Inspiration.

Such an inspirational photographer, Jon Duenas series of photographs showing double exposure have really made me want to go out and just take photos. They are a mix between fashion and ordinary life mixing faces with natural elements.

More from this series here

Vintage.

At the moment I am totally skint, and there are so many items that are screaming at me to buy! Having an addiction to vintage online stores is lethal and today is no exception. Shoptarte.com and pretaportabello.com have some amazing finds. I'm always too late with Shoptarte because everything is ALWAYS sold out before I get a chance to see them. Maybe I should become one of these people who just sits by the computer waiting...

Here are a few items I am currently craving at shoptarte.com...

And at pretaportobello.com...

oh what I would do to win the lottery!

Collaboration

Here are a few images from a collaboration with Graduate fashion designer Jessica Roles (BA Hons Fashion Design - University of Glamorgan). This was a photo-shoot that I was approached to do for her after she saw my final images for the graduate submission. It was a very proud time as three other student designers also came forward wanting me to photograph their work in a studio setting. This shoot was a nice change as menswear is an area that hasn't been easy to practice.

More work can be seen at www.carlaanne.co.uk

Summer Colours

After reading fashion156.com's summer issue online, the colours for SS/12 really stood out. The images are absolutely stunning and are well worth looking at if you are a true fashion lover.

Beautiful photography really captured the colours and have a very summery effect. We all think about water and colour in the summer and these images really emphasise these elements.

These images were taken from Fashion156.com @ http://www.fashion156.com/issues/summer-issue/beauty/colour-beauty-editorial/#0

So Much Fashion, So Little Money...

The only problem with fashion is there will always be something you love/need/want in your life. There are so many items in stores right now that scream 'buy me' but so little money to walk in and buy. If only everyone could win the lottery, life would be so much simpler. Until that day comes, working is the only way forward. Will just have to count pennies for a few months.

There is also the summer down-fall of needing to lose weight to get the bikini body everyone longs for. I happen to be one of the millions of people who fall into the loop of needing to diet and exercise to feel even remotely happy to step outside in short sleeves during the warm months and this year is no exception although I am highly determined that this year will be my year. Hopefully in the next few months I will not only be updating pictures of fashion finds but hopefully will eventually have myself in the picture wearing them.

As this is aiming to become a photo diary it makes encourages me to take more pictures and stop caring so much about little things, and will use this to show photo-shoots that are being worked on and are in progress, fashion that inspires me and all other things that are relevant day to day.

Officially finished university.

This post is a long time coming but I have officially finished my undergraduate degree at university of Glamorgan in fashion design. It has been a stressful three years but it's finally over and can now concentrate on better things. The final photo shoots turned out really well and the model was a trooper. She participated in every shoot and really played the part in each starring role. Here shows behind the scenes images of make up and prep.

Pinterest

So I always get e-mails that someone new is following me on pinterest and when I logged onto it today I felt really popular. However using the site I found really tricky. Have no idea what to do on it or how people find the pictures they 'pin'. So confusing.

http://pinterest.com/carlaanne12

I have a few boards that I did the first time I logged on but I was using it for a competition so was basically directed around the site. As that was a few months ago I am not stuck on my main page with nothing to do! HELP!