There are two seasons of the year that I love to use as background to my doll photoshoots and those are spring and fall. Summer is okay too but I will be hauling my photogear with my dolls out and about and the humidity of this country is killing. And too many people have time off and minding my business. I am not interested in explaining what I am doing, why I am lying on the ground for photograpy nor hearing remarks that dolls are for kids. I could have been doing drugs people, leave me be.
Liccas and Momokos are the most handy to carry dolls, I take them often when I go shopping in Amsterdam or Rotterdam. I don’t need to bring my DSLR, my phone’s camera suffices for out- and indoor photography. I dress them for the outfit of the day. Put them in a protective case in my handbag and off I go. These types of photoshoots are the majority of my shoots. It is just a big hassle to bring my larger dolls.
In my garden I have noting remotely coming close to spring blossom. In the past we had a pear tree but it was removed after it stopped giving fruit. The only cherry tree in my local area is in the garden of an office which has been abandoned and closed off to public so I don’t feel getting arrested because of photoshoot. It is a shame though, it is a very nice cherry tree.
But I am in luck that right across my house there is a Reiki studio that has a tree that carries blossoms so during my lunch break on my work from home I took this lovely photo of my Licca wearing a furisode.
I have no clue what type of tree this is, but it does fit the spring image.
The vibrant colours of the furisode jumps out of the picture and it looks like she is standing in an orchard. Pretty proud of myself with this composition. It got me in the mood for more outdoor photoshoots, until the weather decided to do a funny and we ended up getting hail storm and low temperatures which sucks. Low temperatures sucks especially because everything in my body starts to hurt, I can barely move my fingers and joints and will spend most of my time under a blanket reading or playing on my Switch.
The coming week the forcast is still not good but they said April should be looking better which I hope for. I want to take more nice photos of my cute girls.
“Thanks for all”
Expressing my gratitude to blossoms
At the parting.
Matsuo Basho (1644-1694)