This is an excerpt from a blog about a shoot i did last year for the WONDERFUL Michelle Bouse . It was so much fun and I am so delighted she feels this way about it! I did too :-) The Silage Lads was nominated for a Blog Ireland Award and I met a woman that I have no words for, Elaine Laverty ( photographer extraordinaire ) . I had this idea where I wanted to do a photo-shoot to capture ‘what I’m about’ and a photographer stepped forward. Everybody thought I was cra – cra – crazy. I thought Elaine would think I was mad, I wanted tractors, bails, sheds and tyres. She was one of the best things that has ever happened to me, she just got me without any explanation. The day we did the photo-shoot was the best day of my life. My MUA Liz Desmond was a complete professional and she was part of the entourage as we travelled to Marshall yards, Bouse’s bales, Sheehans fields, my beloved laneway and into Beechinor’s to play on the swing-set and playhouse and drink processo. We captured everything I wanted to capture and more and with Elaine, we stayed very true to who I was. I wanted a shoot that was natural, simple and showed off my wonderful countryside where I spent most of time ‘writing’ and ‘thinking’, without Meadstown / Ballyginanne ( Ballygarvan) ‘The Silage Lads’ would never have been enraptured into words Elaine Laverty did more for me than she could ever know. She made me feel like a model ( yes, me a model, all five foot of me) and I’ve met so many people because of her and I have developed a love for style and creatively getting across a story through the visual art. She’s my photographer for life and I have a feeling that we are yet to do our most creative work together. Even now in some of the greatest scenes that are in the book ‘The Silage Lads’, I’m brainstorming in my head how Elaine and I can take my word to the visual stage. I want to tell my stories in more than one medium and that’s why I’m very happy I have met Elaine. Then the Evening Echo covered our photo-shoot and did a write up on my blog and I was on cloud cookoo land, after all I’m only a small girl from down a little lane-way – these things are big to me.
Posted on: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 10:27:27 +0000
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