Angie

I like her face. 

instants

personally, i love this. 

such a great face.

new instants

from a session on saturday.

4 yrs old

in studio, used just the modeling lights on the strobes.

1/30 @ 5.6 (I think).

eeee!

a picture OF one of my pictures from the market. This girl, oh I love her. I didn't know she had documented having her instant portrait taken.

halfsies

this crop and composition seems to be calling to me lately.

fuji 100-c instant film. 4x5". f/5.6 @ 1/4sec. thanks for holding still.
window light
on location @ carolee's.

what its been like:

I've done the market half of my dates, 2 out of 4.

Watching people's responses (all joyful! yaya!) show up in the blogosphere, on their facebook pages, and via my fanpage, its been really cool. This week you'll be seeing some more scanned negs from the black and white instants I shot on the 16th, but alas, my color ones (which had me emoting. LOUDLY. ) are truly one of a kind. The negs get funky color (that can be very cool sometimes) when the back is bleached off. So the prints are truly their own little art pieces.

One of the greatest things about the 16th was watching some plans come to fruition. A fellow photographer  was so taken with the idea of instants that she planned it into a project she has been doing (which is breathtaking), and I was able to link her with a painter. It was beautiful. You can check out her post about it. I'm flattered, to say the least. I ended my day creating images of her.

Here's another from that day:

instants

Fuji Instant. Measures 4x5". Straight outta camera. From the other day out with the ladies. Like what I'm doing at the market.  Jessica is gorgeous, talented and real. This image = worth every second to haul my camera down steps. The instant gratification is so tasty. Especially when the results are this divine. Slowing down and taking the time to really really look makes for  beautiful beautiful images. Holding this print was a highlight to my week, and also a rejuvenation for me about images I create.

two matrons

On the right is Dixie Snow Huefner. She recently was awarded Distinguished Woman of the Year. If you pay attention to Utah politics at all, you may have heard in recent years about the push for an independent ethics board for our legislature. Listening to her speak was enlightening, to say the least. Talking to her during their commission was awe-inspiring but also rekindled my activist gene. Her mother (on the left), is her main inspiration, she said.

Save the Date: June 18th (tomorrow!)

Hi Everyone! As I've said here on the blog, I'll be doing instant large format portraits at the SLC farmer's market a few saturdays this summer. Here are some samples that I created so people can have an idea of what my work looks like.

I'll be just about at the corner of 400 West and 400 South.
Come by.
Have one taken of you.
or someone who matters
and you want something tangible of.

these will take your breath away. they sure did for me.
Holding a print immediately that is of large format detail is
unreal.

applying

polaroid type-55 instant

there's a lotta change and challenge going on for me artistically and business-wise. Last night I submitted an application to do a few Saturdays at the Downtown SLC farmer's market doing instant large format portraits. If I get in (and I hope I'm an accepted vendor. How cool would it be to have my huge camera out there, doing my thing at the market?!), I'll be there 4 or so saturdays, just to try it out. I'm really thankful for photography friends who have listened to me talk about this (for the past year) and have encouraged me to pursue it. Also super grateful for a new photo friend Mitchel Issel who helped me fix my crazy polaroid back. Such a fan of community and people who learn geeky technical stuff from tinkering around.

The goopy paper is still on this one, but this gives you a feel for what the portraits will be like. I took this in about five minutes set-up (for focusing, posing, etc). Actual exposure time was 1/4 @f/5.6.

This is what the set up looked like. It'll be better (with a table and canopy) at the actual market.

What I Submitted

to explain:

the top image was the first one i thought of when i heard about this competition. I feel like it is the way my work is headed right now.

the second one is the one of my strongest pieces from a commissioned series (did you know i accept commissions? I do.)

the third- week 31 of my sizes series i did when i was pregnant with e. i love the colors, i love how softly the focus fades (gotta love large format and skewed focal planes. yummy).

SO, we'll see. I guess I hear in a month. Congrats to my friends Kiera, Carolee, Katrina, and who also entered.

deadlines

Hi all. Hope this friday is treating you well.

I've got a deadline steadily approaching for the first juried show I'm entering this year. I'm submitting 3, so give me so opinions, puhlease.

These are all large formats by yours truly.

MATTER: Briana

briana

she's so beautiful, inside and out.

so thankful I was commissioned to do images of her.

she's a midwife for homebirth.

she was at E's, support of two, i had.

you should be a fan of her.

ordered

quite a while ago, I met a gorgeous pregnant lady in the smith's parking lot. She was breathtaking. I had her come into the studio.

a month or so back, I got a email from her, their computer had crashed and they lost all their pictures. She wondered if I still had the ones we did (yes).

Open to the beauty of film. It is fairly indestructible. Here is one of the ones I printed for her. I love love love it.

MATTER: Carolyn

for regular epiphanies, amongst many other things.

the third

sigh

created something lovely. this is a reawakening for me.

Commissioned: Kiera & Matias

this is the second session in a series documenting my dear friend and her children in relation to her next baby (due so soon!)

You can view the rest here.

MATTER: Cathy

Cathy
because "no one right, no one wrong"
is who you are.

couldn't pick a favorite.

this was my midwife with E, who was born at home.

found

i was looking through some old prints* i had made in the darkroom, with chemicals and everything, that i had mixed up myself), and i came upon this contact print. This was one of my early test images when i was starting to think about doing unmadeup. sigh. i love type-55. i still have some, actually.

in other news, i went to the farmer's market today and unabashedly asked not one, but TWO different women if they would come sit for me. which reminds me, i need to schedule in when to have people come who responded to the other project i'm working on.

happy labor day to all!


you might not remember these. you hold them IN YOUR HANDS! and look at them that way, instead of on a screen.