Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
.week two.
october photo of the day continued...
october 9 - "red" - i deleted this one before i got it to my computer, on accident, i promise. it was at a gas station, really not that exciting...
october 10 - "emotion" - ridiculous amounts of excitement over getting to see my best friend in the universe this weekend!!!!
october 11 - "something close up" - my Krochet Kids hat, i love that it's cold enough to wear beanies this week
october 12 - "on the table" - fall is on my table, duh...
october 13 - "landscape" - adios california, hello las vegas!
october 14 - "makes you laugh" - these signs at red rock state park - awesome!
october 15 - "dinnertime" - last vegas date night with my love, such a GREAT weekend
week 2, complete.
Monday, October 8, 2012
.week one.
i needed a little creative outlet this month and so i mentally signed on to do the "photo of the day" on instagram. glad i did. i'll post all 4 weeks of october's photos. here's week one!
- october 1 - "where i stood" - with the hubs, tasting wine, beer & getting a 24 respite :)
- october 2 - "lunchtime" - uh-oh em... a little "spice" in our training day
- october 3 - "this happened today" - i found AMAZING mexican food on the central coast... best.day.ever
- october 4 - "what you're reading" - what am i not reading is more like it
- october 5 - "shadows" - of my two favorites
- october 6 - "what i'm thankful for" - ridiculously awesome conversation & friendship over this yummy goodness - thankful for april
- october 7 - "light" - <3 fall
- october 8 - "angle" - do i live in italy or california?!?!! - amazing hike today
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
.beauty.
my cousin, haley is pure beauty. she doesn't even know it and i think it makes her even more beautiful. truly. but at the same time i wish she could know it, internalize it, live it. because we are more confident and we live differently when we can see ourselves as beautiful.
Lord, that haley may know her beauty today.
Lord, that haley may know her beauty today.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
.#11 - photography class.
i realize it's 1AM and i should not be blogging, but instead i should be sleeping. sleep is overrated... and i'm beginning to re-learn that my most productive, best-focused hours are after 10pm, so i'm just capitalizing on that time. my job should thank me for it, or maybe i should thank my job that i have the flexibility to work at midnight and sleep in.
the point of the post is this... i took a photography class a few weeks ago!!! but it wasn't just any photography class, it was a holga class. yes, i said holga, h-o-l-g-a, holga. no, it's not an amazon woman, not it's not a fun name that i came up with because i like to name inanimate objects (which i do). holga is a type of camera that uses film. yes, i said film, like the kind where you have to take the back off the camera and put it in and make sure it catches and then wind it up before you can shoot a picture. and the kind where you can't see the picture after you take it. and the kind where you're dependent on someone else to develop it for you because it requires a dark room and in this case coffee :)
a new santa barbara friend of mine invited me to this holga class on a saturday morning and it was awesome. holga and i met for the first time that day, we are still working on becoming friends. i'm hoping it will turn into a friendship, but right now we aren't sure if we get along. needless to say, it was an awesome day with fun new friends in a BEAUTIFUL place, but as of this moment - i still prefer digital photography or even my new iphone app (hipstamatic) to holga, but i think maybe, just maybe we can work it out.
here's some holga-ness.
now here's your difference between the holga and the iphone. i mean, really, which do you prefer?!?!?
and for the grand finale - the stunningly beautiful place that i live... again, iphone, you do me right...
dear holga, thank you for your saturday morning. i would like to spend more time with you and hopefully we will be better friends soon. i know it takes a while, especially with a girl like me who can tend to be untrusting, a smidge judgmental and a creature of habit. thanks for your patience. we'll work it out. pinky promise.
the point of the post is this... i took a photography class a few weeks ago!!! but it wasn't just any photography class, it was a holga class. yes, i said holga, h-o-l-g-a, holga. no, it's not an amazon woman, not it's not a fun name that i came up with because i like to name inanimate objects (which i do). holga is a type of camera that uses film. yes, i said film, like the kind where you have to take the back off the camera and put it in and make sure it catches and then wind it up before you can shoot a picture. and the kind where you can't see the picture after you take it. and the kind where you're dependent on someone else to develop it for you because it requires a dark room and in this case coffee :)
a new santa barbara friend of mine invited me to this holga class on a saturday morning and it was awesome. holga and i met for the first time that day, we are still working on becoming friends. i'm hoping it will turn into a friendship, but right now we aren't sure if we get along. needless to say, it was an awesome day with fun new friends in a BEAUTIFUL place, but as of this moment - i still prefer digital photography or even my new iphone app (hipstamatic) to holga, but i think maybe, just maybe we can work it out.
here's some holga-ness.
now here's your difference between the holga and the iphone. i mean, really, which do you prefer?!?!?
and for the grand finale - the stunningly beautiful place that i live... again, iphone, you do me right...
dear holga, thank you for your saturday morning. i would like to spend more time with you and hopefully we will be better friends soon. i know it takes a while, especially with a girl like me who can tend to be untrusting, a smidge judgmental and a creature of habit. thanks for your patience. we'll work it out. pinky promise.
