The great thing about Blanaid is that she’s always dressed-to-be-photographed, so every now and then we do some impromptu shoots. The one in pink was for the blog ‘Blaubushka,’ as part in their ‘Blogging for Boobs’ campaign to raise awareness of breast cancer by asking bloggers for pink-themed pictures. It was cold, dark and wet that day so naturally we decided to go to the muddy field in front of my house. The others pictures were grabbed while making our way through the garden of Blanaid’s new place.

I like to shoot outdoors, it just seems more natural to me. It generally gives the pictures a bigger production value than a studio shoot, much in the same way that a film shot on location will look more ‘money’ than one shot in a studio. It’s the reason I find it hard to watch studio shot dramas ranging from RTE’s The Clinic and Raw to Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds. The plywood walls and studio lights of a set never visually pass as a real bricks and mortar location. But hey, I’m raving a little here…

Blanaid goes into more detail about her clothes in the shoots here and here.