pool honeys

she likes to lay out. definitely didn't teach her that. but lounging on her towel in the warm sun is one of her favorite things about the pool. she giggles like nobody's business when we put on her sunscreen. chlorine and sunscreen. ah ah. the smells of summer childhood.

Wednesdays: soup

have you ever had firetruck, airplane, train and shape soup? when prepared by a three year old, its absolutely delish!

E

this roll a month thing is to make sure i'm constantly photographing, but also a bit of a journal of our lives. we lost all our snapshoty digital pictures from E's first 8 months. i had already been doing a lot more 35mm film, but not completely. that has changed now. 100% film in the home life.

E started walking at 10 months. She follows me from room to room. She tries to run. She reaches for things higher up. she's another bookworm. (yaya!) i love her blurry pace. i sat on the floor for about 5 minutes while she walked back and forth, and i was previsualizing this image (thank you, jed wells for inspiring me to do this more). It turned out exactly how I wanted. I was somewhat discouraged with the january roll. I thought I had made a bad decision in this. Nope, totally a good one. :)

can't believe i'm complaining

i know every other artist who is married will want to kick me in the face in about two seconds, but...

whoa!mygosh. lately everytime I talk about wanting to try new projects, etc, T asks if he can model for it for me. the problem of course is that I photograph women. and I'm obviously not married to one, hence the problem about him modeling for my projects.

I'm grateful he is so willing to support me in creating art. I'm so grateful I can talk to him about my art and my desires to show people something new. I'm so grateful he cares. (p.s. he isn't cutting his hair until we're pregnant again, did you know? its a bet with a friend. The thing is, we're not really planning on thinking about that until the end of the summer. eeeeek!)

why can i not get enough of blur lately? so intentional. i love it most with manipulated focal planes with large format, but there is something pleasing, in a way about those circly blurred feet.

ring light.

35mm slr.

fujifilm.

from the february roll

I love how the fall-off shadow is green.

T and I have been together for 5 years. Buying these lamps (last month) was the end of the "Tall Crappy Lamp bc we're poor" era. and I freaking love these lamps. They make our little place feel so much more of a home.

I am really liking that I've been able to capture our real lives thus far with this "at least one roll a month" thing I'm doing. Wanna see the other ways I'm making this the best year of my life? Check em out.

the january roll

so i stayed true to my word about shooting a roll a month. part of the reason i wanted to do this was that we lost ALL of our snapshots from 2010 through a fight to the finish with our computer, i won't go into details. but it won.

these are the ones that speak to me from last month. i really love the one of W. I love how craze his eyes look. I completely remember exactly when i took it. And it says so much about his little "taking it all in so quick" state.

february is a color roll.