2011.

I became really awful at blogging in 2011, and I am hoping to rectify this in 2012. Blame tumblr for my absence! I much prefer its immediacy to blogger. I have very few followers or commenters on this blog, whereas on tumblr I have over 1000 followers, but I do want to post more in 2012.

Some of my favourite photos from this year...

There were so many great moments in 2011, I got to meet and shoot with some models I have admired for a long time, may it continue in 2012!

Kitty xxx

Charlotte Rutherford

I feel like I start every blog lately with an apology about how bad I am at blogging, but I am, tumblr is just so much easier and more immediate to use, and blogger always seems to eat my blog entries when I have spent a lot of time writing them, so I get frustrated and won't rewrite them then lol.

So, on to the actual blog. Charlotte Rutherford is a photographer I have admired for a long time, she is so young, and so talented, and as it turns out, she is super beautiful as well. Between seeing her self portraits and seeing Stuart Mitchell take photos of her, I just had to shoot her. And then when it turned out that she lives in Norwich I was thrilled, and I was even happier when she said yes to shooting with me! We started talking about shooting a spread for Alt Fashion magazine who had let me plan the autumn centre spread with just the theme of 'gothic' and 'autumn' to inspire me, perfect! Charlotte put me in touch with amazing makeup artistic Amii-Rose Steward and I started getting in touch with designers. Sadly, the designer gave me all kinds of issues. She was all excited to work with me, even helped me cast Charlotte as the model after I gave her a choice of models, and then she just stopped talking to me about a month before the shoot. I was thoroughly disappointed and still haven't recieved an apology as to why she suddenly wasn't interested. She is pretty well known on tumblr and she has lost customers because of this. Thankfully, the amazing Roswell Ivory came to the rescue and made us some pasties to replace the ones that never arrived.



The actual shoot day was so much fun, Charlotte and Amii are lovely girls and I think we made a great team.


We also shot a bunch of different head shots once we knew we had the shots for the magazine spread.

Doesn't Charlotte have a stunning face? I loved taking photos of her and have already shot with her again once more since then :) and heres to many more!

Kitty xxx

Maxine Ashleigh

I have been talking to Maxine Ashleigh online for years, probably a good 5 years. I followed her on deviantart and was a big fan of her striking looks, so it was wonderful to finally get to meet her and shoot! She is a really lovely gal, and she joined zivity too, so bonus!

The lovely Maja Stina came and did makeup for us and I took a couple of snaps of them posing together that I still need to edit.

First up, gorgeous jewellery and dress from Maxine's company Little Miss Delicious, and a hair flower from Lady Hollywood. I never really use a reflector on shoots as I have no one to hold one, but with Maja's help I realised how useful they are, I so need an assistant! I love Maxine's hair so much. This is a full set on zivity here http://www.zivity.com/models/maxineashleigh/photosets/2



Next up Maja had brought some of her gorgeous latex from her company Burning Violet with her, and we shot that with another Lady Hollywood hair flower. Love having this piano to hand! This is also a full set on zivity here http://www.zivity.com/models/maxineashleigh/photosets/1


Finally, we shot some super bright flash photos that were perfect for the blue hair/red lipstick combination. The pizza necklace and burger earrings are from Little Miss Delicious, and the hair flower and glasses necklace are from Lady Hollywood. I so need that pizza necklace! These are a full zivity set here http://www.zivity.com/models/maxineashleigh/photosets/3




Really hoping we get to shoot again, and it won't be another 5 years before we get round to it!

Kitty xxx

Beatrix Von Bourbon

Every now and then someone on tumblr or formspring will ask me who my 'wishlist' models are. There are some I always list, people like London Andrews, Rachel Dashae, Porcelain, Shakti and a few others. One I always name, is burlesque performer Beatrix Von Bourbon. I saw her perform at the first burlesque night I ever attended back in 2006 in Grimsby, and she was incredible. I loved her tattoos, her sense of fun, and she seemed like a lovely person. I later saw her perform in Nottingham at an art exhibition in 2007ish and she performed an act entirely on ballet boots which is always impressive. I was utterly thrilled when to my surprise, Beatrix tweeted at me that she should had seen my tumblr and would love to shoot, queue squealing with delight!



