My grandmothers pearls, a gorgeous actress and a wonderful team helped to create this image which was inspired by a portrait of actress Laura Dern by photographer Dan Winters.
Actress Eliza Hargreaves as photographed by belle ancell
Actress Laura Dern as photographed by Dan Winters
Awesome team: Assistant Bridget Shacklette, MOI, Model Eliza Hargreaves, Hair Stylist Hair by Soo.
And she is. She literally stops traffic!!
The West End BIA asked me to share what I love about the West End on their Instagram account for a week.
I'm a Main Street girl but I spend a lot of time over there. It's always fun to have company on an outing so I asked my friend Conni Smudge along after her regular Hott Smudge Sunday Brunch at the Junction.
Here are some of my favorite moments from our adventures together. Thank you Conni. XoXo
Follow me on Instagram @belleancell for more images from my wonderful LGBTQ community and my Vancouver life.
Exciting to see my client Amber Dawn and the image we created together in the Vancouver Sun's review of her new poetry book, which is beautiful and raw by the way.
My client Connie Buna shares her good fortune in a compassionate way.
“The youth homelessness crisis has become even more personal for me, I see it not just as a person that lives and works in the community, but also as a mother. Some kids are being displaced and feel like they have nowhere to go, it tears my heart out. No one is a ‘lost cause’, with the right opportunities and the security of not having to figure out where to sleep at night, they have their entire lives ahead of them.”
Read how Connie is using her real estate business to help Rain City Housing find a home for every person.
I've recently discovered you get the best reactions using similar techniques with children and with dogs.
For best results be sure to have toys on hand, make funny faces, crawl on the ground and jump up and down.
Happy 10th Anniversary to the Perry-McPherson family.
Thanks to Graham Spence, Debbie Pipe and Jason Husmillo for capturing all the fun at my first solo photo show and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence 5th Anniversary party.
I feel so grateful to the Sisters for this wee photo project that somehow took on a life of it's own and brought the community together in love and celebration.
I look forward to watching the Abbey grow and photographing more beautiful Sisters !!!
Outlook TV's coverage of the evening. Story begins at 9:09 minutes.
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are a 21st Century order of Queer nuns.
They believe in spreading universal joy and expiating stigmatic guilt.
‘Unveiled' is a series of 10 portraits of the Sisters ‘in face’ and also without their facial makeup, or in ‘Boy Drag’ as they call it. I photographed them on an ethereal white background, as if they were walking through heaven’s door.
I find the Sisters beautiful. The designs and vibrant colours they choose for their faces and the playful, sexy outfits they create themselves express their individuality. I am intrigued with how they express their masculine and feminine sides. They are masculine in appearance, but to me when they are ‘in face’, they transform into beautiful feminine Deities.
Perhaps that is why I feel reverence in their presence.
Vancouver portrait photographer Belle Ancell specializes in creating heirloom fine art for families.
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