Mannequin

Mannequin. A designy shot taken at the 2013 Laura Ashley exhibition at the splendid Bowes Museum, near Barnard Castle in County Durham. Not my normal type of subject matter, but I was in the area and visiting the Bowes Museum, and decided to wander in for a touch of nostalgia. I'm glad I did. The exhibition was celebrating the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Laura Ashley label, and showing the vision of the romantic heroine that she brought to fashion in the 1960s and '70s. It included 70 dresses from this era, on loan from the Laura Ashley archive in Wales, the Fashion Museum in Bath and private collections. I was pleased with my photo, though I should have taken out the line just visible in the background (maybe I will). But in competition the judge didn't like it, apparently unhappy about a body with no head.

Technical: NIKON D300, f=95.0 mm, ISO800, 1/15 sec @ f5.6

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