Strawberry trip, Surreal landscape photography

Prop making - fairy boat

Lately I've been wanting to promote my surreal wedding photography, but I thought to do that I'd need some more examples! I turn to fairy tale type art for inspiration and found this lovely painting (unfortunately I don't know who the artist is) 

Here are some steps I took to making my boat:

I drew out the outline of the bottom of the boat on thin cardboard. I then cut a long stripe for the side the boat and used to masking tape to keep it together

After securing the shape with masking tape, I then covered it in brown parcel tape. I did this to make the boat stronger but to also make the base brown.

Then, using a hot glue gun I stuck on sticks that I had collected on a dog walk. I used fairly straight and thin sticks to I could easily break them to the length I needed.

I made the sail using a thicker stick and glue gun glue to make the spider web net in the middle. I added a few small paper flowers for decoration and my boat was complete!

Here is the final photo!

If you're interested in a shoot with the fairy boat for your wedding, Please don't hesitate to get in contact, at becky.netley@live.co.uk 

Thanks! 

1 family, 5 years, 5 shoots...

Every year for 5 years I've had a shoot with a special mum and her son. Young mum, Stevie-anne has been a friend of my sister since they were little, and when I was in college, Stevie was my very client! Now 5 years later, little cameron has grown and hopefully so have my photography skills!

Heres the journey...

Year 1 

We choose the beach for our first shoot, little cam here was only 2 at the time. 

Year 2

Year 2 was set in a park which had loads of trees and horses. Cam was still extremely shy and nervous around the camera. 

Year 3 

Year 3 and my photography style had started to develop, I began experimenting with photoshop, creating my now signature style of surreal photography. Cam's favourite thing at the time was superheros, so I wanted to show this in the photos...

Year 4 

Stevie and cam had a new addition to their family, little Poppy, the jack russel. She was a bundle of energy and it was difficult to keep her still long enough for a photo. 

Year 5 

Can't believe that this is the 5th year of shoots! Cam is now almost 7 and is getting more confident.

I know I can make him into his favourite superheros so hes not fussed about the camera anymore. 

Cam still loves his superheroes. 

I brought my dog, alfie on the shoot and he really got on well with Cam. Love this shot of them. 

A massive thank you to Stevie-anne for choosing me to document her son growing up, its been such fun! 

Bring on next years shoot!