Local inspiration: muses and lenses

The best in local portrait, street style and fashion photography from local muses and lenses, gathered via Twitter, Facebook and blog uploads from the past week.

Photographer Benjamin Fredrickson captures his pooch Monsieur Loïc Fredrickson in Polaroid form.

Style blogger Kitty Cotten plays with her kitty.

Vision model Ashlee Walker goes to the Renaissance Festival. (Photo: Corey Tenold)

Actress Hina Khan wears a dress by Kerry Riley of local line Needle & Black in her L.A. adventures. (Click here for more photos by Cara Recine.)

MPLSTYLE.com does a style spotlight on local men's style blogger Corey Tenold of Trnds.com.

Naures Sager gets focused. (Photo: Marissa Wetzel)

Secrets Fashion Agency PR director Davee Ek tries out her new camera and new summer-into-fall style.

Ignite model John-Mark gets moody for New York photographer Carolyn Griffin.

Photographer Claire Molepske cuddles up.

The Minneapoline's Ellen Dahl Lawson snaps some folks at the last Walker Music & Movies in the Park screening for Vita.mn, including hairstylist Emily Angelo.

Dirty Hair Halo style blogger Shannon Licari cuts a mean figure in a pencil skirt and wedges.

Ignite Model Whitney Fransway walks the rainy streets of Seoul with a friend.

Local inspiration: muses and lenses

The best in local portrait, street style and fashion photography from local muses and lenses, gathered via Twitter, Facebook and blog uploads from the past week.



Christo Collins gets flashed.



Sustainable fashionista Sarah Ditty gets profiled.



Photographer Amy Gee loves her cat.



Photographer Benjamin Fredrickson gazes at the lens.





Trnds.com blogger Corey Tenold snaps himself snapping something else.



Jewelry designer Stephanie Lake and her sister are clearly related.



Vision model Ashlee Walker works the camera.



Vision model Mary Cann gets ready for her closeup in a forthcoming editorial.



Hina Khan gets candid in an outtake from the film Death to Prom.



Secrets Fashion Agency PR director Davee Ek dons sophisticated sweats on a rooftop patio.



The ladies of Secrets Fashion Agency illustrate how to dress tees by FFB (FURFACE BOY) up and down.



Ellen Dahl Lawson of The Minneapoline catches model Tearra Rosario in a look by local designer Raul Osorio for Star Tribune at the local premiere of Project Runway Season 9 at Thom Pham's Wondrous Azian Kitchen.



Fashionasty blogger Jake Thompson goes medallion-print nuts for men's style blog MPLSTYLE.com.



Wonderblood style blogger Julia juxtaposes floral and mint.



Dirty Hair Halo blogger Shannon Licari works it out in faux leather, denim and feathers.



Erin Johnson takes in a Bombay Sapphire bartending competition.

Rising photographer Brad Ogbonna featured on Dazed Digital

Dazed Digital - the online version of arts, culture, music and style magazine Dazed & Confused - just did a photography feature on rising lifestyle photographer (and a regular on my weekly muses and lenses photo feature) Brad Ogbonna. Obgonna, who recently made the move from Minnesota back to New York, showcases his work and answers questions for the mag.

[Sarah Ditty photographed by Brad Ogbonna]

Dazed Digital: Your style of work is very varied, shooting all kinds of subjects - What style of photography feels more natural to you?

Brad Ogbonna: Definitely lifestyle and editorial - photographing subjects in their natural state with little interference on my end is when I am most comfortable. Shooting friends and age-mates has been fun since there is already a rapport and familiarity present that makes capturing unique moments very easy, but the rush and excitement I get from shooting a person for the first time is second to none. I am always careful not to encroach on my subject’s space too much so that the photos will retain the individual’s style as much as possible.



Check out the full interview and photo gallery at DazedDigital.com.

Local inspiration: muses and lenses

The best in local portrait, street style and fashion photography from local muses and lenses, gathered via Twitter, Facebook and blog uploads from the past week.

METRO Magazine fashion editor wears watercolor against a backdrop of red.



Style blogger Shannon Licari of Dirty Hair Halo combines feather earrings, sequins and trousers with aplomb.



Minnesota native model Whitney Fransway (locally repped by Ignite Models Inc.) goes mod in a bobbed 'do.



Style blogger Chloe Ahlf shares photos from her studies abroad in Paris.



Brandon Werth shoots some out-of-the-box, gorgeous wedding photographs of new couple Mary and Chris.



Julia of style blog Wonderblood illustrates how to wear white without looking like a bride.



Amy Gee previews her promotional shoot for the Vanessa Zahid Jewelry launch in September, with clothing from Gina Marie Vintage, as modeled by Samantha Hirschfield, with hair by Poonoy Chanthavongsa and makeup by Julie Lam.



Photographer Brad Ogbonna catches some rays.



Ellen Dahl Lawson snaps the coolest little girl in Minneapolis for The Minneapoline.



Diya In Her Stilettos snaps Secrets Fashion Agency director Angel Yang in accessories for miles.