29.5.09

[the 'last' year - 08]

June 1 - 6, 2009
Oh, yeah.




























27.5.09

[lighting]



(photo by GQ Germany mag)

26.5.09

Summer Skin





I've been intending to do a photo series for some time & so now I'm finally posting part of it.

This one happened purely by accident, which almost makes it better.  My interpretation of the pleasures & elements of Summer.














4.5.09

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There's so many things I want to do & be. And many things I love to do that I always try to execute simultaneously...
that doesn't work so well.

I think I've figured out how to wear a fob, or watch chain.I don't actually have one, but I made my own to wear with the vintage vest A gave me. (Menswear is so dang cool!)
Also, my latest sewing project turned out well. Perhaps you'll see it sometime with the vest & chain - a skirt I patterned after one on All Saints..which, after you saw the original mine would only seem to be a distant relation to it, but...I like mine. Hundred-dollar tweed would have been nice, but...
I can wear it with boots for a bit of much needed bad-ass - Doc Martens or Steve Maddens?
Prolly the Docs.

Also, why do hobbies have to be expensive? If I possessed the wherewithall I'd skip the Mountainboard for $200 & make my own, but at this point $200 might be the only way to go.
Good grief. It's just a skateboard with brakes & mud tires.
I'm hoping to get some surfing in (ha-ha) if we make it to Emerald Isle this year.


Light & lighting have been playing a more central role in my photo-play. Rather, I've been paying them more attention. 
As 'advanced' as technology is, there doesn't seem to be a camera that is able to hold a candle to the human eye for efficiency, color & speed.
Drat.

Poor lighting is the bane of my existence. Adjusting the settings on a camera only goes so far.
And that ridiculous blast of feebleness called the flash - whose bright idea was it to mount a little light on the top of the camera so that one could take pictures in a situation for which photography might not have been intended? 


Making Indian food for dinner. The tikka paste smells musty & strong as it cooks, & the vinegar tears our eyes.