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
.#7 - the getty.
i'm first going to apologize to those of you who wanted to go to the getty with me... i'm sorry it didn't happen. it was one of those late night conversations that turned into a "hey, we should go to the getty tomorrow" things and so we did. and it was worth it. it's a place i've always seen up on the hill and thought that i needed to someday get there. i have a cousin who lives in the LA vicinity with her husband who's an artist and she's recommended it to me numerous times and that's how it ended up on the list.
it was really one of those days where you sit back and say, "now that day couldn't have been more perfect."
9:30 - kirsten got to my house to pick me up
9:45 - we stopped at trader joe's (a.k.a. heaven) and picked up a little picnic lunch
10:00 -we got our starbucks on - because every good day begins with coffee
11:00 - we arrived at the getty and did the little tram ride i'd dreamed of for so long up to the museum
11:30 - we unpacked our picnic lunch, wine and all and ate in the gorgeous getty gardens (those 3 "g" words would be 3 points in scattergories for those of you who are word geeks like me)
12:15 - we headed into the photography exhibit that was really amazing - this man named Irving Penn took photographs in his studio in the 50's and 60's of everyday people wearing/carrying what they used for their everyday jobs, for example if you were a butcher, you wore your bloody apron and held your butcher knife in your hand for the picture. he calls it "Small Trades." and it was truly amazing. go here - http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/penn/ to check it out. i heart photography so it was pretty awesome to see. reminded me a bit of an amazing thing some quasi-friends are doing right now called Help Portrait - go here to see that - help-portrait.com/. okay so i'm on a tangent now. back to the getty.
1:15 - we walked outside to this view of the ocean... honestly, even if you go to the getty and look at no art all day, it's worth it just for the gardens and the sheer beauty of where they chose to build the thing. LA skyline + ocean = a bit of gloriousness (is that a word?)
1:25 - we headed into an exhibit called "Rembrandt and his Pupils" - i of course, being the crazy dutch girl that i am so appreciated the dutch names, dutch towns, dutch everything about beloved Rembrandt. but as a whole we were impressed with how much of what he'd chosen to draw was from scripture. it was pretty awesome the way he portrays many of the stories we'd heard our whole lives. for me at least, it amplified the way i saw things like "the prodigal son" and "the angel telling mary of her pregnancy." it was awesome.
2:00 - back on the blessed tram and into the parking garage to head back to the oc.
3:00 - home sweet grandma's house.
here's some "extras for you from the day. the fall leaves were gorgeous, the water fountains were pretty rad and it was just one of those days when you get to just be with someone you think is really great and do nothing but exist and enjoy. so that's what we did. we existed and we enjoyed. and then the day continued with a great coffee chat/hang out with some old young life kids who are now college sophomores - NUTS! and then sushi with a friend and a conversation with my cousin who's in the ukraine with her husband, getting their little girl (read about them here - dhfam.blogspot.com/). day was perfect. off to texas tomorrow.
oh getty, you are just glorious. thanks for an awesome day. mission #7 - accomplished.
p.s. - i also got a yosemite date on the calendar - progress people... progress
it was really one of those days where you sit back and say, "now that day couldn't have been more perfect."
9:30 - kirsten got to my house to pick me up
9:45 - we stopped at trader joe's (a.k.a. heaven) and picked up a little picnic lunch
10:00 -we got our starbucks on - because every good day begins with coffee
11:00 - we arrived at the getty and did the little tram ride i'd dreamed of for so long up to the museum
11:30 - we unpacked our picnic lunch, wine and all and ate in the gorgeous getty gardens (those 3 "g" words would be 3 points in scattergories for those of you who are word geeks like me)
12:15 - we headed into the photography exhibit that was really amazing - this man named Irving Penn took photographs in his studio in the 50's and 60's of everyday people wearing/carrying what they used for their everyday jobs, for example if you were a butcher, you wore your bloody apron and held your butcher knife in your hand for the picture. he calls it "Small Trades." and it was truly amazing. go here - http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/penn/ to check it out. i heart photography so it was pretty awesome to see. reminded me a bit of an amazing thing some quasi-friends are doing right now called Help Portrait - go here to see that - help-portrait.com/. okay so i'm on a tangent now. back to the getty.
