Archive for March, 2011

Welcome back to my Project 52.  My fellow photogs from The Bloom Forum are continuing on in our journey to explore the creative interpretations of different themes or prompts each week. To catch up on previous weeks themes check out Texture, Books, Motion, Love. Grab a cup of coffee because the creative talents of the women in this blog circle will blow you away! And remember to link to the next wonderful photog in our blog circle at the end of my post. Blog love is always very “Loved”.

This week our group theme is VINTAGE.  A little about myself that made this theme hard was that I am more of a modernist with a very minimalist style.  I didn’t feel like I had any real connection with the concept of vintage.

My inspiration for vintage came from my son.  He came home one day from school and asked me, “Mommy, where is our record player?”.  I replied with, “Our what?”  Yes, I know what a record player is, but how does he? In my house we are powered by all things Apple.  I’m not joking when I tell you that my daughter stands in front of the TV trying to swipe it with her hand to get the TV and the music to turn on. But, in my son’s preschool classroom they have an old record player where the teachers play records of the Pink Panther, Howdy Doody, and children’s fairytales.

I was inspired by the thought of records, record players, and old radios.  I immediately looked on the internet to see if there were any record stores still in business in my area.  Amazingly I found one.  I showed up to the store, Vinyl Solutions Records, and asked Tommy, the owner if it would be o.k. to snap a few images.  He told me he loved photography in his college years and was happy to let me wander around with my camera.

Vinyl Solutions Records has it all, cd’s, records, tapes, even eight-tracs, and just about every released publication from Rolling Stones Magazine.  It was a wonderful late afternoon shooting in Tommy’s store.  If you live in the Bay Area or on the SF Peninsula, it is worth stopping by, finding your favorite album, and taking a listen on one of the store record players!   The different sound from a record can unlock some wonderful memories. Bring your kids they will love it too!

Now, don’t forget to check out Seattle WA, Child and Family Photographer | Sarah Bunch to see her amazing talents and interpretation of Vintage!

Week 11 {Vintage}

Welcome back to my Project 52, so glad that you returned. My fellow photogs from The Bloom Forum are continuing on in our journey to explore the creative interpretations of different themes or prompts each week. To catch up on previous weeks themes check out Books, Motion, Love. Grab a cup of coffee because the creative talents of the women in this blog circle will blow you away! And remember to link to the next wonderful photog in our blog circle at the end of my post.  Blog love is always very “Loved”.

This week our creative prompt is Texture. So many thoughts ran through my head as I prepared my vision for this week. Many many of my creative daydreams revolved around macro shots of food. Like the fuzz on a peach, the gills of a mushroom, the rough peel of a pineapple. I took a ton of pictures of food, it made my mouth water, but it also left me feeling flat. I needed to be more creative, stretch myself. That’s when it came to me, Hair.

The texture of Hair, specifically the texture of a child’s hair. How many times have I twirled my finger through the tiny pony-tail of my sweet baby girl and marveled at its fine, smooth, silken texture. Its wispy, light strands that can barely hold a barrette for more than a few minutes. Countless times! But never have I intentionally tried to photograph her sweet pony-tail, her wispy fly-a-ways, and this week the smooth texture of a 2-year olds up swept hair fueled my creative daydreams for an entire afternoon.

Week 10 | Texture | Hair

Remember to head on over and check out the amazing work of Shauna, Sudbury Child and Family Photographer, from Simply Shauna Photography.

Welcome back to my Fifty-two on Fridays post. I am a lucky lucky girl who participates in a Project 52 with 17 other fabulous photographers from The Bloom Forum. Each week we work from a theme and post our creative interpretation for that theme. Remember that at the end of each post you can link to the next photographer and her take on the theme.

This week our theme was Books. Books in our home are the foundations to imaginations. From childhood into adulthood I have found joy in losing myself within the pages of books. Quiet can overtake me when my imagination is locked into a story. You know the pages within the bound covers of a book have become your friend when you dread to start the next chapter for fear of its end.

I love books. I love to just wander the aisles of book stores and libraries. I like to collect my favorites, put them on my shelf, stack them on my beside table. My love for books is even greater when I watch my children, wide-eyed lose themselves in a story.

My interpretation of the theme this week is pretty simple. It is my children joyfully reading one of their favorite books, the Bible. Reading alone or reading together, sharing with each other and me the wonderful stories within.

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it. ~Oscar Wilde

And here is my out take for the week. You know that the kids have taken a really long nap, when I have the time to snap the “artistic” photo of one of the books I’ve check out from the library. I loved the play of light the other day in my living room and was practicing shooting with different light, with differing depths of field…just for fun.

Now head on over to check out the creative and inspiring Sarah Bunch | Seattle Child and Family Photographer.