In a daze – September 10 on 10

I feel strange, like a fog is over my mind. Things are getting very stressful as we are drawing, inevitably, toward exams and the world seems to be turning slowly upside down. Photographing relaxes me; I did a super quick, super casual shoot with Trish, focusing on practising my direction & posing.

The intricacy of portrait posing is something that I’m currently fascinated with. Photoshoots are an extremely artificial environment, so it takes some finesse to achieve a “natural” feeling in your subject’s body language, find the right light and position to shoot in. Not that I’m an expert yet, I continue to work on my techniques!

I took some more fashion-blog styled photos after these serious ones, these photos were a lot simpler and easier to shoot :)

Trish had a Vogue lying around, which I enjoyed flicking through.

Went on an adventure to IKEA, thanks to Perth Sunday trading (finally – hooray!).

Browsed the self-serve warehouse area in IKEA, they didn’t have what I wanted :( I didn’t end up buying anything except a $1 hotdog.

I was still hungry despie the hotdog after the IKEA trip and on return to Tom’s house, became thoroughly engrossed in eating leftover indian food and watching Game of Thrones.

I took these next two photos on a different day because I couldn’t muster the motivation to take enough photos for the project all on one day. I’ve tried doing the 10 on 10 a few times this month and I just haven’t felt inspired. Please forgive me!

The next two images were from a walk down to a local park, taken the week previous.

That image above depicts how much Tom enjoys posing for me sometimes, haha!

I don’t usually take macros, thought I would experiment with these tiny flowers. Everyone has to start somewhere.

Once I got home after IKEA, I settled in for some self-study on my desktop!

Don’t mind the Cellular and Molecular Biology Textbook which is being used as a monitor stand.

Want to follow our circle around? See Isabel Furie‘s pretty photos here!
If that breaks the circle, try the lovely Amy Grimme who shares her September 10 on 10 here :)