demonstrated

Camera.

complete with shutter release and viewfinder (that is really long).

we were photographing tomatoes.

i have this thing

with ambient light. I only photograph it super yellow. and it always looks kinda creepy. i'm going for warm and inviting, of course. but nope. just creepy is what i get. i did photograph these lamps before and it was nicer.

while mentoring

I grabbed these two shots. i am loving the square. The 222 building is newer, at least to me. I can tell a big difference downtown since we first moved here and I am really liking this city more and more. I think Within Walking Distance is slated to make a comeback in June.

good Mami

while i was out, definitely got some looks. but its not the kind of looks that tell you, hey! you still got it. nope, its the kinda looks where they are looking because of your camera. Remember how Mami is super pretty? Yeah. Proved it while i was out.

the retro rose

Can I just say how much I love this picture? The bokeh makes me swoon, and the tones, OH the tones.

Back when pictureline was on 200 east, I went there once and afterwards was walking around a bit and found the retro rose. I've gotten a few things there over the years, always classic pieces that I love, even from the first thing I got there. a few weeks back I met christine there so we could walkabout and photograph downtown. It was kinda raining here and there but it was the kind that feels SO good. Well, this was right after I had picked up Mami from the shop. I literally got one frame outta her that day then had to carry her around for nothing (or, if I remember correctly, christine did, thank you again).

why would i have the person i was with carry around my camera? well, see, this was wrapped onto me:

A friend gave me a korean backwrap (I'm sure there is a much more beautiful name for it), and christine is lovely and oh so accommodating. She even took that picture and i La La La LOVE it.

But for real, peeps. getting back Mami and working with her has been more of a learning curve than I was anticipating. I won't be discouraged, of course, but photographing lines that should be straight is not in my foreseeable future, let's just say that.

our house

lest you think i'm joking when i say one/both of my kids are sick. yeah. this is what my days look like sometimes between october and may.

my new best friend

Meet Mami. (Said  Ma Mi, like mommy with a spanish accent)
She's been a occupant of my top left closet corner for awhile now.
(Talk about embarrassing that she's been so poorly treated).
I tried photographing with her a couple of times, but then she started getting stuck
on the sixth exposure of every roll I shot. And its not like you can just
push a button on the bottom and wind it back on a 120 roll like you can
with a 35mm camera.

So I took her to be serviced.
And they cleaned her up. And I was so excited. And I hauled her 45 minutes walking to go photograph with her.
And we get to exposure Six and what do you know... she's jammed.
SO bummed.
So I took her back. And they looked at her again.
We were reunited on friday.
And all day today I've been photographing with her.
Past exposure Six.
I'll be excited to share images later this week.

Something I love about this set up is that I have this accessory that I can use for easier holding. It has a shutter release button on the handle so its user friendly. Something I don't love about it, is that scratch you can see on my table that it causes (click image to enlarge). I want to only take this camera and one 35mm when we go on our massive, 3 week east coast up and down trip in May, but with kids I need to get used to operating this baby and composing with her.

Just thought I'd share what's going on with me. What's going on with you?

day booking it: reflecting

back in the day, i went on a photo trip to goblin valley. i have some good memories. i knew that landscapes weren't for me, then, just like i know it now. especially since there was a professional guy there with like 12 cameras set up in different parts of the park, and he spent the whole time running around checking if any of us were in his shots, and then asking us, awkwardly, if we'd move. he was visiting from japan, if i remember correctly.

what i like about this picture is that it was the first instance where i really paid attention to the light that is STILL there after the sun goes down. I also learned for the first time about the spatial properties of wide-angle lenses. I wish there was more of this, traveling with other photographers and creating real images, regardless of if that type of photography is our cup of tea or not.