This is from a shot that Miss Aniela set up and I assisted on, then decided to process a pic my own way. I snapped the shutter frantically when I saw her get into this position. I thought the pose was dynamic with the lines of the trees and the direction of her body. She processed one as well on her stream, so check it out!
The busy bits of my life are not over yet...yesterday was overwhelming, as this entire week has been, and I swear I won't really sleep until I get on a plane tomorrow to go to London. It isn't a bad thing, it is all really good, but deadlines are upon me, looooong drives today, video-making, self portrait-taking....oh my.
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I worked with this model for the first time the other day despite trying to organize the shoot for weeks. By the time it happened, I was itching to make it a reality since it had been sitting in my mind for so long. An idea that I can't get out of my mind is the loss of childhood, and trying to get it back. There are two ways to see a picture like this - there is the depressing way, which is that she tries as hard as she can but is grown and can never get childhood back....but then there is the positive way, that at least she understands the happiness of childhood and has good enough memories that she wants them back. So many people grow up to enjoy adulthood because it is better than their childhood, or they forget all together how great childhood was. I chase my childhood every day.
I thought about several titles for this one, not the least of which were: "Down the Rabbit Hole" and "Island of Misfit Toys" - hehe! But decided not to rip off a master today despite feeling that they were rather appropriate ;-)
Model: Alexis M
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Thanks to the lovely and encouraging facebook peers, I decided to upload this to flickr. While it is extremely similar to the one I posted before, I thought it had it's own unique properties.
And the real reason why I'm posting to flickr is to announce that I am doing a print auction to raise money for the Lupus foundation. I am auctioning off my print titled "6am Observation", a 16X16" limited edition, signed print on fine art matte paper. It will be edition 1/1 in honor of the cause. All proceeds will be donated to the Lupus Foundation of America.
You can bid on the print here!
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Sometimes going back to basics is the best thing for a photographer to do I think. I always want to push myself and explore new pieces of the photography puzzle, but it is nice to remember what I have always loved about photography and why I loved it. I started looking through my flickr, like way back in the distance - page 20 even. And I picked out 3 photos that struck me, 3 that I missed. They all included window light on skin, hair moving, and a sense of tension. My hair has gotten much longer than when I took those pictures and was quite a challenge to keep inside the frame. I remembered instantly the no remote days, as I was using my 10 sec timer, and as a result also remembered the "fling-your-head-til-you-want-to-throw-up" feeling that comes from hair flipping and then dashing, and repeating. So all in all, shooting this yesterday felt amazing and I hope you enjoy - a little piece of where I came from.
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To me, there is endless beauty in the way humans are built. All animals, really. I love photographing skin though more than anything, so I use myself as a subject whenever I can to take some pictures in my bedroom. This was one such picture. I take a lot of them. I could probably exhibit a whole 50-picture series if I shared all of those images. But they are for me more than anything else, just something that I am passionate about and something that I do when I am particularly stressed. I could call it my wall series, since that would adequately describe the emotion from them.
Hitting a wall, climbing over a wall, feeling secure or safe, feeling stuck or trapped...
The way light hits skin is amazing to me. I will always find beauty in a dark image like this because of how fragile the skin looks, yet how strong the body can look. Tension among fragility. A simple picture, but meaningful for me nonetheless.
I hope everyone has an amazing week ahead. I will be in New York City this week, and St. Louis by the end of it. Teaching 14 classes next week...I've got some prepping to do!
:) Xoxo
New London workshop dates announced! :) brookeshaden.com/workshops/
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