I'm thrilled to have Karen use my words and pictures again, and it looks great.
More pictures in my previous post.
Here's the text, as I wrote it:
"Snakes, heat, and vegetables – just another day on location.
Oblivious to the activity around, it was just lazing in the mid-afternoon sun. None of us were particularly surprised to see a snake there, of course – all that lush vegetation and warmth from the greenhouses made it a perfect spot for reptilian creatures. It’s just that it was so near to where we wanted the shot! But our intrepid photographer and model continued working just a few metres from the slumbering python while the rest of the crew got assurances from Joe, the owner of the farm, that it was harmless.Aaaah. Such professionals!
Photographer, Sonny Vandevelde, discovered the location while buying tomatoes from a roadside stall – it was the ramshackle glasshouses that appealed; “so much texture and character”. The area, in Sydney’s north, used to be home to about 3500 glasshouses and market gardens, but sadly, in the early 90’s it’s rural zoning was changed to allow for subdivisions and now all but a few have been bought up by developers – the farms replaced by ticky-tacky townhouses. Lucky for us, Joe is one who has stayed put, at least for now, and we were rewarded with a great location and his welcoming hospitality.
The pleasant cool of the morning turned into a sweltry day once the sun broke through the clouds. For Dutch-born, New York-based model Iekeliene Stange, it was probably a nice change from the icy northern hemisphere.
Inside the glasshouses – all diffused light on alabaster skin – Iekeliene transformed into our very own hot-house flower. With softly tousled hair, care of Travis Balcke, and stylist Michael Azzolini channelling Annie Oakley meets Annie Hall, it was a bohemian rhapsody of flashback fringe, felt and hats.
A late lunch was had on the back of a trailer – washed down with plenty of water in the parching heat – and with only a few outfits to go, the day wrapped up (relatively) early with 10 looks in the bag. Easy!
All a little bit country, a little bit rock and roll, and the flora and fauna remained intact."
So it seems that my text remained relatively intact after edit, except for an added em dash, and the replacement of my evocative "sweltry day", with the contradictory "swelteringly dry day".
Argh! I cringe at the thought someone will read my text in the magazine and think I wrote "swelteringly dry"!
I can just hope that people who read fashion magazines won't notice???
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