Midnight Strikes
"Cinderella thought that it was no later than eleven when she counted the clock striking twelve. She jumped up and fled, as nimble as a deer. The Prince followed, but could not overtake her. She left behind one of her glass slippers on the palace steps, which the prince picked up most carefully." - Cinderella or the Little Glass Slipper by Charles Perrault.
The theme for "Looking Close in Friday for Friday 14th of November is "only two words" where two words are to ine included in the image for the theme... no more... no less. Anyone who follows my photostream will know that I love faerie tales, and I was read to from big of books of faerie tales whilst sitting at my maternal Grandmother's knee. The books may have grown smaller as I grew up, but my love of those classic faerie tales by the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault and Hans Christian Anderson has never shrunk, and I love them as much today as I did then, even if my Grandmother is no longer here to read them to me. I have decided to take my inspiration from that most classic of faerie tales, Cinderella. I had great fun creating this montage. Earlier in the year I was given a rather lovely, small, blue hand painted resin Nostalgia Shoe ornament which I felt was perfect to feature in a photograph. I have paired my slipper, which I photographed on a glass topped table on the back terrace, as I thought it gave an interesting, textural look to the background. I then sprinkled rose petals around it (a tribute to Cinderella fleeing the ball in my favourite film "The Slipper and the Rose"). The clock is actually the face of a fine Art Nouveau lady clock I have on my hall table. I photographed it against a dark background so that I could layer it over the top of the other image and then make it partially transparent. To add some magic to the shot, I added sparkles to Cinderella's slipper, and then gave the montage a blue wash to suggest that this occurred at midnight. Thus, midnight strikes! I hope you like my choice for this week's theme, and that it makes you smile!
Midnight Strikes
"Cinderella thought that it was no later than eleven when she counted the clock striking twelve. She jumped up and fled, as nimble as a deer. The Prince followed, but could not overtake her. She left behind one of her glass slippers on the palace steps, which the prince picked up most carefully." - Cinderella or the Little Glass Slipper by Charles Perrault.
The theme for "Looking Close in Friday for Friday 14th of November is "only two words" where two words are to ine included in the image for the theme... no more... no less. Anyone who follows my photostream will know that I love faerie tales, and I was read to from big of books of faerie tales whilst sitting at my maternal Grandmother's knee. The books may have grown smaller as I grew up, but my love of those classic faerie tales by the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault and Hans Christian Anderson has never shrunk, and I love them as much today as I did then, even if my Grandmother is no longer here to read them to me. I have decided to take my inspiration from that most classic of faerie tales, Cinderella. I had great fun creating this montage. Earlier in the year I was given a rather lovely, small, blue hand painted resin Nostalgia Shoe ornament which I felt was perfect to feature in a photograph. I have paired my slipper, which I photographed on a glass topped table on the back terrace, as I thought it gave an interesting, textural look to the background. I then sprinkled rose petals around it (a tribute to Cinderella fleeing the ball in my favourite film "The Slipper and the Rose"). The clock is actually the face of a fine Art Nouveau lady clock I have on my hall table. I photographed it against a dark background so that I could layer it over the top of the other image and then make it partially transparent. To add some magic to the shot, I added sparkles to Cinderella's slipper, and then gave the montage a blue wash to suggest that this occurred at midnight. Thus, midnight strikes! I hope you like my choice for this week's theme, and that it makes you smile!