my husband was gone for work this week. one day we headed to my sister in law's and soaked up some niece mary nephew danny time. as i sat on the couch and watched mary fumble through cars, trucks, transformers and trains i thought to myself, wow, she has a big brother.
xo isabel
my fabulous friend, carissa (go check her blog out...ok come back), is the new director of the harbor city school in east boston. she asked me a while back to photograph the rooftop fundraising event and i said OF COURSE! and then i lost my gear. and then i was all "wah i can't shoot an event with my dinky d3000" but then carissa was all awesome and said to shut up and do it. so i did. there's a much larger post for this at a later time, because man am i tired. i followed around a large gaggle of children and their parents while they partied for 3 hours. in heels.
but i love this picture. i loved it the moment i snapped it. i thought about it all the way home. it's one of my favorite images that i've ever captured. vivian was on a bouncy horse and to get her to warm up i squatted down and bounced right along with her. after this, she and i were pals.
and with that. i wish you a good night. xo isabel
took my little rinky dink to the cape. forced myself again. forced myself to think of it as film with little room for post processing. my sister wives. bffs 4-eva. soul mates from anotha motha. i just really love them. and love their kids. and their mens. love em.
the last time i photographed evie and kai was in CA. i lost those photos. felt good to make new ones today, though. and man. what a good, good day. a summer day.
yep. no words, just a lot of love. xo isabel
short on words. been a strange summer. gear was stolen. as in camera gear. as in my dear sweet d7000 and my beautiful 35mm f/1.4 longer post coming.
hadn't taken a photo in approximately one week. picked up my "feels like a toy in my hands" d3000 today and popped on the 50mm f/1.4 and forced myself.
i saw this awesome lady (tara whitney) who i totally admire do this one time. well, she's done it a few times. the diptych thing. it makes me feel like i'm there. when i get to the end i always wish there was more. and what with my losing my gear and sort of going back to a basic camera for a bit, i've been forcing myself to think on some things i've been struggling with. maybe that's in the next post. but really, i didn't allow myself to edit these outside of adobe ACR, and what i did do was just sharpen and up the contrast a bit. editing won't change the composition of a photo, or the light, or the colors of that moment. trust the eye. we got to crane beach at 6:30PM (yep...that's us) and we played in the pink light and tide pools and sandy ripples. not much dinner was consumed and we got bit by a few greenheads, but the night was perfect. the boys had fun. they are sleeping snug in their crisp layer of beach skin.
i'm coming back... xo isabel