I would write that I could spend days photographing this lovely boy but I think every portrait I ever do affects me like that.
I love the work of it.
Bubbles
I was the photographer documenting a child's birthday party and this series unfolded in front of me.
I do enjoy event photography. The work of capturing real life as it unfolds ... nothing like it.
Guitar Girl
Tickets have been booked and I'm off to Genova in February. I cannot begin to tell you how good it feels to have the promise of wandering back in my life. It's time ... more than time.
Miss 9 and I have begun reading a new book series together. It's delightfully creepy. And I have 'Italian for Dummies' here on my desk. Now to open it and begin serious work.
I have been struggling to fulfil my daily foto commitment. And I'm intrigued because I see it's so much about my inability to give myself too much time off. And the battle is there in the fact that I can't 'snapshot' this commitment. I climb into photography, working my way towards the right angle perhaps, seeking out the right light. I have to be prepared to do ... just do the photography for an hour each day. It's an interesting battle.
And emails ... I've been caught up in a few email exchanges that make me stop to take notes. And I'm printing out interesting blog posts and articles, sticking them into my journal.
My super-talented niece called Katie sent me an email containing the static digital image she made at school and it's stunning. I must ask permission to blog it. Katie's the one in the foreground.
So, I did a 'girl and her guitar' series for the foto-a-day shoot today. I was using my 17-40mm lens on the Canon EOS 5D MkII and I was all but climbing onto the couch as I took the image you find at the end here. I think, in future, I might just stick with my 70-200mm lens. I love that lens. It's my way of seeing ... and being. Potentially my photography subjects may appreciate a bit of distance too.
That Portrait Session in the Park
I photographed this little man when he was born. And every year I've photographed him again. The camera adores him. You can see why ...
Post-Processing Fun
I have been so intent on creating images that capture the truth of a person or scene that I let the whole filters and frames pass me by. I've been belatedly playing with some in my free time.
Autumn Scenes in Antwerp, Belgium
It's a grey and miserable autumn day here in the city and that was me, out the door and on the tram, on school run by 7.30am. To complicate things, Wednesdays and Thursdays Miss 9 's school closes at midday so I get an hour or two at home before I'm back out and across the city to pick her up.
Who knows why I imagined I could handle my red umbrella and my camera but I did. I created a couple of montages - photographs taken as I wandered across Antwerp city. A tram from the suburbs to the city centre, then a walk that wends its way through cobble-stoned backstreets and ancient buildings ...
4.30pm, it's still raining and we're losing the light fast. It's not even winter yet. But anyway, my adopted city ...
There's the tree-lined street ... that I don't live in. The tram tracks curving off into the distance. And the beautiful park I live near. The one that often has a 'beautiful mist' softening the scenes there. 'Beautiful mist' because, pretty as it is, it is actually the horrendous pollution created by one of Europe's busiest highways just next-door there.
The next montage was made up of images I found in the city. Antwerp is a city of painters. Rubens also lived here and there are statues all over the place.
Reflections, taken on the street I call the street of the antique shops. I loved the soldiers and the wine glasses... I tried to capture them while including the street scene too. It made what might have been a miserable day almost fun.
