I love reading photography books and browsing photography websites for inspiration.  Youtube is another great resource for photographers, being crammed with videos on lighting techniques, glamour photography, boudoir photography, fashion, behind-the-scenes shoots, etc.

One photographer that I’ve come to admire, though I’ve never met him, is Damien Lovegrove.  I was very impressed by Damien’s enthusiasm when commenting and judging in  ‘Frame Your Best Shot’ on Youtube.  Damien’s blog is full of good articles and fantastic photographs.  Well worth a visit.

This week I see that Damien has added images from his ‘Black Swan Workshop’ with Raphaella, a model who I’ve photographed a couple of times.

Lovegrove is on the exhibitors list for the ‘Focus On Imaging’  photographic show at Birmingham NEC starting next weekend, so I may just get to say ‘hello’…

Here are some of my photographs of Raphaella. (click to enlarge)