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These are my husbands hands. He's got a saying, it's not eloquent, or poetic. "You can't half-ass your dreams" He's always working on a dream or two, working hard with both hands to make it happen. This month he's teaching me how to grip onto my dreams with both hands and hold on tight for the ride. And when's not using this hands to create and build, he's using them to lift us higher and to clap the loudest for our small victories. I'm a lucky woman and he doesn't let me forget it.
Happy Father's day to the Dads here and the Dads in your life.
Shot edited with the New Exposure 5 - Did it all there using the plug in for CS6. This is a great program!
Week 06 Reflection Theme Tortoise
For the theme, I see the sun's reflection on the tortoise' shell. An alternative way that I like better, is the fact that the tortoise is reflecting on his life.
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Shot for assignment #6, Chocolate as part of Project52
I made it thru Easter without one candy purchase until the 30% off sign today made this impulse purchase a necessity.
My favorite picture of this session. I didn't catch it first time. If I could change one thing, I would add a rim light from camera left to her hair.
Strobist Info:
One large gridded Octobox in front of the model. Darkened the background in lightroom to make it fully black (at least on most monitors).
It has been a tradition for the girls in my family to wear matching red patent leather shoes for Christmas since the Peanut was born. I couldn't wait to add Little Pea to the mix this year--she wore the Peanut's original shoes. This photo represents me and my two little ladies in this moment at the start of this year. Those tiny shoes on the right won't fit at the end of this project. I'm so grateful for this way of capturing the change in time.
I knew I wanted to do this shot for this week's theme: A huuuuge thanks to my hubby and daughter for being so patient with me, and my husband for actually doing all the spinning!!
So it's been a while since I've updated. Uni is crazy (and will be crazy for a few more weeks, then it's all over, yay!) so I thought I'd quickly take some time out to post up the photos from the last couple of weeks. Admittedly most were not taken on purpose, and hence are not perfect, but I just don't have time at the moment. Therefore some are video stills from filming etc. I can't wait until semester is over and I can get back into spending some time with the camera.
I really wanted to do something Easter related. Not really what I had in mind, but I like the colours.
I'm a makeup girl. I went through this phase when I was about 14 when I refused to wear it because it "took too much time." (I also wore plaid shirts and pulled my waist-length hair back ALL THE TIME, but that's another story.) But once I started, I haven't gone back.
Growing up in a houseful of girls, my dad didn't want us all running around looking like floozies, so there was one simple rule: we could wear as much makeup as we wanted, as long as he couldn't tell we had it on. Being a guy, it took A LOT before he noticed, but that rule kept me from many of the blue-eyeshadow-related mishaps that befall so many teens. (I had plenty of plaid shirts to make up for it.) Anyway, after I started wearing makeup I swiftly learned to apply it in a very subtle manner, and although I wear it a little more dramatically now, I've not stopped wearing it since. Not only do I not go out in public without makeup, I usually wear it around the house. So now it's my mask, my armor, my defense against the world.
But sometimes, when it's the day after shooting a wedding, and I'm kicking around my apartment, tackling laundry and grocery shopping and the cleaning that gets ignored during the week, it somehow feels right to have a clean-scrubbed face.
But this is the closest I'm getting to posting makeup-free photos. For now.
The Christmas Box by Richard Paul Evans is a great short story that reminds us what Christmas is really about.
Project 52, week 16, 4/5. O Canada!
From wikipedia:
The Trans-Canada Highway is a federal-provincial highway system that joins all ten provinces of Canada. It is, after the Trans-Siberian Highway and Australia's Highway 1, the world's longest national highway, with the main route spanning 7,821 km (4,860 miles). [...] The highway system is recognizable by its distinctive white-on-green maple leaf route markers.
Vaudreuil-Dorion, looking toward Montréal, QC.
For the 2013 Project 52 Week 36 Assignment of "Apples."
Lighting info: SB600 in a coroplast grid high and behind the subject on 1/32 power. SB600 in a coroplast grid, gelled with a full CTO camera left behind the apple, scraping across the background for texture. White reflector boards to the front of the subject Left, Right, Over, and Under. Triggered by Nikon CLS.
This very orderly grove of walnut trees grabs my attention every time I drive past it, and I finally decided to stop a couple of weeks ago. I can't say that I captured it the way that I wanted to, but once I cropped this shot a little tighter, I still liked it well enough. Since I was already in Photoshop, I played with some filters and the saturation levels, and I liked the shot even better with the green saturated to nuclear-neon levels, but I backed it down to this level and decided that this was as close to the mood that I wanted but didn't quite capture.
At first glance, the trees are tall and straight, and they are planted in a perfect grid, lined up in tidy rows, but this closer shot shows that few of the unruly trunks have twisted and arched, breaking the rhythm.
Week 2. Need to pick a theme for next week to help direct me but couldn't resist taking this one for this week.
I told the story on this Flickr picture of a painful dent to my wallet just before Christmas. As I hinted at the end, the cost of the new wheel and tyre just added insult to injury. (Especially since the damaged tyre was relatively new whereas the other front tyre needs replaced!)
Well, the pain continues...
Following the damaged wheel incident, and against my better judgement, I joined the Green Flag breakdown service. The car is not quite three years old, so I wasn't convinced breakdown cover was necessary but after being stung for £140 to get someone to rescue us last time, I was talked into it. This, as it turned out, was just as well because I was taking Daughter Number 1 back to university today and after loading the car and everyone piling in, when I turned the ignition... nothing happened. At least, nothing happened with the engine. Not a cough, a crunch or a click. The electrics in the car however went mental. Random warning lights flashed at me, central locking got very confused, the radio switched on and then off again before it could make a sound and the hand on the speedometer went backwards to below zero and up to over 100 mph before going back round to zero again. Very bizarre.
So we all trooped back in the house and I phoned the breakdown people. Only problem was, I didn't have the home start option. So I upgraded. (Another £15!)
When the chap arrived, he said straight away that it was my battery. He connected me up and jump started me. Easy. I asked if that meant I could just have let it run down the hill and started it that way but he said no because cars nowadays rely so much on electronics that if the battery is dead, you're stuffed. (Although, he didn't say "stuffed"!) Progress, eh?
I didn't risk switching the car off, but drove to National Tyres who confirmed the battery was dead and beyond repair. So, yet more expense to get a new battery. However, they also said the alternator was charging too high and that was probably what cooked the old battery. They don't do alternators and the local auto electrics place and car dealership were both shut, so it looks like it will be Monday before I find out how much it will cost to put the dodgy alternator right.
...And it's still a long time to pay day. :-(
Light through a bottle of Old Grouse Whiskey. Not exactly a vintage this, but kept for 'medicinal purposes'!
Project 52: Theme Drink up