In my backyard

Filed Under: Real Life, Where the sidewalk ends...

I did a really quick sweep through of my backyard. Actually, it was more the corners of my outside patio. Ethan was dying to play TAG YOU’RE IT (it’s not just Tag, it’s TAG YOU’RE IT!) so I had to be hasty with my shots. I love how rich and vibrant the green is right now!
And, of course one of the boy! That grumpy face kills me!

It’s here!!!

Filed Under: Real Life

My Nikon d700 + 50mm 1.4 is HERE!! Booyah!

This is my favorite combo – it’s the bees knees, the granddaddy of them all, the cat’s meow, the shiznit, the bomb diggity, the awesomest – how ever you want to say – it’s simply the BEST!  It was go-to for everything. So needless to say,  I am beyond ecstatic to have it back. It sounds so superficial to say that I feel like a piece of my heart is back. Like what I had wasn’t good enough? They always say it’s the artist that makes the shot, not the camera. While I fully believe that, I feel like with this camera in my hand I can conquer the world! And that, my friend, is one of the best feelings in the world. Who’s going to argue that?

Photo Dump

Filed Under: Obsessed

Favorite apps:

Instagr.am
Camera+
TiltShift Generator
PictureShow
Cameramatic
Instant110
Diptic

Please feel free to share your favorite photo apps! I love playing around so I definitely welcome all suggestions and recommendations!

I’ve got to get back

Filed Under: Real Life

Lately, I’ve been really struggling with my photography. Maybe it was losing all my gear in the fire. Maybe it’s the fact that I can hardly find time for me. Maybe it’s that photography is really low on my priority list right now. I’m fighting to find my self- confidence and creativity. I know everyone goes through a “writer’s block” and hard times but I just want me back. NOW. It’s funny how, in losing everything, you lose a sense of yourself. I never thought of that beforehand (and who really thinks of something like that beforehand anyhow?). After the fire, I thought of it as a way of starting over, starting something fresh but we’ve slowly crept back into our old ways, creatures of habit we are. I realize now that I don’t want to start fresh, I want to refine me and my priorities.

Photography for me is so many different things. It’s such an amazing gift. Since discovering it, it has turned into my refuge…my sanctuary, I guess you could say. It allowed me a creative outlet but still fulfilled that constant desire in me to learn more. I could just escape the world and all it’s problems with my camera in hand. It recharged me.

It hasn’t been the same. I’ve lost touch with my perspective and ambition (creatively speaking, I don’t anyone getting worried I’ve gone off the deep end). I am hoping that by putting all this down in a (somewhat) organized thought, that it will force me to get back out there. Force myself out of this rut.

The journey of a thousand miles
must begin with a single step.

Through the Week

Filed Under: Real Life

I never realized how many pictures I took with my boys on my iphone. Here’s just a snippet of this last weeks. I had to wade through all the duplicates. I’ve been really enjoying all the cool photo apps lately so I hope to make this a weekly thing!

iphone captures