A Shot In The Dark

Can't get enough of this lady. The darker images were shot long after dusk. I could barely even see to focus my camera, but the canon 5d rocks like that. Most of the grain on those images I added in post-production. I love shooting in Bend, Oregon--it's probably my favourite place in the whole wide world to do portrait sessions.

Last year, Marfa [trip] visited Bend (check it out here, and while you're at it, browse through the the newest image posts documenting where we went this year .. MOAB!) if you're ever interested in shooting in Bend, Oregon, I have plenty of family members living there--so email me for session info!

Lady Like

I recently photographed my mother's entire catalog of Lady Like flower clips in the new studio. I'm in awe of the amazing light that comes through the studio now that it's renovated. I moved into a space downtown in the Del*ght building where my friend & photographer, Heather of House of James Photography runs her two busy businesses. We started ripping things apart to create a usable/shoot-able space last month and I'm so excited that it's almost done. Oregon gets pretty chilly in the winter, so it'll be such a blessing to have a warm, cozy space to hold photo sessions (boudoir and seniors!!) during that time. If you've know me, you know that having a natural-light studio space to call my own has been a dream for a long, long time.

Here are a few mobile tidbits from renovation time (it was extremely liberating to rip siding off of a wall, let me tell you)! Thanks to all the amazing friends and family who have helped us during that time!

You can see the after images I shot in the new studio for my mom's catalog in a few of my recent posts as well as her entire gorgeous Lady Like collection on etsy, etsy.com/shop/ladyknitster.



We're having an official first Open House this friday at the Del*ght studio from 7-9pm, which is also going to be a First Friday event for downtown Grants Pass. If you're in Southern Oregon, email me and I'll send you the details. We'll have gourmet cupcakes, amazing local wine, a photo booth, a wonderful musician, and gorgeous art from a local mutli-media artist!

Like a Lady

An image from a catalog shoot done in the new studes .. more on that soonishly.

Misplaced Mama

An excerpt from this morning's reads I found a valuable reminder of Ought:

via Misplaced Mama and this post:

"Mama, Who sent us this?

Mama did. I hand her the cheap yellow hopefully PVC plastic free sippy cup filled with milk.

Tanks mama. She receives it. Drinks. Smiles.

My two year old daughter uses the word Sent in place of bought or buy, give or gave. I think so may gifts come via the post, she equates goods with sending. Grandma’s coloring books and crafts, Mimi’s cookies and unicorn underwear, Aunt Diane’s novelty items….Hello Kitty and Princess overthrow.

I like it. Better even. Bought infers a cash exchange in my paradigm and give even infers a sense of some loss. But Sent is like flying, energetic consciousness soaring, rising a current of whatever tidal you choose or direct it. All things have been sent, literally or physically. Love and and hate. The Sun sent the moon. My womb sent the spark an egg. My community sends support.

The sender’s boundaries are blurred; me, you, him, her. A symbiotic and symbolic relationship, no less. A need for both, the aim or aimless release and the conscious or unconscious catch. It’s a continual exchange of gifts, like our breath; the out sends itself to the in, the in offers itself back to the out. The slide and spin, the tight and loosen, the squeeze and release. I hope I will always remember to nod to the abundance endlessly full to the edge of nothingness."

Sister

Grants Pass, Oregon in the new natural-light studes!