Fashion Photography: 'Wonderland' by Kirsty Mitchell

Today, let’s take a walk in the mystical ‘Wonderland’ of Kirsty Mitchell, a storybook without words, an unexplained collection of strange and magical characters, set in the woodlands and landscapes that surrounded her home in Surrey.

Kirsty Mitchell, fashion photographer from Kent, is one of the fashion photographers I truly admired ever since I first saw her works. Following Maureen's death from a brain tumour in 2008, Kirsty channelled her grief into her passion for photography. She retreated behind the lens of her camera and created 'Wonderland', an ethereal fantasy world.

She wanted to mix together her backgrounds in fashion design, costume making, her love of art history and film, as well as her passion for the natural beauty of English landscapes. In short, a melting pot of all her everyday interests, channeled into a very personal tribute to the memory of her mother, and the fairytales she read to her constantly as a child.

This is 'The Storyteller': A reference to Kirsten's English teacher mother, a model sits elegantly on a carpet of bluebells enveloped by books.

Kirsty developed a deep bond and respect for the locations in which she was working and strove, through her pictures, to remind others of their forgotten magic and beauty.

She became fascinated with pockets of wild flowers such as the bluebells that would appear for only a few brief weeks of the year. In some cases, she would wait a full 12 months so she could shoot costumes matched to the vivid colours of nature! 

She said her 'aim was to portray time passing, an unsaid journey through four seasons, incorporating every colour in the rainbow'.

This is 'Spirited Away': Blooms stand out against a snowy forest backdrop, a promise of the spring to come.

Here: the Beautiful Blindness of Devotion sees a painted girl with eyes closed in prayer.

Images from here.

The Briar Rose is a human rambling rose appearing to grow from the stonework.

For more of her work, you can visit her website. To read more about the journey behind each photo shoot, you can check her blog where she goes into detail about the development of each of her imaginative concepts all the way through production.

Very inspiring work! Unlike anything I’ve ever seen! What do you think?

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Creative Portrait Photography by Vilde Indrehus

For this weekend, I wanted to post about this very young but talented photographer: Vilde Indrehus.

Vilde is a 17 year old photographer from Norway, she has been serious about photography about a year now and by her own words is addicted. Her photos have a kind of “Instagram” look, and are very romantic. 

Inspired by the forest, the ocean and the nature, she took the emotional shots to express her extreme love of her homeland.

She said: "the things that no one else notices are the things that I love the most: a graveyard, rain, garbage and clouds are examples of things that inspire me. Especially clouds! Everything is so damn beautiful. I want to photograph everything I see. And when I say everything, I totally mean it. I love how photography makes me see this world just as beautiful as it is. And it somehow confuses me that I’m the only one I know that think of it that way."

Her photography style is wonderous and intimately exploratory of a young person connecting with her natural surroundings.

Images from here

Just love her stunning pictures about her natural surroundings!

You can also visit her facebook page here. What are your thoughts on these?

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Breathtaking Beauty of Milford Sound, New Zealand

Let's go to Milford Sound on this Sunday, shall we? As you may already know, it is part of the Fjordland National Park, and is located at the southwest corner of the Southern Island of New Zealand.

Also called the beautiful Gulf of Milford, it is one of the most beautiful landscapes of our planet. As such, Milford Sound is the biggest pride of New Zealand! According to Rudyard Kipling, it is the eighth wonder of the world.

The beauty of Milford Sound is so spectacular and otherworldly that it was used to depict parts of Middle Earth in the Lord of the Rings movies. Yes! And, looking at these photographs, we can see exactly why Peter Jackson chose it! There really couldn’t be a more magical movie location...

Among Milford Sound's most enchanting features are its exquisite waterfalls. In rainy and stormy days tourists can admire the play of the wind with the waterfalls. 

Beyond the mountains of Milford Sound is a kingdom of dense jungles and a paradise valley, which is covered with a colourful carpet of flowers.

Images from: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, Layton Findlater & Todd and Sarah Sisson

Not far away from the Sound there are plenty of other magnificent places to explore, including lakes, mountains, limestone caves, and the Sutherland Falls, one of Earth's highest waterfalls, which, in three cascades, drops for a dizzying 1,904 feet (580 meters).

Because this place is obviously a beautiful symbiosis of virgin forests, clean streams and lakes, glaciers and high mountains, waterfalls and meadows....I couldn't help myself from writing this post! :D

What a beautiful place on earth to visit or revisit, don't you think?

For more information about Milford Sound, you can go here.

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