1:15 - we walked outside to this view of the ocean... honestly, even if you go to the getty and look at no art all day, it's worth it just for the gardens and the sheer beauty of where they chose to build the thing. LA skyline + ocean = a bit of gloriousness (is that a word?)
1:25 - we headed into an exhibit called "Rembrandt and his Pupils" - i of course, being the crazy dutch girl that i am so appreciated the dutch names, dutch towns, dutch everything about beloved Rembrandt. but as a whole we were impressed with how much of what he'd chosen to draw was from scripture. it was pretty awesome the way he portrays many of the stories we'd heard our whole lives. for me at least, it amplified the way i saw things like "the prodigal son" and "the angel telling mary of her pregnancy." it was awesome.
2:00 - back on the blessed tram and into the parking garage to head back to the oc.
3:00 - home sweet grandma's house.
here's some "extras for you from the day. the fall leaves were gorgeous, the water fountains were pretty rad and it was just one of those days when you get to just be with someone you think is really great and do nothing but exist and enjoy. so that's what we did. we existed and we enjoyed. and then the day continued with a great coffee chat/hang out with some old young life kids who are now college sophomores - NUTS! and then sushi with a friend and a conversation with my cousin who's in the ukraine with her husband, getting their little girl (read about them here - dhfam.blogspot.com/). day was perfect. off to texas tomorrow.
oh getty, you are just glorious. thanks for an awesome day. mission #7 - accomplished.
p.s. - i also got a yosemite date on the calendar - progress people... progress
Monday, November 9, 2009
. #3 - photography - SOLD.
mission 3/30 completed. 1/10th of the way done - yay for me! this weekend i was entered into 2 art shows in lubbock, texas and had to bring some of my photography printed on canvas. the first one was at J&B coffee shop where my work gets to hang out this whole month and grace studying college students with its presence :) i also was part of a "visions of art" show at ransom canyon - the lake community where my parents and grandparents live (as well as a large handful of geriatrics).
*disclaimer: my parents are NOT geriatric. in fact, they are only in their early 50's, but they just like to live on a nice peaceful lake and enjoy a quieter life, i guess years of raising us wore them out!*
but all this to say - mission 3 has been accomplished - i sold, not 1, not 2, but 7 pieces of photography this weekend - fair and square art fair sold them... and there's a few more that are going to my family and close friends but they don't count.
so here's what sold.
THE FIRST PIECE SOLD - "December's Reflection" to a quirky German anesthesiologist named Bettina. She was awesome!
MOST POPULAR PIECE - "Faithful" - I'm ordering 4 of these babies this week, it's my favorite photo from Africa
needless to say, photography - SOLD! good news. 3 down, 27 to go.
if you haven't seen enough, go to breestyle.smugmug.com for more.
p.s. - i have a rockstar friend, john who went out of his way this morning to purchase us U2 tickets while i was on an airplane so that i could get another one off the list - THANKS JOHN - look forward to that post June 6, 2010!!!!!
*disclaimer: my parents are NOT geriatric. in fact, they are only in their early 50's, but they just like to live on a nice peaceful lake and enjoy a quieter life, i guess years of raising us wore them out!*
but all this to say - mission 3 has been accomplished - i sold, not 1, not 2, but 7 pieces of photography this weekend - fair and square art fair sold them... and there's a few more that are going to my family and close friends but they don't count.
so here's what sold.
THE FIRST PIECE SOLD - "December's Reflection" to a quirky German anesthesiologist named Bettina. She was awesome!
MOST POPULAR PIECE - "Faithful" - I'm ordering 4 of these babies this week, it's my favorite photo from Africa
needless to say, photography - SOLD! good news. 3 down, 27 to go.
if you haven't seen enough, go to breestyle.smugmug.com for more.
p.s. - i have a rockstar friend, john who went out of his way this morning to purchase us U2 tickets while i was on an airplane so that i could get another one off the list - THANKS JOHN - look forward to that post June 6, 2010!!!!!
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