met up with this lovely little arlington family the other morning. felt like i captured all the love i felt in those walls.
little brother was surely sitting sweetly and calmly, as three year olds are known to do, in the corner.
-isabel
the incredible growing boy
remember him?
3, maybe 4 years ago, i was sitting with a fat leo, nursing at the new england aquarium. a smart, outgoing little boy had befriended jack. who had wandered, or maybe stomped, over to the large tank in the middle. admiring sharks. probably wishing there was a way he could feed leo to one of them. in a 15 minute spurt the owner of the little boy and i tossed words at each other and a connection was made. it took us almost 2 years after that day to reconnect but i'm so glad we did. and now there is Phin who is as delicious as they come. our summer has been inching along and racing by all at the same time. we float from play date to play date, trying to exhaust the boys while getting in some grown up time. three weeks of camp just disappeared for jack. my creativity is getting the short end of the stick and i miss writing and putting pictures together.
little Phin gave me a good burst though, and gave me something worth pointing my lens at.
for any photo nerds out there, all these images were edited with the NEW VSCO 02 Film Pack i'll just keep it short and sweet and say, they did it again, and i'm totally in love.
-isabel
soon to be four | arlington, MA family photographer
in a few weeks time, there will be another bouncing baby boy to love in this home. and if he's anything like his big brother, he surely will bounce.
-isabel
shootboston with shoottokyo
i'm sure you all remember that earthquake in japan. through some dumb luck, i found Dave Powell and his amazing street photography blog ShooTTokyo. we happened to have friends in Japan at the time and so i reached out to Dave, only to gather info and to commend him on documenting such an event. little did i know he'd turn into a friend. i missed the last photo walk, but was sure to clear my schedule for this one. i can't rave enough about the day, the people i met, the community of artists that is out there. and i now believe this to be vitally important to any photographer, regardless of what you shoot. keep yourself fresh, find new ways to see things, see people and see light. this is a very heavy picture post, but why else would you be here, right?!
ok. so if you can stand to look at any more pictures, go check out Dave's view HERE and check out one of my bff's, Naomi Mellar's view HERE.
street photography is really fun and takes balls i tell ya. it's made me think of starting a 100 strangers project...but am i brave enough?
-isabel