cold day but warm-fuzzy-photos with jamaica, her mother miriam, and their cat, mama kitty (who, incidentally, is my childhood cat katan's mama!).
miriam recently moved back to corvallis from cottage grove, which, lucky for me, means i get to see both her and jamaica way more often!
these last few weeks have reminded me how beautiful winter can be - i've got three shoots after this one to edit - but i still can't wait for spring.
this is my beautiful friend, who i love to photograph. that's pretty much all there is to it.
tonight i've been playing with speckles and circles. it's not particularly original, perhaps, but it sort of fits my mood at the moment. and, as my best teacher said eight billion times during college, 'everything's been done'.
there are these beautiful, weird cattails down the road from my house - i want to paint them.
good night, everyone... still working on the photography benefit for haiti. i think we've decided to make it an online auction, pretty much just like switchcities did. watch for it!
finally done editing the figure shoot from december - here are a few of my favorites. find the rest on my flickr ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/daronaliya/
this week i'm still trying to organize a benefit for haiti on valentine's day - if anyone wants to help or has any ideas, let me know! if we can't get it done by then, let's do it anyway another time.
i've shot many rolls of film since fall and hadn't had any way to process the color... until now! i just got my expired color film back from the lab and was very excited about the results. one of the amazing and irreplaceable things about film is that when it's old or damaged, you can get some interesting color, grain, and contrast shifts. i happen to love how the color begins to skew and fade with age and can't wait to see what happens when i process the 30-year-old black and white rolls on monday!
these are from a shoot i did as a collaboration with my friend jozef. working with former classmates is always wonderful for me because collaborating and sharing ideas is one of the things i miss most about college. A. was our wonderful model who is being very patient with me - i still haven't gotten her a cd of the digital ones... or posted them anywhere for that matter... bah!
during this shoot i was testing out the hasselblad owned by the studio i work at - but i'm not sure which of these film shots are from it or from my trusty seagull. i couldn't quite get the hang of the hasselblad - i'm going to try again soon.
these next ones are from chanukah. i was in bellingham visiting my family and it snowed! my little sister talya has always been one of my favorite subjects.
[caption id="attachment_52" align="alignnone" width="448" caption="talya later made a snow penguin - i wish i had a picture of that!"]
[caption id="attachment_53" align="alignnone" width="448" caption="on our way from the car to cafe avellino on a peaceful sunday morning"]
[caption id="attachment_54" align="alignnone" width="448" caption="i guess this one should have been first - this is when the snow began to fall"]
[caption id="attachment_55" align="alignnone" width="448" caption="this face = love"]
well, i guess that's all for now - but not for long! have a good weekend!
below is a link to the help-portrait blog. their most recent post includes a wonderful idea to hold a photography benefit show, with proceeds going to haiti, just like they did for disadvantaged families in december. who's with me on this? i can't wait to go home and find something to contribute - and i'm going to spend all afternoon pretending to work and instead brainstorming on new shoots that could work for this project!!!!
let's find an awesome venue or two in corvallis and get this started! also - anyone in portland or eugene who wants to do this, i would love to be a part of your benefit if you've already got one planned! <3
