“Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.”

Firstly, on Saturday night there was a 7.1 earthquake in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand. My hearts go out to you Christchurch and hope all your house repair as fast as possible.

However, on a happy note, finished my photography piece that I've been working on at the moment. Unfortunately I couldn't get it in the right order on here. Sigh. Oh well, life goes on. Thank goodness I've finally finished because I really should start studying for exams. Basically, my inspiration was finding the beauty in the most subtle ways. My best friend Laura, who is my ah-mah-zing model, and I spent the day walking around Invercargill and took photos of anything that took our fancy. Basically the journey goes from an old, dis-used warehouse, to a run down cemetery to my catholic church which was nearly empty at 6pm on a Tuesday. I was lucky enough to have some gorgeous weather and sunlight for New Zealand in early September. I love the factory photos, the black scribble against the stark white wall looks brilliant, and I adore Laura's pose. The hunched up knees with her arms around them looks so protected and vulnerable contrasts with the hardness of the background. And the dog that we worked with actually happened to be a random uni student who was walking our puppy passed where we were shooting. Luckily for us she was really great about it, I ended up photographing her for about 20 minutes. I still don't actually know her name, But she is an amazing person! The lighting and colours in the church were particularly vibrant that day, especially on the window so it really stands out. As I said before, I was incredibly with the sunlight for the entire shoot and happened to be in the right places in the right time! Overall, I think this piece made me appreciate where I live a lot more than I did previously. I discovered, much to my surprise there is an amazing amount of beauty. But of course, there is beauty in everything now isn't there? “Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.”