Yeah. It was this good…

I still look at this image and think…

Wow.  I did that.

Love.

So oooo cute.

I’m getting ready to do a series.  Not sure of what yet…but I love the idea…

check this out.

I am here.

One Light

And STOKED! I’ve been waiting for 6 months to take this course — so wish me luck! I’m hoping to be soooo much better after I’m done.

Plus I’m staying at my friend Riva’s house - and guess what? My bed has cool pink princess sheets on it!! Don’t you think that’s PERFECT? I’ll take a pic so you can admire. They are really fantastic.

Today the workshop runs from 9 am until sometime after midnight — so I’m going to be EXHAUSTED. But I’ll give you the review when it’s over.

xo T

So my writing is boring…

But I’m having a heck of a great time in Photoshop.

This is why I’m sooo glad…

I took up this passion as a business. I got this email today from a woman who I hope I’ll be photographing soon:

…

My husband and I viewed Tara’s photos and of course we wept. Tara has always had this light that just radiates from her and when she lost her hair, she actually glowed even more. You captured her heart and soul, the amazing love between her and Jer and those children… I taught both girls and they spend sometimes weeks at time at my house; you just nailed those little personalities. It was as if you had known them all your life. The passion and intimacy that you portray is intense. Like I mentioned to you earlier, I was crying over the photos of children I didn’t even know on your site, so when I saw Tara and crew, it was THE most fulfilling moment.

Guess what I got to do last night?

Watch a miracle…and photograph it for a friend of mine.  Love the images.  I’ll share only one…

Thought you guys might like to see…

Taralynn has cancer. It’s the ugly truth — but the most down-to-earth, amazing, loving, kind person is under those words. I had the honor of photographing her family — they’d never had photographs done before and were thrilled at the result — I was too. I got far more from this session than I can ever write about.

See the images here.

Cool stuff! Me in action.

A slideshow of the workshop from Monday.  I’m in there.  Make sure you look at it all the way through.  Does it look like I’m picking my nose in the last image?!!  I swear it was an ITCH!  (Seinfeld episode?!  ::laughing:

Sooo much fun.  I am a HUGE fan of Carla.  Huge.  HUGE!

xoxo

It always amazes me a little bit…

that people don’t see what I see.  It’s weird and a little disconcerting sometimes.  I know that I am “unique” ::Dr. Evil’s voice:: — and I really LIKE that…but sometimes…like yesterday at a GREAT workshop I attended by Carla Ten Eyck — when there’s 20+ photographers…it opens my eyes to how different everyone sees things when looking at exactly the same thing.

We were in a group…about 11 of us and each of us had to set up the model in the studio yard…which at first glance looked like grass…garage…chairs.

I was panicking because I couldn’t “see” the spot and my turn was coming…so when I walked around the corner and saw the 2 foot wall section shown in the photo…I don’t know how to describe it.  It’s like the world shifted to THE SPOT.  I just knew.  But what I heard when I was taking the photos was “I never noticed that” from others.  I think that’s cool.

I like to notice weird stuff.  I look for “different”  as a matter of fact.  Do you notice things others don’t?  One photographer told me he sees things in “frames”  — little rectangles no matter where he looks.  Another told me he sees designs and patterns.  Isn’t that cool?  What do you see?  More images to follow.

Working today…

Sometimes I get requests from other photographers to help them figure things out.  N was such a lot of fun today — he was really into learning!  Very cool.  His kids were A-Mazing.  So beautiful and fun to take pictures of.  I need to do THAT again.  I want to borrow his kids like…for every shoot I do!  ::grin::