tickled pink

261/365: annabelle hydrangea turning pink

I guess it’s her little secret as to why, but something has our old-fashioned white hydrangea blushing positively pink…

old school

248/365: vintage camera

I am not a hater when it comes to digital photography. I credit the digital revolution with my own artistic career. Honestly, I never would have taken the time or the risks to discover my own vision with film; I wouldn’t have been able to afford it!

Digital photography gave me the freedom to explore and to fail. It was OK to take 200 photos – just to see what would happen – and then throw them away. It still is.

Nonetheless, I wax a little poetic when I see vintage cameras. There is a beauty to the object that makes me feel nostalgic, appreciative, and itchy – like I want to go buy some film and just see what happens.

perspective / how’s the view?

It really all comes down to how you frame it. What you choose to include. To leave out.

It’s less important what it is.  How do you see it?

96/365: frames

turn out the lights

It’s a ready-made, albeit mildly tragic romance: I fall for the fading beauty every time. I’m just a sucker for opulence softened by patina, the poignant decay of the exquisite.

27/365: chandelier

05.29.13 still sweet

Back to the sweet life with a full afternoon shooting Bistro Meringues in the studio. I did a lot of close-ups, product photos for the website. But I couldn’t resist creating this ode to bygone elegance: a still life set in my grandmother’s gravy boat.

149/365: still life with meringues

05.03.13 juxtaposition

A mishmash still life study in contrasts:  high/low, silver/straw, tarnish/neon, old master/POP!

123/365: still life with silver service