Busy busy busy!

This is probably been my busiest week yet with shoots, although I absolutely love doing photography I am soooooooooooooooooooo tired right now I could just fall to sleep anywhere and sleep for a week.

Last week I had two client shoots - Yinsey, a lovely bubbly girl from Canada who had come over to London for a few weeks, she was so fun to work with and confident even though in Hyde Park we got stared at! It's funny, you'd think people in London would be used to it, but in fact in my hometown in the Midlands, people don't even look!
On Saturday I had a shoot with Kharine, who travelled to me from County Durham, a 4 hour journey away! She was fun to work with and we travelled to the forest near my house, we also shot at the lake. She's a fantastic person to be around.

I ended up cancelling two of my shoots for tues/weds that week due to the fact I was so tired and the weather just wasn't working, although I re-arranged, im a bit dissapointed since I love shooting and I hate letting people down..

On weds (6th) Tom Powell (who you probably know from my gallery last July, a photographer from London) modelled for my book cover shoot. I am creating a book cover for a client (details will come soon) and the description fits him perfectly. It was so great to catch up with him, even if the shoot took an hour!
On the same day I met up with Jamie Lisa, a model/actress/singer from London, I envy these people with multi-talents!! Such a beautiful girl too! We shot in my town (Tamworth) around the castle area and into the park bit and again, even though there were people staring she was so confident in front of the camera, it makes my job so much easier!

On the 7th-8th I was in Swansea, Wales with Leah Mabe (MUA) to shoot in a boutique called Sac59, they have some wonderful bags in there and we were shooting their 'Littlearth' handbags, the new 'eco-fashion', they are all made out of recycled materials including american car numberplates! The model was Sam Gerrard (who was on series 2 of Britains Next Top Model), she was such a joy to work with and so easy at posing in front of the camera, not to mention down to earth.
I stayed over at Leah's house and we ended up being up till 4am chatting about ideas and eating jam on toast, I swear me and her have been seperated at birth, her mind thinks exactly the same as mine and she's such a fun creative to be around.
On the 8th we travelled into Swansea town and shopped (I am such a Primark lover and purchased some beautiful tops and scarfs! - so much for working!). We then travelled back to my house and got back around 8PM (the train takes around 3 and a half hours), we then had dinner and started editing the photos from the previous day and creating magazine prototypes for potentional submission.

On Saturday (9th) I met up with Analiese and her husband Nat, they recently got married and I asked if I could work with them to build my wedding portfolio and do a few fashion photos with Anna. I could not believe how lovely they were! The stayed at a hotel in the town centre and I shot them around Tamworth Castle and the surrounding areas, by the time we ended up outside the church it started raining (as usual!) so we had to call it a day.
In the morning we met up again and we shot some fashion photos over the lake near my house, Leah did some beautiful hair & make-up and combined with Anna's fantastic clothes, I think the shoot was a success.

So now I am editing the book cover shoot and I am looking forward to my lie in tomorrow. I (& thanks to Leah) have so many behind the scenes photographs to show you, I will show you when I get each set edited.

Take care for now!!