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Saturday, July 31, 2010
Kari & Mike: Wedding
I've given you a couple of sneak peeks of this wedding recently but here it is in all of it's wonderfulness. It truly was a magical day.
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Thursday, July 29, 2010
Erin Sees Tulsa.
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Friday, July 23, 2010
Finding the angle. Capturing the soul.
For me taking pictures is about capturing the soul.
Yesterday I posted this image. And in so many ways this defines me.
I've always had a thing for balloons. It's a tradition in my family to release balloons on special holidays in honor of the loved ones that have gone on before us. I like that balloons keep me looking up. As does this blue sky and those white puffy clouds. And it's good to be reminded that I'm a very small piece of a much bigger world.
But this is what you don't know about this image. I had to lie down in the grass on a very windy Oklahoma day with my polaroid camera and HOPE that with one click (since I'm trying to ration my film as best I can) that I would be able to capture what my soul was seeing.
This is what I originally saw and what originally made me stop.
But this is about as boring as it gets.
And there's nothing in an image like this that defines who I am as a person, as a photographer.
But I knew there was something here. Something that would be timeless. Something that would be a part of telling my story.
I just had to find the right angle. And in my effort to capture the unique, beautiful souls of this world, it's all about the angle.
So there I was, lying in the grass in a skirt, waiting for the moment the wind blew those balloons right between some white puffy clouds in a bright blue sky.
And to me an image like this is far more interesting and dreamy than any of the others.
Plus it leaves more to the imagination. And that's WAY more fun than a construction zone that just happens to have some balloons tied to a sign.
Capturing it on polaroid? Well, that makes it timeless. And timeless makes me happy.
But let me qualify - by no means am I an expert on photography. I just know that finding the right angle is important to me. Often times that means not even looking through the viewfinder but just pointing the camera in one direction and snapping.
My hope with this post is that it will inspire you to see your world differently too. To look for those things that make you happy and to find the right angle to tell your story.
And with that, I'm ready for the weekend! Pin It
Yesterday I posted this image. And in so many ways this defines me.
I've always had a thing for balloons. It's a tradition in my family to release balloons on special holidays in honor of the loved ones that have gone on before us. I like that balloons keep me looking up. As does this blue sky and those white puffy clouds. And it's good to be reminded that I'm a very small piece of a much bigger world.
But this is what you don't know about this image. I had to lie down in the grass on a very windy Oklahoma day with my polaroid camera and HOPE that with one click (since I'm trying to ration my film as best I can) that I would be able to capture what my soul was seeing.
This is what I originally saw and what originally made me stop.
But this is about as boring as it gets.
And there's nothing in an image like this that defines who I am as a person, as a photographer.
But I knew there was something here. Something that would be timeless. Something that would be a part of telling my story.
I just had to find the right angle. And in my effort to capture the unique, beautiful souls of this world, it's all about the angle.
So there I was, lying in the grass in a skirt, waiting for the moment the wind blew those balloons right between some white puffy clouds in a bright blue sky.
And to me an image like this is far more interesting and dreamy than any of the others.
Plus it leaves more to the imagination. And that's WAY more fun than a construction zone that just happens to have some balloons tied to a sign.
Capturing it on polaroid? Well, that makes it timeless. And timeless makes me happy.
But let me qualify - by no means am I an expert on photography. I just know that finding the right angle is important to me. Often times that means not even looking through the viewfinder but just pointing the camera in one direction and snapping.
My hope with this post is that it will inspire you to see your world differently too. To look for those things that make you happy and to find the right angle to tell your story.
And with that, I'm ready for the weekend! Pin It
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