wild roses and a hampstead heath meetup..

Here's a small series featuring the beautiful Little Twiglet which was taken during the open-to-all flickr meet up that the girls and I held back in April in Hampstead Heath, London.

The inspiration for the edit came from the pink flower wreath that I'd brought along with me. At the time I wished I'd brought the white one instead to contrast against her dress but somehow in the edit experimenting I fell in love with mixing the pinks and blue hues to create this light/dark ethereal feeling.

I was quite pleasantly surprised with the way they turned out as I literally grabbed Twig, put some flowers on her head and placed her in an area which had the prettiest light. Somehow, between talking to people and directing her, I only managed to take 7 photos! Usually it takes a (hell of a) lot more before I get one I really like let alone four!

Anyway please take a look and let me know what you think :) 

And now for meetup photos! I have a confession. I managed to run late and get lost along the way so by the time I reached the location some people had arrived and left! So, here was the group I met and although at first I felt a little intimidated seeing all the new faces, it wasn't long before we were all laughing and getting along well :)  

I can't help myself but do the typically British thing of mentioning the weather(!) but really,  we were all SO impressed with it! The forecast for a ENTIRE week leading up to that day was rain, rain and more rain! Which I suspect deterred some people from attending but then when the day arrived somehow someone somewhere was smiling as us because it was suddenly a sunny, warm spring day!

Anyway! Here are some pictures :)

Group shot with links! So from left to right: 

Me, Henry, Twig, Sarah, Jack, Sam, Sevgi, Amy, Nizaad and Rich

Henry!

Jack and Rich

Sam, Amy and Niz

Amy

Little Twiglet, Henry and Sarah

Sev and Jack

Niz

Niz and I taking shots of each other through purple glasses!

Sev applying the lipstick that soon everyone was wearing, yes even the boys! Haha ok ok maybe not the boys ;)

Chilling out at a local pub and checking out everyone's images from the day. 

So that was it! Our first open-to-all-meetup! It couldn't have come together without Sarah, Niz and the super organised Sevgi! My god.. this girl is good. 

 Personally I think it went really well. Everyone came with a good attitude, ready to engage, share and help each other. Some came not knowing anyone and I think we all went away having made lots of new friends! Which I think is what it should all be about anyway! Yes at times we didn't really know what was going on but fortunately with a small group of people it was easy to just set up a scene and marvel at the different approaches people had.

I think the girls and I will definitely do this again. So keep checking in and we'll let you know when the next one will be!

Here are links to everyone's pages and do check their versions of the day! :) 

 Henry, Sarah, Jack, Sam, Sevgi, Amy, Nizaad 

And finally! This series of Sev was also taken on the same day and the link to that blog post is... here!

Phew!! Thank you so much for reading!