Photo5 Crayon: Aspiring Angel

This is my submission for the Canon Photo5 competition, using the crayon:

I’m very excited about this photo. It’s one of those ideas that popped into my head, and all the way through, from organising to shooting, to the final result, everything pretty much ended up how I originally imagined it. Everything just went right!

Once I had my idea of a girl with angel wings drawn on a brick wall, I had to find my angel. If you’ve seen some of my previous shoots, you wouldn’t be surprised when I thought of Annie. I was thinking of the dress she wore in the “Gentleman Discovers a Doll” shoot, or something like it. When I asked her, Annie guessed what I was thinking, but alas had recently sold that dress. She was not worried though, as she thought this would be a great excuse to make a new outfit, especially for the shoot! Needless to say I was thrilled, and I think in the end, the outfit was perfect! Especially impressive was that she completed it in about a week!

I had a brick wall in mind from a previous shoot with Darren, though I was a little concerned that passing authorities might think we were vandalising the wall. Darren and Colin had a more appropriate wall near where they live, in an alley away from the public eye. They also generously offered their house as somewhere Annie could change, as well as assisting on the shoot with lights and ideas. They were also good bodyguards :)

They also helped us clean up afterwards :)

These are some of the other photos from the shoot that didn’t make the cut:

Here are some behind the scenes and setup photos taken by our wondeful assistant Colin: