Forging into the future

Mrs. Mcfee was my favorite inauguration encounter. While Obama was speaking, she pulled me close to her heart and pointed to him and said, "my husband handed that man his high school diploma."  Sadly, he died a month before Obama was elected

                                            Mrs. Mcfee: 2nd row on the right in the fur hat

Here I go, entering into the blogesphere, podcasting, viral marketing new world, at what feels like a vigorous pace, one I'm not so sure I'm comfortable with. Embrace it, I say, forge ahead don't be left in the dust...... 

I'm still trying to overcome my technical difficulties # 1 being my malfunctioning hard drive argh.... If any of you are interested I do have images from the inauguration up on my Facebook page or on my flickr site.......choose your poison.

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Inauguration observation:

I have never seen as much fur as I did down in Washington last week. But, the feeling was just too good for even PETA, no spray paint that day. 

After the event I must have seen 100 single gloves on the ground in just the area where I was standing.

Here's to eight years! 

Flickr

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Good bye and good riddance!

 A collective sigh of relieve filtered down the mall followed by jubilation. Here's to a new day!

please be patient, my hard drive is still out of commision and the dog ate my home work. I hope to have all pictures up by Monday. I'm hoping you will come back:)

Michelle and the golden ticket

I was working for Obama on election day with my son Nico and neice Isobella in Philadelphia. Because we were working hard there wasn't much time to document the historical day.  I felt such deep regret over this that I vowed I would do what ever it took to be down in Washington during the inauguration. As the weeks passed, still with out a solid plan, accomodations not coming through, the weather getting colder, and 5 million people expected to attend, my grand idea was rapidly disipating until I abandoned the idea altogether.  An exciting turn of events happened just after I let go.  My lovely friend Melissa who I hadn't been intouch with in a while handed me an inauguration package.  So my Obama photo series continues....... Stay tuned, images from the inauguration will be posted here beginning this Sunday after the kick off party at the Lincoln Memorial.  

Though the inauguration plans are consuming my time recently, I continue to work dilegently on my upcoming show(date to be determined) of medical imagery on salted paper prints.  This show has been waiting to come into fruition for ten years now!!  Also, my new website is expected to be launched this month. 

I look forward to sharing my images with all of you. Sorry, no pictures tonight due to a broken hard drive.

As this is the first post of the year....... 

Happy new year to all my peeps and best wishes for an AWESOME 2009! 

Connecting With Out The Paper Trail

Christmas really needs to come every OTHER year. I know...... ba hum bug!  It just seems that in November I begin gaining momentum with my work then BOOM Thanksgiving comes and then preparing for the holidays and then recovering from the holidays.  No matter how hard I try not to get consumed in the consumerism, I get sucked in. My 150 valentines  last year were hand- made and personalized from the molded plastic and paper waste from gift packaging as an attempt to assuage my own guilt. This year I plan to go easy on myself not sending anything out except for maybe an e-mail.  I get great enjoyment from sending small gifts of love but this year it is not happening. I am freeing myself !  Yes, I could just go to Snap Fish down load an image to send to everyone but then there's more paper.

So what am I doing with all my extra time? I am having fun with my photography.  This weekend I used my down time to edit my black and white contact sheets from the fall. After reviewing the images I see that I have a great foundation to work with for my show this spring.  Also, I reviewed images from my New Patriotism series that I started on just after the elections. Initially they were disappointing but going back with an open mind I am quite pleased with the series as a whole. Tomorrow I'm off to Pittsburgh for Christmas with the in-laws. I plan to do a lot of shooting....family traditions for my life style section on the web site. In early January there are a couple of shoots I have lined up relating to the same topic. I look forward to this winter and all the creative marketing that I will be doing for my new site. Even though we are in a recession that will only be getting worse, we have a lot to look forward to. We just need to reinvent ourselves possibly and learn to lean on one another........ Connecting with out the paper trail!

Lots of love to all my peeps and have a wonderful holiday season. 

Back to hands on printing

Digital images are not doing it for me lately. They're too disposable. I'm sick of sitting at the computer processing images. Yes, it's faster, cheaper, better for the environment etc.  I'm longing for that tactile quality, the depth, the silver, the whole process that went into making prints from film. This weekend I will venture back into my dark cave after eight years to create salted paper prints on vellum. Typically it takes a few days to make a 5-10 images....... truly a labor of love. For me, it's well worth it. Nothing rivals that tactile quality you get from this process. Also, I've gone back to buying  3200 grainy film (film of choice). Since the film cameras have been sitting in the closet for 6 years they ALL need repair. It's been a slow and frustrating start, costing me a small fortune...... hopefully it will be worth it. Hey, I might even have a show coming up in the spring. Yikes, I wrote it in my blog, I guess now I'll have to really do it.....