no pro, it’s just a hobby) so setting up a camera with a timer or on a tripod with a remote means I have to move to suit the camera, it can’t follow me and frame me in the best way.
I
also can’t see where the image is focused and I generally like to use a low f
stop so the foreground and background become out of focus. That level of sharp
focus is hard enough when you’re behind the camera, but using the camera like a
robot makes that a whole new level of harder.
So, how have I dealt with this? I ask around and turn all my
friends and family members into photographers. It just happens that on this
particular day, I forgot my camera entirely. It was later on when I mentioned
that I should have brought the camera with me, that Rowan, one of the friends I
was meeting for brunch, reminded me that he had his own. We spotted a pretty
alley way on our way to brunch and came back later on for some snaps. It gave
Rowan the chance to try out a new lens and it meant that I got to have fun with
someone who enjoys photography as much as I do.
This
dress is covered in a beautiful postcard pattern. I wore it when my best friend
Ryan and I were on the cover of one of the local papers for our letter writing
group: the Ink and Pen Postal Fellowship.
I also wore it to the wedding of one of my beautiful cousins
(he isn’t pictured, but here are a few of the girls in my family).
Not sure why the white looks pale blue in a few of these shots… I can’t be bothered attempting to find out.
The bag is also from Laura Ashley and was part of the same
season. It’s one of my favourite bags. I often wear the dress with a red belt
and red shoes, but as we were due for walking on this particular day I wore my
new staple shoes from Sandler.
Dress-ception
I have seen people swooning over this dress on Pinterest as
well. The problem with the stock standard photo of it, is that it doesn’t show
the skirt lining which has a gingham trim. That is one of my favourite parts of
the skirt, so I made sure that Rowan snapped a picture of that too. Here is a shot of the dress as it appears on the web (unlike my un-ironed display of it).
Sunglasses: sold out – Sportsgirl (but you can similar from
Catch a Thief sunglasses)
Dress: Postcard Perfect Dress sold out – Laura Ashley
Bag: sold out – Laura Ashley
Shoes: sold out – Sandler
A huge thank you to Rowan for taking the time to work on the photos with me!
– L
