I've never really minded having my photograph taken. I have moments, like everyone else, when I see a photo of myself and think, That's what I look like? But most of the time, I'm okay with it. We are much harder on ourselves than others would ever be. Over the summer, I watched a video with photographer Sue Bryce, who specializes in glamour photography and making women look and feel beautiful. She talked about a time in her life when she felt awful about herself and refused to let anyone …
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December Photo Project | Part 1
This month, in addition to posting at habit, I'm also participating in the December Photo Project. Take a photo every day for the first twenty-five days of December. It's that simple! I post my photos over at Flickr and the DPP Facebook group, and now I want to share the first batch with you. Originally, I looked at doing December Daily with Ali Edwards, but that involves making an album specifically for this project (in addition to purchasing her kit, which wasn't in my budget). She's making …
A (Surprise!) Hike in the Woods
It is rare for us to have a Saturday together, rarer still for us to have nothing planned. But this Saturday, that's exactly what we had. A day to do whatever we wanted. I hunger for these kinds of days since most days are full of comings and goings, to-do lists and time frames. As Adam and I discussed how we might spend our day, we laid out all of our options. Should I go to the gym for two hours and do whatever I want? Should we go to the museum? The indoor swimming pool? The park? I was …
A Day in the Life
On Wednesday, I documented my own "Day in the Life." I took photos throughout the day to capture what ordinary looks like around here. And it was a pretty ordinary day, so ordinary, in fact, that I left big, boring chunks out (like going to the gym and the two hours when my husband picked up our daughter from school and took both kids to the store to buy wine). But still, the bones are here. And it was a pretty good day. These were all taken with my DSLR, all lightly edited and converted to …
More October in Film
There's nothing like a brisk, sunny day in October. Literally, nothing. The colors are so vibrant and the air so cold and refreshing, it's hard not to get outside. On this particular day, I was sitting at my desk working and had the itch to grab my camera and finish this roll of film. Thankfully, I work from home and my husband was with our son that day. So, off I went to the same park where these were taken about 24 hours earlier. To be fair, I was location scouting for a photo session I had …