Thank you so much for being here! I am living my dream as a photographer ... I can't for the life of me imagine anything better. When I'm photographing I come alive. It just feels so completely right.
I love to capture what's honest ... I love to make images that are authentic and full of life, movement, and style. I enjoy giving you something you can hang on your walls as art ... and therefore I look for what's interesting and not what's perfect.
My favorite couples to work with are willing to have fun and be themselves in front of my camera ... people who have a sense of personal style and trust my artistic vision.
I like working with kind, laid-back and fun-loving people. If you are a bride or groomzilla, I'm not the photographer for you :)
I really love screen printing, the American southwest, Radiohead and Bob Dylan, quirk and whimsy, contemporary art, bicycle culture, independent restaurants, fashion lookbooks, magazines, and South America.
I try to read a book a week.
A good cup of coffee keeps me going.
I married a sarcastic, talented, and super smart designer named Troy. We live on Madison's east side and play trivia every other week at one of our favorite places, Genna's Lounge.
I got real in my last blog post and shared how I’ve been derailed and uninspired these past couple months. I always take December and January off from shooting in order to reflect on the previous wedding season, reassess my business, and to just have a breather and spend time with friends and family. The past couple years this has been totally necessary, but this year I think I made a mistake. I was crazy busy these past months, but I wasn’t doing anything to feed my soul. It’s a common misconception that wedding photographers work one day a week, but most wedding photographers own their own businesses, and the Business Owner hat consumes far more time (6 days a week, oftentimes 12+ hour days) than the Photographer hat (maybe only 1 or 2 days a week at about 12 hours total). Most of us spend a small percentage of our week actually shooting (the inspiring part, for me) … and the rest of the week is spent meeting with clients, fielding emails, sending out contracts and invoices, doing bookkeeping and accounting, setting goals, editing images, branding/marketing/social media’ing, writing copy for print and web materials, burning and packaging client discs, going to the post office and bank (my least favorite things ever), participating in forums and workshops, and (the most time-consuming for me) designing books and albums.
As I mentioned, the soul-feeding and inspiring part of my job is the shooting. And I need to do it consistently to feel alive and to feel myself. Even in the terrible winter, I’ve realized. So when Abbey told me she was coming to Madison and wanted to meet (we met previously only through the Twitterverse), I immediately let her know that I’d be shooting her (and she wasn’t allowed to refuse). Abbey is a fellow WI photographer (very new to the scene) who is a real talent. Talking with her was completely natural, exciting, and great. I felt like I found a long-lost friend and kindred spirit. We went out for tacos, tried some new Madison beer, and then ran around on Lake Mendota for 10 minutes. Those 10 minutes were all it took for me to feel myself and on track again. I woke-up this Monday morning fired-up for the week, for the coming year, and for being 30.
When I shoot, I prefer to observe before directing. One thing I noticed and loved right away about Abbey is how quickly she talks and how much she uses her hands when doing so. I wanted to capture some of that.
After being on that lake with Abbey I returned home feeling so revived and wanting to go back out there. So I took Troy along and he turned the camera on me instead. I wanted some updated photos that I didn’t take on my iMac, haha, and to remember the first awesome day of being 30 :)
Abbey, I love ya. Thanks for everything.
Hey, it’s me below. Feeling good.
From now on, even if I don’t have time (and especially when I don’t have time), I just need to get out and shoot something for myself on a regular basis. I don’t want to burn out on the Business Owner front because I’m not nurturing the Photographer side of things. Have a great Monday. Some GREAT things are in store here soon. I hope one of the next blog posts I write is on my NEW BLOG!!!
gahhh!!!!!! you’re too good. i’m dying for those tacos again. thanks for taking these — im so excited about them! and so glad all it takes is a retired non-flexible dancer to twirl around in the snow. YOU are the best — keep doin’ what you do. And dang tell Troy he’s not too shabby either. Helps when the subject is cute eh?
