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Canon woop.

'I tried taking pictures, but they were so mediocre. I guess every girl goes through a photography phase. You know, horses... taking dumb pictures of your feet' Lost in Translation.

...so said Charlotte, as she mused through life sipping her drink at a Tokyo Hotel bar.

She could be right, though I doubt when she went through her phase, that she had the awesome tools that I now have as I go though my photography phase.

Squeals of delight could be heard throughout Londontown when I purchased the beautiful Canon EOS 550D a few weeks ago.

After doing my research (flicking through some digital camera magazines over a flat white, browsing The Gadget Show's online site, and conducting a facebook focus group*), I decided that the Canon was indeed worthy of investment.

I've since been around the neighbourhood, snapping everything in sight. I'm preferring manual focus for now, though once I understand the science behind my camera, I'm sure I'll become accustomed with the other settings at my fingertips.

I almost feel unworthy, though I know CC and I will be mates for a while. I was even thinking of getting her a friend in the form of a tripod, to take steadier pictures.

Here's some test shots from our first couple of days together.

*Thanks to Patrick, Jess and Nat who told me to go for the Canon. I know you know your shit.

V Magazine. Summer 2009. Mario Testino

V Magazine swimwear fashion editorial, by Mario Testino.

Featuring Lara Stone, Raquel Zimmermann, Natalia Vodianova, Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss, Isabeli Fontana, Gisele Bundchen, Eva Herzigova, Erin Wasson, Claudia Schiffer, Catherine McNeil, Carolyn Murphy, Doutzen Kroes, Carmen Kass, Daria Werbowy, Anna Selezneva, and Angela Lindvall.

Amazing. Beautiful.

Who's your favourite?

It's controversial, though I think it has to be Daria.

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Beauty

I was so drawn in by these photographs.

And affected.

I can't look away.

American photographer Steven Meisel's editorial featured in Italian Vogue in July 2008, though not being a purchaser of said magazine, it eluded me until about a month ago. It is a narrative of beauties gone mad - shaving their heads (one model actually shaves her own head in a bathroom mirror), flashing their crotches while exiting their Town Cars, lolling around town in head-to-toe black with the heat bearing down.

Sound familiar?

As Italian Vogue goes, there's tasteful nudity, plenty of ciggies and above and beyond styling. Plus, it's friggin' 52 pages long.

I'm trying to ignore the fact that I'm so behind the style times. I'm just concentrating on the twisted, mental (no pun) brilliance. Some more images here.

Give me a wand and I shall produce a fairy

I still have the mark on the end of my nose,
Footprints from the fairy’s toes,
I think they’re speckled,
But some say they’re freckled.
There was a fairy on my nose!

- Joannda Riche

Fridayesque

I've been stumbling down memory lane and have perused some past fashion shots that j'adore.

And sharing is caring.

VOGUE Italia/Dec 2007/Steven Miesel

VOGUE Russia/Natalia Vodianova/March 2008

NUMERO 87/Lily Bird/Greg Kadel

VOGUE France/Hedi Slimane/April 2008

Of course, I had to limit myself at 4 otherwise who knows when I would have stopped. It's Friday afterall, places to go, people to see. Including a trip to the V&A tonight to see 'Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones'. Perhaps I will pick up a little something, such as this cute as a piglet Alice hair band.