empty your cup

You are not seeing double. Above are two slightly different processing techniques on the image. I cannot decide which one I like more (and I'd of course love any input you guys have). It is a cup in the office of a midwife I know. She told me about her philosophy that you can't go around with your cup full all the time. You need to allow others to fill it, to take the good they want to offer and have a place to put it within yourself. Its a beautiful sentiment. BUT WHAT IMAGE CONVEYS THAT, EH?

doing some trade work

....and I get to be surrounded by and introduced to parents who understand that sometimes, dragon costumes are a necessary piece of clothing. LOVE.THIS.PICTURE.

i've been sewing

so is it wrong that I desire beautiful things made by other people to continue to inspire me? Check out the quilts at gracie lane. LOVELY!

Last Night

... thought the title is a GREAT song by the Strokes, I actually AM writing about last night.

I saw the meteor shower. With Kiera. I was at her house showing her the images below, and the meteor lit up the entire living room. It was blue and orange and absolutely breathtaking. Proof positive that God "gets" (and designed) color wheels.

The images are a few (more to come) of the large format portraits I did of her family. We did a mix of group/individual, some of which were out of the studio (remember that elated post?). There will be more to come from that shoot, but I must say, I just LOVE these... I sat scanning them and kept saying "I Don't Suck!" (is that a surprise?!) I'm very happy with them! I know that I captured intimate details of relationships as well as fun elements of personalities. Hope you enjoy!

Two Things:

Today I wished I could take my own family photos (though we've always gotten fantastic ones from the people who have done them... I just REALLY dig the ones I did this weekend)...



and I thought everyone should know that my friends are SO PRETTY when they are pregnant. I've realized I'm the common factor... so if you wanna be pretty when you're pregnant, you might wanna be friends with me ;O)


You can see more of this family shoot HERE and HERE. You can also schedule some of your own if you're so inclined. Studio shots do not have to be LAME like JCP. Just sayin'.

POST 200

200? really? i'm flattered and I don't know what to say! In roughly the last year I've shot enough that I have had 200 things to share. Hooray for that. Its nice to see that I am in a photographic groove! So far, all of November I have been in the studio at least 4 times a week. After my bout with pneumonia (and the resulting busted ribs that still are healing), I'm running full pregnant speed towards my photographic goals! (Julie, that's for you. I'm not actually running... its pregnant speed. DON'T WORRY!)

I feel like I should do something more fantastic for this post, but instead I'll just share two favorites from what I just finished up. It was from the summer, and this is the LAST summer job that I needed to finish up. Everything else is done (has been for awhile, eek!), but this one, maybe it was just because I miss the subjects so much, I just didn't want to finish it in some ways. But, well, I have.





You can see more on my commercial blog (or schedule some of your very own), or on the proofing site.

MATTER: Ben

meet my nephew. Winner of the best "osstreeech" ever prize.
Willing to do anything and has the best comedic endurance I've ever seen.

This was shot with a large format camera and film.