Lights. Camera ... Copyright Infringement!?!

So today me and Mum trawled the flea market (£1 camera tripod? Yes please!) and pondered down to the art gallery to see the 'Invitation to the Ballet' exhibition at the Lowry (in Salford Quays for you Manchester lovelys).


Now I've always loved the ballet, like most little girls pretty much all of my drawings at a young age included women walking around on their tippy tippy toes, this has turned into a borderline obsession due to the trailers for 'Black Swan' and the costume designs by Rodarte. So imagine how disappointed I was when I walked into the gallery, saw a room full to bursting with mannequins wearing all of the STUNNING archive pieces, and just as I was about to start snapping away was shouted at by a security guard for 'copyright infringement'!!!

Fear not though! I managed to find one picture of the Firebird costume from 1954 online (it was even more stunning in real life).


Which leads me onto the issue of photography in blogs. Many of my favourite blogs are the one with good quality pictures to go with the story/ outfit. I'm a visual person and I like to see pictures of people's outfits, homes, days out but I also like to see the shops they visited the sights they saw ... when is it ok to take pictures and when isn't it?

For example, yesterday I bought an amazing 1960s two piece suit from Oxfam Originals (which I will show you all very soon) the shop was empty so I asked if I could take a few pictures for my blog. They said no until they spoke to head office to get approval. The next shop I went into is one of my favourite vintage stores, 'Ryan's Vintage' in the Northern Quarter. I asked the manager there and he was more than happy for me to wander the vast shop snapping away and I hadn't even bought anything.

Has anyone else ever had this problem? Does anyone else try to take pictures out and about and if so have you had an experience like this?

In any case these are the pictures I did manage to take, if you are in the area I would definitely recommend visiting!

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Once upon a time, eight years ago to be exact, there was a little girl who wanted to be a photographer. Her parents, who loved the little girl very much, therefore bought her a SLR camera for Christmas. The little girl loved it...

In fact, I still love that camera! But even I have to admit that an upgrade is needed. So I've had my eye on this little beauty for some time. I was going to treat myself to it after Christmas but the loss of job soon put a stop to that plan. So imagine how happy I was when my parents offered to put half towards it as a present!!!



But where on earth was I going to get the other half, sans job?

So, painful as it is, I've decided to clear out my closet on Ebay. The most painful thing was parting with a Limited Edition Kate Moss for Topshop sequin dress ... which is kind of odd as I've never worn it since I got it LAST YEAR.

Which got me thinking, I've got dresses I've never worn but struggle to part with, shoes I bought because they were a bargain which don't really fit, clothes from charity shops which 'I'll get altered to fit one day'. Just how much of my closet do I wear?

The last statistic I heard was that we wear 10% of our clothing, 90% of the time. I'd like to think that it is different for bloggers as we put ourselves and our outfits out there in the blogsphere for scrutiny. What do you guys think?

Do you honestly wear most of your closet?

Do you have anything you can't part with but have never worn?

I'd love to hear your stories so I know I'm not alone!

xXx