Ramblings of a Model, Mother and Outspoken Weirdo

Last month I had a shoot with well known photographer and image manipulator Gary Crozier. I don't really have much to say about the images, I wasn't really as bowled over as I expected to be. but they are lovely and I certainly don't regret having it done. Quite looking forward to having a print to put on my bedroom wall next to all my pictures of Nicholas Gray and Tim Roth! :)


I recently done another nude shoot, but I am not sharing the images, my boyfriend wasn't adverse to them and that is all that matters. Actually if I am honest, I don't think I look that bad either, I am a standard nude woman, nothing spectacular nothing hideous, I am just me, and I am now cool(ish) with that.

Shoots lined up include boyfriend/girlfriend True Blood esque themed, fairytale wood theme, Cancer Charity calendar, and fetish and bondage shoot.

I attended SuperGay 2010 with my Nick yesterday but I shall blog that at a later date so I can pimp out his images.

Had a shoot a few weeks ago with a lovely gentleman called Les Higgins, he was very down to earth and I really enjoyed the shoot. It had actually meant to have been with another photographer, one which was very short to the point of virtually being rude in emails so I was glad he hadn't turned up in the end. I actually met the guy a couple of days later and he wasn't all that and sure his work is perfectly lovely but I don't need to work with someone with that attitude.

This was during the two weeks I was at my boyfriend's place, when the kids were with their Daddy and I felt the need to cram in as many shoots as possible.
Anyway the shoot was at Studio 5000, I have some more pics from another shoot there too which I will blog in a bit.

I wore my adorable (new favourite frock!) Able Grable Ready Hedy or as my boyfriend affectionately calls it 'The Cheese Dress'. I love it, I put it on and it makes me feel instantly happy, it's summer in a frock. I did a sort of strip tease thing and I quite like the way the images turned out. My underwear was the stunning yet supportive Josephine Corselette by What Katie Did. I have wore it for a few shoots now so I feel I should pimp it out a bit. Really loving the new Swiss Dot range for A/w10 too!


Funny story actually, probably works better when I do the seedy voice. I was going back to Nick's after doing the shoot and a geezer started talking to me.

"You're a sight for sore eyes, where you off to?"
"My boyfriend's"
"He's a lucky man"
"He probably won't even notice he'll be playing on his Xbox"
"Wish you were my girlfriend"
"See ya!"

Few shoots behind in my blog so I will try and crank them out in the next few days. I had a shoot on 25th of August with a guy called Dave, he doesn't have a website and I didn't ask him for his surname but trust me his name was Dave.

For this shoot I filled my bag with vintage dresses (mostly my Able Grable gear) and headed to Tanfield Railway, Causey Arch, County Durham. This shoot was done about 3 days after my boyfriend had made his decision to leave me up here in the North East and it would be fair to say I was miserable and devastated and it showed in every single picture I received from this shoot, I really hope it wasn't a waste of time for the photographer.

Here are a couple of my faves from the shoot, away from the railway itself there were some totally amazing old, disused, rusty engines! I would love to do another shoot down in that part. I wanted to do some uber pin up implied topless shots but I wasn't in the right frame of mind and also my hair had fallen over by this point.

I love this shot, and I love my Wicked Lady! And the red was just shimmering in the sunlight. (Would love this frock in Olive or Gold!)

This is a shot of new favourite cord and tweed lingerie set from amazing Lilly Wiggler Couture, always a pleasure dealing with this lady! She is an absolute star :)

Finding long distance thing unbelievably difficult, it's just constant paranoia and worry. I only take comfort in sniffing something that's his and even then sometimes it makes me worse. I love him very much and know we can make it work, I will struggle to find another Nicholas Gray, someone who makes me laugh all the time and loves me for the fact I am insane, not despite it so I guess I will just have to deal with the current situation until we buy our castle...ooh actually spaceship and shed for my Iguana and this shitey few months is just a distant memory.

This month has been ever so long and odd full of ups and downs. I shall blog a shoot before I have a bit of a ramble.

Friday the 13th of August I had a very odd shoot in my own bathroom. I was shot by a fabulous gentleman called Jed Wee. It was so odd seeing my everyday room being set up with lights and stuff it was like it wasn't even my house anymore. I am very pleased with the images. I guess as can be expected with a shoot in a shower, they do have a very sort of 'Psycho' sort of feel to them. I have had a really nice response to them, considering I haven't got any slap on, I am not doing anything special, I have no props and my facial expressions were very limited due to the fact I had water running on my head. I was topless during this shoot but no pictures of my boobies were received which I think it good because it would have ruined them.

On a different note after spending two amazing weeks with my boyfriend in the early part of the month I am now going to have to experience the flip side of the coin because he is moving away. We are still together but I am going to have quite a bit more time to kill and I will be looking for support from lots of my mates until we ride the long distance thing out. I will also be looking to do shoots whenever I have a moment free to take my mind off it.

My offspring are ready for the return of school, my eldest particularly is at that annoying stage of hyper and he needs to get his brain worked on.

Had a shoot a couple of weeks ago with lovely chap and excellent photographer Richard Hanley, who also lives in the same village where I live! The outlook of this shoot was instantly improved by the attendance of MUA Josephine Birkett who was an absolute star she knew exactly what I was after which all worked so well with the location.

Ah hah, the location was a record shop in Newcastle-upon-Tyne city centre called Steel Wheels. It is completely different to how I remembered, it was relocated and downsized a lot, downloadable music probably to blame. I still had an amazing time and it was one of my favourite shoots to date. There wasn't really a lot to work with but I had a lot of fun and I am very very impressed with the images. Probably the first time I have seen any Dani in images that weren't taken by my boyfriend.

Here are a couple of my faves.

Well I was, for one night only doing a shoot next to The Sage - Gateshead for my boyfriend Nicholas Gray's billboard project.

He sort of explained it better in his blog if you want to read it but basically its a twin town thing between Sunderland and Essen, Germany. His work will be featured on billboards and he went for a film theme. Other images are spectacular also but you're gonna have to wait for them.

My Superhero is called Senorita Cleavage, very sort of Dee La Beau! She normally attacks the bad men and breaks their necks with their thighs and that sort of cartoon death sort of stuff. Her sidekick is Captain Cliche and enemies are the Defective Detective (with sidekick Hangover Boy) and the Haberdashery Man. I have had way too much time to think about this by the way.

Well obviously not really! I did a lot of shoots last week and I just going to blog them one by one to give them the time they deserve.

I normally use Purestorm and Model Mayhem to arrange my shoots, if you're looks to start modeling this is a good place to start. I have had quite a lot of people asking lately. You can also find some photographers on Facebook too. Beware of perverts with cameras though because there are a fair few of them.

I had a shoot about two weeks ago with Russ and Paul, two fab guys who made me laugh, it was quite a weird set up having two photographers and one model. I have been to shoots where there have been two models and one photographer but this was completely different, bouncing ideas of each other and taking turns. It was good though and I am delighted with some of the images.