Oh man. Remember when I *kind* of wanted to have you take our engagement pictures in the winter?? Well obviously I’m head over heels for the ones we got but I’m now sort of wishing I would have pushed it a little harder :) These are magic. Love the lake and its so few distractions….really shows how talented you are. And that last one of you = my fave.
Remember when we randomly followed you around to the same locations one wedding day? Yeah, well, look for an upcoming blog post that looks like we did the same thing with an engagement session — Tex Tubs, snowy iced over lake, you’ll laugh, I promise. Btw, these are great and Troy shot some awesome stuff, as well!
I might kind of sort of totally be in love with the post. And these photos. You’re gorge, and these pictures make me SO crazy excited to see you in two weeks. I can’t believe our Bleu Cheese debacle (well, MY bleu cheese debacle, really) was six months ago. MISS you like crazy. And you’re right: Abbey’s work is hella good.
SOOOO glad you’re shooting again. SOO glad you’re you.
love love LOVE! your glasses are so fab. can we get together sometime soon? pretty please? i’m going to actually follow through with my intentions and email you in 5…4…3..2..1!
This post makes me immensely happy. I have been needing to do more shooting for myself lately too. The photos are beautiful, and I love seeing that gorgeous smile of yours!
May you build a ladder to the stars and climb on every rung. May you stay forever young.
Tuesday morning and the snow is falling, dusting all the cars I see out my window. This past Sunday I ushered in a new decade of life. I took it harder than I thought I would. I don’t think it’s the actual number, but rather life’s current circumstances and the fact that your birthday lends itself to thinking about yourself even more than normal. An entire day of people telling you how old you and where you’re at in life’s continuum.
Although most of my industry peers and friends are my age or older, I still focus on the handful who are younger than me. I don’t compare my work to their work, or anything like that. But I compare my age to their ages. How they are so young (my favorite photographer is 20!) and already on the paths of their dreams. How lucky they were to know that and follow it so early. I wonder what it would have been like if I’d done the same. I do realize that my own path … as non-linear as it was … brought the right people into my life at the right time. And having a professional position outside of the arts first, makes me never want to give up being my own boss now (my old boss was awesome, but just saying). I know I will never give up on photography because of what’s behind me. I know comparing your age to someone else’s age is really dumb. It really is a number and nothing more. Who knows how long any of us will be here anyways? I am grateful I didn’t sit around thinking I was too old to start my own business until one day I really was too old. It’s about what lies before us and not behind us, anyway, that matters. I’m just babbling … this is the way my thoughts are these days.
It’s a crazy thought to me … leaving behind my 20s. I loved them, insane as they sometimes/often were. Their first half was marked by college, lots of new relationships and loss and growth and community and discovery. And, sadly enough, they were marked by giving up on art and all my dreams in exchange for security and safety and the known. 23 was perhaps the most epic and rollercoastery. Lots of Choose Your Own Adventure choices and decisions made that year. The second half of my 20s was marked by grad school, my first truly professional position with the UW, marrying Troy, adapting to life in a city where everyone moves away after college, mourning a community scattered across the globe and embracing a new, different community of like-minded inspiring creatives and photographers. Rediscovering and unveiling all my dreams again … and this time, actually going for them and making them happen, starting my own business and quitting my fulltime UW job. Settling in some ways and resisting settling in many more ways.
And now, 30.
Like I said, it’s not about the number. I’ve been looking forward to my 30s actually. People say it’s like stepping into your own skin. But I feel far from my own skin these days. January in general has been rough on me. If I’m being honest, I’ve been derailed since November. Out of sorts and uninspired. You can probably tell from my lack of blogging. I know this is mainly because I take time off in the winter from shooting … I just need to get back into that. I took a month away from Facebook and that was amazing just because it was one less thing suffocating me … one less thing laying itself down on my chest to squeeze the breath out of my lungs. One less thing to keep up with, impress others with. This is the deepest rut I’ve been in since starting my business. Things on paper are great … I still turn away more work than I’m able to take. I have inspiring and awesome clients. I’m not unhappy and I absolutely love my job. I’m just, not myself. January is always a time I look forward to like I used to look forward to the first days of school. Renewal and resolutions. But every day since December I’ve been filling pages upon pages in my Moleskine … trying to write it out and work it out. My head is stuck in years ago and years to come. What I really want and how I need to struggle through some change to get there. The time it will take. I’ve always been a daydreamer, but lately it’s extra hard to be in the present. Somebody give me a personal project to work on. Tell me this won’t last. I know it won’t.
