BOUNDLESS photo journal: October 2011

Friday, October 28, 2011

Meet Finn

This past Tuesday, I met Abby, Chris, and their 2-month-old baby, Finn, at Cox Farms in Centerville on a gorgeous day to record some special moments of Chris & Abby together with their new son. Here are a few of my favorites from the day.

baby finn

doesn't that smile look just like his daddy's in this picture?

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Lifestyle Portraiture at Cox Farms

Lifestyle portraiture (aka picture playdate) - Everyone has fun!

Last Thursday, Adobe, Phoenix, Takoda Din & I went to Cox Farms out in Centerville with some of our homeschool posse and had a blast (as usual). And, as usual, I took alot of pics. One of the other mommas, Wendy, also shot some pics on my 50mm during the hayride (nice work Wendy!). I had fun with different editing effects, and here they are! Enjoy!

If you were with us there, visit the gallery to see the images full-size, and write me for the download password if I haven't sent it to you yet.

Monday, October 10, 2011

the Kelly Family

This weekend I shot the lovely Kelly family. Tom's parents were visiting for the weekend from Connecticut, and they wanted to get some pictures of the family all together. The little munchkins, Jack, 5, Bridgette, 3, and Sean, 1, were adorable. Here's a preview from our session.

Sean

Bridgette

Sean

the Kelly Family

Melia & Ryan got married during the summer of 2011 in the gorgeous Grand Teton National Park by Moulton Barn, just north of Jackson Hole Wyoming. Adam & I were honored to document this momentous occasion.

After Melia & Ryan's amazingly beautiful wedding near Moulton Barn in Grand Teton National Park, just north of Jackson Hole WY, we did group portraits and then stayed on-site for some bride-n-groom portraits before heading over to Schwabacker's Landing for more....

At the end of the session, Melia & Ryan practiced their tango they were performing at their reception. This made for some lovely additional shots....

inspiration

My love affair with photography began when I was a child... with taking pictures of things that captured my eye or caught my breath - a ray of light, a shadow, an abandoned man-made object in a state of deterioration, anything in the process of decay, patterns in nature, textures, symbols of our mortality, metaphors for the passage of time, beautiful representations of life's wonder, and so on... When taking pictures of people, I always appreciated the beauty of the moment and enjoyed catching them just be-ing, doing whatever they were doing. I'd always cringe inside when I went to take a picture of someone and they'd stop, pose, & smile for the camera. It is the essence, not the facade, that interests me.

As an artist, my work deals loosely with the cycles of birth, life and death, which encompass human perceptions of time and space, ‘life story’, imagination, and consciousness of the world around us and the people with whom we interact. Every person lives a journey - some story that takes them from being born some time, some place, to dying some time, some place. In a sense, my work is an ongoing ingestion and digestion of everyday realities, of my experiences & memories - both recent & distant. It is the human experience and the wonder of the natural world that feeds my work more than anything else. As a fine artist, I express stories through visual metaphor. As a documentarian, it is the moment, or collection of moments - seemingly frozen in time - which speaks volumes. It is my role to bear witness and express what I see through these eyes, in the form of beautiful photographic art.

I am all about bringing back keepsakes and family heirlooms. Especially in this digital age, when everyone has a point-&-shoot or a camera phone, I think printed photographs are really important. We all (myself included) have hundreds and thousands of pictures that live in our computers, and we rarely see them other than as a flash on the screen from time to time. There is something to be said for an image that is tangible, right there in front of you, that you can linger upon, hold, & touch. I read recently that looking at photographs of loved ones can be a healing experience, especially if they are far away or no longer with you. No surprise there - how could a rush of love not be healing, even if it's mingled with pain? And even if it's someone you see every day - people change, all of us, (if you have kids, you know it happens so fast) and there is something really special about being able to remember someone just as they were at a certain moment in time. You see a photograph, and memories and even other senses come flooding back.

As an artist, I share with you a bit of my story & the beauty I find in life. As your photographer, I help you tell your story. The way I see it, I don't capture the moment, I set it free, so that it can live on, for a lifetime, or more...

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Friday, October 28, 2011

Meet Finn

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Lifestyle Portraiture at Cox Farms

Monday, October 10, 2011

the Kelly Family

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