As promised, my newest publication!

I finally managed to get the scanner to work and produce mostly decent scans of my most recent work with Wedding Magazine, yay! I know I promised to upload them last week but with the scanner not working and then being away in Thailand for a few days (pictures from that holiday very soon!), I only managed to get around to it today.
I hope you enjoy looking at them as much as I enjoyed twirling around in fabulous dresses! Click on the images to make them larger and try to ignore the dodgy scanning on some of them ;)

Gown: Amelia Wedding

Left page: Amelia Wedding, hairpiece by Fresh One Beauty. Right page: Gown by Elysian Bridal Couture

Left page: Gown by Amelia Wedding, hairpiece by Fresh One Beauty. Right page: Gown by Elysian Bridal Couture 

Left page: Gown by Elysian Bridal Couture, hairpiece by Fresh One Beauty. Right page: Gown by Amelia Wedding

All images were beautifully captured by Chung Shum, styled by Onion C and the hair and makeup was created by Helen Zee@Fresh One Beauty. The backdrop was provided by JNC Wedding Decoration Gowns were supplied by Amelia Wedding and Elysian Bridal Couture <3

I'm spending the rest of today going through my holiday photos from Thailand and pictures from my Mum and Step-Dad's visit last week as well as packing for my 2 week trip back to the U.K. I'll be glad when all this travelling is over; I've been on the go for almost a month straight now. As much as I love being in new places and seeing people, sometimes all a girl wants is her nightie, a glass of wine and a good film!

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True Magazine and the Hong Kong Wedding and Gift Show

The last week has been such a busy one for me! Flitting from castings to fittings and on to shoots has made me quite glad to have a day where I can get up, throw on a face pack and hair mask and relax (before heading out to Beertopia this afternoon!).

Yesterday I received a rather lovely parcel from a photographer I shot with a while ago containing the latest issue of True Magazine, featuring yours truly modelling some amazing outfits! This is the second magazine publication I've had over here (you can see the first one here) and I certainly hope it's not the last!

I'm also going to be walking for Fiesta Weddings at the Hong Kong Wedding and Gift Show next week. This is going to be my first bridal show, so I was rather excited to be asked to do it and even more excited when I saw how stunning the gowns were. Here's a few snaps I took whilst at the fitting yesterday.

My three dresses from Rings Bridal

I love the Chinese style to this dress <3

Ras will be coming along to the show to take some pictures too, so I'll blog those as soon as I get them!

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Miss Magazine, my first HK publication!

So after flying back from Singapore on Saturday (blog to follow!), I was delighted to be informed that a hair shoot I'd done a few weeks back for Hell Models agency had made it into a national hair magazine. I skipped off to the closest 7-Eleven, grabbed the current issue of Miss Magazine and low-and-behold, found my mug on not one, but 5 full pages and 2 inserts in the contents! I can't read it at all, which is a shame, as it's in chinese, but I gather it has something to do with hairstyles with attitude.

I must admit, this is just a little bit exciting for me as I've only had a few small print publications in the past; the majority of my publications have been online, so to find that not only had the images been published, but that I had a 5 page spread was fantastic!

For all images, the photography is by Chung, the hair by Inca Lo at Star Hair and make up by Lauren.

If you've not got your copy, head down to 7-Eleven where you should be able to find it for just HK$20 (bargain!).

I'm also happy to sign a copy and send it to you if you want, so please do get in touch if you want a personally signed copy of the magazine!

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Cocktails, Comedians and Clams

Ras and I are famous! Well, maybe not famous, but....
The staff at the apartments we are staying in asked if they could take some pictures of us around our flat for some promotional material. Easiest first Hong Kong publication ever?
I guess it counts, despite them not asking me because of my super awesome modelling skills; rather because we have one of the executive suites and they probably would have asked anyone who was staying in it, but who cares!?

The pictures were all over big 6 foot tall boards at their 3rd year anniversary party on the roof of the building. It was amazing to be sipping (free) cocktails and eating (free) food whilst gazing out over Hong Kong's skyline.
The entertainment was great too, they'd booked a live Latin band, the world flair champions (you know, the cocktail waiters who throw your drink around for half an hour before giving it to you) and Vivek Mahbubani, an Indian descent, Chinese, fluent English speaking comedian. We spent a while chatting to him about metal music (turns out he's also the drummer in a heavy metal band) and then posed for a polaroid with me which he then signed.

Other than attending cocktail parties on roofs and posing for photographs, I've also been extending my culinary tastes. By which I mean Ras and I were taken to a very local restaurant the other night by some Chinese friends who proceeded to order razor clams for us. I won't lie, they didn't really do much for me, too salty and chewy for my tastes!


Right now I'm going to curl up on the sofa with Ras and watch a film. I love lazy Saturdays :)

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Art and Books

Whilst in Copenhagen, my boyfriend tried to teach me about aperture, shutter speed and other camera-related things. So, I put my new found knowledge to the test and attempted some photography!

Nyhavn - I'm super happy with this. So much that I'm considering having it printed for putting on my wall!

Just a rather pretty building I saw!

