"Every great dream begins with a dreamer.
Always remember, you have within you the strength,
the patience, and the passion
to reach for the stars to change the world."
-Harriet Tubman
Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts
Every great dream...
1.23.2011
This weekend I went down to eugene and did a photoshoot for one of my dear friends Juliette and her daughter Hayden. I have shot Hayden before but I was very excited to photograph the two of them together. They are both so beautiful and have such a light to them. I have been wanting to share more about my photography so here goes. Here are just a few images from the shoot. I love them all but the first ones are my favorite from the day.
I'd love to know what you think.
Any favorites?
1.12.2011
I have sort of left my photography out of the spotlight on this blog. I have a photo blog but have been waiting to launch in along side my website. I have been wanting to share my passion for photography more and more lately and I simply cant wait any longer. It is part of me, it is my art, my air, the way I see and speak life. Here are some of my favorite photos from one of my favorite photographers Rodney Smith. He is so unique and brings such beauty to his imagery. Please enjoy some inspiration.
pure beauty.
2.24.2010
This is such a cool photography project! I LOVE IT!
Every week, photographers ian land and caroline hancox each take a photograph and email it to each other. they then create a diptych of the photos and display them on a website, taking turns deciding which photo goes on the left and which one goes on the right. to make things more interesting they live 114 miles apart, have never met and do not know what the other one has taken during the week.
Arent the wonderful?
You can check out their website here.
I so want to do this!
10.23.2009
I dont think I am going to be able to express just how wonderful (and awesome) today was. It started off normal enough, wake up, get dressed/ready, drink coffee with the boyfriend, walk to car, kiss the boyfriend goodbye, drive to work. Pretty standard. However, I just had this feeling it was gonna be a good day, I even tweeted about it! So Ive been at work for about 45 and I get a call from my boss letting me know I would be off work at noon...Awesome!!! I was so happy. I called the boyfriend and told him and he, being so awesome and clever, suggested we take a drive to the beach! Awesome! So a few hours later we are in his car and on our way to the water!
The best part of the drive was when the boyfriend suddenly turned off the road and into the Dairy Queen parking lot. See, I have been complaining a bit lately. About this whole pumpkin thing. Every where I turn some one is drinking a pumpkin spiced this or eating a pumpkin spiced that. I have completely missed the pumpkin train and for days I have been moaning and groaning about it. Seriously, all I am hearing these days are wonderful pumpkin spiced stories. I have been jealous and I think the boyfriend may have just wanted to shut me up because he bough me the most delicious pumpkin blizzard! It was unreal, and now I understand exactly what all this pumpkin fuss is about. I have officially boarded the pumpkin train, and I am never getting off!
We made it to the beach, even though, I, of course, fell asleep for the very last bit of the drive (its a rarity when I stay awake for an entire car trip). It was so pretty there. We walked pretty far down the beach until we found the perfect spot of sand nestled between some tall and flowing grass. There is something so beautiful about the beach in the fall. All of the colors blend together creating a soft scene of serenity. We laid on a blanket and kept each other warm. We sat and people watched, saying entirely inappropriate things. I finally bought new batteries for my film SLR and it was so much fun shooting film again. I dont know what it is but something about the beach just screams black and white film to me. But the best part was our conversation. We always have amazing conversations, he really is my best friend and talking is one of the things we do best. But something about today was just special. We got it all out there, we each talked and listened and it was wonderful. The entire time, we just talked. And it continued for the entire car ride home too. Im just lucky I guess. To have someone so amazing to talk with everyday. Its much harder to come by than some might think. And I am just one of the lucky few!
When we got home, it was time to hang! We finally joined our friends for the awesome thursday night ritual! Go to Taylor and JonMon's apartment to watch The Office, Always Sunny and DVRed episodes of Fantasy Factory and Nitro Circus (while drinking PBR). The Gang tonight included: Taylor, JonMon, Kait, Jessi, Griz, Steven, Adumb, the boyfriend and me! It was so fun and so awesome.
Kitten
(Jon)Montana
The BF
Kait & Jessi
TayBayBay
These...are my people.
well, some of them.
Oh, and for you fellow Summer Heights High Fans...
Puck You Miss!
10.16.2009
Today I got to do something I have wanted to do for years. As a nanny I am constantly with children, watching them grow and discover. It is awesome. There has been this project that I have been waiting to do with a child, but I had to wait for some one that was at an appropriate age for it to be worthwhile. S is the perfect age. The perfect age to discover photography!
