wings

this photo was a surprise. i was walking down the sidewalk. in an instant i glanced up and above me two birds. i turned my camera up and clicked. a capture. in flight.

Shades of Gray

awaiting the perfect moment to come.

love me

i love love love finding words in my daily life. and recently i started a weekly post on my blog called words on wednesday. to see more of the words i find, click over here!

hope for new beginnings

hope this spring brings many new beginnings as beautiful as the ones blooming here.

Love Sweet Love

My brother was married yesterday to this amazingly beautiful and sweet girl. The love they share is more than I could have ever wished for my brother. Being here the past few days with them has made me realize just how much I miss him. I have many siblings and am close to most of them, but because of our situation, Ben and I have always been the closest. I feel so lucky to now have a wonderful sister-in-law to join our friendship. He could not have found a better wife, a better second half :) My wish for them is that their love will only get sweeter in their lives together.

They were quite sweet in letting me photograph their wedding (and trusting I could do a good job, considering it was my first wedding!)

A New Perspective

i, too, have taken a new perspective with photography. taking my iphone everywhere... capturing more and more moments of my daily life, of the world that surrounds me. loving the grain that exists in some, the blur in others, the flexibility, the feel of each photograph. as i crossed over the bridge the other night, i saw my beloved city. i saw my reflection. i captured me, here with it, using my iphone. a simple camera that has given me a truly new perspective in my day-to-day.

shadows of a whale

spent friday evening at the museum of modern art, and without realizing it captured shadows that aligned with the week's topic. these are the shadows of a piece by gabriel orozco. it's a whale skeleton with a graphite design on it. this is the shadow of that piece, which was hanging above.

wall of wishes

a day before the ball dropped in times square to mark the beginning of 2010, i was there adding my wishes for 2010 to the collection of confetti that would rain down at the stroke of midnight. they were then added to the wall with all the other wishes made for 2010. i made two wishes, one silly and the other a simple, but more serious wish. my first was that my husband would take over dish duty for 2010 (he he... i'm just dreaming), and my second wish was simply for peace. (more photos here...) i think next year i'll collect some wishes from people who can't go down to times square and go on down and write their wishes on confetti for them :)

t for trees

between me and the sun setting

Holiday

Rockefeller Center, NYC

what a morning

looking up

union square :: new york, new york

soon all the leaves will be gone. and the city will be gray for the winter. i find myself already dreaming of the spring.

end of the day

watching the sun sink from behind the blinds. soon the day will be over and the sun will be off to shine its light on other moments. this moment will be but a memory, fading, blurring.

childhood passion

reminds me of my grandparents... i think my favorite kind as a child was vanilla, same as my grandpa.

simplicity

it is easy to understand the message of this tree, spreading its beauty on sunny fall days.

in season

a very large jonagold and a divine macintosh.

love fall apples.

peace + love = tea

peace.
love.
tea.
new york city.

out of focus

one photo out-of-focus is a mistake, ten photos out-of-focus are an experimentation, one hundred photos out-of-focus are a style.
~author unknown

it seems a dream, a glimpse of a memory passing only for a moment. faded. blurred. not as clear as it was in the moment i was actually breathing it, actually living it, experiencing it.

in my eyes, a blurry photo is a piece of art. this one is my creation, my beauty, and my obsession. lately, i see in blur through my camera lens. i have been collecting out of focus photos, inspired by the quote and a blurry photo of a girl passing by me.

this week, join me in collecting out of focus photos. inspire me with your photos and capture the essence of a memory through the out of focus photos you create this week.

who i see...

While admiring the Brooklyn Bridge and Manhattan Bridge in Dumbo, Brooklyn last night, we were asked to take a photo of a group of tourists. They laughed as they put on these funny glasses (calling them Japanese toys). We got quite a laugh when they turned around and insisted that we try them as well. So, here, I see my husband with two of his siblings and funny Japanese toys (& the Brooklyn Bridge lights sparkling in the background).

the city where i live

i am a city girl, living in the big apple. an afternoon in central park is easily part of my weekend plans. the subways are my everyday transportation, and anymore, i don't think twice about getting on and off of them, changing trains, or being practically sat on by strangers (and sometimes ones who smell rather unpleasant). now, i feel weird in a car, and i have only driven one time in the last year.

i still have moments where i am amazed that i live in new york city... small town girl from the middle of kansas actually living and loving the city that never sleeps, the city that never stands still, the city that breathes inspiration and creativity into me daily. the other afternoon, when i snapped this photo, i was feeling just right. i knew that i was exactly where i was meant to be. i knew this while sitting in the park watching the people pass, hearing the saxophone music drift across the lawn from a tunnel nearby with my love laying out beside me in the shade.