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16/12/2021

‘Ophelia’

Inspired by Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the beautiful Ophelia is suffering in the misfortunes perpetrated upon her.

Ophelia is a tragic, insane character that cannot exist on her own. In Elizabethan times, Ophelia is restricted as a woman. She is obedient to the commands of the men in her life. Polonius, Laertes, and Hamlet all have a grasp on Ophelia and who she is.

Ophelia has issues surviving without a male influence, and her downfall is when all the men in her life abandon her.

After the murder of her father by her beloved Hamlet, Ophelia falls into insanity and dies a tragic death, drowning in a brook.

The fact that this grief drives Ophelia to madness reveals her overwhelming feelings of hopelessness and powerlessness, and the power that the men in Ophelia's life wield over her.

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16/12/2021

‘The secret’

I loved thee, though I told thee not,
Right earlily and long,
Thou wert my joy in every spot,
My theme in every song.

And when I saw a stranger face
Where beauty held the claim,
I gave it like a secret grace
The being of thy name.
And all the charms of face or voice
Which I in others see
Are but the recollected choice
Of what I felt for thee.

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16/12/2021

16/12/2021

“Hearts are wild creatures, that’s why our ribs are cages”

Our engagement photoshoot 🥰


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16/12/2021

‘The Kraken’

Probably no legendary sea monster was as horrifying as the Kraken. According to stories this huge, many armed, creature could reach as high as the top of a sailing ship's main mast. A kraken would attack a ship by wrapping their arms around the hull and capsizing it. The crew would drown or be eaten by the monster. What's amazing about the kraken stories is that, of all the sea monster tales we have, we have the best evidence that this creature was based on something real.

Tales of a huge, many armed, headed or horned sea creatures exist from ancient times. The Greek legend of the Scylla, a monster with six heads that Odysseus must sail past during his travels, is an example of this tradition. In 1555 Olaus Magnus wrote of a sea creature with "sharp and long Horns round about, like a Tree root up by the Roots: They are ten or twelve cubits long, very black, and with huge eyes..."

Stories about this monster seem to date back to twelfth century Norway. These tales often refer to a creature so big that it is mistaken for an island or series of islands. Even as late as 1752, when the Bishop of Bergen, Erik Ludvigsen Pontoppidan, wrote his The Natural History of Norway he described the kraken as "incontestably the largest Sea monster in the world" with a width of one and a half miles. The Bishop also noted that the animal had starfish type protuberances: "It seems these are the creature's arms, and, it is said, if they were to lay hold of the largest man-of-war, they would pull it down to the bottom."

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16/12/2021

‘Lara Croft’

Inspired by the ever popular and long running game series ‘Tomb Raider’ a friend and I decided to create this image. Having shot Holly dressed as Lara (sure you’ll agree she looks brilliant in the role) in the studio. I then created the environment around her to match the classic tomb raider feel using a variety of techniques in photoshop.


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