As I was writing this, a friend sent me a message on Twitter saying he took his 30th birthday really hard too. But now, a couple years in, it’s the best decade yet. I know he’s right — that it will be. I just need to shake this present feeling. Entering my 30s, I see myself focusing on the now, what I have, and loving it harder and better. I see myself embracing what I wasn’t ready for in my 20s, and seeking the approval of others less. I see myself recognizing what I need for myself and not what I need others to see me doing or being.
I see moving forward with balance and stealth. But never with so much balance that I forget to live with abandon and spontaneity when a moment presents itself. Because what is a life of only balance? I need to keep some of my 20s-spirit, after all.
Everything passes. I know that one day I won’t even remember these days. These times of darkness make the other times so much better. Perhaps this blog post was a little too raw and honest for a public and business platform. But it’s where I’m at and I wish others would write more from the heart sometimes so we wouldn’t all carry the illusion that we are always all inspired and *on* all the time.
I’m looking forward to a lookbook-inspired shoot next week. To shooting consistently again. I’m clinging to that for now :)
Aw, Anda, I love this post for its honesty. I know you know this, but we’ve all been there. I have similar feelings whenever I reach a “milestone” birthday actually. I appreciate you writing this, and having the courage to post it…. It’s these times of true self reflection that push us past whatever the obstacle may be into the next phase, in business and in life. I feel like I could have written this exact thing a few months ago, and I’ll probably be there again, as will you most likely… but we’ve got to trust that it’s all part of the process. Lots of love to you xoxo
Your heart is amazing, Anda. Your spirit, too. Life is a serious of ups and down, ebbs and flows. So is creativity. You found something – an amazing something that filled your dreams, your life, your world, your spirit. Then..you *got it.* It’s like falling in love and first kisses; both are wonderful, but fleeting. Like a drug high that we chase after for the rest of our lives. And everything we look at, see, watch, hear, tells us that it’s the falling, the chasing, the dreaming that is the movemement. The spirit filling soul warming heart swelling cacauphony of joy. Until it isn’t. Until you’re *there* and have to revel in *now.* That’s the challenge of life, dear friend. We all face it. More than once, if we’re being honest with ourselves. You will get through this…and you’ll come out the other side stronger, wiser, (still 29 ;) and ready to embark on this next decade with fervor.
You are a rare soul. A great soul. And if I lived in Madison, we’d be celebrating your third day of thirty today.
Because I’m crazy glad you’re here. I’m crazy thankful for the roads you travelled for they made you just as you are.
Exactly how it should be.
Exactly WHO you should be.
The next time you look at that favorite 20 year old photographer, know that for every one of her there is one of me. Taking longer to get “there” becuase I have other things that I must do, too. But the point, is that I will get there.
See, I told you you’re a good writer. :) I’m glad you chose to write from the heart and to really take time to process it all. How can we see growth if we never take time to remember where we used to be?
