A white woman with ginger and lilac hair and freckles closes her eyes and stands with a crystal ball in one hand, blue skies behind her.
Photos of another Aberdeenshire photographer, this is Alyssa Kaye, a gorgeous human who takes nostalgic family photographs with the occasional wild elopement thrown into the mix.
Alyssa and I were both needing new professional photos of ourselves, so we arranged to swap photography sessions - she photographed me, and I photographed her (I'm using one of her photos here).
A white woman with a ponytail, pyjama top and a camera hanging around her neck, raises her hands to a cloudy sky, with sun flare speckling over her.
A white woman with ginger and lilac hair and freckles looks through the viewfinder of her camera, pointed off screen. The background is grey clouds, but she is lit by sunlight.
A white woman with ginger and lilac hair and freckles raises her hand above her face to block the sun; the silhouette of her fingers is on her face, her eyes visible in between fingers.
We headed to an Aberdeenshire beach on a glorious sunny day in September, and spent a good few hours chatting, laughing and snapping pictures, playing around with our favourite techniques (I love a silhouette and a bit of sun flare!).
A woman's head and shouders are silhouetted against a cloudy sky, with a bright spot where the sun is trying to come through, and colourful flares of light bouncing around her.
A white woman with ginger and lilac hair and freckles smiles directly at the camera.
A woman in a lilac dress stands on a sand dune, her footprints tracking through the sand. She is tiny against the expanse of sand and the big blue sky above.
A dancing woman is silhouetted against a blue sky. She is tiny in the bottom left of the frame; the sun is large in the top right, with a sun flare streaming straight down towards her.
Alyssa wanted relaxed, whimsical photos of herself frolicking in the dunes - and I think we fulfilled that brief!
A white woman with ginger and lilac hair and freckles turns her face to the sun, eyes closed, against a bright blue sky.
A woman in a white and green jumper and a lilac skirt runs down a grassy slope at an Aberdeenshire beach.
I also brought along my "crystal ball" (it's actually a photography tool) which I LOVE photographing. I'm always happy to bring it to photo sessions, but we have to be careful not to use it in direct sun as it's a fire risk! Thankfully, the big grey clouds came over and helped us out at this session!
Close up of hands holding a crystal ball. A woman in a purple and green top and red and pink scarf is reflected, upside down, in the ball. The ball seems to glow against the dark backdrop of her figure.
The wind catches a lilac skirt and it becomes a blur of movement around legs in bright red tights and big black boots. They are standing on an Aberdeenshire beach.
If you would like to chat about main character or branding photos for yourself, I would LOVE to hear your ideas. You can find out more about my pricing and my style on my dedicated Solo Shoot page over here
A white woman with ginger and lilac hair and freckles raises a crystal ball to the blue sky, looking directly at it.

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