Life: restlessness and space

“There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are. And we must pass through solitude and difficulty, isolation and silence in order to reach forth to the enchanted place where we can dance our clumsy dance and sing our sorrowful song — but in this dance or in this song there are fulfilled the most ancient rites of our conscience in the awareness of being human and of believing in a common destiny.“ // Pablo Neruda

In praise of shadows

Illuminating your radiance with my bespoke floral portrait sessions.

Be more like a flower

Some things a flower knows:

Spring,
Up from down,
Light from dark
Different touches.

Harmonising the whole...

.. with Marine Tanguy, founder of MTArtAgency… according to philosopher Susanne Langer “The aim of art is insight, understanding of the essential life of feeling.”

Awaken in the dream...

Will we wake up in the dream in time? Or are we too profoundly distracted?

Florals and portraits ... a session with me is about colour, movement, emotion, and storytelling... creating timeless keepsake photography for your home of what is dear to you . Please DM if you want to find out more about my post lockdown bookings for March.

Are we being good ancestors?

Heirloom portrait sessions with me over September — pls DM me to find out more… ♡

All we do and are...

“Religion is, in reality, living. Our religion is not what we profess, or what we say, or what we proclaim; our religion is what we do, what we desire, what we seek, what we dream about, what we fantasize, what we think - all these things - twenty-four hours a day. One's religion, then, is ones life, not merely the ideal life but the life as it is actually lived.

Religion is not prayer, it is not a church, it is not theistic, it is not atheistic, it has little to do with what white people call "religion." It is our every act. If we tromp on a bug, that is our religion; if we experiment on living animals, that is our religion; if we cheat at cards, that is our religion; if we dream of being famous, that is our religion; if we gossip maliciously, that is our religion; if we are rude and aggressive, that is our religion. All that we do, and are, is our religion.” ― Jack D. Forbes

How does your garden grow?

“A therapist suggested that I care for a plant, and thereby take the attention off myself, so I started work on my patch, which is near a public lane. People stopped and chatted, and started showing interest in what I was doing. It became a social garden and that cheered me along; the dog walkers, the mums taking their kids to school, and the neighbours. A local woman of 102 used to come and sit in the garden. It developed a momentum through all that. I have to keep the non-paying public happy. It teaches me patience, which is good for me.” Steve ( Words/interview Jim Cable from a 2014 interview)

What do you want to tell the world or what is dear to you?

Whilst out on my daily walk I’m offering complimentary-2-metre-apart-front-garden-portraits-in-my-neighbourhood over the Covid19 period. Pls message me to find out more…

Miracle and Mystery

"We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery." — H.G. Wells

All things are impermanent..

“If there is beauty, there must be ugliness;

If there is right, there must be wrong.

Wisdom and ignorance are complementary,

And illusion and enlightenment cannot be separated.

This is an old truth, don't think it was discovered recently.

"I want this, I want that"

Is nothing but foolishness.

I'll tell you a secret -

"All things are impermanent!”

― Ryokan, One Robe, One Bowl: The Zen Poetry of Ryōkan

Telling the world...

Tell me what you want to tell the world and together in my studio we can create images for your business.

These samples are from a set of photos I created this week for an IVF counsellor. She wanted bespoke images for her new website to say uplifting, optimism, spring, connection and approachability. Personal branding photography plays a powerful role in attracting the right clients to your business. How you are perceived by your ideal clients is essential.

We spent 2 hours creating a range of shots. Pls DM me to find out more and start the conversation…

Memory...

“We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.” ― Louise Gluck

Patterns...

“Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behaviour directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is the seat of our drives, temperaments and patterns of thought. Each of us is dealt a unique hand of tastes and aptitudes, like curiosity, ambition, empathy, a thirst for novelty or for security, a comfort level with the social or the mechanical or the abstract. Some opportunities we come across click with our constitutions and set us along a path in life.” ― Steven Pinker

Magic and beauty

“The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.” — Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings

Creating bespke art for your walls starring you…

Singularity

   (after Stephen Hawking)

Do you sometimes want to wake up to the singularity
we once were?

so compact nobody
needed a bed, or food or money—

nobody hiding in the school bathroom
or home alone

pulling open the drawer
where the pills are kept.

For every atom belonging to me as good
Belongs to you.   Remember?
There was no   Nature.    No
 them.   No tests
to determine if the elephant
grieves her calf    or if

the coral reef feels pain.    Trashed
oceans don’t speak English or Farsi or French;

would that we could wake up   to what we were
— when we were ocean    and before that
to when sky was earth, and animal was energy, and rock was
liquid and stars were space and space was not

at all — nothing

before we came to believe humans were so important
before this awful loneliness.

Can molecules recall it?
what once was?    before anything happened?

No I, no We, no one. No was
No verb      no noun
only a tiny tiny dot brimming with

is is is is is

All   everything   home

Black and White....

.. but a million colour in your mind... creating images for you and stepping into a new year with me // pls DM me with your dates and photo needs and we can make a plan ♡

Being

“At the centre of your being
you have the answer;
you know who you are
and you know what you want.” — Lao Tzu

New Year's Day...

“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.” ― Edith Lovejoy Pierce

Self love...

“A consequence of female self-love is that the woman grows convinced of social worth. Her love for her body will be unqualified, which is the basis of female identification. If a woman loves her own body, she doesn't grudge what other women do with theirs; if she loves femaleness, she champions its rights. It's true what they say about women: Women are insatiable. We are greedy. Our appetites do need to be controlled if things are to stay in place. If the world were ours too, if we believed we could get away with it, we would ask for more love, more sex, more money, more commitment to children, more food, more care. These sexual, emotional, and physical demands would begin to extend to social demands: payment for care of the elderly, parental leave, childcare, etc. The force of female desire would be so great that society would truly have to reckon with what women want, in bed and in the world.”
― Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth

The whole of the moon..

I spoke about wings
You just flew
I wondered, I guessed and I tried
You just knew
I sighed
But you swooned, I saw the crescent
You saw the whole of the moon
The whole of the moon… // The Waterboys