Molly + Florian

Albert Camus wrote that "Autumn is a second Spring when every leaf is a flower". Nowhere does this seem more true than in the Botanic Gardens, Cambridge, where I was honoured to carry out a very special shoot.

 

Photography and Styling:  Holly Clothier

Location: The Botanic Gardens, Cambridge

Congratulations and best wishes to Molly and Florian
xxx

What a Wonderful World

While setting up this site I have been rifling through a whole muddle of photo- and film-shoots I have done over the last couple of years.  As people who know me can testify, I rarely leave the house without a camera in my hand.  This video is a little taster of what goes on the other side of the lens. The song is a cover I did of 'What a Wonderful World By Louis Armstrong'. Slightly cheesy, I know, but it is such a beautiful song.  xxx

Film and Editing:  Holly Clothier

Music: What a Wonderful World (Louis Armstrong)// Holly Clothier Cover


( I am still pretty new at this so if someone could tell me how to make the video appear larger on the page I would love you eternally)

The Secret Garden

“The Secret Garden was what Mary called it when she was thinking of it. She liked the name, and she liked still more the feeling that when its beautiful old walls shut her in no one knew where she was. It seemed almost like being shut out of the world in some fairy place. The few books she had read and liked had been fairy-story books, and she had read of secret gardens in some of the stories. Sometimes people went to sleep in them for a hundred years, which she had thought must be rather stupid. She had no intention of going to sleep, and, in fact, she was becoming wider awake every day which passed at Misselthwaite.

 

She was beginning to like to be out of doors; she no longer hated the wind, but enjoyed it. She could run faster, and longer, and she could skip up to a hundred. The bulbs in the secret garden must have been much astonished. Such nice clear places were made round them that they had all the breathing space they wanted, and really, if Mistress Mary had known it, they began to cheer up under the dark earth and work tremendously. The sun could get at them and warm them, and when the rain came down it could reach them at once, so they began to feel very much alive.

Mary was an odd, determined little person, and now she had something interesting to be determined about, she was very much absorbed, indeed. She worked and dug and pulled up weeds steadily, only becoming more pleased with her work every hour instead of tiring of it. It seemed to her like a fascinating sort of play. She found many more of the sprouting pale green points than she had ever hoped to find. They seemed to be starting up everywhere and each day she was sure she found tiny new ones, some so tiny that they barely peeped above the earth."

Model:   Tereza Uhlířová 

Photography and Styling:  Holly Clothier

Words: Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

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