Playing house

Big, massive thanks to our MUA Sarah Gray and house owners Steve and Sue for letting us frolic about in their beautiful house for an entire afternoon. Ella Ruth was working her own magic with model Jenny Hosty, while the lovely Lanty Zhang and I ran around, playing with all the amazing treasures we found in the house. It was a joy to be allowed to have the house for our shoot and we all had a great time.

©Nathalie Donado

garlands of smoke

I wasn't meant to be organizing shoots and taking days off to take photos, but that shutter click is deliciously addictive and the prospect of working once more with Sarah Gray was enough to crumble my (admittedly weak) willpower. Sarah is a doll and basically found the location, styled the shoot, did the make-up and hair, AND made the amazing flower garlands on Stevie's and Helen's heads. This shoot's location was one of the most amazing gardens I've had the pleasure to play with. In typical British fashion, massive rain clouds loomed in the distance and ended up soaking the entire team and forcing us to seek shelter in the greenhouse. Armed with a Spar plastic bag wrapped around my camera and an umbrella out intrepid team braved the awful conditions. We also had a bit of fun (and a scare) with some smoke bombs make by Katie Eleanor. Wind and flammable things do not mix. Big thank you to Sarah's parents for letting us set off smoke bombs on their drive and their back garden, feeding us, and just generally being lovely. Also, kudos to the owners of our garden wonderland for letting us prance about their little slice of heaven.

Camelot via Narnia

After a month of planning and being held back by the lovely British weather, Bex and I finally had our shoot. We were joined by the very talented Sarah who did triple-duty as MUA, came up with these amazing plaits and styled the autumn-inspired shoot. It's not a proper shoot in England without some rain and we were stranded in a restaurant for the better part of an hour before we could head off to the location. I am completely in love with this place. There's something about it that just pulls at my heart strings in all the right ways. I've been there before at a time close to sunset and the light breaking through the trees is pure magic. I love it so much I'm heading down there again with Ella for our August photo-adventure. I can't really do the shoot justice in writing, not right now, so on with the photos.

Inherited III

Here is the last part of my shoot with Ella Ruth Cowperthwaite, Inherited Sheffield, Sarah Gray, Nikki Hafter and Jack Wing. It was such a cool experience collaborating with Ella this way. Really looking forward to her photos from this day. In the meantime, if you're in Sheffield, definitely check out Inherited.

Inherited Part I

A couple of weeks ago, Ella Ruth and I walked into this amazing shop in Sheffield and asked (begged) it's lovely owner Josh to let us have a play with his gorgeous clothing. He said yes! Inherited is all about the East London brand of cool. Needless to say I covet many of the pieces and will be spending some pounds very irresponsibly. The shoot took place in the Botanical Gardens which is my go to place for insta-setting. Casting was a whirlwind of improvisation but our team was perfect. Josh was on hand to personally style the shoot (and keep all of us from running of with the clothes), Sarah Gray was our MUA and Jack Wing and Nikki Hafter where our pretty faces. It's a huge shoot so this is only part I of three. Enjoy.