Still working on the blog design…it’s going more slowly than I anticipated. I have a few real posts in mind that I want to write, but first I need to get this blog design worked out. So here’s a test post and image.
Oh hi, more writing just to see.
I am working on a new blog design, so things may look weird for a while while I’m playing around with everything. I’ll delete this post once I’m done playing. Just didn’t want people to be too baffled if they came to this page today and saw stuff that looks unfinished, like, say, the phrase “YOUR LOGO HERE.”
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I did this session last weekend in New York…my friend Julie just had a baby (six-weeks-old in these pictures) and asked me to do photos while I was there. I love combining photo sessions with travel so of course I said yes. And I love love love shooting in clients’ homes. We shot these in their Astoria apartment. It’s a small apartment, and the best light was in the bedroom, so we just all got on the bed for these. At the end I took them out on the balcony for a few.
I also wanted to try something new, and Julie agreed to be my guinea pig. I brought along a digital voice recorder and asked her to talk about how she felt about becoming a mom, how she felt like her life had changed with Vika’s birth, what she wanted to remember about this time. Then I synced the voice recording with the slideshow of images from her shoot. The video is about 3 1/2 minutes long.
This is Vika (Vee-ka, the Russian nickname for Victoria, which is her full name). She was born with a birth defect where her colon had not connected to her anus. So she has had to go through a few surgeries so far to correct this, starting with a colostomy–a rerouting of the colon to connect it with a hole in the abdomen wall, where they attach a bag that collects poop. You can see the bag in one of the images. After a couple more surgeries in which they will reconstruct her anus and connect the colon, the bag will be removed and she’ll be completely normal. Julie talks a little about one of the surgeries in the video.
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I got a lot of things done that had been on my to-do list for a while, so I can’t let the productive day end without blogging again. (This is one of the things that has been pushed off…oops.)
My favorite thing about New York is just how much there is. How much energy, how many different things are going on at once, how many different shows, how many places to get street food, how many little hidden gems there are right in the middle of everything. I love how walkable everything is.
I also love that there are things like the cupcake truck. Cupcake. Truck.
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Look at this–regular posting, people! Can you believe it? And at the time this post goes live, I will be gallivanting around New York City with some of my best friends for a long weekend, but I am so committed to keeping up with this blog this year that I made sure to write this post ahead of time, just in case I don’t have a chance to post from NYC. See how that works? Blogging. I’m doing it.
I’m getting spoiled by my 50mm 1.4 lens…now when I “only” get f/2.8 on a lens, I find myself going, “That’s it?” That said, I am loving this 105mm f/2.8 macro lens. Here are a couple shots I took the other day. I processed these differently than my usual processing. I don’t know if that’s a good thing or bad thing. I like them right now but I’m not sure if that’s because the processing works or because it’s late and I’m tired and it’s just different.
Can you tell what the last one is? It’s the stem of a leaf, in a pile of leaves Lyle was making.
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