And So Our Wednesday Comes To A Close

Wednesday has come and gone and been replaced by Thursday. Thursday is shaping up to be a not nearly as awesome day as Wednesday. There is pain, and a missed Etsy purchase, which I am none too pleased with. At least the first of the badness can be solved with pain killers, which have already been amply taken. The latter on the other hand I am still a bit gutted by. I saw this absolutely exquisite turquoise vintage dress on Etsy that I just KNEW I had to have, but by delaying the purchase by 20 minutes to browse the interwebs I missed buying it. Someone had stolen it from right under my nose. (Note to self: When you see AWESOME dress...BUY IT!!!)

Anywho... I've been meaning to share this shoot that I did a few weeks ago, again with the lovely make up artist Nat Biller. It was styled by the impeccable Lenya Jones, an up-and-coming stylist based in Sydney and modeled by Rachelle Hair and a friend who we roped in after our second model pulled out without notifying us. The shoot was done in possibly record time due to the delays with the models and I think we shot the 6 outfits we had in about 2 and a half hours, which includes wardrobe changes and make-up adjustments and EVERYTHING. I was actually really happy with the outcome and I can't wait to shoot Rachelle again. But enough of the details, here are the photos. Hope you enjoy.

I LOVE WEDNESDAYS

Seeing as it is Wednesday, Hump Day, Margarita Wednesday, Pay Day Wednesday and whatever else Wednesday might mean for you, I decided to share with you the shoot promised from my first post. The shoot was my first model shoot as the principle photographer and was for PenelopeRED and Oren Nuri. The lovely Amy Lyn Cage modeling the clothes, Nat Biller doing the stunning make up and Leona Siano giving me a helpful hand assisting me. I can't say enough wonderful things about the girls I worked with. They are all amazingly talented and to top it off, are all lovely as well.

This post was going to be much, much longer, but in the spirit of the awesomeness of Wednesday, my new phone has just arrived from Optus! Uber yays! ...and... I want to set everything up on it and play with it. I can't wait! It's been painful having a phone that doesn't work properly over the last 4 months so I'm hoping that this phone actually works. So I'm off to play with my phone, I hope you like the photos.

The Beat My Heart Skipped

In January of this year I was fortunate enough to have an epically musical month. One in which my boyfriend and I went to see a variety of bands. We witnessed the magic that are the Fleet Foxes and My Morning Jacket within days of each other and every time I hear either one of those bands it takes me back to those few weeks in January when it seemed like the world couldn't get any better. If I could I would travel around with either of those bands just listening to them perform all the time and photographing those escapades.

After witnessing the security at the Fleet Foxes gig, I was sure that I could get my trusty G10 in with me to My Morning Jacket. These are a few of the images captured on that absolutely astounding night when My Morning Jacket played for three hours at the Metro in Sydney to a crowd who was as in awe as I was at their absolute brilliance.

A Day Of Pimples, Dimples, Scabs and Scars

Today was a day of retouching. I do quite a variety of work, and today was/is a day of retouching. I've still got some images to do, but desperately need a break from retouching pimples/dimples/scars/scabs/backgrounds etc. I have a photo that I've wanted to do for a while and I finally got around to finishing it. It's a 360 degree panoramic of Newtown in Sydney that I just wanted to do some minor adjustments on.



It's one of my favourite areas to shoot as it contains what has always been one of my favourite buildings, Trocadero Hall. For you that know the area it was the giant pink building at the beginning of King Street near the Uni. It's been refurbished and is now a completely characterless beige colour. However, the streets/alleys and abandoned buildings around Newtown make it still one of my favourite areas, despite the gentrification of one of the most amazing buildings in Sydney.

A Trip Down Memory Lane

Whilst still being relegated to the couch with a terrible case of the flu, I decided that it was time to go through some of my slightly older work and I came across a series of photos of found objects and buildings that I'd taken whilst on a walk near my parents' house in Bondi a couple of years ago. I love walking down random streets and just seeing what's around.

It's really interesting what we see and what we don't see. I've walked those streets thousands of times, but these images always remind me that we don't often notice what's right in front of us and that even the most banal of objects like a discarded carton of milk can become interesting when photographed in an interesting way.

Hope you enjoy.

Hello World Hear The Song That We're Singing...

C'mon get happyyyyyy!

At the moment I'm sitting in the comfort of my home, rugged up under a blanket, hoping that tissues will mysteriously appear somewhere around me. I also can't seem to get the theme of the Partridge Family out of my head, and tissues have in fact magically appeared.

I should really start this with a "Hello all, and welcome to my very first post. My name is Milena, though most people call me Len," but I've never been one for formal introductions. I'm actually fairly certain that there are a large number of my friends who don't know my first name. Anywho...I do lots of things and at the moment I am attempting to start my designing, photographing, retouching career. You'll be hearing from me a lot more in the future as I continue my foray into fashion.

Hope you are all enjoying your Saturday nights. I'm off to get ready for a fancy dress party and to attempt not to cough up a lung.

I leave you all with an image from one of my recent fashion shoots. There will be many more to come.