i’ve been feelin’ the heat of the summer, the passion of the sun, and just a little extra frisky lately…
makes me think of summer romance… since it is the summer solstice and all 😉
this was one romantic night in ol’ nyc…
i remember it clearly…
have a great {romantic} weekend, xxoo
i’ve decided to start something new – a “feature” on my blog. i’m going to call it “messages from manhattan” and it will showcase fotos of various sayings or quotes or the like that i noticed and fotographed all over the city during the time i lived there…
here’s one of my all time favs :
wake up! and have a great weekend.
{oNeLoVe}
i’m reminiscing about brisk spring foto shoots in central park like the one with this beautiful couple from singapore…
cherry blossoms just reek of spring – quite literally! 😉
and i think we are finally entering spring here in colorado – even though it’s doubtful i’ll see any of these here! warmer temps are expected for our weekend, though – and i look forward to going for a walk by the lake, working in the garden, and having a smoothie outside on the patio. i hope yours is filled with warmer temps also – among other delicious things!
i mean, in a way i always will miss new york. there’s just no place on earth quite like it… and i miss all the cool doors i would always see…
yes, there is such a thing. it happened this past weekend, on the 6th.
one year, i fotographed it.
super excited.
spectators from above…
cameras everywhere!
pillows everywhere! Continue reading
i miss train rides…
the sound of the tracks…
the views from the window…
the sway of the cars…
i’ve been missing new york a lot lately.
i always loved that new york city had a publication with my initials on it 🙂 {notice the stuck-on gum to the left}
these are all over lower manhattan…
i decided – i don’t showcase enough of my “work” — i believe i am a relatively amazing portrait fotographer. in case you’ve never seen my portrait work, click here.
i wanted to share some of my favourite portrait sessions over the years and also share new ones as they are discovered… and this collection is for sure one of my favourites. she’s so spunky! love her pink stripe… and the yummy lighting that day on our romp through lower manhattan around sunset…
i love the shake-it app.
perhaps an oldie compared to so many of the constantly new amazing things out there now, but i am loyal to my shake-it app and i still love it… makes me want to think of a sweet project for my polaroid… anyway, here are a few of my favourite shake-it fotos from my days in the big apple…
manhattan, lower east side Continue reading
well, you may have guessed this would be another blog about new york city… i can’t believe it’s been a year and a half since i moved… i miss it lots in some ways, but i also know it was the right thing to do to move when i did. i love to reminisce about my days in the big apple because sometimes i take for granted just how incredible that experience was. i feel i don’t always appreciate myself or the experience enough… not to mention, all the awesome images i captured while there!
this collection is a special one. when i look through it, i can very easily be whisked away to this very enchanting night. the ambiance, the dinner that was prepared for me, the dessert, too!, the sky, the brisk air, the moonrise, the way i felt… so vividly i remember it. the very last foto in this blog encompasses the whole evening. but please be patient and scroll through all of them first 😉
thanks for sharing this with me…
i always loved the fire escapes in the city… Continue reading
i love doors. i especially love to fotograph doors. my love for them was discovered during my days living and working in manhattan, wandering aimlessly through the streets with my camera, snapping away… so many doors… so many stories behind them… so many opportunities around represented in each one… i love and miss that place, and always will.
a dear friend of mine took me to this marvelous place a few years back and i fell in love. of course – autumn in new york is always amazing, even when it’s late autumn. the leaves had mostly fallen off at this point, but it created a blanket that covered the forest floor and there were traces of colour left on some of the trees. very enchanting, this place. i wasn’t sure if the blair witch was going to pop out and scare me or if fairies were going to come in and sweep me away to narnia…
the crispness in the air was memorable and the overcast lighting created a moody effect, so i snapped some artsy fotos with my iphone :
when i first moved to new york, i took whatever kind of work i could find. i freelanced for the first 6 months, it was kind of scary. most of it didn’t pay that well, but it allowed me to get out and meet the coolest people and i got to fotograph some gorgeous ones! david homyk was no exception.
i had found an online magazine that needed editorial shots of this up-and-coming songwriter and producer. the moment i contacted david, i knew there was something special about him. a true gentleman with a sparkle in his eyes that would swoon anything with a pulse. his music is catchy and fun and he writes all of his own songs! we met up in the meat packing district of manhattan’s lower west corner just before sunset and enjoyed an image-packed 3-hour romp with about 6 outfit changes. i’m usually nervous when i shoot strangers {that’s always fun to say}, but david put me at ease immediately. he’s a natural in front of the camera, as he’s modeled numerous times, and he even helped me with some ideas for “looks” he wanted and he thought the magazine could use.
