I’m particularly proud of this image of Hannah from this week’s photo session. Sometimes (most of the time) the image that speaks the loudest is not the one where the subject is smiling (saying cheese - ugh) and looking at the camera. I recently read a quote that I liked so much I wrote it down and stuck it up on the studio wall: “Great photographers capture moments that speak beyond the frame”.
Last weekend I had the privilege of driving to the Kansas City area to photograph the newest addition to an old high school friend’s family. This marks baby number 3 and the first one I’ve been able to photograph! I was pretty darn excited about it. Except what happened is I fell in love with baby number 2. At my favorite age of two, I was completely smitten with Silas. Was it the curls? Was it the way he ate a cookie with gusto? Was it the way he followed me around pointing to my gear saying, “stuff”? I don’t know, but here’s a few images from the morning. I’ll post a few of baby number 3 (Calvin… come on people, of course I know his name) later this week.
Yesterday I received an email informing me that I was a finalist in the World Photography Gala Awards’ annual Juliet Margaret Cameron Award. I was so excited I nearly had a heart attack as I read the list of finalists searching for my name among the 245 other selected images in the professional division. Two of my images were selected as finalists in the nude category. I submitted these three images from my centenarian study project. (The first two images are the ones selected as finalists) To be listed among these amazing women photographers is quite a humbling experience, I tell you.
Read about the life of Juliet Margaret Cameron here.
From the WPGA web site: “Worldwide Photography Gala Award’s mission is to recognize exceptional photographers through exhibitions, publications and by extensively promoting their work. Believing that everyone and every organization has a responsibility to contribute to the benefit of world humanity; WPGA donates a substantial portion of its revenues to established international organizations which advance the welfare of underprivileged societies. Save the Children is the humanitarian organization to benefit from these events.” There were over 4,500 entries to the competition which is open to female photographers from around the world. The winning images (announced the last week of June) will be invited to exhibit in Berlin, Germany during the month of September, 2010.
In other exciting news, I also learned last week that my image, What Time Creates, has been selected to be a part of the new group exhibition in the RoHo Gallery located in Cincinatti, OH. Winning images from this exhibition will be announced at the end of May.
Between the stunningly gorgeous days we’ve been having here in central Missouri, it’s been raining. A LOT. Last weekend the grounds were fairly swampy from the rain. Lucky for me, I work with the funnest clients! We knew by the end of this photo session we were going to all end up muddy and wet and we planned for it! Here are a few images from the end of our session. These guys made me smile the whole time we were together. In fact, as I’ve been looking through the images, they continue to crack me up. As the dad said to me, “Nathanial brought his own sunshine to the shoot.”
A big thank you to Russell for taking some pictures of me with his iPhone while I worked. I love lying in mud puddles as much as the kids do!
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