Did anyone get a chance to see the meteor shower last night?
I stayed up way late and drove up into the mountains to watch it. It was so cold! Summer is quickly ending. I got scared away though by some people walking around in the woods next to my car who wouldn’t respond when I called. I’ll admit it, sometimes being alone in the woods in the dark makes you a little paranoid. The meteors were amazing though.
I’m at my family’s house in Montrose, Colorado getting ready for the Olathe Sweet Corn festival this weekend. If you’ve never had Olathe sweet corn, you’ve never had corn. It’s the plumpest, sweetest, grassiest corn that’s ever existed in the world. They’re mowing down one of the fields this week so we’re going to follow along behind and grab all of the sweet corn that I can fit into the back of my car.
In the spirit of the corn festival, here are some pretty corn pictures to get you good and hungry.
1. snake eyes 2. Another Pint Please… 3. *MarS 4. Trimmer471 5. Darwin Bell 6. r-zWords cannot describe how amazing these photographs from Lori Nix are. She creates these intricate little miniature scenes that are somehow a tiny bit sinister, and photographs them so beautifully you’d swear that it was a real place.
She’s got other collections that are interesting as well, but there’s something so sad about these that draws me in.
I’ve been going through a bunch of personal stuff lately, so I’m sorry if my posting hasn’t been the most up-to-date. One thing that’s made me happy? Having fresh flowers around all of the time. It’s pretty nice when you can just get them out of your yard.
What makes you happy when you’re having a hard time?
This being the first summer I’ve spent in this house, I’m continually surprised by what pops up in my garden. The ladies that lived here before me were really quite amazing gardeners. Of course, I’ve been taking lots of pictures with my awesome macro lens. Here’s some of my favorites that have blossomed lately.
Had the fire pit going this weekend and got some pretty cool pictures in the meantime – though I’d share here!
How was everyone’s weekend?
I’ve been having a lot of fun with my new garden, and all sorts of mysterious things that keep popping up. Now only if it would stop snowing we’d be in business! I’ve also been having fun bringing the new macro lens out to capture some of the interesting views.
Don’t worry, there’s plenty of non-pretty things going on as well behind the scenes, like singlehandedly tearing down an evergreen bush with a hacksaw.
Oh my.
I’ve never seen ingredients look this good. I mean, I love food, of all kinds, especially in it’s raw, straight out the earth form. And Kiss My Spatula makes every step of the cooking process look out of this world amazing. I’m both super jealous and super hungry, which is kind of a weird combination.
See what I mean? Jealous and hungry. Click here to see more.
I am totally enamored with this series of images from Oliver Schwarzwald – color found in the most unlikely of places. Somewhat unassuming at first sight but then sneaks up on you and hits you over the head.
I just got a new lens, and I’m super excited about it! Check out this depth of field:
So I’m curious – what kind of photo equipment do you all use? I figure you’re all in the creative mindset so maybe your needs are different than the rest of the typical camera users.
Also, I’ve started a little tumblr blog to share some of my film photos that I’ve taken over the years. You can find it here if you’re interested.
I cannot even communicate how beautiful I find these well-composed and lit still lifes from Kari Herer.
Something about them is so magical and transcendent. Simply gorgeous. You can purchase a print for yourself at her etsy shop.
OK, this is taking tilt-shift photography to the extremes of awesomeosity. I’m not sure how you would go about accomplishing something like this, but I really enjoy the result.
My friend Laurent just came back with a new series of gorgeous photos. I cannot get over these – the lighting, the ability to capture a bit of the person’s personality and soul in the photograph. You have to pop over to his site and check them all out.
In case you missed them, here’s an earlier post I did about his work, as well as an interesting interview.
I aspire to take pictures like this.
I’m trying to photograph 100 people this year in my “studio”. Usually ends up being my friends, as they are the easiest to wrangle into the house. I’ve only got 6 so far so I think I’m really going to have to step up my game here!
I got to thinking about the greater implications of this project, and I realized that it would be an interesting way of visualizing my social network. I’ll have to think of a creative way to display that.
What kind of projects do you have in the works right now?
