When I was little my mom told me I could be anything that I wanted to be, and I believed her. When I was little I told my dad I wanted to be a writer, and he let me write. When I was little I wanted to make movies in Hollywood, and my parents showed me how to apply to film school. When I was little I thought I’d try photography, and so I took some creepy pictures of myself…
Finding time to do what you love is always an obstacle at one point or another. We are all busy, and I don’t like to glorify busy-ness, but at the same time, it can creep into our lives unnoticed until suddenly we haven’t any time left for the things we love. So, how do I make time to create whenever I want to create? It isn’t always as simple as that. I am a full time business owner and photography…
DOWNLOAD THE FREE TEXTURE PACK The other day I walked through a sunny spot in my kitchen and was momentarily blinded by the bright light. When I turned back around I saw that hundreds thousands millions of little dust particles were lit afire by the sun rays, and the photographer in me said: PHOTOGRAPH IT! So I asked my husband to hold up my blue cloak as a backdrop and I photographed the dust particles against that dark backdrop. In…
I have been thinking a lot about self-portraiture and why I adore it so much. It certainly isn’t because I love being in front of a camera or because I adore the way I look. It goes far beyond our traditional standards of beauty and into the realm of self-discovery, which is so much more beautiful than what any industry can tell me. Self-portraiture is a way of putting yourself in your imagination and becoming the character of your story….
For this week’s video I had fun with my friends in the snow, and that felt like a worthy thing to capture on the camera. The reason why it seemed so important to me, other than documenting time with my best friends, is to show a very simple idea: everyone who wants to be a model can be. I don’t hire agency models for my photos. Sometimes that is necessary. But a lot of the time it isn’t, especially if…