Caribbean Dream

New year, new shoot! And the first of many I hope. This was a collaboration with two amazing brands, my loyal stylist Luiza Pinor and the lovely Leslie. Swimwear is by Ancora, clothes and accessories are by Laetitia. Big thanks to the lovely people who let us take photos of their restaurants and stores. Also shout-out to Ella Ruth Cowperthwaite for helping out with a Photoshop conundrum.

All images ©Nathalie Donado

Daniella

Finally met a fellow photographer in my home town. Dani answered my desperate pleas for willing models and we spent a couple of hours in one of Barranquilla's oldest and prettiest neighborhoods. She also sweet-talked the owner of a gorgeous old house into letting us use it for the shoot. Go Dani! Hoping to meet more local photogs and collaborating with Dani again soon.

Cool bit of coding: now if you hover over the images a little button appears and you can pin them to your Pinterest!

all images ©Nathalie Donado

Sunny side up

Is there anything quite as challenging as shooting at noon in the sub-tropical sun? Not really, especially after being used to the rather feeble English sun. It was noon or bust as my model had class all afternoon. Challenge accepted. I was very worried as I couldn't actually see if I was exposing and focusing the photos correctly (stupid glare) and I kept forgetting I had my sunglasses on. Luckily, or skillfully, I did get photos I loved and didn't take much editing. Kudos to Isabella for braving the 30 degree heat in that pink jumper. It's a lovely homecoming to shooting in Colombia again and I'm looking forward to more shoots.

images ©Nathalie Donado

Blooming

A shoot with the lovely Melissa at the Botanical Gardens in Sheffield. August will be a bad month for shoots with my dissertation due soon. I also have to move from Sheffield in September. It will be a crazy couple of months while I find my bearings but I'm hoping all will be good and more photo adventures are in my future.

sunkissed

When I find some extra time and I'm feeling particularly inspired (read: I am bored out of my mind) I like to go back to my archives and re-edit some of my past work. I keep finding better ways to edit so I love making old photos look better than they ever have and even get a few new favorites along the way. I took these in March I belive, when we discovered a new beach, well new to us. I've been back a couple of times, including Day 365.

 

I think I'll have to split the fashion show post into two parts, there are just too many photos for one go and my computer is close to crashing and burning on me. I'll to upload part one tomorrow. Or today, as it is after midnight.

©Nathalie Donado