Thursday, February 25, 2010

Team-Up Thursday

Week 5 Theme - Self-Portrait


This week, the group was asked to create a self-portrait. Believe it or not, Gini and I did not plan this. It was really quite serendipitous that our shots ended up aligning the way they did. I think the result is amazing - I'm going to need to print and frame this one.

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Team-Up Thursday

Week 4 Theme - Nine

I really, really love our entry for this week. I had a bunch of very different ideas, none of which panned out. Nonetheless, I was happy with the result when Gini sent me the finished product (hers on the left, mine on the right).


Thursday, February 11, 2010

Team-Up Thursday

Week 3 Theme - Love

In honor of Valentine's Day, our theme for this week's diptych is love. I couldn't be happier with the way our entry came out. To me, it sums up my general philosophy on photography. That is, a photo should capture a moment and freeze it in time, allowing those who view it to feel what it was like to be in that very moment. Both of our pictures capture love as it happened, not in some staged or posed fashion.

In Gini's picture, you not only see the physical demonstration of love - the actual valentines - but you can sense how lovingly they were made by looking at Garrin's sweet little fingers, working busily away.

In mine, I think you can feel the love between Matthew and Gabby. He's touching her head so tenderly, and she's resting so peacefully in his lap. I took this picture a few weeks ago with my Blackberry, hence the lousy quality. I tried yesterday to recreate that moment so I could capture it with one of my other cameras. But you know what? Despite their higher resolution and clarity, they didn't come out anywhere near as beautiful as this one.

Further proof that you have to just let life unfold before your eyes and relish it. You can't try to orchestrate it so that it's perfect, or you'll end up missing the true beauty of the moments.

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Team-Up Thursday

Week 2 Theme: Dark


Funny how my mind always jumps to food first....