Morningside Montessori

Or do not.

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Here are a few RAW's from our first half day shooting for Morningside Montessori Nursery. In: a mad rush and: 2hours, we pulled together some beautiful images. The old adage about working with children is only true if you dont want to do what they do, and I was all ears and eyes for suggestions! The silence is simply amazing. It is just unbelievable. The kids come in and get busy at their own thing. They can spend all day at one task if its how they're feelin. There's no "Cap'n Jimbo's Deluxe Monster Garage" or "Queen Larissa's self-indulgent Pamper-a-Tron" here. The toys are all really organic and simple. But fun too it seems! The children choose what they want, respect that others do too and get on with it quietly and patiently.

They have music and drama classes and they paint or draw ad-hoc! I'm waiting for adult membership so i can build arches and count to one thousand! Lots more to come.

Deep fog

I love the fog. Then again i am an unwavering pedestrian to the soles of my shoes. But come ON...check that fog?

Its like a bridge to a different world, not as severe as snow is, but it completely transforms the landscape. The pace, the mood, the textures, the colours -everything changes. It turns simple street lights into big sheets of glow. People appear and disappear around you. And you sink deeper into the collar of your coat. Nothing that happens does not feel completely cinematic. Instantly you are the Third Man.


I would definitely enter negotiations at trading the sun in for fog

Strollin' with the homies

Indulging in the finest of luxuries this week, meeting with some estranged but dear mates (Yeah, Real people!) It simply is where its at. Me, The White Whale and The Other Eoghan took to the Mosque kitchen for all the finery on offer. Amazing penny cuisine, the great outdoors, brilliant music conversation and pigeon hunting season. The White Whale serenaded us with outlandish Billy Joel before disappearing, as ever, into the mists of time, with a single flap of his fin.

Spent a gorgeous weekend languishing around a spring-creeping Edinburgh. Coffee and cake, then breakfast and tea, ignored a really disappointing match.... reverse engineering the day as we went. Surely there can be no finer things!The lovelier the light gets, the further i am from ever getting up for a sunset...

The White Whale

The Other Eoghan

The missus

Playing CATch-up

So if im beginning work with children i may as well bumble on to animals too. And hark.

                                           

Me, the lovely Andrea and the "adorable" Cosmo put up a nifty backdrop, some lights and set the mooood for photographs. We had loads of time, we were at leisure with maltesers and we were just waiting on for the magic to happen....and for a cat. Allegedly the worlds most personable cat spent two hours fascinated with all the corners and book shelves. She acted like she had never seen the underneath of a couch in her life. She was, needless to say, working on her invisibility. 

And successfully. Would she come when called? Would she stay for a cuddle? Would she even pose? She would! But all i had do was just raise the camera and she would travel impossible distances in half a second. Anything but let us get what we were after. There's no equation to cats. If i have my dastardly way my future pet is going to be a giant sea turtle. Tragically slow, so i can get at least ten costume changes in the time it takes him to cross the room. And in the evenings, for the price of being my foot rest, he can have all the celery he wants.

So yeah.