Showing posts with label garden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label garden. Show all posts
Friday, August 12, 2011
Wisconsin Garden Photography
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I recently had the pleasure of photographing a colleague of my husband's garden. He and his wife were participating in a local Garden Tour and as a surprise for his wife, he had contacted me about photographing their extensive grounds, including a gazebo, several ponds, fountains and even a three hole gold course on their property.
There were so many small touches that made it not only a pleasure to photograph, but a pleasure to simply walk around and absorb all of the fine details. It was easy to see the years of personal attention and thoughtful planning that went into creating their garden.
It was hard to pick just a few images to share with you, so there are more than my normal sneak peek.
The family is also thinking about renting out their grounds for weddings, senior photos etc. so I am hoping to use their garden at some point in the future. Or, if you are looking for a place for your own photos, feel free to drop me a line!
There were so many small touches that made it not only a pleasure to photograph, but a pleasure to simply walk around and absorb all of the fine details. It was easy to see the years of personal attention and thoughtful planning that went into creating their garden.
It was hard to pick just a few images to share with you, so there are more than my normal sneak peek.
The family is also thinking about renting out their grounds for weddings, senior photos etc. so I am hoping to use their garden at some point in the future. Or, if you are looking for a place for your own photos, feel free to drop me a line!
Monday, September 6, 2010
What is it about these two photos?
Is one of these really better than the other? A recent trip to the Lyndale Park Rose Garden in South Minneapolis gave me perhaps my new favorite photo of my little son, finally feeling well after over a week of illness and delighting in the cool wetness of a fountain.
The black and white is classic, simplified, and allows me to focus on that look of sheer delight on his face, and the way that he always holds his hands when he laughs like that. But the color version lets me see how brown his hair is, the way his cheeks get rosy when he is busily buzzing around as only toddlers can do. It lets me see what a little dapper fellow he is in his blue stripes.
However much I want to get mired in the details of this, and however much my anal retentive nature is satisfied by this, what both styles of post-processing should accomplish is to disappear and to allow anyone viewing this image to get a better sense of the emotion of the moment, and to be drawn into who the person is in the photo.
That is where I get frustrated with photographers at times. Trends come and go, what is popular now will date an image in 10 years (remember the second inset head in many of our childhood portraits from the 80s?) I would rather have a portrait that is still technically good, after all- you can't compromise on focus, but a bit less trendy if it meant that it was a more real remembrance of a specific person and a specific place and time. Yes there needs to be allowances in the fact that portraiture is an impression of real life, but I think that the more that I go on, the more I go back to my photojournalist roots and desire to capture reality. HS Seniors- how often do you really find yourself kneeling on a railroad track in your everyday life anyways?
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Sunday, February 21, 2010
Thanksgiving in February
I know- I'm a bit late for Thanksgiving- even a bit late for Valentine's Day, but I have a brief break in between projects right now as I wait for some woolen sweaters I'm imaging winging their way across the Atlantic. I am- of course- handily filling up my time with working around the house, garden plans for the coming spring, sewing, working on marketing materials and just playing with my Little Man. I thought that I would pause and take a minute to observe a tradition in the Weston family and in our circle of friends back in Michigan.
The holidays are always so hectic that our small group from church has taken to celebrating Thanksgiving after all of the running around has ended and placed it at the end of February. We're talking a complete American Thanksgiving meal- Turkey, mashed potatoes (typically Jim's area of expertise after I managed to cut my thumb pretty good while peeling potatoes one year) cranberry sauce and pies for dessert.
The holidays are always so hectic that our small group from church has taken to celebrating Thanksgiving after all of the running around has ended and placed it at the end of February. We're talking a complete American Thanksgiving meal- Turkey, mashed potatoes (typically Jim's area of expertise after I managed to cut my thumb pretty good while peeling potatoes one year) cranberry sauce and pies for dessert.
We used that time to simply relax and enjoy each others company, and this often led to more of a holiday spirit than some real Thanksgivings I've celebrated. Although we are now in Minnesota and can no longer celebrate Small Group Thanksgiving, I would like to take the opportunity to think about all that I have to be thankful for- and there truly is so much, but I thougth due to the closeness of another holiday I would comment on how thankful I am for my two Valentines this year.
For Valentine's Day my dear husband is usually in New York at a major convention for his job in sales, but this year we were able to have a day to celebrate and so we went out to lunch at a small romantic cafe in nearby stillwater-- although we were accompanied by my smaller Valentine. I am so Thankful this year to have both of them in my life, but my mind is especially thankful that my Little Man is here and healthy and so, so strong. It is still hard to believe that at this time last year, he was not even here on the outside yet.
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