Holidays are on their way, and I'm grateful for you. The one who is reading this. xo

It’s the time of year to look back and send out gratitude to all of those who have helped me along the way.

This has been a year of recovery for most of us and that recovery comes from paying tribute to the community who are in the recovery with you.

I am ending the year by bookending it with an incredible shoot with a brand I am in love with. I am not able to tell you to more right now but believe me when the time comes you will be the first to know.

In the meantime I want to give a great big shout out of gratitude to my circle. You keep me going, keep my juices flowing and keep me grounded and remembering that at the end of the day I am loved, I am supported and I am not alone.

NFT's and Me

I made 12 NFT’s available to purchase directly from my Instagram through CocoNFT.

Are you still confused about this world? It is kind of strange to think about the metaverse but trust me it is real and there is an amazing group of people working at helping you realize it.

NFT’s are a way to support an artist and a way to own their art. The artist retains the right and you get the digital version. I have included definitions of all of these terms in this post.

If you have more questions please reach out, it is an amazing new world for artists and I would really love to see the support soar.

All of my NFT’s are created from Instagram posts and tagged with #coconft A quick hashtag search will show you all 12. Yes, you can search hashtags on Insta just add the pound symbol to anything you want to search and it will bring up that specific result.

Crypto is something that was developed to solve a problem and I am in awe of a hacker’s ability to see a problem and provide a solution for it. Have you read Mind Hacking? I highly recommend it, it’s brilliant. Hackers are not to be feared, they are problem solvers and have been from the beginning.

More on Film

If you have been reading this a while you know that I am in love with film.

I am in love with it because of it’s flaws. Sounds weird right, well let me tell you that there is always a flaw or three in any roll of film. The human element, the connection to the person who created it and now the person shooting it (me) and then the lab who develops it and scans it for me. The journey is similar to the one I love with lines.

We know each other by our lines, William Blake.

We also know each other by our flaws and guess what, that is where the love is.

Vogue Italia and Jayda on Film.

I submit to Vogue once a week, they close a couple of times a year but are open roughly 48-50 weeks for submission. I pick two images, that is all that you can submit and send them off. It is an electronic portal and if you check back later and there is no image, you did not get accepted.

This time as I was submitting my second image they accepted my first. I could see the number change from 7 to 8 as I was filling out the online form.

As I said in a blog post a couple of weeks ago this will never get old. I will age and still submit to Vogue and know that indeed this will never get old.

Shapes, monochrome and film.

Spending time with natural light, shapes and form in studio with black and white film.

Isn’t it grand?

Vogue, it will never get old.

Vogue is a magazine that will never get old for any of us, if you have any interest in fashion at all it can be your bible. The September issue is one of my favourites and this year did not disappoint.

I am celebrating again this week with the fabulous Jo K (I accidentally added an e) and Maxine Munson. We shot a while back and my first selection for submission was not accepted.

Luckily this one was.

Have I ever told you I had a wooden boat once named Perseverance? That is a story for another day but something I live by. If at once you don’t succeed, you try, try again and again if you have to.