Monthly Archives: August 2010

MARIE + USA | EXCHANGE STUDENT

I don’t usually do posts for a single portrait session, but I felt like Marie needed her own space. Marie is an exchange student from Denmark, who just so happens to love Tina Dico as much as I do, and if you don’t know who that is, you are missing out on some fantastic songwriting and you should do yourself a favor and check Tina’s music out. I have done a few exchange student sessions now, and I hope to do at least one every year as a sort of “bon voyage session.” In fact, I think I just named them. (updating website)

Marie is silly, fun, and full of life… it is impossible to spend time with her and not smile, she just draws it out of you, like a magician pulling a rabbit out of a hat. This is a quality that will take her places in life. She loves shoes, and is on a mission to create her own shoe line focusing on heels and stilettos that are actually comfortable. Best of luck on that 😉 Marie brought a couple of her friends from Oregon on the shoot, which culminated in a pool, a diving board, and fully clothed girls launching themselves into the summer air. This is the kind of thing I can see Marie doing on a regular basis, and her friends in Denmark are lucky to have her.

High five from Oregon and the United States!

 

 

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  • Meredith Adamssuch awesome photos! so full of life. wonderful!

B + W

Film or digital. I don’t care, I just love black & white photography. Even a simple photobooth filmstrip holds some sort of nostalgia for me that color just doesn’t. Classic, melancholic, emotional. It all translates so well in monochrome. For photographers, the need for tonal contrast is a great exercise for your eye, as well. Here are some selected recent b&w shots. I know, it’s a short post, it was just bouncing around in my head.

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  • scottyso colorful man.
    i wish i could be half as good as you.

  • BethOhmahgosh your lil boy is SO cute!!

    But anyway, beautiful, beautiful post. There’s just something about b&w that is just wonderful.

  • melissaI love that I can see how much you love what you do in your work. It’s fabulous Jay

  • Heather ElizabethWhat a beautiful set of images. That first one still gives me chills. Brilliant work 🙂

  • Rachel HI feel the same way about B&W.

 

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