Deep blue

More zoo photos. Wish I could take these in real life underwater but SLR underwater cases are insanely expensive. Compact digital it is then for snorkelling this week. :)

Zoology

A few of the (many) photos I took at the zoo. There's a seperate load of fishy ones coming up soon because I love sea (or freshwater) creatures (I think I get it from my dad because when I was young he started to scuba dive and he taught me all about marine life). Also I just love water.

I'm still not sure whether the frog is looking at a friend, a reflection of himself, or if it's just a reflection in the glass. Mindblown.



Philosophical chimp.

Possibly the first time I have ever seen the jaguar in that exhibit! He must have known that because he strutted around for a good 5 minutes while I and everyone else around took full advantage with our cameras.





This little baby orangutan was the cutest and he just couldn't stay still. :)

Paper plane dreams

I'm sure I've talked about it before, but at the moment I want nothing more than to be Oracle Fox. Gypsies, aztecs, navajos, beaches, wood, metal, crosses, angels, feathers, weaves, patterns, backpacks, travellers. You name it, I'm in love with it. What I particularly like about Mandy's version of Aussie life is the cleanness of it. You know, the feeling after a day in the sun and sea, when you're dry and warm, in clean clothes sitting down to dinner feeling sun-tired and happy and free after a long day of having fun. That's how I want my holiday to feel. :)








Ps. None of these photos are mine. I can't remember but I presume most of them are from Oracle Fox.

Inspiration - Heady

After becoming a hippy at Wakestock festival (photos from that in a couple of weeks when I'm back and they're printed and scanned), I felt like a more glamourous holiday. While looking for packing inspiration, I found this shoot with Ashley Smith by Miles Aldridge for Vogue Italia on FGR. With it's bright jewel colours, bouffant hair and cat's eye sunglasses is exactly what I was thinking of. :)




Ps. Sorry it's been such a long time since my last post - I had scheduled some but clearly it didn't work GR. I've re-done them so they should post this week while I'm away again.

Windblown

My feather obsession is growing but as one can only wear so many at once, I have turned to crosses and angels as well à la my Swedish friend. Both earrings made by me and top from Topshop.

I'm basically camping for the next week but I'll try to schedule some posts. Look forward to summer inspiration pictures. :)

The Dreaming

^ Kate Bush






Sorry for the photo overload, but I think I'm training up C to be a pretty good Colin (Rumi Neely's photographer). Wearing a vintage shirt, USA Pro skirt, H&M x Swedish Hasbeens shoes, boater from Claires, mom's bag and random bangles. Incidentally, the shoulder holes I cut in this shirt and the short skirt make for an almost perfect tanning outfit for me. Even though I hate the sun and all. :)

Bang Bang

^ Dalida

On what is probably the hottest day of the year (so far at least), I wake up feeling like a vampire. Hence the completely lack of summery-ness and an almost complete covering of skin (I still feel the same way about tanning/sun as I did last year).


Wearing an H&M jacket, Topshop snake print leggings, random leotard and Rocketdog shoes which absolutely killed my feet. I often want to wear this jacket but can't decide what to wear with it to not look prissy. But today I decided I was going to wear this leotard, discovered these leggings in a drawer, then threw on the first jacket to hand which was this one, and found it all went very well. :)


Ps. My hair looks different in every photo and I don't know what it looks like in real life. I think the closest to its colour is the second photo.

Pps. Sorry about the awful quality photos, I forgot to use the right lens. Then I managed to get sun flare which messed up the colours and just annoyed me.

This is my prayer,

that I'll die living just as free as my hair.


For the first time in my life, I am sporting a non-natural hair colour. It didn't turn out exactly as expected (I was going for more of an ombré) but I still like the change. I'm sure that it's a different colour in real life though... more photos needed, me thinks. :)