Showing posts with label Photos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Photos. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

A Party Outfit?


Jeans 2, originally uploaded by rachel-catherine

I think I need to work on my photography skills as well as my posing skills... Yet, for an image snapped in a mirror in a dark kitchen without a flash using a blackberry and then crudely lightened using a photo editor programme, it could be worse.

Sadly my jeans weren't as distressed at the front as I remembered so the look didn't work quite as well as I'd hoped. They were rather more distressed on the back though, which is why I required a longer top. Actually, that is a cardigan over a top. I should have taken the cardigan off to photograph it, but then I would have been even later than I actually was...

Monday, February 23, 2009

Peonies & Polaroids opens Etsy Shop

{Images by Peonies & Polaroids}


Look out for Peonies & Polaroids Etsy shop opening this coming weekend... Peonies takes the most beautiful, ethereal, whimsical photographs and I was rather excited when she started mentioning an Etsy shop. I wanted to buy M one for V-Day so we could hang it on our bedroom wall, but the shop wasn't open then. I mentioned it to him last night and he said I should just go for it anyway. The photo below is one of my favourites. I know I am a sucker for anything sea related but there is something very peaceful about this beach scene, which says to me childhood holidays and reminiscing. Anyway, enough promotion from me. On Saturday, have a look yourself...





Fire From Water

{Image by Peonies & Polaroids}

Friday, February 06, 2009

Black & White in Paris

{Image via The Sartorialist}

I gave up 3 months ago. But I still think the cigarette makes this photograph.

Monday, February 02, 2009

From one snow scene to another...

...and please forgive the double post...

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Returned to London over the weekend, swapping the snow scenes of the alps for the ones of London. Except the light in London was rather less bright...

{Image Author's own and not to used without explicit permission}
Sunset over Montgenevre
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Oh, and in the Alps everything works no matter how much snow there seems to be. In London, no buses were running, no trains, all tubes were severely delayed and it took me an hour and a half to do a 30 minute journey to work. Still, at least I made it. No-one else did.



{Image Author's own and not to used without explicit permission}
Montgenevre
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Spent the morning doing odd jobs and tasks and trying not to notice the continuous snowfall outside my window. Am posting this at lunchtime and then I shall finish off and head home before the snow gets any worse and I am stranded in central London. I know I could walk home in about the same time as it took me to get here, but it is cold. Plus, I want to make chocolate cake.



{Image Author's own and not to used without explicit permission}
Lincoln's Inn Fields

I wonder what the situation will be like tomorrow? One noticeable thing about the snow is that it is so quiet. Without the buses and with the snow muffling all sound, it is actually peaceful.


{Image Author's own and not to used without explicit permission}
Lincoln's Inn

Proper wedding posts to resume again shortly when things are back to normal. Still trying to catch up on a week's worth of blog reading and e-mails...

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Friday, December 19, 2008

A Short Walk In Wintertime*

"When you're weary, feeling small..." a short walk in winter time can soothe the soul.
Letting the weak winter afternoon sunshine wash over me, seeing the winter trees silhouetted against a dazzling blue sky...

...Looking up at ancient trees and becoming calmer, as I gaze at buildings built in the 17th century, where generations upon generations of lawyers before me have lived and worked. Following in tradition somehow makes things easier...



... Looking up and feeling sunlight against my face, that there is light amongst the darkness of winter and that summer and sunshine will come round again. That summer without winter would be nothing. That silhouettes like these are even more special as for 3/4 of the year you cannot see that roof line against the sky for it is usually obliterated by an abundance of foliage...


...Seeing the rich red colour of old brick and being reminded of other occasions when life was also hard, and remembering that those times too passed and receded. That seasons come and seasons go, as do bad times and dark days...

...Realising how many good things in life there are, if only you pause and look, much like the poem, one of my favourites ...

All images by me.
"What is this life if full of care
We have no time to stop and stare
No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stare as long as sheep, or cows.
No time to see, when woods we pass
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass
No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night.
No time to turn at beauty's glance
And watch her feet, how they can dance.
No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began.
A poor life this, if full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
William Henry Davies


*With apologies to Libby Purves for misquoting her book title.

Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Autumn Weekends I

Image by M
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Wednesday, January 02, 2008

How London mornings will be for me from now on

Carmen ( Homage to Munkacsi) coat by Cardin, Place Francois-Premier Paris, 1957
© Richard Avedon, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Boyarde Messenger & Henrie Haldane at artspace galleries

Panoramic #1 by Boyarde Messenger

So after I finished work this evening, instead of crawling home and collapsing in front of The F Word, I headed to meet a friend in Mayfair and attend Boyarde Messenger's new exhibition. Avid readers of my blog may remember a past exhibition of hers which I attended and was so inspired by her teddy bare collection that I took my own version for M's Christmas present.

Photograph by Boyarde Messenger

The exhibition also featured the work of Henrie Haldane. I thought her work was enjoyable but rather fell short of some of the artists that she reminded me of, namely Kurt Jackson and Paul Klee.

Friday, February 09, 2007

The Year of Living Gorgeously

Via Maryam in Marrakech I discovered The Year of Living Gorgeously. It is full of tips and recipes and ideas as to how to make your life and your house gorgeous. They also run monthly photography competitions, in which I have entered my photographs of Regent's Park. Ihope they will not mind me using their photograph above but I just love the way that the books are colour-coded. I might have to try that myself...

Saturday, February 03, 2007

Hampstead Heath


Hampstead Heath at sunset. Post regarding a womans right to children to follow.