New year.. new office!

2014 was a fantastic year, and by far one of the biggest highlights had to be Graham and I buying our first home in October. And with this new home came something I have wanted for longer than I can remember: an office space!<br /><br />A few months have now passed since we moved in, and for a while this room was half-office, half-walk-in-wardrobe-and-pile-of-stuff-for-ebay(!) But now that all of our worldly possessions have been tidied away and the moving boxes have gone in the recycling, I now have a dedicated space to work in and I am just so excited and grateful.<br /><br />It's a work in progress but I am already really happy and can't wait to see how this room will evolve over time. I've always struggled to "switch off" from work at the end of the day, and now that I'm no longer working in my bedroom and finally have a door separating my work and our home life, it will be really interesting to see how this impacts our life (and my business) for the better.<br /><br /><b>So with a nice tidy workspace, goals for the next year set and all my work from 2014 safely archived away.. I'm ready for you, 2015!</b><br /><br /><img src="http://i1329.photobucket.com/albums/w541/dismantlerepair_storage3/web_J4B1884_zpsfce9f42f.jpg" width="690" /><img src="http://i1329.photobucket.com/albums/w541/dismantlerepair_storage3/web_J4B1890_zps1a0afa56.jpg" width="690" /><img src="http://i1329.photobucket.com/albums/w541/dismantlerepair_storage3/web_J4B1930_zps4aeec418.jpg" width="342" /> <img src="http://i1329.photobucket.com/albums/w541/dismantlerepair_storage3/web_J4B1933_zpscc8a2e52.jpg" width="342" /><img src="http://i1329.photobucket.com/albums/w541/dismantlerepair_storage3/web_J4B1898_zps991edb10.jpg" width="690" /><br /><br /><iframe allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" src="//www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fdismantlerepair-photo.blogspot.com%2F2015%2F01%2Fnew-year-new-office.html&width&layout=standard&action=like&show_faces=false&share=true&height=35&appId=112365025537572" style="border: none; height: 35px; overflow: hidden;"></iframe>

New year.. new office!

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Allowing

I have to be honest - these photos nearly didn't see the light of day. Despite liking the result, I felt so bound to my style of self-portraiture: the dead flowers, the vintage dresses, the standing in fields, that I felt that these didn't deserve to be shown if they didn't add to my cohesive portfolio of self-portraits.<br /><br />So I closed down Lightroom and walked away from my computer. They'd just stay there.<br /><br />A few hours later it hit me - as somebody whose entire being is defined by their photography, maybe a big part of loving and respecting myself is embracing these bursts of inspiration and letting them take me in whatever direction my work wants to go. To let my personal work evolve naturally, without constraint, worry or pressure.<br /><br />Hello, new mindset.<br /><br /><img src="http://i1329.photobucket.com/albums/w541/dismantlerepair_storage3/_J4B5048_zpsf9d0a4ac.jpg" width="690" /><img src="http://i1329.photobucket.com/albums/w541/dismantlerepair_storage3/_J4B5011-Edit_zps58ab2ac1.jpg" width="690" /><br /><br /><iframe allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" src="//www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fdismantlerepair-photo.blogspot.com%2F2014%2F08%2Fallowing.html&width&layout=standard&action=like&show_faces=false&share=true&height=35&appId=112365025537572" style="border: none; height: 35px; overflow: hidden;"></iframe>

Allowing

I have to be honest - these photos nearly didn't see the light of day. Despite liking the result, I felt so bound to my style of self-po...

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