Some Atonement

 
I love the scene with Robbie Turner walking through the poppies the movie as part 2 in the novel.


This is only a short one but I have just finished Atonement and I have to say Ian Mcewan is my new favourite authur of the minute along with Tolkien, Stephen King ect... I love the film not being able to refrain myself when it came out from seeing it before reading it. They say thats signing your own death wish as far as enjoying the novel after watching the film, however I loved the book and film for different reasons.

I love Keira Knightly, Remola Garai and Jame Mcavoy, and especially Saoirse Ronan who is a 17 yr old beauty who I cannot wait to see in Hanna having seen The Lovely Bones (having not read the novel, its staring at me from the bookshelf!). However Knightly looks especially elegant and just beautiful in this movie so I couldn't help but show of that lovely green dress.





Just thought this was a funny shot :)

The Real Aurora...

I thought because it was in my name, I considered the name of the blog which - I may very well get board of and change - actually does mean something to me it's not just a mix of words. Each mean something.

I will do a page on January Jones because I do love her, however I wanted the Aurora to be in the name because it is one of the things I most want to see in my life-time and I believe the magnetic field is arguably the most beautiful sight on earth.
The Aurora is generally considered a light display in the sky.
Generally found in the polar regions the Aurora Borealis is usuallu known as the Northern Lights because of the luminous and colourful vibrant glow the Aurora lights up the sky. I think this is one of earth's most beautiful things which is completely untouched by air pollution as it is found in the coldest regions where air pollution is at a minimum because of the extreme climate.

But, this also represents my favourite time of the day. The belief of the Romans was always quite facinating and still lives on today, the goddess of dawn was named Aurora so the Romans near the magnetic pole if the sun was rising in a different direction dawn would be seen on the northern horizon as the greeney red, glow therefore, dawn was seen in this way. So the northern lights were named after what the Romans thought was dawn and the goddess of dawns name was used. Reading a photography magazine in Summer the best time to shoot is either the sunset or just dawn, early in the morning. 

So, I felt it was quite magical and though it is not real I sometimes am swayed by belief in magic from natural occurances and the main one is the Aurora. 

January links to dawn. The start of the year. The start of everyday. the very first dawn of the very first day of the year. Even the very first time the earth saw the sun rise. I like to imagine it was something as magical as the Aurora. 

Besides that I would love to be named after either Aurora of January. But one person I love with a fantastic name is January Jones.

Driftwood and Trickets

I liked the colour of the sky at this time of night. It was about 6pm and in early summer when the sun is blocked by the house, the sky is a lovely dim blue. I wanted to try the depth-of-field so using the small book I go some nice effects. The framed undeveloped photo was against a lamp-light which made some interesting shots, I just wanted to share it.

Alexa Alexa Alexa

The second model I've looked at now with this Tomboyish look and I'm sure there's many more to go.
Alexa Chung at first I couldn't stand because, well, what did she do? To me she was some kind of it girl who had the essence of a model. However, on reading her interview with my favourite designer Karl Lagerfeld I decided otherwise. We both share a same love: CHANEL, how can I say this... Chanel, Chanel, Chanel... love, love love. I'll save that for another time. But make no mistake it will be a good post. I hope.

Anyway. I wasn't too sure exactly what she did. But after that article I thought about exactly why she is where she is. But I found that the British 27 year old, born in Hampshire, is actually a contributing editor to Britsh Vogue, the Lagerfeld interview obviously showed her knowledge and flare for fashion. Being a television presenter and model hadn't even come into it yet. Seeing her pepe jeans campaign and her cover in Vogue last year, I fell in love. The Chanel clogs are beautiful and on her with her dainty ankles and soft face she looks gorgeous.
She looked so distinctive I hadn't really noticed properly her individuality from all the other models.

Looking at her pictures from June's Vogue cover and interview with her - she's got it I really loved the locket it made her seem like a young teenager. The Vogue picture of her in the Holly Fulton blouse, skirt and cardigan. The blouse looked so natural with the leather skirt had this bananna yellow. It matches her hair in a tousled bob. I had a bob at one point but this looked exactly how I would've wanted it. Her tomboyish style is so pretty yet natural yet she doesn't really need make-uo because the style is enough, the colours make her complection simple and glowing.

Kathleen

I was at a party with some of my friends and I brought the canon 550D because I wanted some decent shots because of the whole end of year 11 memories thing - we felt a little deprived of pictures of some really fun things we've done.

But, I took the opportunity to ask my lovely friend Kathleen if I could take some pictures of her. On the P setting the Aperature was just right as the overhead windows let in this natural light and made Kathleen's face glow, which generally when the light is at the back of the person, the face is usually under-exposed. However it came out quite well, I didn't need the Portrait shooting mode; which would've meant I would've needed a flash.

The Blooming of Agyness Deyn

Born orginally as Laura Hollins, in Manchester, Agyness Deyn (now 28) won Britain's Next Top Model and is now one of the biggest european models covering Vogue twice and Harpers Bazaar. I love her unique look which, to me is quite special as she seems quite innocent and (this maybe because of the platinum hair) quite pure and fresh. You could almost imagine her being the perfect model for a Locoste campaign simply because she matches the fresh, clean polo, golf fashion Lacoste brings.

I loved the photographs in black and white of her, they really bring out her natural bone structure and angular face. Making her face seem somehow softer, however the clarity of the pictures makes her seem this kind of unnatural beauty without make-up.

I was so happy when I saw Agyness was walking for Chanel because the natural feminity that Chanel brings really contrasts beautifully with her tomboyish style. Many articles in Vogue and Bazaar and fashion icons have always said that fashion changes but style is eternal and I really think with the introduction of Cary Mulligan and Emma Watson's newly cropped pixy cuts are really showing off this tomboyish style which is ageless from the 1960's for young to older women.

Colour Blindness and Depth of Field

I wanted to try the depth of field and close-ups. These worked quite well as the hand one I had to focus and after a couple of tries it did work. I wanted quite simple photo of the full face to see and I thought they were quite interesting results on the canon 550D.

Melting Sun

This evening I was experimenting with miniature objects. I was using a small glass bottle, a matchbox I altered for an experiment in art which I kept for trickets. I thought it would be interesting on my windowsill because it was all chapped and had white paint flakes so the kind of broken, less attractive natural side of the objects inside the bottle and box would come out. Though I thought I would share what I was actually looking out at this evening on the balcony in the loft of my house. It was one of the most intense, vibrantly colourful, bloodied sky's I've ever seen, with swirling melting clouds and firey oranges and reds. At one point I caught purples and pinks. It was interesting as I used the canon 500D to shoot it; I used the shutter Tv mode on about 1/13 speed to get this melted look which in term helped to bring out the colours. I was impressed but the pinky, purple colours the Landscape setting brought however I loved using the monoschrome as it created an entirely different look.

Don't think I'm being vein but I wanted to check the effect of the colours on objects and reflections on people. So on a small tripod and the self-timer P setting I took some of me, which, I found quite successful as the lighting was not as under-exsposed as I initially suspected it to be too dim.