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Each girl, willing to bare it all. To give us thier best, and allow us to be Close Up.
Each girl was allowed to, choose her hair, and edit her photo as she saw fit.
On thier reasons for editing
Anetta: I really wanted my photo to be plain black and white with a *Bang* to add some depth into. I really like how you can see the lace detail on the wall behind me.
Jenessa: I sorta wanted the same thing. I really love black and white, but I wanted mine to have a softer feel to it, and a hue of color.
On thier Hair
Jenessa: I wanted it to be elegant, but sleek and modern too. I so I came up with twisting the (my right) left side it, and pining back. Then the rest was pulled back, and then loose on the (my left ) right side. I kinda though of like a rapper or a black girl you would see in a magazine, with like only half her hair. It's sooo cool, but I dont have the guts to do it to myself.
Anetta: I wanted something totally different from Jennie's. I wanted it to be wild, and crazy. I wanted to have this huge bump, like some thing you'd see in a history book with the royals and thier tall wigs. So I had them give me this HUGE crazy bun on the side of my head, which only like half of my real hair, the rest was fake.
The Poses
Anetta: My hair was so heavy against my neck, that I ended up having to hold it. I figured, if I had to hold it, I'd make it look good. I also wanted the camera at a slight angle, because I think I look the best at an angle.
Jenessa: I wanted it to seem, like a real life photo shoot for like and Ad or something, so I had the camera stight on, and I tilted my and rest my hand up against it lightly.
Last Words
Jenessa: I love getting the chance to do my own full on photo shoot, it was really fun. It also showed me how hard everyone works behind the scenes.
Anetta: I agree with Jenners, this was really cool. And The workers all have my props now. I never knew how hard it was to get what you have in mind into a picture.
I have a tradition of reflecting upon another year of living with an (now) antiquated "blog" post that's part humor (in my mind), rememberance and heart-felt emotion. The older I get the easier it is to get lost in the could-haves, and memories — so that I don't forget who I am and who I still want to be.
I'm not sure I ever thought about what it would be like to be thirty nine years old when I was nine. It might have involved flying cars, or at the very least being driven around in some futuristic bubble car that made me money. I had no concept of adulthood. The burdens of owning things and paying for things and fixing things and wanting things and knowing things. The responsibility of earning money to pay for things, things that provide food and shelter for a wife and three kids. The trial of learning when to do with and do without, or saying yes and saying no, of admitting how completely lost you really are after thirty nine years. Nine doesn't seem so bad now.
Some people might fantasize about going back in time and telling their younger self's (with the voice of Morgan Freeman) to appreciate their time, enjoy every moment; but I know I would never listen, never grasp any of that at nine — nor should I. I scarcely know what it means to enjoy every moment now, "to take it all in".
And maybe that's what it means to get older. It means understanding that 82% of the problems in your life are caused (directly or indirectly) by you. Sure aging means medications and doctor's appointments, learning with every stretch, yawn and blink of your crumbling body, expanding stomachs and over-ripened skin. It means complaining being tired and fat and old and kids and drivers and politics and religion and entertainment and your neighbors and the impending gypsy/ killer bee/ Lyme disease/ SARS/ environmental disasters that will destroy this world. It means begrudgingly living with the image you've managed to cultivate for yourself, however true or untrue it is. It means never settling into who you think you, or who other's think you are. It means having perspective. That reflection and reminiscence aren't fanciful daydreams but history lessons. That wisdom isn't gained but earned. It means knowing the things you don't know far outweigh the things you do.
I'm thirty nine, and I'm still growing up.
A shot of UP 4014 at the Rail Giants Train Museum in Pomona, CA during a night photography session. Union Pacific is going to take possession of this "Big Boy" and restore it to operating condition. Thanks to Steve Crise for providing the lighting.
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i liked the reflection of the man in the wet sand...
Post Processing inspiration from Farl... tried to do sth like he plays with shadows and silhouettes... cant be tht good but gave a shot...
@ Colva Beach, Goa India
UP Centennial 6936 sits at Illinois Railway Museum in Union for IRM's 60th anniversary. Union Pacific brought in the "Centennial" DDA40X, #6936 for display during Labor Day weekend. My dad and I spent an entire day, and into the night for night photos of several Union Pacific locomotives.
Premio "facebook" en la categoría senior, concurso de fotografía MACA Alicante, mayo 2012
Gracias a Daniel por prestarse desinteresadamente a hacer de modelo, y a los amigos de facebook por sus "me gusta" :)
When September Ends - Sebastián Andaur - Mismo fin, misma tecnica, tipografico - work.andaurstudios.cl
Rode Amtrak out to Colorado for vacation to Glenwood Springs. Had a great family time, so chasing down trains was secondary, but I got a few good images. This is coal load C-WEB2-30 getting underway after adding his mid-train helpers at the Glenwood Springs yard right before sunset. The UP 8805 leads another on the head end, a trio of helpers mid-train and another on the rear. The wildfires and soot made the skies a little thick out there, and thus the orange glow as he heads east toward Glenwood Canyon on a beautiful summer evening.
One of those rare occasions where I don't have to do any retouching at all!! This is sooc, using the dramatic filter.
I even set the square perspective in-camera!!
A word painted on the side of a caboose stationed at Elmwood Park Zoo. The caboose is re-purposed as a small museum devoted to bison.
It's the zoo Janice and I visit less frequently, but it's our destination today!
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