this shoot was one of my most memorable and favourites to date. david has since gone on to do amazing things with his career : he’s been featured on the hit daytime show all my children, he continues to write and produce his own music, and i’ve caught him a couple times on the tyra banks show. he’s done quite well for himself and i’m honored to have this wonderful collection of fotographs of him!
so i’m going to share them. try not to drool 😉 Continue reading
i’m talking about THE woodstock… former-music festival host and so much more. and yes, the town is exactly how you picture it… and i have some fotos to prove it.
🙂
i’m *pretty sure* this is the lawn where the famous woodstock music festival was held…
i feel like KISSing today. Keeping It Seriously Simple.
i have a long weekend and week ahead of me. i am working straight through to my birthday, which coincidentally happens to be on thanksgiving this year. i plan to cook a feast for myself and meditate under my stars all night. i’m kind of weird… even though i work in the public and enjoy helping others, i’m actually quite a loner and am extremely introverted… so it’s totally okay 🙂
anyway… i feel really good lately and even though this is true, i do realize not everyone is so “zen” during the holidays, and therefore i’m trying to remember this simple truth over the next week :
i saw this on a building once when strolling through the lower east side of manhattan. i obviously had to take a picture. two days later i walked that same block and it had been painted over. i still have it as my screen saver on my phone and i try to live by this rule every day. it’s such a simple truth, and i find that when i react to situations with love, with only the highest version of myself, things are just better. the world needs more love. it’s part of our “job” here, to spread the love that we ARE… in fact, it’s the only reason we are here.
oNeLoVe.
i visited new york last month for the first time since i moved…
it was surreal… that’s one word for it. i didn’t really bust out the camera too much… just really “took fotos with my mind” as i like to say… captured memories by breathing it all in. sometimes a picture doesn’t really do it… that’s coming from a photographer!! haha.
new york is a million and a half wonderful things. but i realized this time that it has now become a place for me to visit. there will always be a piece of my soul in new york city, but i can confidently close the chapter now and no longer wonder if i made the right decision to leave. i loved every second of my experience living in manhattan, but i left when it was the right time and everything is as it should be {like always, right?!}. i have to say, it’s a good feeling to know that in my heart, now.
so, here are a few shots i managed to grab while out wandering the city… i only took about 50 pictures all weekend! so weird, so not normal.
it’s really hard to imagine new york city under water right now. the subway is shutdown, 1.5 million people without power – my former roommate included. I WAS JUST IN NEW YORK LAST WEEKEND!!! i’m so glad i dodged the bullet that is frankenstorm. my heart goes out to all of those who are struggling from the effects of this monstrous event. of course, i’ll always think of new york when i think of the east coast.
last night, i was watching the david letterman show and as he was listing the “top ten rejected frankenstorm names” i began to wonder why no one was laughing… “too soon?!”, i thought… but then i realized that no one was in the audience, and he was recording anyway. jimmy fallon did the same thing.
here is a little article about it – classic.
so here’s what central park would probably look like in the next couple weeks, if the rain hasn’t totally bogged it down…
hello you wonderful faithful readers, you!
I MISS YOU! i missed blogging. i was away for the weekend, and although i had created some drafts of blogs to post, my internet connection wasn’t as reliable as i would’ve preferred, so i didn’t even write a {meatless monday} this week and i feel like i have so much to share with you all!
well, not really. i mean, kind of. i just missed blogging.
i’m sick – i almost always manage to get some kind of head cold or sinus infection pretty much every time i travel. i’m used to it, i always got sinus infections when i was younger. whatever, it’s not a big deal – the word “infection” kind of freaks people out, i think. but it’s really something i’m kind of used to when i fly… i can avoid it if i’m proactive, but these past couple of weeks were like a whirlwind! anyway, it’s just that i don’t always do my neti-pot lately and i’m sure that would’ve helped prevent this icky feeling. but i will kick its ass, don’t worry. Continue reading
see you later, new york… you sexy little crazy wild and hardcore vixen, you.
until next time… xxoo
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