you find my old and faded self in that place

I'm off school for the bank holiday!! Having Friday and Monday off has left me feeling as if I am on school break - it's so relaxing just to be able to breathe a little and figure things out without constantly going to college and having more and more work thrown your way. The last few days have been very summery (despite today's occasional rainstorms?!)...I photographed two of my school friends on Thursday after college, which entailed not only dressing up in the art department but also a pre-shoot trip to buy a mint avocado and cacao smoothie and artificial flowers. On Friday I had a really leisurely morning, picked up film from the day before's shoot, bought another smoothie (trust me they are SO good) and had my nails painted before going out to see Sinead play a gig and eat some pizza at Voodoo Rays. I love days off so much.

 Anyway, I've started taking so many more photos recently; I've always been a documenter, but it's got seriously out of hand. These photos are from the first shoot I ever really properly organised - you can see that both my photography and construction of the images has improved with my later work (hopefully) but I still really like this set as it captures a few close friends of mine in a really nice setting.
~~ALSO - apologies for the low quality photos...for some reason when I enlarge images to full size on blogger the quality decreases drastically?

I chose to photograph Tamara, Jazzy and Mariam as I felt I'd never really done so before. I know them all through college, and know them especially well now after we spent two and a half weeks in Indonesia together in the summer. Mariam took us to a park in Bethnal Green; it was a lovely setting, leafy and green and backed by huge viaducts.

I hope you all have a lovely weekend and bank holiday - I'm having some photos taken with two angel babes on Sunday, before a day by the seaside on Monday, so I will have more content for the weeks to come!