Recently, I have been plagued by a tendency to buy old dresses from the 50´s cheap off of ebay. I don’t want them for myself, they are all really tiny (I guess that’s why no one else ever bids on them) and I’d have to like loose half of my body weight and surgically remove a couple of ribs to fit into them. But they are all so pretty that I want to own them, to keep in my closet like big pieces of artwork made of tulle and old perfume.
But nevertheless, I wanted to use this dress for a photo session so when Sanna came back into town in the beginning of summer I called her and begged and pleaded for her to pose for me as a birthday present. She was kind enough to agree, and on my very birthday she showed up at my parents' house, where we halfway managed to squeeze her into the dress of doom and while my sister obscured the blazing sun with an old umbrella she made pretty poses in front of the various pretty plants in my parents’ garden.
Here she is sitting beside the little pond my parents felt the need to create a couple of years ago. This is the last photo I plan to submit from this session, I'm not sure I really like it but I love how the dress looks in it. It is really a lovely dress, I love all of the tulle and the little pink fake roses that decorate it.

This photo was one of the first colour photos I copied myself, in the colour copying machine that my sister and me has finally got up and running in the dark room. It's really amazing to finally be able to get exactly the colours and skin tones I'm after.
This is also the second test run with my new medium format camera, which I’m beginning to love.

Model:
Camera: Pentax 67
Film: Kodak Portra 160 VC
No photoshop, except from dust removal due to my lousy scanner.