Wonderful post on this new decade of your life, Anda. I can relate to you in SO many ways, and yet, apply so much of it to my own unique path I’m taking (something I want to blog about as soon as I unravel all the knots of it). I guess, like you, I’m just sick of how much is put out there right now on being “on”. I could write a novel here in this comment on the topic but I’ll save it for a chilly day in March when we can talk it out in person. Sounds good, yeah? Oh, and we’re totally finding some place to grab something sweet when that happens. Turns out, we’ll have some belated birthday celebratin’ to do come then ;)
Lindsey Joy -January 17, 2012 - 12:47 pm
Raw and beautiful. I’m 18 months behind you and not ready for 30. People think I’m crazy, but at times I too struggle with aging and changing and embracing it all. Thanks for the breath of fresh air, the raw honesty. Happy Birthday. xoxo
I just turned 30 in October and it shocked me as well, and I really look forward to living life and aging. I wrote about it in this post if you care to see.
you have a beautiful way with words. also, your honesty is appreciated. i know i appreciate it. this is my fav…”who knows how long any of us will be here anyways? I am grateful I didn’t sit around thinking I was too old to start my own business until one day I really was too old. It’s about what lies before us and not behind us, anyway, that matters.”
I share some of the same exact thoughts as I’m turning 30 in July! I too believe that the next decade is going to be WONDERFUL. Cheesy as it sounds I’m blossoming into a person who isn’t afraid anymore of what others think, isn’t held back and is finally JUMPING. With age comes freedom for me. Thank you for sharing something so personal and so honest. As artists it’s hard to always turn off the creativity and to also channel it. We need to share more about our personal challenges because we clearly are not alone.
This is wonderfully honest and refreshing. I agree and wish that people would write like this more often if it’s the truth, instead of projecting something false. Like you said, no one is “on” all the time. I, too, have been in a grand canyon-sized funk for months now, so, thank you for inspiration of a different kind. Your thoughts encourage me to be honest with my self about what I’m feeling (instead of hiding from it). Here’s to you and your 30s and to feeling re-inspired!
it’s funny how we envy each other (not you & i… but just people in general), and we have NO CLUE what is going on in their inner parts! I didn’t have a hard time turning 30 but I’ve definitely experienced the envy of seeing someone younger than me living out their dreams earlier than I did. I’ve also envied those that seem to be rocking this business thing out & booking clients left & right. I may not understand the age thing completely, but i can relate to what it’s like to question things, envy people, & the desire to shoot consistently! ;) love you to pieces!!! xo,dana
I’m so happy you are focusing on the journey and less on the number attached to it. 20, 30, 34 <—me (shameless), 50, 60 it doesn't matter. What matters is that you doing what you love and fulfilling your potential. I applaud your honestly in a time masked with elaborate online facades. I guarantee this decade will surprise you, challenge you and ultimately define you :) BTW, HAPPY 30TH BIRTHDAY! Let's all celebrate being ALIVE!!!
jenni suri -January 17, 2012 - 1:53 pm
you have no idea how many people you inspire in your honesty and basically just your life in general. your truth comes through in what you photograph and what you write and i love that about you.
A wise man once told me a saying, and it’s stuck with me ever since. I want to share it with you. He said, “20′s are for learning. 30′s are for earning.” And not just for earning money. Earning success. More opportunities. Seeing the fruit of your labor. It’s a saying that has helped me stop ‘age comparing’, helped me run my business without regret, and keeps me looking forward to see “What’s next?!”. That saying also taught me that the length of the journey does not make a more or less successful person—it’s what you do with the journey that shapes the greatness you can be.
loving this post. i think all your writing and moleskinning (is that a word?) has really paid itself off… the fact that you can write about and share exactly how you’re feeling is the hardest part. and now it’s just accepting it and breathing it in and taking each day as it comes. in yoga they always tell you that it’s better to just accept the pain and the burn rather than tighten up, hold yourself up and try not to feel it. (okay great now i sound like a yogi, when really it’s my dvd that tells me that) but it really hits home. accepting your own feelings sometimes, wallowing in them, and then smiling is truly the best. your spirit is young and your creativity is flowing and something great is gonna come your way soon, i just know it! :)
Oh Anda, I envy the way you can put your feelings into words, and then makes those words into beautiful sentences. I love your personal posts – mostly because I connect with them deeply. I’ve been in a funk too, and mostly because it’s slow and I want more to work on. I want to get to our goals faster, yet can’t motivate myself enough to get things done any quicker. And I too look at others who are are so young and wish I had developed my skills earlier, knew what I wanted to do younger. Then I realize I’m not that old and I wouldn’t have gotten here without the past. I hope knowing you aren’t alone helps even just a little, but mostly I thank you for helping me. :) Hold your head up high because you inspire me and push me always! xo A
love your blog. and you. your writing. it’s all grand.
