You're a new morning

Dress: Laura Ashley, vintage, thrifted;

Sweater, belt: Ann Taylor LOFT;

Shoes: Zigi Soho.

How I've worn the dress before: here.
Listening to: "New Morning," Alpha Rev.

I am really pleased with how this photo set turned out. I took the new camera out to the park in the morning, and tinkered around with the settings as the sun crept up. Apparently there is a huge difference between "Landscape" (which focuses on more blue and green tones) and "Sunset" (warmer tones), and knowing this helped me get the color tones that I wanted to capture.

The direction of my blog photography has evolved since I first started taking photos. I've found more and more that while my intent is to take photos of my outfit, I'm more interested and content in fusing those looks with landscape backgrounds to create more of an editorialized shot, and have more of my photos look like illustrations. I've been looking at a lot of nature photos online for inspiration -- particularly Ansel Adams' work. I know it sounds really ambitious, but I'm trying to figure out how to incorporate those kinds of nature settings more and more into my outfit shots.

It's the return of the Southern-débutante-circa-1983 dress. This might be my favorite outfit ever on the ol' blog. I have struggled with how to style the dress for everyday wear because it seems so formal (tiers! sweetheart neckline! in-your-face print!). This time around, I basically just employed my autumn outfit formula: Add a sweater and belt it. I get to wear it without getting asked if I'm going to a themed party, and the tiers aren't compromised. The dress is happy, and so am I.

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