We quickly organised a shoot and Beatrix came up to Norwich with a fantastic selection of goodies to shoot. She makes her own costumes and wanted to document a new costume for a new act called 'Smoke'. It was something different for me and quite a challenge to shoot. We walked around some woodland for a while to find the perfect spot to shoot with Beatrix spotted a large tree stump, and when I say large, over 6 ft tall. Within minutes Beatrix had climbed the tree and decided that was the spot! I was impressed enough when she climbed the tree, never mind climbing it again in a floor length gown and heels, especially given that it had started to rain. We spent time experimenting with the motion of the gown and finally got what we wanted and I was very pleased with the results. It is not often I get to shoot with someone who is such a perfectionist and who is bringing their own ideas to the table so it was a great change!


We attracted the attention of some PSCO's who seemed to think we were shooting something naughty. While yes, we did want to get some naughtier shots, Beatrix was fully dressed when they found us! So sadly scuppered our other plans for a set there, but it was chucking it down by that point so we went back to my flat to shoot another quick set there with a fantastic boa type creation Beatrix had made that will feature in an act at some point.


It was a pleasure to shoot Beatrix and I hope I get the chance to again.

Kitty xxx

Maja Stina II

I shot with Maja Stina very quickly again after our first shoot. I loved her slightly awkward sense of posing and her striking face, and she is a lot of fun to boot, perfect!

There is an awful story about being caught shooting in this empty room with Maja half naked in the block of flats I live in by a neighbour and a locksmith who turned out to be a foot fetishist who reeeally wanted us to give him a call. I'll pretty much leave it at that! First set we shot was for zivity.com for their Bettie Page contest. Maja has her own latex company Burning Violet and made a custom outfit for the shoot based on this image, how fab is that!


Next up we shot an art nude set with my precious Lensbaby. I haven't been using my Lensbaby anywhere near as much as I like to lately, so I must get back to that.

I am super behind on blogging, but I really will try to catch up at some point :S

Kitty xxx

Katana Foxx IV

Katana Foxx lives right around the corner from me and is always a lot of fun to shoot with, she is a real sweetheart, has some adorable pets, and one of the best bums/legs I've ever seen. And I have seen a lot of bums. She is also a model who lets me experiment and shoot really different things which I love! We recently shot for the 4th time and got two rather different zivity sets out of it.

First up we shot for an Ellen Von Unwerth themed contest. I love her work so had to enter, I particularily enjoy that she uses some motion in her work as its something I like to do too.

http://www.zivity.com/models/Katanafoxx/photosets/10



And then we went completely in the other direction with a bright, fun, flashy and punky set with a guitar and amps, something totally different but there are some shots I really love, Kat's new red hair was perfect for the look we were going for.

http://www.zivity.com/models/Katanafoxx/photosets/13



Kitty xxx

Maja Stina

Recently I had been planning a playdate with another photographer and a model, and we decided we needed a second model. Maja Stina was suggested and I immediately said yes. I then decided I couldn't wait to shoot with her, so we went ahead and booked an earlier shoot so we could get started! I absolutely love Maja's face, she is so striking and beautiful. As it turns out, she is also a really multi-talented lady and she runs her own latex company Burning Violet who we shot for. I was also super thrilled that Maja decided to join zivity, and she is doing really well!

We shot several different sets which are all now live on zivity, first up we shot what started out as a black and white fashion set, and descended into more of a strip. It's always awesome to shoot a model with bush! I wish more models did. This is 'Melody' on zivity http://www.zivity.com/models/majastina/photosets/1


Next up we shot some of Maja's awesome latex for a set called 'Introducing Maja Stina' http://www.zivity.com/models/majastina/photosets/2


And last up we decided to get a bit wild, mohawk, lace crotchless body suit, yum! This is 'Ruby Tuesday does punk' http://www.zivity.com/models/majastina/photosets/4


We have already shot twice more since this first shoot, so that says a lot about Maja!

Kitty xxx