Blumenfeld at Somerset

Hello!
So the last time I was here I told you all that I was going to see the Rite of Spring in concert which I went to on thursday. Before the concert Mum and I decided to go into London a little early and see the Blumenfeld exhibition at Somerset House. I've never been to Somerset House before so I was really excited and it is really beautiful. Its quite suprising how there's a stately home bang in the middle of London, but hey ho!

The exhibition itself was absolutely incredible. For those of you who don't know, Blumenfeld was a photographer from the 1940s-60s and became one of the most influential fashion photographers in the world, working for the likes of Vogue and Harper's Bazaar with a unique and recognisable style. We couldn't take photos for obvious reasons but I would love to have shown all of you who are into fashion and photography and both just how beautiful his photography is. None of the pictures are edited, they way they look is how they were taken which is a real testament to his skill (despite calling himself a 'amateur') which you can see with the picture below. If you love fashion photography, or photography in general and are around in London this summer and have a spare hour or two, then why not head down? Its free admission and won't take up much time and I think its worth a see - I had a lovely time. It's open until 1st September. Any more information, you can get HERE.

Plus, Somerset House is fun to visit! Here's me looking a bit dumpy and wind-swept, sporting my lovely Cambridge Satchel! I was going to include about my night seeing the Rite of Spring but I need to do another post to do it enough justice. I could say how it was but I cannot find the words at this moment. For now here's a more hilarious picture of me, plus a glimspe of what is to come up!

 

Bye bye, speak soon

Love Alice xxx



Long time again ...

Hello everyone!

It seems I say this every single time but I am sorry for the reeeeeally long absence. I have incredibly busy over the past four months with work and my music studies and I just haven't had anything really interesting to post. After a while, I felt I'd lost the reason why I did this and I was particularly unhappy with the design of my blog - my computer crashed so I had nowhere to create a new design and my photos are scattered everywhere. Now, my computer is fixed and I feel a lot more purposeful about my aims of this so I'm ready to give it another stab! But I want to thank the many of you who have still popped in. It's really nice! But I thought I would do a whistle stop visual tour of what's been going on with some lovely instagram photos.

So a lot has been going on! The first two pictures may be a bit confusing but they are shots from a show I did for my theatre group in January which was incredibly fun, particularly since I got to wear the most incredible costume for Queen Elizabeth I - For my brother's birthday in January, I was a lovely sister and took him to the Waffle House in St Albans which is set in a beautiful 16th Century mill, decorated with cute fairy lights and serves delicious waffles - England was covered in snow in February as you can see, and what better to remedy the cold with a lovely Cafe Nero and The Musical Times on a day off - My Harry Potter iPhone covers that I bought from Etsy and was absolutely delighted with them. Really well made and I have dropped my phone many times and it is still intact - A night out seeing Chase and Status in Watford with Lizzie and Laura which was immense - A visit to Durham where I shall be studying next year - On the way back in King's Cross Station, I visited the Platform 9 and 3/4 shop (which is ridiculously overpriced) but I managed to get my ticket to Hogwarts.

This has been long so I'll stop, but I do want to make blogging a usual occurence now. As a musician, I'm going to play to my strengths and talk a lot more about music - about interesting topics in music, current and new exciting music and any pieces that I feel are so moving, they should be shared with the world. But until next time ...

Au revior my lovelies

 

Love Alice xxx