Major Project: First Few Images (unedited of course)

Ive started taking my photos now, about a week later than i had originally planned to at the start of my project but not feeling too stressed about it. Getting all my images should take about three weeks, but ive got a good chunk out the way so far from Alva Glen and what i thought was Dumyat hill but is actually the Witches Craig which is much better, taken on the 23rd and 24th of April. I got more photos done at South Queensferry on the first of May, weather wasnt great but thats Scotland for you and due to tide times there was one place on the beach i wanted to shoot but couldnt get to. My boyfriend John is my acting photographer and driver for these shoots so props to him.

These images are going to have a soft romantic look to then as Selkie longs to get back to the water

Trouble in paradise Selkie as the battered woman, i made sure that she looked extra beautiful in these close ups, bruise makeup done with mehron bruise wheel

Agnes being spooky on the Ochil Hills, i really liked this knotted tree with all the sheeps wool hanging from it, darkened up these images will look really atmospheric a call to the witches who danced on the hills

Drosten also on the hills, i wanted a bit of texture and pattern clash to look quite high fashion and a bit punk, the idea of hanging out on the hills is like the hipsters hanging about gentrified urban areas drinking their cheap beer and expensive coffee

Drostens blazing red hair and fake freckles are another bit of appropriation and Scottish stereotyping, i also wanted to get the blues and oranges of the Irn-Bru branding in there

I actually really like the way the 60s vibe of my outfit makes this image look a bit like one of Cindy Shermans film stills, i think some of these images might look good in black and white

I also want to add if anyone was wondering, im not going to be editing out my tattoos or anything like that, part of my work is that i am my own model and its always me you see in the characters. the point wasnt that you would never know that i was any of these women but rather that i am all of these women and i wouldnt change my features to be unrecognisable at least not in this project.