Just wanted to share a few extra (and belated) photos from our honeymoon stay at the White House in Daylesford, Victoria (part one is here, should anybody want to see it!) because ... well, I just have them and like them, really! It's probably a little obvious, from the profusion of random photographs I have been posting lately, that I have been going through my endless photo archives. Mostly I have been doing a lot of thinking about my photography and trying to figure out where I want to go with it, but I haven't gone so far as to get those thoughts out of my brain and onto paper just yet (sometimes I kind of live in my head). In a weird way I feel nervous and almost embarrassed about committing my ideas to paper or articulating them to anybody, and I think that this reluctance is due to my enormous and occasionally crippling self-doubt, which tends to creep into most things from time to time (how do some people seem so self-assured?).
Ooh, where did that little blurt come from?!
Anyway, so that's where I'm at. Well that, and super grateful for the fact that it is Friday, yay! D and I have lots of house-y things planned for the weekend, which I am quite looking forward to, especially as D has been working on them by himself during the week and I really want to help him out! He is quite the awesome handyman, that gorgeous husband of mine :)
Have a great weekend, everyone!
Nikon D700
Nikkor 50mm f1.4
Processed with Nodding Violet and Cinnamon Rose Photoshop actions
What a gorgeous place you stayed at, sigh.
ReplyDeleteWe all have our doubts about our abilities, you certainly need not to worry about that! you have an eye for taking photos.
Have a great productive weekend!
I wonder about those assured people too....
ReplyDeleteYou are amazingly talented though...and apparently lucky in husbands...mine is completely hopeless at handyman stuff (lucky we live next door to a handy man!!)
so lovely :)
ReplyDeletehope you have a fun weekend doing house-y things
It's natural to have doubts at times, but you certainly shouldn't doubt your talent - your photos are really beautiful!
ReplyDeleteThis white house is really beautiful, i love the details! I agree with Farrah your pics are great... Have fun!
ReplyDeletelovely peaceful post !
ReplyDeleteI love that house your images are gorgeous!!! xox
ReplyDeleteagain, what a beautiful place!
ReplyDeleteI'm sure everyone is doubtful about their skills and art at varying times and hide it well or we just can't see it. I think it keeps us wanting to get better. I understand the fear of putting it to paper, too, putting thoughts to paper or talking about them makes them seems more real.
My dearest Natasha...I adore this place you went to, I didn't know there were more images (is that one of the brown bottles just for me I wonder?! ) I will like to think it is now I am all about brown bottles. Did your parcel arrive yet? Aching to know if you like it. Anyway...your talent in photography does not deserve self doubt; you really do take exquisite photographs and if there wasn't an ocean or two between us I would so commission you for product shots. Your still life and close up are just amazing. As you can see I regularly feature them as they, to me, capture the minutiae of life. Don't doubt, do it! Whatever 'it' is! Lou Lou x
ReplyDeleteHello Natasha!
ReplyDeleteI'm a new follower to your blog, so I don't know yet whether you make a living from your photography or not, but I just wanted to tell you, that in my previous 'city girl' life (I now live in the English countryside) I was the Bookings Editor at Elle magazine, which meant that I organised shoots commissioned photographers and basically spent my life looking at portfolios. From a professional capacity, your photography is impeccable. Absolutely first rate. Let go of your fears, write down what you want to do with your work, approach the photographic and bookings department of magazines that you would like to see your work in or even publishing houses if that's where you're at, and give it a go. Regardless of whether it's interiors, lifestyle or fashion, the only difference between a jobbing photographer (if you're not one already) and you, is that they asked an Editor if they could show them their work.
As, I said - I'm new here, so if you've been published numerous times already then I apologise for telling you what you know already, but basically - I think that your work is fabulous and that you could definitely make a living from it should you choose to do so!
Paula xxx
Such lovely photos as always darling. The place has quite an English feel to it, or maybe that's just me seeing it as that.
ReplyDeleteI love the vintage things.
Kat xox