no more nothingness.

It is today.

Film loaded.

Children in tow.

all by myself.

There is no looking back.



See you on the flip side.

We gots the feve for the Bieb

Good News! The Bieber-myster is coming out with a new scent.

haha!

Yesterday I took Natalie to the mall with me because sitting around the house for one more second was going to kill us.

We ran into Justin Bieber while we were there. (seriously not really) just in poster form, letting us know all about his upcoming new fragrance.

My girls all claim Justin Bieber means nothing to them. In fact, they kinda hate him. Which we all know is a big fat lie! Have you seen Bieber lately?

I told Natalie she kind of looks like him. She disagreed and acted insulted. But the more I looked at the Bieb, the more I thought I was right. They even both have a beauty mark on their left cheek.

Similar nose.

Similar lips.

see where I'm going with this??

Haha! This is hilarious.

So I requested she squat down next to him and let me get a photo of her face next to his...

She said no way.

*oh re-he-he-he-he-he-he-HEEEEEEEEEEEE-lly*

10 seconds later lookie what I got.




I am such a good mom.

She will thank me later ;) !!!!!!!!

A meager life's work

On day 18 of a 20 day semester I found myself putting in twice the normal days work as I stayed quite late to learn how to tone prints. And as I stepped out of the classroom that day holding my two boxes overflowing with prints, my teacher said to me...

wow, that's like you're whole life's work you're holding there.

I supposed that was true in a way, and as I looked again at the overstuffed boxes, what seemed before to be an enormous amount of work, now seemed meager and deflated.

Though headway has been made, I was reminded that I am only at the very beginning of my journey. With all the discoveries yet to be made I think the beginning is an exciting place to be.

Someday perhaps two arms won't be enough to carry out the life's work of this girl.

Before I show you what I have been working on all of June let me first explain that this is from an ongoing project which is still taking form. Eventually it will include the wholeness of my family, but for now it is mostly consisting of my three little girls. I am in awe of the beauty that can be found within the sincerity of a young person. What they give you in terms of truth and depth is such an amazing gift. Especially so for the mother that has an all access pass to witness these things plainly and often, now to capture them is a treasure.

Again this is not the whole of my project but a small sampling of what was created within the small amount of time that was my summer school class.

note the sequentiality of the photographs as we begin in a public place, and move into more private spaces. The tracing of these moments being under normal circumstances unavailable to you as an outsider, now sit suspended here for indefinite amounts of time for your looking.























Now next time you go to photograph ask yourself this one question...

What does ____________ look like photographed?

and then answer the question with your experimentation.