So I took S and little O to the store and let him pick out his first disposable camera. I have wanted to do this project with film because I adore film. There is something so special about taking a photo and not getting to immediately see it on the back of your camera. There is chance and mystery about it and I wanted S to experience this. After we got the camera we headed home and I taught him how to use it. He too many pictures of his sister and his toys but I had him save half of them so we could go outside later and take the rest.
The outside photos were great! He photographed tons of trees and leaves and got some great pumpkin shots! I loved seeing him enjoying the experience as much as I was! He had a blast and so did I!
The rest of the project consists of getting the photos developed and having him go with me to pick them up and then see his photography first hand. Being able to pick up each photo and look at it in his hands instead of on a computer screen will give a greater sense of accomplishment. Or at least I think so! I would love to date them and put them in a scrap book and then repeat this project at least once a month so we can all track his progression. So far so good!
So I took S and little O to the store and let him pick out his first disposable camera. I have wanted to do this project with film because I adore film. There is something so special about taking a photo and not getting to immediately see it on the back of your camera. There is chance and mystery about it and I wanted S to experience this. After we got the camera we headed home and I taught him how to use it. He too many pictures of his sister and his toys but I had him save half of them so we could go outside later and take the rest.
The outside photos were great! He photographed tons of trees and leaves and got some great pumpkin shots! I loved seeing him enjoying the experience as much as I was! He had a blast and so did I!
The rest of the project consists of getting the photos developed and having him go with me to pick them up and then see his photography first hand. Being able to pick up each photo and look at it in his hands instead of on a computer screen will give a greater sense of accomplishment. Or at least I think so! I would love to date them and put them in a scrap book and then repeat this project at least once a month so we can all track his progression. So far so good!
Here are the photos from the next day:
Awesome!
10.05.2009
Girls and Goodbyes!
So I have this awesome group of friends. We are a group of girls, yes, girls! I know its weird when I have girls around. Anyways, the not awesome news is one of them, Brandi, is moving to California in 2 weeks. It is very sad, but it is the best thing for her and her family right now, she has a husband and 2 beautiful kids. So one of the girls had the awesome and brilliant idea to bring the three girls that live in Eugene up here to the two of us that live in Portland for a day trip and some goodbyes. Shalane, the other Portland friend, just had an adorable baby girl not even 3 weeks ago, and two of them had not met her yet also! So it was set to be a day of hellos (to the baby) and goodbyes (to Brandi.)
We all met up at Shalanes house and started the awesome trek to Macaroni Grill! Yum!!!! It was so fun to be all girly and talk about drama and boys for a change. We taunted the waiter that wouldnt give us the time of day for the first half hour we were there. But once I gave my obscenely particular and wit-filled order, he befriended us and was quite an awesome kick in the pants! I had the most amazing and awesome pasta EVER! We talked about weddings and babies, boyfriends and jobs, bars and slutty girls from high school. It was awesome.
Stephanie and Brandi
Rachelle and Shalane
(the sisters if you couldnt tell :) )
I love these girls so much. We arent the closest group of friends, but with out fail, every birth or birthday, wedding or breakup bash, promotion or whenever someone just needs the rest of us, we all come together. It is going to be very sad to not have Brandi be a part of all of these moments anymore. But on the awesome side of things, we now have an awesome reason for an awesome road trip to the awesome bay area!
Brandi, Steph, Shalane, Rachelle, and Me
Oh! And Baby Audrey!
After my official goodbyes to everyone I headed over to the boyfriends. He had wanted me to come over after my girly get-together all day and I was looking forward to seeing him. BUT, when I got there it was dark and loud and our friend Kevin was over. AND, they were playing video games. The loud shooting obnoxious and annoying kind. It was so far from awesome I wanted to puke! They sure loved it though.
The Boyfriend
Big Kev
Lovin this STOOPID game
So I took an awesome nap instead (if you havent noticed I have this little love affair with naps) and then finished my awesome pasta! The night ended awesomely enough, I fell asleep wrapped in the boyfriend. Always awesome!
Mini Awesomes:
1. Two hours of waking up, playing, drinking coffee, taking pictures and flirting with the boyfriend in bed.
2. No parking ticket from yesterday!
3. Catching up with my best friend Rachelle in private during the car ride.
4. Seeing baby Audrey again!
5. Amazing Pasta, Seriously AWESOME!
Does anyone have a group of friends that have been split up like this before?
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