Julie Powell – Photographer & Graphic Artist
Creating & Capturing Life's Precious Moments
It feels like forever since I did a really big Conceptual project in the Studio. As per usual it started months ago with a single image, this one, and it went from there. Costumes obviously had to be found, great red velvet 1930s style dress and fascinator, pearls and garter for my mysterious women (Of…
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Have you ever been in love? Or been in love with the idea of love? The butterflies in your stomach threatening to escape. Your heart beating so loudly, you fear it can be heard in the next room? The object of your affection and obsession walks into the room, you wish to hide and become…
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I was once whole, I was once me – whoever Me is? How do we end up where we do? I don’t even think the bits and pieces were stolen or given away, I think just we misplace them. Who do you see when you look in the mirror? I look in the mirror and…
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For me, Winter is the height of the workshop season, as it is cold and wet and people prefer to be inside, my long anticipated Conceptual Workshop for this season was finally here. Sold out, of course. Beautiful Jess was our model and we played predominately with lighting, posing and direction, with an emphasis on…
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The base photo for this image was taken of Jess in the studio, I knew I wanted to do something a little different but initially was not quite sure what. I through around a few ideas. I wanted the mirror to be a portal to another world, another time or location. Both are taken at…
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Last week was such a busy week, I did a Vampire inspired Couples Shoot with Jess and a new model Dragon Night – now there is an interesting character, I will fill you in on that soon. It was a mid-week evening shoot, which I normally don’t do, but with so many creatives and work…
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This is something I have been wanting to try my hand at for a while – The Great Gatsby, you know the story written by F. Scott Fitzgerald about the roaring 1920’s Jazz Music and Flapper dresses, I adore the movie with Leonardo DiCaprio by Baz Lurman – I adored the old school glitz and…
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So last week I featured some more images from my Kitsune inspired shoot with Ally, one of my Hair and Makeup Artists. This time we kept the dark background at first and changed to a black wig, completely changes her look. We played with a (fake) Samurai sword and the wooden staff Hubby made for another…
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I will show more from this shoot tomorrow, but this is one of my favourites from a recent shoot. This is Ally, one of my Hair and Makeup Artists, she has been spending a little time in front of the camera as a model lately, and she approached me to work on a very special…
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That feeling of suffocation, you can’t seem to catch a breath, where did all the air go? deep ragged breaths and you cannot get enough to fill your lungs. The heat boils from inside, rivers of lava, coiling and creeping up your skin, the fear, the loathing, tastes like copper in your throat…
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