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.

oh.my.

i'm pushing myself outta the comfort zone. and i love the unwily-ness of what i shot this with, yeah, an old school 70's era slr on a profoto ring light. yeah, you guess it, that curvy cut on the right-- that is my camera halfway pointing at the inside dome.

i love that this image looks funny bc a) little L is wearing a tux next to a bathing suit clad girl and b) that he looks so puzzles over it.

regardless of how awkward it was to hold (SLR is SUPER SMALL for a ring light), this picture (and another i'll be posting) are so freaking fabulous with it.

I did learn that my shutter is not accurate @ 1/125. So i'll be working on that, I guess.

Sigh. I love film.

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.

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.

deadlines

Hi all. Hope this friday is treating you well.

I've got a deadline steadily approaching for the first juried show I'm entering this year. I'm submitting 3, so give me so opinions, puhlease.

These are all large formats by yours truly.