Portraiture Photography With Haidi, Summer 2019

Having my Croatian niece Haidi to stay with me here in Leeds also meant having fun doing portrait photo shoots. She loves modelling and I love taking photos; I always say portraiture has never been and will never be my favorite category of photography, but I am always happy and excited to work with suitable and willing models; and Haidi is more than that - she is also someone I know well and someone I love dearly, which makes things easier and the whole shooting more relaxed and enjoyable. Moreover, Haidi is beautiful and talented in more than one way. To be fair, I couldn't wish for a better model, and we shall continue to create photo images.

Golden Acre Park, Leeds

 This was just a family outing to a nearby park; no photo shoot was planned, and I just took a few spontaneous shots of Haidi at a couple of pretty spots in the park.





Oakwell Hall, Birstall

We chose the grounds of the beautiful, historic Oakwell Hall for a more thought out shoot. We bought a cream silk tunic for Haidi to wear and made sure we were out on a late, bright afternoon for some pleasant lighting. We focused on mood and atmosphere images and also went for a few theatrical pics conveying some hard emotions.



















This photo shoot was followed by another one a few days later, at a location that I carry deep in my heart - Top Withens, the ruin whose location inspired the location of the house in "Wuthering Heights", the famous novel by Emily Brontë. We made some great images on the day, and I am very excited at the prospect of editing them some time this autumn.






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