Rosenborg Castle

The "Rundetårn", meaning Round Tower. I'm pretty proud of this picture - I like funky angles

This took a LOT of fiddling to get right but I'm quite happy with it!
Taken in Tivoli Gardens Christmas Market

I'm actually quite sad that this didn't come out very well. Apparently it's something to do with the ISO or something, but it's a little blurry and the black is all patchy. Eitherway, it was stunning :)

It miust have taken forever to get these lights up! They were everywhere!

As well as wandering around stunning Christmas Markets, we also visited Christiania. It's a strange place, full of hippies, communists (the good kind) and lots of drugs. It's not altogether 'official', but the Danish Government sort of let them get on with things. Check out the history here.

The only indication that we had arrived (other than the rather distinct smell of cannabis wafting around)

I thought this was wonderful. A small neighbourhood, almost completely goverened by its own rules.

It's says "EU". Ras and I both thought it said "Ell" until we twigged :)

Stunning painting on this building. Christiania was full of artwork and statues made from junk. I'd recommend going down and having a look if you're around!

 

Following the 'Art' theme, I thought I'd share what I found in the "Glyptoteket", Copenhagen's Art Museum. As well as Egyptian and Roman sculpture, French paintings and some more modern pieces, they had a rather large and beautiful collection of Danish art. One thing that caught my eye was this:

As you can see, it's the same set-up, same women, painted in 4 different ways. Upon closer inspection, I discovered that this was in fact the very first Female Art Nude Studio Day for painters in Denmark. Unfortunately I've completely forgotten who they're by and when they're from. I do remember that the King had given permission for a female model to be used in a class for the very first time, but it must be during the hours of daylight and she must be chaparoned. I'll do my best to find out more!

The Three Graces by Antonio Canova

 

I've done quite a few shoots based around The Three Graces, and so it was a pleasure to see one of the sculptures in person :)

On top of all my holiday pictures, I was informed that I have been published in another book! The talented Scott Chappell has published a book of his works from the last few years and I was honoured to discover that I've been included alongside some of the UK's top models! It's called "39" and you can preview and buy it here.

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Hong Kong, Magazines and Vintage Chic!

So much has happened! I flew off to Hong Kong for 3 weeks with my partner, Ras, for a holiday in June/July, which is why I haven't been around much! We are planning on moving to Hong Kong late this year/early next year, so this was Ras' chance to show me around and make me fall in love with the country I'd agreed to move to (before having even been!). As luck would have it, I fell in love instantly, depsite the monsoon style rain for the frst 3 days.
Hong Kong is such a vibrant, fast, bright city full of friendly, interesting people and suprises hidden around every corner! Before setting off, I asked a few friends of mine who had been for some ideas of what to see and the overwhelming response was "The Big Buddha!". So, as well as sampling the amazing local food, seeing the wild monkeys in Kowloon and dodging giant spiders (hand sized, bird eating monsters) on Cheung Chau, we headed over to Lantau Island for a wander around a traditional Buddist village (complete with a Shaolin Monk show) and the long climb up to the biggest, outdoor, bronze, seated Buddha in the world!

Moments later, they all ran away, so I was quite lucky to get this shot!

Hope he doesn't fall off!

Samping the local cuisine

Golden Silk Orb Weaver. They are HUGE. Thank goodness for giant zoom lenses!

I take no creit for this beautiful photo, it was taken by my partner, Ras.

Funky angles, anyone?

 I won't bore you with more pictures from Hong Kong - we were there for 3 weeks so, as I'm sure you can imagine, there are a LOT of photographs!
In all, it was an amazing experience and I simply can't wait until we finally move over there! It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, one which I am going to grab with both hands and enjoy to its fullest extent!

Just before I went off to HK, I was shooting at the fabulous Light Spot Studios in Hackney. Whilst there, a photographer who I worked with back in February at another studio mentioned that she'd seen me in a magazine. As I was unaware of this, she told me which magazine it was and I started a hunt for a copy of it (it was an old issue, and the company had run out of back-issues). After a day or two, a lovely photographer from Net-Model offered to give me his copy. So when I arrived back in the U.K, I was greeted by a copy of Advanced Photographer magazine, with my face gracing on of the pages!

The picture in question was taken by Phil Winterbourne, a fantastic photographer who I worked with in March.

Whilst we're on the subject of publications, I may as well tell you of another magazine I found myself in, but this time it's an online magazine for a vintage clothing company called solovesvintage, for whom I did a shoot a few months ago. I was very excited to get the e-mail from the lady who owns the website, as not only am I in their online magazine, but I have the front cover and 6 pages inside! The clothing is beautiful and it was a really fun day! You can see the magazine at the website - just click here

In other news, I've now added an "About" section to my blog, which you can access from the link at the top. My website is under construction at the moment, so for the time being, this is my internet base, as it were. I'm still working on getting a small gallery up here somehow, so watch out for that!

 Today will mostly be spent working on aforementioned gallery until 4pm, when I'll be heading to the National Portrait Gallery with my friend Anita DeBauch to see the Glamour of the Gods exhibition, a collection of Hollywood portraits, featuring Marlon Brando, Elizabeth Taylor and Clark Cable, to name but a few!
It should be excellent, and will also give us the chance to pop into the BP National Portrait Awards exhibition and take a look at that, including the stunning painting of our friend Ivory Flame in a painting titled "Holly" by Louis Smith, which was awarded 2nd place.

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