Diversity Training: Expanding Your Creative World (D269)
Ever feel like you’re stuck in a rut creatively? Maybe you’re making strides in one area to the exclusion of all others? Perhaps you’re focused on photography, but still dream of writing a book someday. Or maybe you’re a whiz at design, but really want to return to your roots as a painter. Maybe you simply miss the good old days of coloring books and crayons. Whatever your current focus or passion, there is always room for... [Read More...]
Post Haircut Fun With the Camera (D245)
It was a night of haircuts for the boys in the Dawson family. When all was said and done, I grabbed the camera to capture some shots of the new haircut. I love it when our little one poses for the camera… he’s so free and fun. Of course he always wants to take pictures of me in turn. I let him take one, but you won’t be seeing that here… he’s much cuter. Technical Knowledge and Images: Canon manual and documentary about... [Read More...]
Photographing Outside the Lines (D199)
Were you a color inside the lines or outside the lines kind of kid? We all were one or the other. Maybe some of us were color outside the lines, but wanted to be color inside the lines. Me, I was a color inside the lines with extreme care and meticulous precision, but longed to be a color outside the lines kind of girl. I watched my older brother color (rarely, but every once in a while) outside the lines. He didn’t care about the lines. If... [Read More...]
Taking Some Product Shots (D147)
Today was completely devoted to launching the Senior Model Program for my photography company, Teen Identity Portraits. From editing the images from Saturday’s photo shoot to updating the blog and Facebook fan page, I was working nonstop. I’m thrilled with the buzz we’ve already started generating and would love to have you check it out and join the fan page! One of the things we’re also doing is updating the website with... [Read More...]
A Smart Girl’s Survival Kit for the New Decade (D122)
So I’m not sticking with the theme this week. I will definitely work on that in 2010. But for today I want to reflect on where I was 10 years ago at this time. In one word, Y2K. Well, if that’s a word. I was a single mom in a ministry that was a bit apocalyptic (ok, maybe I’m exaggerating, but only a little). Seriously though, we were strongly “encouraged” to create emergency survival kits. Of course with my bent toward... [Read More...]
D65: A Story in a Still
Holding back tears as I write. Been holding back the floodgates all day, an apt metaphor since I took a photowalk in the upper and lower 9th ward of New Orleans. Four years later, the devastation of Katrina is still larger than life. It IS life for some. And it has been death for others—literally and figuratively. The images I captured today covered a wide range of areas, but there was only ONE story that so compelled me, captured my attention,... [Read More...]