Hannah Ashlea

Showing posts with label Andy K. Show all posts

Monday, 6 June 2011

Two of my favourite people :)

I know I shouldn't have favourites, but Andy K Stratford and Harmony Summer are two of the most lovely people I know. Andy is a very close friend of mine, was the 2nd photographer I ever shot with and has been my "go-to-guy" every time I needed a portfolio update! He's definitely the closest I have to a muse.
Harmony is his girlfriend and a very talented young lady (she does have an excellent teacher close at hand, to be fair!). She's got so much enthusiasm and I can see her becoming my second muse :D

I shot with them both a few weeks back along with the wonderful Chloe Winter, a new but very talented makeup artist. I had a great time with the three of them, we all got on very well and I can't wait to work with them all again!

Copyright Andy K Stratford

Copyright Harmony Summer

In other news, I'm planning an Irish tour this year! In late September, I will be catching a ferry over to Belfast and making my way around N. Ireland and ROI, kissing stones at Blarney and pretending to be giants at The Giant's Causeway inbetween shooting with various fabulous photographers along the way! If you fancy booking me, or know of any photographers over that way, let me know! Casting calls will be going up as soon as details are ironed out :)

I'm also off to Download Festival in a few days time, so I won't be around - boo! But I have some super cool Ultra Violet shots to show you from a shoot with Ashley Mark-Pomeroy a few weeks back, so I'll get them up as soon as I'm back :)

Saturday, 30 April 2011

Sorry!

Readers, it would appear that I have neglected you! I got told off the other day by my boyfriend for being the kind of person who gives 100% for a day or two and then forgetting about it ('it' being anything from writing a blog, thinking about going on holiday, quitting smoking, saving money....) and not doing it.
So, I'm quitting smoking on Sunday (tomorrow - eek!), re-starting this blog today, have got a short trip to France in May to recharge my batteries and have already looked at budgetting to save money for bigger holidays later in the year!

On the blog note - I have some exciting things to share! Over the next week or so I'll be showing you some gorgeous images from a shoot with Claude Pierus (along with some duo modelling with Katie Louise D), some light and natural lifestyle from Andrew Appleton of Applephoto, incredibly wonderful styled images from Holly Cox and a mix of fashion, beauty and nudes from Andy K Stratford and Harmony Summer.
I also have a wealth of gorgeous nudes to share with you from my week long trip to Spain with Greg Brown, John Evans and Ella Rose.
Unfortunately, I am on a train right now and have left my external harddrive at home so can't access them all, but here's a sneak peek of the images I got from Harmony.

Harmony is a young but fanstastic photographer based in Devon and Northampton (her time is split between the two) with a great eye for a photograph. I'll certainly be working with her again the next time she's in Northampton (as I also spend a lot of time there!)

The makeup was by Chloe Winters, a relatively new (and fabulous!) addition to the MUA world, very talented and great fun to work with. She's currently working on building up her portfolio and when she's got a portfolio page up and running, I'll be sure to link her!
I love this shot because it's so different for me. Beauty is a genre I've not played with much and so when Andy and Harmony asked what I'd like to do with them, my first response was beauty. Knowing we had a talented makeup artist on hand meant that I was confident we'd get some great, natural shots as well as some more styled ones later on.
I love the lighting in this shot, it subtly moves your eye right to the centre of the image without being too 'spotlight-y', which is nice.

I'll sign off now be assured that I *will* be updating again very shortly!

x