Hello January, Goodbye January

Hello everyone! I am SO sorry that I haven't posted yet this year. I've gotten caught up with Live & Conquer, (my Etsy shop) I've been working on my spring collection. (I feel so funny saying that) ;D I'm also pondering opening an Etsy shop for my photographs. Thoughts? I did a few other self portrait photo shoots this month, but I haven't posted them yet because I have sworn not to. Long story. ;D On another note..... I got the idea for a kind of photo collage from the Twilight soundtrack (New Moon), Shooting the Moon by OK Go.  I LOVE that song. I had a really good time making it. The moon photo, the sunset photo and the photo of me are all mine. I had the mist fun making the rainbow waterfall. Well, I hope everyone is having a good start to the new year. I still can't believe it 2011! Oh my. 

Winter In The City

My sister lives downtown now (sad face.) But, for the last few years we've made a habit of going to the Kris Kringle Market in downtown Chicago. We went a little earlier this year, to take a gander at all the goodies and have a good old time. It was one of those perfect wonderful days. The atmosphere was full of Christmas and the Holidays. It was all making me drunk and swoon. We even saw this older guy feeding the pigeons, and they were sitting on his hand! So glad I my camera! I wish a had a piece of bread through. :) Also the night before I put all the Christmas music I had back on my ipod and listened four hours of it on the train going downtown. So, that was my weekend.

Catch A Falling Star, And Put It In Your Pocket......

I made this dress a while ago. But, as soon as it was done, this idea for a
photo shoot popped into my head. It was very interesting to get the star up
in the tree, (I got hit in the head a lot.) and climbing up and down the ladder
to check out the photos. It didn't help that I took the photos right before a
storm, VERY windy. :D But, all in all, I think it all turned out well.

You can see a little more about the dress here: http://www.burdastyle.com/projects/catch-a-falling-star-and-put-it-in-your-pocket-dress

P.S. Yes! I do have a farmer's tan. Because I live on a farm . :)

Honey, Babies, Princlings.

These are my babies! They are spoiled, they are loved and they are baby princlings.
The little brown and white pony is Ashi. I've had him since I was 9. The bigger
black and white, tall, dark and hasdsom is Moses. Who I've had since I was 13.
I MY GOSH DO I LOVE THEM! I thought we should have a photoshoot, so here
it is! :)

The Farm Life, Is A Good Life.

I haven't gone out and just took photographs in a while. So, yesterday I
went out to have a good old time. And, here is the result. :) I wanted a
few photos of showing how beautiful it is to live on a farm.

Last Summer....

These photographs are from a summer course I took last summer from
Columbia College in Chicago. It was a 8 week course on photography,
ending with a final project. This photographic story line was my final
project of the summer. The final project was up to you to think of and
photograph, photoshop (if need be) then present to the class for
critique. Mine was the only "story" and I had to edit it down a lot from
it's original 13 photographs. I had a very interesting time photographing
all the scenes from a story board I had made up with only myself a
tripod and a remote time. (oh my!). I went to GoodWill to pick up an old
dress, took the photos, then tweaked the photos slightly with photoshop
to get the look I wanted. Hope you all like the story.

P.S. They were originally tiffs then I had to resize them online
(I don't have photoshop) so the color of the photos themselves are a bit off.