The South American Dream

With the awesome Victor Caringal

So today was a day where I revisit some old past-times of mine! It has been close to a year (I don't even keep track anymore) since I've seen my good friend Victor Caringal the most awesome photographer. He was actually a finalist in

"Australia’s Top Emerging Editorial Photographer Finalist" competition held by Capture magazine. check out his blog here. 

This all started with a pair of shorts I bought during my random shopping expedition in the city covered earlier here, and I loved them so much I wanted to have a fun shoot with it. I thought it went well with a south american indian head dress and I'm pretty sure that stole the limelight as soon as I laid my hands on it. I'm sure during the shoot the head dress wore me, not the other way round.

I totally respect models, it's much harder than you think. Most people think modelling is just standing around looking pretty, but it's much more than that. You need to know your body very very well. You need to know how it looks without looking in the mirror and you have to be able to pull various expressions out of thin air as requested by your photographer or photoshoot director. This is all a very big challenge for someone as unco as me, and I'm sure I got away with many many deadpan looks throughout the shoot. Sorry Victor :P! 

In addition to being able to control your body, it's not uncommon for models to stand outside in the freezing cold wearing very little (I'm saying this because that's what I had to do today). I guess it wasn't all bad, after a while your body just becomes so numb you don't feel it anymore - don't ask me how healthy that is for you :P.

The funniest part of the whole shoot was when I had to close my eyes on some takes - the combination of heels on soft grass and unco me closing my eyes resulted in me being very wobbly all of a sudden, to the point where my boyfriend had to hold me from behind to get a stable shot. 

The actual shoot was shot on film, so I'm hoping that they turned out good :) Victor was fairly excited by the lighting and the composition so I'm going to trust him on this. I'll be sure to post all the photos up as soon as he has developed them. Here are some out-takes taken by my boy Ashley :) I'm sure the pro film shots by Victor is going to be way cooler than this! I'm so excited!!

I was testing my see through top in the wind, hoping it would flutter, but it looks like I'm trying to fly :) Way cool!

Super awesome jewelry from skuxette.com.au

Me trying to hold my arm at an angle - but not too much of an angle. Haha mind blow!

The super duper amazing head dress, makes anyone look cool! (except when Ash tried it it kinda looked gay :P)

We also took some shots without the headdress and with my warm warm trench coat

I think there were 360 shots that we took in this 3 hour long shoot, most of them I hate but a lot that I love. I hate choosing :(

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Things on social media are not a true reflection of reality

We all want to have the glamorous life, the life where we get to travel, have fun be free an do whatever we want. Chances are you are stuck in an office or classroom for the majority of your week. And while your there you log on to Facebook or twitter or instagram only to see updates from your friends with photos of them trekking on a mountain, chilling by a poolside or having a dramatic encounter.

This makes you hate your life. Or a least makes you want to go on a holiday. Now I'm not that bad, I do love what I do, but I still get social envy from surfing on social networks while at work :p