We forgot about the camera quickly and I love the result – it sums up just what a day with me in my studio is like. It’s not fancy but it’s great, girly fun and a fabulous confidence boost when you see how great you can look in photos when it’s done right .

So here it is: Real Women, Real Beauty. Enjoy.

My original intention was to test out some lighting setups, but I’d left my radio triggers in the office at home. After having set everything up and put a bit of make-up I didn’t want to go home empty-handed so yanked back the curtains to let in some daylight and decided to take a few shots anyway to put on my site and facebook page.

And it’s a lot harder than it looks. A lot. I found it excruciatingly embarrassing and in the first twenty or so images I look utterly stupid. You know those faces you pull when a camera is pointed at you, the ones you think make you look more attractive? Yes, well, they don’t. I couldn’t stop laughing at the images I could see coming up on the laptop in front of me, so just kept pressing the remote trigger, and that’s what I ended up with. Me playing the fool a bit and laughing at myself.

I won’t be doing it again in a hurry, so “enjoy”. They are on my “About” page.