Back home and busy, busy, busy! I wanted to get on here and write about my week in Malta this morning but my phone's been ringing off the hook since it woke me up this morning (at 10 am, admittedly). I guess a week away can be a long time in Model Land!
Anyway, I have lots of photos to share, and have even created a
new photo album just for all my travel photos!
This was the view from my window seat as we flew over the Alps. The tips of the mountains were breaking through a lake of cloud.
I was modelling for
Damian McGillicuddy's seminars at the
SWPP's Maltese Workshop as well as shooting a commission for
Am Statik latex, so lots of shiny rubbery photos to follow shortly!
Here is one from the seminar (dress by Anatomic Bomb):
Damian gave the delegates a classic warning before we started shooting:
"You will all get a chance to shoot the model, so do not take un-posed photos. Un-posed photos are when she isn't ready to be shot. It's rude, it's unprofessional, and if I catch anyone doing it, I will break your camera, closely to be followed by both your legs."DAMIAN = WIN
He has also posted a lovely art nude we shot on the seafront at dawn in his blog. I took some snaps on the way down from the hotel:
The pool I went swimming in every day- for some reason it was my favourite one
One of the many fisherman who appeared seemingly out of nowhere as soon as we started shooting and packed up as soon as we left
Dawn over the Mediterranean Sea.
As soon as we'd finished shooting, I went swimming in the sea. It was a lovely temperature and crystal clear-blue <3 Then I shot with Lesley McGillicuddy and then we all had lunch :)
I love Maltese food!
On this trip I ate "proper" octopus (apparently calamari rings don't count) for the first time, which was delicious, as well as various other nommy lunches
and six course dinners involving giant mussels, prawns, clams, salmon,
caviar, pigeon, swordfish, a thousand different cheeses and pastas and little Maltese desserts that tended to be
intensely sweet and served in tiny, delicious portions.
This was the view from one of the Executive Lounge's balconies, where we had breakfast and hung out eating olives and drinking cappuccinos at some point most days (needless to say, I was plastered in factor 50 all week, it was sooo hot and sunny!)
This was my room:
The view from my private balcony at various times (night and moonrise):
I was highly amused on Sunday to spot Damian talking about our work on the Maltese national news during their report on our visit.
The Awards Dinner that evening was particularly fabulous. This is me getting ready in my marble bathroom (where I fell asleep in the bath reading psychology textbooks more than once during the week, lol):
I was surprised and deeply honoured to be mentioned during the awards ceremony and presented with a beautiful book of the
Maltese Institute of Professional Photographers' photography called
To Light and Inspire, signed by the President, as well as a silver engraved mirror compact from the
SWPP.
On Monday we were taken out for a touristy day but I will post about that later as this blog is getting rather long ;)
It's good to be back, everyone, and I am just so grateful to the SWPP for contracting me for this adventure and to Damian for working with me at all hours of the day and night to make some great images! Now to get on with answering a week's worth of email inquiries and party invites :D