Carnac Alignments

I did a little bit of location scouting in Brittany when I was there before Christmas.

These black and white 35mm disposable camera images show the Carnac Alignments, hundreds and hundreds of ancient standing stones spread across three huge fields.

Most of the stones aren't very big but there are so many of them they look really amazing.

I would love to do a fashion story here, but you aren't allowed to go up close to the stones and most of the big impressive ones are fenced off, which didn't stop me when taking these, but i think a large team might be noticed...

Instead of shooting here I'm going to concentrait on fining less well known standing stones for the location of my final major.

Overexposure

These burnt out Polaroids are from my test with Eva on Friday.

Lots more to edit but I like these two that were exposed for too long...

I'm so happy when things go wrong like this because it normally shows something that I didn't expect, and sometimes the accidents are beautiful.

Amazing Post Card

Found this is a shop in Penzance over Christmas:

Brilliant.

Portrait in Elle Canada

I had forgotten about the portraits I did for Elle Canada of Mende Nazer back in July.

They were in the September issues of the magazine:

The main portrait is mine, and they even spelled me name right with the dots and everything!

I'm really pleased they chose this one of Mende smiling, I think it goes to show that you can take a better portrait when you know someone well, because here I got a really genuine reaction from making her laugh.

Having trouble ordering back issues of Elle to the UK though... I will keep trying.

Still Life

Practicing with Polaroid: A Deer Skull and Antlers.

I will hopefully be able to use this skull as a prop in my final shoot for school next month as it's based on the theme of witches.

French Camera

I found this antique camera in a junk shop in France.

As you can see it is bigger than my head and I'm a little bit in love with it...

It's for wet plate photography but it didn't have a back on it to hold the plates when i bought it, so I ordered some on ebay and they came in this box wirh loads of beautiful stamps on, which i think is a really good sign...

Sadly I won't be able to try it out for a while as I need a carpenter friend to make something to attach the new backs to the camera body... and also I'm super poor at the moment and I think the chemicals are going to be quite expensive...

Nevertheless I am hugely excited about it, and hopefully soon I will be making pictures like Sally Mann:

She uses a similar camera for her wet plate collodian images.

Location Scouting

Firstly I'm sorry for the delay in posting anyting on here but I have been away adventuring and sourcing locations for future shoots, including these prehistoric sites in Cornwall.

I've been searching for landscapes of desolate heathland punctuated by standing stones and ancient monuments, the sort of place you could imagine the witches in Macbeth would hang out:

(Men-an Tol, Land's End, Cornwall)

(Peninis Head, St. Marys, Isles of Scilly.)

(Lanyon Quoit, Land's End, Cornwall.)

These pictures were really good practice using Polaroids on location, though I think I need to devise a better way to keep them out of the wind while they dry... some of these I had to stick in a convenient rabbit hole to stop them blowing away, which was not ideal.