Thursday Eye Candy: Kirsty Mitchell’s Wonderland

Hello my dear Photography Life readers. I am glad to be back again after a long break! Baby Jasmine is growing fast and she is now a little more accommodating, letting her mommy do some work here and there. I hope you won’t mind the gradual transition of my persona to the world of photography and helping out my hubby, who has been too busy with his new ideas, the lens database, never-ending reviews and a slew of other things I have little idea about 🙂

I was browsing the net today and came across Kirsty Mitchell’s photography work. I am often mesmerized by work of those who can imagine ideas and implement them impeccably. It always pushed me to think outside of the box and strive to create something unique. I burn with an idea of doing something new but I also often give up because it seems mighty impossible. So, I decided to introduce Kirsty’s work on Photography Life to remind myself and our readers to push the envelope and do something beautifully creative. If this is not your cup of tea, at least you get to appreciate the amount of work that goes into creating such a set.

Kirsty’s fantasy collection is based on her childhood, precisely on her memories of her late mother’s tales she used to read to Kirsty when she was a little girl. In my opinion Kirsty’s tribute to her mother is nothing short of a fantastic and imaginative collection. While you can browse her website for yourself and see more of her work, I am posting a few that I really enjoyed looking at.

Dryad: A nymph clings to giant tree roots suspended over the river

Euphaeidae: A winged fairy princess amid a sea of lavender

Far, Far Away: A twenties style circus performer swings from a giant tree

Gammelyn’s Daughter: The model clutches a ship to her chest atop a heathery cushion

Lady of The Lake: A model emerges from a pool of lilies deep within the forest

Spirited Away: Blooms stand out against a snowy forest backdrop – a promise of the spring to come

The Beautiful Blindness of Devotion sees a painted girl with eyes closed in prayer

The Briar Rose is a human rambling rose appearing to grow from the stonework

The Faraway Tree: ethereal ships, magically lit, appear to sprout from this tree as if commanded by the queen

The White Queen ruling over the forest of Wonderland

While Nightingales Wept: a model captured running though the woods

The Queen’s Armada: A fantasy queen sails a fleet of the most delicate paper ships

The Storyteller: A reference to Kirsten’s English teacher mother, a model sits elegantly on a carpet of bluebells enveloped by books

I also find her post processing to be very clean and impeccable. I hope you enjoy this eye candy as much as I did!