U is for... Unspoken

My love for you is

A secret: a butterfly

Flaps its wings and dies.

O is for... Orchid

I've recently been collecting orchids, well when I say collecting, I mean buying a few beautiful specimens that have caught my eye.

And given that I've had very little time to get out and about with my camera and have hardly touched it of late, I decided to restart much closer to home. Also, I've been trying to produce some new images for the exhibition Zoe and I have in September at the Kings Theatre in Southsea.

I've also tried to use some of the lessons I've been learning recently around high key images, and being creative in how I take images and use light and tools at my disposal. This image I took using natural light, plus fill in flash in front of a piece of white paper taped to the window. Having tried with my mini studio (seen in earlier postings) I didn't quite achieve the results I wanted, so this was Plan B.

Image to be uploaded

In the meantime, I have been playing with Instagram and here's my first attempt, hope you like it!

T is for... Technicolor

We were young and on our way somewhere

The first time. And the second. All that vodka,

The whispered view of my features in Technicolor 

Both yet to be drunk down, then.

The first time and the second, all that vodka

Replaced the need for sun cream: pink-skinned women, 

Both. Yet to be drunk down. Then

My friend accepts a clumsy advance - a friend-of-a-friend -

Replaced the need for sun cream. Pink-skinned, women

Stepped outside each other, smiles over cider:

My friend accepts the clumsy advance. A friend-of-a-friend

Stopped for me that time, watered the flower in my hair.

Stepped outside, each other smiles over cider.

The whispered view of my features in Technicolor 

Stopped for me. That time watered the flower in my hair:

We were young and on our way somewhere.