Teaching myself some new tricks!!! I recently attended a workshop given byLynne Eodice.
I am not a landscape photographer, however, I love to travel and take two to three trips a year. I wanted to learn a few tricks that I can use on the road! I had a lot of fun getting out and trying new things and will be attending more workshops through the Tehama County Photo Club and blogging about them too so stay tuned :).
Here are some of the pictures captured from the day:
This day was a gorgeous day spent with a gorgeous family! I enjoyed getting to have them in front of my camera! I hope they enjoyed it as much as I did!
Today was awesome! I walked into an art gallery and the owner said she was a painter and asked me if I painted. I said no and replied that I was a photographer.
Then the painter said something I will never forget. She said, "Oh yes, you are a painter...you paint with light!"
This here is my cute as heck nephew. He is constantly running around reciting lines from his favorite movies and television shows and acting them out. As you can see, in the second photo there, he has some really cute facial expressions and an imagination that is greater then any other kid I know! I love it! And what better way to capture all that personality then to do a dream makers session. The concept for his session was to be a super hero since he is one "super" kid!!! I hope you enjoy these!
This is a pull back shot of the set up we used! It was "super" simple and "super" inexpensive to make these. I just gathered some old boxes and spray painted them. Then my kids and I cut out square and rectangle shapes and glued them to the boxes. That little gray one in the picture there has a spray painted plastic cup with a straw suck in the middle of it. Then I just stacked them on top of each other..."Super" easy right? (LOL! I know, I know I'm cheesy!).
I loved the song Accidental Light by Sleeping at Last when I first heard it, and quickly had to look up the lyrics. And while I thought is was talking about life in general, I stumbled upon The band's blog here:
And now I am REALLY freaking in love it and it's meaning!!
He is actually talking about creating and being an artist..."[the lyrics reference] the feeling that probably creeps inside of every creative person’s mind at one time or another: everything has been done already. Every melody has been sung… every lyric has been written… every painting has been painted. It’s daunting to realize how little our ideas can seem sometimes. But I try to remember that people aren't creating just for originality in itself, they are creating for much more than that… for themselves, for the hope that their art could move someone else in some way too. Originality is a byproduct of being genuine. so those lyrics are me wrestling those ideas out of my head. we don’t know how something we create will effect the world, if at all, but it’s worth creating because clearly, each of us were given the tools to do something, and I believe for a lot of us that something is to create." ~ Ryan O'Neal
I LOVE THIS BAND for putting words to the creative process we artists go through! So amazing!
Oh boy did I enjoy this session!!! It's got to be one of the best I have done to date! The light was prefect! The weather was perfect!!! And my subjects were naturals in front of the camera...especially little Sammy! I swear that kid is such a cutie pie and such a little gentleman. He gave me lots to laugh about!
Jamie, the gorgeous mamma there in the picture, is my cousin and one of my closest friends. She always has my back and I love her. Since we live so far away now, it was wonderful getting to spend some time with her and her little family for the day.
For this session we basically just strolled around their neighborhood and stopped whenever my eye caught something! That is my favorite way to do a session. For some reason when my session locations are not pre-scouted I find that I am more inspired and more creative in general. It makes my job super fun!
