Can't help it, gotta post more...

Jana and Mark---Part 2

Jana and Mark

Bridals and Groomals!!!

These two are so much fun to take pictures of. More to come, I'm sure.

Happy Birthday Shakespeare!

Kenneth Branagh-- You win at acting and are ultimately the best of the best (with honors) when it comes to interpretations of the Bard.

For your watching pleasure...





What's your favorite William Shakespeare play/line?

Derek and Teana!

 

STRAIGHT OUT OF THE CAMERA!!!!

This is a planter. Yeah. I know. Not particularly stunning stuff, really. But baby, oh baby, this lens makes the light dance.

I cannot WAIT for the bridal shoot this afternoon.

That's all. Just wanted to share the joy.

JOY people! JOY!

Easter girls

Mmmm, 50mm lens...So nice.

Happy Birthday Will! (and Abbey, and me...)

You are adorable. How cool is it that we share a birthday? Okay, clearly, for you, it's not that cool yet. But someday,  I'm pretty sure, the planets will align and the Davis clan will have another March 30th/31st  birth, and it will feel like this new human being sharing your day is the best present ever.

I hope you get to eat fists full of cake today.

There are some people...

who just see... really well.

I met a girl who totally has a great vision.

I met her at a goodbye party for a mutual friend.

I've tried to get her to tell me her photographing secret...but we've never managed to get together to play.

Suffice it to say, she's got the eye, and the skills, and when that comes together beautiful things, intriguing things, powerful things can happen.

Ladies and gents of the bloggersphere... Christine Armbruster.


I can even forgive her for taking the name "Bright Eyed"...because she's that good.

So here's my shameless plug to try and win a print by her.



Say cheese, please!

Baby Maile

Welcome to the world little baby! So happy to see you.

Messing around

Oh layouts! Why can't I be wizard at html?
Driving me crazy with this formatting.


This just reiterates two things:

1. I need a photoblog.

2. It must be getting closer to spring, because I'm jumpy.

Post # 111 Best SNL Skit

Need a little abstract in my life

Maybe the abstract photo of my abstract art is more interesting than the actual piece. Oh well.

I was in a painting mood, and my abstract skills have never really been pushed. So, I decided to sacrifice some 11xsomething canvases that have been hiding under the haunted piano in my room. ( Can you think of a better place to stash 8 blank canvases.)

I wish I would have video taped my painting session. Not for any glorified self broadcasting, but for my own reflection. I was amazed at how my first canvas (not pictured on this post) was a complete flop, and how consciously or sub-consciously I tried to fix it.

The next two canvases I worked on simultaneously. Which, not only was gratifying to my slight ADHD tendencies, (Ahhh, constantly changing channels!) but let me abandon one just in time so I wouldn't ruin it completely, so I could focus on the other.

Gypsy guitars and heavy Spanish rhythms stripped away any inhabitions.

 

It went a little like this in my head :

OHH! Okay, aalllllll red. Then scrape some of it away. Layers, I need layers. Okay, maybe it'll become a forest. NO! Don't turn it into anything yet. Just let it do it's thing. Okay, I need drips. What will purple do? What will white do? Yikes! Ummm, okay, now that I've done that, how are you going to make sure it's balanced? AMEBA! YES! Abstract work needs amoebas. Oh crap. Okay, Well, keep going with that shape. Smooth it out. Move it around. Hey good song!

Move onto the next, let the other one dry. Keep moving, keep adding. Keep mixing. Imagine what it would look like next to that drip. Does it need yellow? Does it need green? Does it need white? What?

And then I got lost in the sound and the paint and stopped actively asking questions and just did it.

Good exercise.