Just my favorite image from hanging out with friends in Washington, D.C. last weekend.
Yearly Archives: 2010
This week, for the first time, I saw one of my sold pieces hanging on someone’s wall. I really love the piece, which can be seen in full here (before I divided it into a triptych for this client). It’s about 9 feet wide and almost 3 feet tall. I was so proud and happy to see it that I took about 100 pictures of it. Its really surprising how challenging it seemed to get a good image of an image. I am not sure that I’ve done it justice, but it looked great on the wall, and I was really lucky to get to take a look at it yesterday.
This weekend I visited family back home in Maryland. Jordan, my niece (age 8), performed in the Cherry Blossom Parade in Washington, D.C. Unfortunately its not pictured here…I missed her performance by 5 minutes. But I was able to spend a lot of time with the kids (part of which included Serene and I chasing them around the yard with a camera and an umbrella-mounted flash), my sister Nicole, and my brother-in-law Troy. It’s also a real shame that I didn’t capture the faces of the losing team after a NameBurst showdown. The ladies (Mom, Nicole, Serene, and Jordan) suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of the guys (Karl, Troy, Joshua, and me). It wasn’t pretty.
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I love the split images centered around the tree.
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Dana! I love these shots! Youve done an excellent job capturing the personality of these kids- I feel like I am there with you. Keep up the great work
I know I should delete more photos. I know it. Dealing with too many at once slows down my machine, I can’t tag them all before filing them away, and literally 95 out of 100 never get seen more than once. But every deletion party has its rediscoveries. Moment’s when I wonder what I was thinking to have passed over a certain shot the first time around. Maybe I thought another in the series was better. Or it wasn’t what I thought the client might like. Or maybe I’m just in a different mood. While deleting 1200+ images last night, as each called out to be spared for the chance at a future moment of fickle fondness, I was stopped in my tracks by this portrait. The wall’s textures, the dramatic shadows, the highlights in Lisa’s hair…I love it all. For some reason, I moved right past it the first time around. It didn’t even make it to the second round. Totally unconsidered. Oh well. Today, its a winner. I can’t say that my mood always impacts what I like to look at, but what I just described happens often enough for me to know that it definitely plays a part. And that’s one of the things that I love about photography…one of its most powerful little secrets. Like any language, you can learn as much or more about the person behind the camera as the subject if you “talk” to their photos long enough.
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Excellent save.
We were pretty excited about this weekend on the mountain. Especially when we got upgraded to an awesome 2BR suite upon arrival Friday night. Of course we made some time to goof around in the suite between long days on the mountain. The snow was ok too, although there were a few runs in whiteout blizzard conditions (not caught on camera). On the drive back to Vancouver, we were lucky enough to catch an incredible sunset…just moments before our Avis rental car decided to stop running, stranding us for 2 hours. A great weekend overall. So glad I brought the lighting gear. And nobody is a more patient and willing subject than Serene. As you can see, she is always putting up with (and sometimes contributing to) all my crazy ideas and really makes the images better.
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