more from the get together.
i sat on the floor and just watched...
sliding the bellows back and forth (i call them billows all the time. bellowsbillows.)
and watching.
i like these so much.

so sexy

oh how i love the color red on women. i enjoyed this get together with kiera, leslie and holly. yes and yes.

more light

i love the light in their room. I wish the window weren't quite so high, but i love the curtains (thank you Laura for making them in trade ). i won the alphabet. The drawing is by none other than Jeff Hein, whom I have the privilege of knowing. Its of E nursing and Todd and I both love it so much. So tender, and such a real and everyday part of our parenting. Happy life.

the light

this is the best light in my home. right in the kitchen. every november we do a "thankful tree" where we each write a leaf each day. i like how our tree is growing.. and i like to think about how big it will be once my kids are older. thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. kinda sad its already gone, but i'm happy i documented this.

bonnie in color

mamiya c330 porta 400

bonnie in black and white

mamiya c330 xp2

baby shower gift

in the last year, i've really embraced taking sweet, real photos of babies. these were of sweet carlyn's new one. she is a rocking artist. blows.my.mind. seeing their awesome familiy timeline made me think about all the chances we had to be true friends before it finally stuck. i respect and love her. what a lucky lady.

checking out drafts

apparently i never published this one. this picture is fun. those chairs are fun (and won't be in my house for at least 20+ years based solely on their light color and stain-ability). That mirror rocks.

old finds

they rock my world.

couldn't resist

just one more of my beautiful old assistant and her beau. AND i learned a new way to tie my scarves that is so pretty and different. Thank you thank you. And we honked at dogs, and tromped in mud and laughed and laughed.

my old assistant met a boy

they're pretty in love and it makes me happy.

all on Mami. with film.

friend

click to enlarge

oh film. your latitude. i love love.

found some good light pockets. i like them. totally diggin' xp2. favorite.

happy happy with the results of this little ten minute naptime shoot with my friend, Christopher. I will remember how his glasses kept getting darker because it was sunny outside. I will remember how strange it was to try to photograph someone taller than me with Mami. 

I have been wanting to create something real of him for years. Its ridiculous how backburner things can become. 

Take something off the backburner this month, ok, peeps? Get something photographed that matters to you.

i like

friends that come over for me to do this:

but spend most of their time doing this:

Seriously. Christopher was a friend in college, but we've only become closer since and Todd and I both consider him a worthwhile friend of our family. W & E adore him. He has a good heart. So grateful for him.

long grass

oh the end of summer.

wednesdays: a "new" old one

so before Mami got serviced (by Forster's. They're great), she was doing this funky thing where she wouldn't advance rolls, and then she would only go to exposure 6. Anyway, this film was before I took her in. I've finally scanned it. I found this image and the double exposure didn't show up initially, until I started messing with the scan curve. WHOA.



its funky and fun. I like it. Its circa april 2010.

beautiful beautiful beautiful, beautiful girl

at a party awhile ago, me and a dearie tried to get over stranger fears when photographing. Mine is somewhat beaten out of me because I have been known to ask strangers to come in and be subjects for my personal studies (the images are worth the few minutes of sounding like a moron).

this is my personal stranger of the evening. asked to photograph her. her response was beyond sweet. I love her face, so classic.

fascinator

i'm not good at headpieces. wearing them, that is. but i'm beyond marginally pleased with this image of one.

late afternoon alabama sun.

click to enlarge. really. worth it. promise.

I LOVE the reflected light on her face, the bokeh on the right, the absolute warmth and perfection of the memory this captured.  I want to print this HUGE.

more than two

 here's another, from the beginning with Mami. I have 8 rolls waiting to be developed. A good talk with a new photo friend let me own that I'm scared to try a new lab, even though I know I need to. Courage! Its on the goal list for the week.

double exposure to the 2nd power

all i know, is its at least six.

wheeler farm

from the archives

sept 2008.