Normandie With Sapphire Day Three

 

Day Three and the pain of my back and sciatica was really starting to hamper everything. Our first destination of the day was the historic city of Bayeux. It's Cathedral dominates the streets. As with many historic buildings renovation was taking place. We wandered the outside to find views where railings did not spoil the imagery. One periphery building had huge photos posted across windows of scenes from World War Two. With a quick break for lunch and a beer our next backdrop was a narrow street for portraiture and dance jumps. The French public were not the best to work around with the dance images. They wanted to be in the images and get their phones out to get their own photos with total disregard for what I was doing. Eventually we finished and went for a quick tour inside the Cathedral. Collapsing into the car it was off to Surville Beach. This was to prove the most difficult part of the day. A herniated disc and soft sand to walk on are not recommended. With evening light on dunes and beach I got some pleasing results. Exhausting day in the roasting heat I was done.

Well Hello Dolly!

When you see a face and want to take photographs it is often a bit of a journey. It was down to good old Google image search. For those not familiar you drop the image into Google images and Google will find matches. Luckily this came up with Dolly's Facebook Page and from there to Model Mayhem. I had one idea in my head about using old 78 RPM records and here I had the wonderful help from Ben's Collectors Records in Guildford. Here I chose some interesting and varied labels. Getting the records suspended I used the same method as I had with Elesha back last year. It was trickier as these records were so much heavier. Dolly arrived and what a delight she was to work with. She had even found some monster shop display headphones. I really liked her alternative look but with such a beautiful and unusual face I was keen to include some beauty shots. We even did some cheeky lingerie to end our shoot. So a fabulous shoot I think you will agree. Thank you Miss Dolly Diamond.