Angie

I like her face. 

holly

breaking out

i like

her. so much.

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.

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.

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.

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.

MATTER: my mom

The third visit from my mom this year. Everytime and every phone call I collect a new gem. I give her anecdotes and advice on parenting more than I ever give my own opinion. She has a phD in parenting. And has since the beginning of time. I love her. I love the personal epiphanies she has, and the truths she taught me by many campfires. I love that, upon viewing my pictures by Katrina for At Mother's Breast, my mom said, "it is really interesting seeing you become the earthy mother I was." That is a compliment I will NEVER forget. Thank you, mom.



so i did 3 frames of my mom before driving her to the airport. It was similar to the five minute portrait of my dad. I like this one the most because of the glare on her glasses. It was intentional. Her eyes are full of light, always pointed towards the good. This project is all about capturing photographs that will show my kids WHO mattered, but also WHY. I feel I have accomplished that in this one especially.

outside the western nut co downtown. the dark chocolate chiptole almonds were truly awful, but the sweet onion marmalade has changed my life!

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.

MATTER: Adrianne

adrianne has been my best friend since before high school. she's an achiever. a realist, sometimes my polar opposite but always there. steady, reliable, loyal.

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.

The Takahashis

This image pretty much sums up this session. Arm-pumping fun.


What do you get when you mix a GORGEOUS mama and a asian (best genes ever!) papa? BEAUTIFUL GIRLS. This sessions marks a new point for me. I did some natural light of these clients. I'm very pleased with the image of the dad. VERY. So much that this is the 2nd time its graced the blog.






More images available at the proofing site . However, its password protected, so sorry, folks!