I’ve been back in London for a week now and while the weather has sometimes been bad and sometimes great, I’ve really missed this place. We’ve had rainy days and then we’ve had the most spectacular sunshine days with epic clouds all over the sky. I can’t stop looking at the sky when I’m walking (quite dangerous really). The streets are busy as ever, the people are crazy as ever, and meeting people from all walks of life has been lovely. It’s still, of course, as expensive as ever. The amount I’ve spent in a week traveling and eating is about how much I spend in a month in California!
It’s also been so great to see my friends here. They have collected so many stories to tell me over the [almost] 4 years I’ve been gone. A few friends went traveling around the world, got kidnapped in South America, went to music festivals in Prague, and some of settled down in London and bought apartments. I am so lucky to have the friends that I have here. They are all so supportive and have given me some of the best laughs. Everyone has been quite supportive about my photography so that has definitely pushed me forward in motivation to continue with my work. It would be amazing to move back to London and get a loft studio here but I just don’t know if I could afford it. But that is ultimately the goal, somewhere in LA, SF, NY or London.
I’ve arranged and shot one shoot so far in London. We shot at the park and I was contacted by an amazing dress designer who custom made a dress for our shoot. It was really beautiful. I shot with two models that were lovely to work with, and I’ve love to work with them again at some point. The makeup artist was great too, she created a really dramatic look that I wanted that was soft but “gaga”. I’d planned for a sunny day shoot but it turned out to be overcast, cloudy, and sometimes drizzly. The girls had to model in high wind but they all did a brilliant job. <3 I’ll have the photos up soon… working on them now.
I’ve got a few more days in London before I head up north to the midlands. Then I’ll be back in London in a few weeks before I head off back to LA. Loving life right now!
Here are some photos of my Concrete Garden | London.
