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Freelander Ladies, Olivia with Starbucks, (04:2/2)

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Note: I apologise if any of the Welsh language is spelt wrong as I’m using Google’s translate software.

 

Car park at St Julian Inn, Newport, Wales, United Kingdom.

Maes parcio yn St Julian Inn, Casnewydd, Cymru.

 

Morning of Wednesday 8th February 2023.

Bore dydd Mercher 8 Chwefror 2023.

 

 

About the photographs.

Am y ffotograffau.

 

This is Olivia, a model I booked for a two-hours outdoors photo-shoot, outside of Newport (Welsh: Casnewydd).

 

Here, she is posing in a winter outfit containing a size 10, long, light brown faux fur coat from Astraka of London, along with her own turtleneck jumper, jeans with shiny strips down the sides, and white trainers.

 

She is standing on the driver side door frame. In one photo, she is holding the roof rail for support, and in the other photo, leaning on the front pillar.

 

Olivia is posing with a Starbucks takeaway cup, and the photographs were taken as part of a graphic design project, in additional as standalone photos for show on Flickr or Instagram.

 

The vehicle is a 2005 registered Land Rover Freelander.

 

It is a diesel 2.0L Td4 SE model with manual gearbox, and a BMW M47 engine. The tyres are BF Goodrich T/A KO2 All Terrain tyres on steel wheels. The Freelander was an entry-level Land Rover from 1997 to 2006, before being replaced by the Freelander 2 until 2015.

 

The location is the car park next to St Julian Inn, on the south bank of the River Usk.

 

With special thanks to the manager/owner of St Julian Inn for giving me permissions to use the car park.

 

As Olivia was booked for two-hours, we stayed at this location only for 50 minutes before moving to another location. Nothing wrong there, just that I needed a change of background. Those will be uploaded to my Photostream in near future.

 

 

About the subject.

Am y pwnc.

 

 

Astraka of London was a faux fur manufacturer. It first started as Alfred Morris Furs in 1898 in London, before moving to Buckinghamshire in the 1940s.

 

By about the 1960s, the company employed about 400 people, and produced faux fur coats, selling to top shops like Selfridges and exporting all over the world.

 

But by about 1988, it went into receivership and closed down.

 

There are very limited details about the company on the Internet, specially as the company closed down before home Internet and the World Wide Web became more popular.

 

 

Starbucks is an American multinational chain of coffee houses that started in Seattle, United States, in March 1971, and was set up by three guys.

 

In the early 1980s, the sold the company to a man who turned Starbucks into the coffee houses as we know it today.

 

They have about 35,000 stores all over the world, with about 400,000 employees.

 

In additional to Starbucks being a coffee house, selling food and drinks, they also sell their own merchandising.

 

Many Starbucks fans often enjoy selfies with Starbucks cups and merchandising, then post online, like Instagram.

 

 

What is this all about?

Beth yw pwrpas hyn I gyd?

 

 

This is the first in a series of a long-term project I started working on, which is called Project: Freelander Ladies. It is a variation of the so called Land Rover Girls type of photographs. Generally, the majority of the Land Rover Girls kind of photos tend to be of younger women posing next to mostly either the Series or the Defender production models, and less common are the Discovery or Range Rover models. There are barely enough photos of women posing next to a Freelander, so my aim is to create some more of this, especially for the Freelander owners and fans to enjoy.

 

In addition to this being a “cars and girls” kind of photography which is the main role, there are other roles, including photographs needed for a graphic design project, which will be shown in near future, as well as fashion style photographs.

 

 

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