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Jordan and I had been talking about shooting for almost two years before we finally made it happen - and it was worth it! She is an amazing young lady - much taller and beautiful than her other photos showed. We had a great shoot on a lovely day in September 2022. I loved our chemistry and we're already discussing more shoots. Wow!
I do, at times, reflect on the first few times I ventured out and what a shrinking violet I was; keeping myself to myself and deliberately avoiding eye contact with anyone I didn't know. How things have changed though, now I could not be happier than when I am letting everybody know how happy and confident I am being a woman.
Scene from a portrait shoot in Haarlem: lovely fiftysomething redhead Jeannette captured in a confident stance.
In the company of several French pilots, I waited for a few hours for the conditions to calm down, as it was quite punchy and variable. I was not complaining as I had not far off a 360 degree panorama to be mesmerised by. Along came this chap off the Cret du Loup chairlift, friendly as you like, within perhaps one or two minutes of arriving was airborne. Yes, he was on a miniwing and I'd like to think he'd assessed the conditions thoroughly from further down, but a few of us were looking at each other in amazement wondering if he knew something we didn't?
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Saw Denim Dress Fashionista and had to bring her home. I love how angular her features are. I wish that she had her promo dolls eye brows (they were the main reason I wanted her). I’m not sure if her rooting is unique to this particular doll, but it is very… sparse? You can kind of see the wide spaces in between the pugs in this shot. Her plug spacing at the front is wide, then gets tight by her ear and towards the back of her head. Half way across the back it gets wide (and a little too high up) and then gets tight back towards her partline. She also had random extra long lengths of hair knotted into her hair that went past her butt.
The façade of the Adelaide Fruit and Produce Exchange, within Grenfell, Rundle, Union streets and East Terrace in Adelaide city’s northeast corner, was South Australian state heritage listed in 1981, preserving the confident aura behind opening the market there in 1904.
Adelaide gained confidence from a new sense of independence fostered by Australian federation in 1901. The fruit and produce exchange façade expressed that confidence in robust ornament, including the symbolic cornucopia and bold rhythmic massing created by arched entrances, picked out by cantilevered gabled canopies. The exchange’s moral virtue was expressed by an inscription on Grenfell Street: “The Earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof' (Psalm 24:1)”.
Henry Cowell was the architect for a complex that was thoroughly evocative of market activities at the turn of the century and the scale of development that could be achieved by private initiative. The exchange was part of optimistic, if conservative, growth in Adelaide between the 1890s depression and World War I.
Adelaide Fruit and Produce Exchange was another in a line of early markets around Adelaide city, with surveyor general William Light putting a market site in his plan at the western end of Franklin Street. This was too far from the city's early commercial areas and a cattle market was created opposite the old Newmarket Hotel off North Terrace in about 1847.
Another market, designed by George Strickland Kingston for the South Australian Company in 1840, sold garden produce and other commodities at the corner of Rundle Street and Gawler Place. Several stockyards and livestock markets were scattered about, most close to the main trading areas such as Hindley and Rundle streets and Kermode Street, North Adelaide.
From 1841 to the 1850s, the corporation acre set aside for a town hall in King William Street was used as a market. Richard Vaughan started the original East End Market and Adelaide city corporation formed the Central Market in 1869. Vaughan roofed the East End Market in 1866 and enlarged it in 1869. By the 1890s competition for stalls from a growing gardening trade saw an overflow of traders onto to the streets. I
n about 1900, William Charlick, a proprietor of Charlick Brothers (a large fruit, potato and grocery business) decided to “remedy the evils” by buying land near the old market, between Rundle and Grenfell streets, to build an extension. Negotiations with the East End Market Company failed, so Charlick decided to establish a “new, up-to-date market”, putting his plans to investors and Adelaide city corporation, who promised their support.
The Adelaide Fruit and Produce Exchange opened in 1904, with the Cyclopedia of South Australia reported in glowing terms on the new market’s four acres, with £52,300 being spent. It had “390 stands for s-vehicles and teams, 20 large packing stores, 16 shops, 11 small stores, 10 side stores, refreshment room, and shoeing-forge”. The market was described as the best in Australia: “lofty, well ventilated, side roads, no obstacles, automatically drained, and kept wonderfully clean”.
In 1987, proposals to move the market in 1988 set off controversy concerning its future use. The scheme of development proposed retaining the street frontages of the market buildings with apartments built within. The façade had few alterations, with detailing to arches, gablets and even ground floor shop fronts still original. The heritage assessment noted there were few complexes of this size and originality remaining in capital cities: The exchange façade “also makes a major contribution to the character of this locality and exemplifies the best traditions of well-mannered street architecture”.
*Information from the Heritage of the City of Adelaide: An Illustrated Guide (1996).
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My camera absolutely loves shooting with Megan. We've been shooting since she was 15. She has grown into a beautiful young woman, along the way we've become good friends and she does my wife's hair. Megan was in a mood for a maternity shoot so we headed off for a cool, shaded spot on a hot August afternoon and had a fantastic shoot. Megan is such a sweet person we know she will be a great mom!
I took these photos at the Caldwell Underpass in August 2021.
Midnight Edge - Fatal Attraction: Shimmering sequins and a profile that cuts through the haze. Some traces are impossible to erase; some glances are impossible to forget.
Really shows what an iPhone can deliver of portrait quality. Only natural light. processed in the Lightroom iphone app.
This has to be the best ITBE doll Integrity has produced to this date.
In my opinion she's an absolute Star and she could easily compete with FR girls.
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This ad is a vivid example of 1920s glamour marketing. The woman’s tall black curly hair, decorative comb, and sleek black dress evoke the confident and stylish modern woman of the Jazz Age. That red background, bold and sensual, amps up the allure of the products on display, and the woman’s pose with a compact mirror is a classic gesture, reinforcing the idea of beauty as both ritual and empowerment.
Vivaudou’s ad is from a fascinating chapter in American cosmetic history. The company behind it—V. Vivaudou Inc.—was a major player in the early 20th century, known for its elegant branding and ambitious expansion. Victor Vivaudou, born in Cannes, France, founded the company in New York in 1915. He launched the company with backing from Riker-Hegeman, a major drugstore chain. The company’s most famous lines included Mavis, Lady Mary, and La Bohême, with endorsements from silent film stars like Naomi Childers.
“Mavis Toilet Preparations” included talcum powders, face creams, rouges, lipsticks, and perfumes, products that were often scented with Vivaudou’s own fragrances and packaged in stylish tins and jars. By the 1920s, Vivaudou was one of the world’s largest toiletry manufacturers. The mention of Mineralava, “The Original Beauty Clay,” is a bonus detail. This was a separate product line often associated with beauty pageants and celebrity endorsements in the 1920s. Its inclusion here suggests Vivaudou’s attempt to align with broader beauty trends. However, internal disputes, financial troubles, and legal issues—including a smuggling scandal involving Victor himself—led to his ousting.
By 1943, Vivaudou had become a subsidiary of Vadsco Sales Corporation, which diversified into surgical instruments and other products during WWII. The company is no longer active. Its California branch was officially dissolved decades ago, and there’s no evidence of a modern successor.
[Sources: Wikipedia, CosmeticsandSkin.com, CorporationWiki.com, and Bing.com]
[Note: Beauty marks, both natural and artificial, enjoyed a period of popularity in the 1920s, particularly among the fashionable "flapper" set. The lady in the ad has two, a mole near her mouth and a heart on her back. Silent film stars like Clara Bow, known for her mole, played a significant role in popularizing beauty marks and making them symbols of allure and attitude.]