Playground

I love the simplicity of this photo. My son is waiting for Sophia to finish the swings and he's so patiently waiting....This photograph is also in Mexico. There's this small park there but I love that there is so much color all over this playground.

bicycle diary

This is from a recent trip to Mexico. I had my film camera and I had been walking around this block from my parents house and well...I really like bikes. They have this ubur-coolness. I like the colors here, the orange from the bicycle, the white and the shadows. I love that bicycles are so universal.

my first love...film

I know that technology has really facilitated our lives and that's cool and all, but with photography, film is still, I think, fascinating. I mean you have this anticipation of what your photograph will look like. I remember growing up when I would finish the roll of film, go to the drugstore to develop it and I would show up later to look at the photographs and I would just be giddy with excitement. Here's one of the photographs with film...Hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

This is my dad's bible, in my parents room in Mexico. He built a little alter with this bible holder and he prays every single day. I like that the bible looks used ya know, like it's not been sitting on some shelf collecting dust. His glasses being right there just shows that he finished reading the scripture and he casually set his glasses afterwards...I just really like the lighting of this photograph and I swear I couldn't have done this with a digital camera. The digital camera would have wanted to correct some of the low lights and would have done this image pin sharp which would not have given off the same feeling as it does now being a bit blurry...I love it.

Jerry Uelsmann

I am going to be meeting Jerry Uelsmann this week at Richlan College. I am so excited. I've always loved his work and his images.

He is the expert in dark room developing. All of his work is done with an enlarger in the darkroom, NO DIGITAL manipulating here! I'm just so excited to meet him and talk to him. This is a once in a life time opportunity! I have always admired him and consider him an inspiration.

Yikes...so long ago

I've not turned out to be a good blogger huh! sorry, I'll be better! so much going on, really...that's why my doll is thinking...at least I think that's what she looks like she's doing....My mom loves this doll, she said it reminds her of me, ahhh motherly love... so I'm in school now and my photography teacher says that I should always "create surprises", are you surprised by this picture? Anyway, no more rain, please. I can't get my camera wet! Oh and Sophia went to the arboretum and she loved it, Joel got a C at the dentist... I swear he brushes his teeth everyday, I don't know what's going on there. My boo is behind on my math work...what am I going to do with him...My parents are still not here! that's all I gotta say about that and finally life IS NOT like a box of chocolates, more like a pack of altoids! You figure the irony in that!!

Son's Gift

My Joey gave this to me!

Yellow Bicycle Man

So I don't travel as much as I'd like to, but
when we used to go to visit my Dad
(weird saying used to)
we would come across this quaint little
town called Calvert, Texas...
It has cool store fronts with like
antique shops and a cafe, and a western
furniture place etc. but right in the
middle of all this is this...
yellow bicycle man..
What do you suppose the artist who did it
was thinking...maybe he was a bike rider,
or maybe he did it for Lance Armstrong...
the yellow was the clue...So anyone
out there who knows something
about this let me know...
just curious...