Colour of the Year 2014: Radiant Orchid

Pantone announced: "Radiant Orchid blooms with confidence and magical warmth that intrigues the eye and sparks the imagination. It is an expressive, creative and embracing purple—one that draws you in with its beguiling charm. A captivating harmony of fuchsia, purple and pink undertones, Radiant Orchid emanates great joy, love and health"    Read the full press release here.

Above image of an Orchid on my kitchen windowsill was taken in natural light with my Nikon D200, focal length 35 mm, aperture f/4,5, exposure time 1/80.

For online text I use the HTML value B163A3.
Here's how you can find it in your colour systems.
RGB: R 177, G 99, B 163
CMYK: cyan 33 %, magenta 72 %, yellow 0 %, black: 0 %
And finally Pantone: PMS 18-3224

Don't get it mixed up with Radio Orchid ;0)

The Apprentice

Jacob and John processing the headshots of actress Lucy Bird.

Stripe Mania

This is our contribution to STRIPE MANIA, a virtual meet and greet party for bloggers, hosted by Holly from decor8 and Igor. If you are participating as well please leave a link to your pic in the comment section. We're looking forward to seeing you!
See some more bloggers in stripes here at Pinterest.

John from Yorkshire, England, is blogging on The Unstuck Diaries: www.deletetheweb.com/unstuck
Katrin form Bavaria, Germany, is blogging on Tales From A Textile Studio: www.katrinfreitag.blogspot.com
and Johanna has got her own blog, BabyBongo, which is only available for family and close friends, keeping them up to date with her adventures.

Der Webstuhl

Loom, Muenchberg, 2005                                                            © Katrin Freitag

The Paper Collar

Late last night whilst John did some lighting tests I was folding sheets of beautifully aged paper to form a collar for todays photography session.

[photo: John Coombes]

Todays Photo Sesssion

Been working on another photo session today. This time we have been shooting upstairs!

Looking for Eric

I am so thrilled to see Steve Evets in "Looking for Eric", the latest film of Ken Loach.

See the PREVIEW here.

The postman : "Sometimes we forget that you are just a man."
Eric Cantona: "I am not a man. I am Cantona."



Steve Evets in "Babbling Fools".

Today at the Bankfield Mill Studios

Sometimes I work with John when he is taking photographs. I love doing the dresses and helping out as stylist, doing the hair (in this case a wig) and make up (in this case white body paint) and creating an image.

Evets

Steve Evets spielt die Hauptrolle im neuen Film von Ken Loach, Looking for Eric. Letzte Woche wurden die Dreharbeiten beendet. Gedreht wurde seit Anfang Mai in Manchester. Steve spielt Eric, einen Manchester United Fan, und Fußball-Legende Éric Cantona wird auch auftreten. Mehr darf noch nicht verraten werden.

Mehr Bilder mit Steve:







Nein, das ist keine Seifenkiste, wenn auch mit Seifenlauge gefüllt: eine alte Zink-Badewanne auf einem noch älteren Sarg-Karren.

Some more Tango

Ninon war am Sonntag abend auf BBC Radio 3 zu hören.
Hier zum nachhören.

Freitag abend

Freitag abend hatten wir eine Tangoband hier im Studio. "The way you do", sagt John.

Jedenfalls hat John wunderschöne Fotos gemacht und Fueye Tango phantastische Musik.
Beides gibts hier.







Ninon Foiret am Bandoneon, Javier Fioramonti an der Gitarre und Rus Pearson am Bass. Mein Brot im Brotbackautomat. Brot und Tango im Studio, was will man mehr? Ein wirklich perfekter Abend!

Foolish Clown

Manchmal auch in ein foto studio.