Courtney -January 19, 2012 - 11:58 am
so beautifully honest anda. being just a few months shy of 34 myself, it’s true, you are not as young as you used to be but so many wonderful things are still to come. i’m so impressed with all the folks years younger than me (you included), who are already doing what they love and living the life they dreamed. you should give yourself mad props for that!
moving forward with balance, stealth and spontaneity. i love this and i am so thankful that you are a friend of mine, anda marie. i don’t think there is such a thing as too raw. we need each other in this and the more raw you are the more we love you and relate. i relate. thank you.
Could this be the longest I’ve gone without blogging? I think it might be. But I’m still here. It’s 10:39am on a Tuesday and I’m in my bed on my laptop, surrounded by calendars, bookkeeping, and sales tax forms. A cup of coffee is resting a little wobbly-like in the crook of my left arm. Last night Troy got into bed and said, “Um, why is there a pen in bed?” Yeah, I guess I’ve been working from bed a lot lately. Still working hard though. Sometimes 12-14 hour days. Just … from bed. I’ve had a headache for 10 weeks now. I keep wondering how long you should have a headache before seeing the doctor. I mean, it’s just a headache … but, 10 weeks. It’s all I think about, even when I’m thinking about other things. I mean, this thing is literally on my mind, all the time. If it’s not gone by tomorrow, I’ve decided to see the doctor. I just hate feeling how I feel at the doctor when they look at you like you’re there for something trivial. Truly, a 10 week headache cannot be trivial? A headache, yes. 10 week headache, no.
In other news, I just came off a month-long Facebook break. I didn’t miss it at all, so I went back kicking and screaming a little. I’m easing back in. I needed that month, and I’ll blog more about it later (including why I went back). I hope to blog within the week again. Hope you are all well … thanks for all your support. Even though I haven’t been actively blogging, I check-in each day to read the new comments and then I smile remembering the great people I’ve met and have yet to meet in this industry :)
My friend Courtney just sent me this photo from when we hung out in NV last February. Can’t wait to be back there again in about a month.
friend, I am so sad that you have been dealing with a headache for that long. I get them so much but i’ve never had one last that long, so I’m praying you will get some answers. i can’t wait to give you a big hug when i see you next… when are you coming to SF again? this month right?
Jessica gets bad migraines – sometimes every day for a week. But 10 weeks? Sounds like it’s time to visit someone. Sorry to hear you’re dealing with that. Peace and quick healing!
Aw Anda, I’m really sorry to hear about your long-lasting headache. No fun at all! Will be thinking of you tomorrow with your doctor visit for sure and wishing you a quick remedy. Looking forward to seeing you next month! xo
A 10-week headache? Oh no! Hmm…not tryin’ to Web MD you (but, well, I guess maybe a little)…two things: 1) Is it too much time in front of a computer? and 2) Are you drinking enough water? I just know, if I fail in both those departments, I get headaches bad.
Welcome back to Facebook! Love that you pulled yourself away. As I’m learning as I go to, I’m finding it’s essential for keeping the love in the love-hate relationship I have with social media.
Patricia -January 10, 2012 - 11:23 am
10weeks! Yikes. I’d actually reccomend going to a chiropractor (but I’m somewhat against dr’s unless it’s an emergency). I go to a great chiro, if you’re interested in knowing who feel free to email me. I still want to be pen pals even though you’re back on FB! I just have to get around to emailing you for your address! Hope you get to feeling better.
I completely understand what you mean about doctors. About knowing that something isn’t right, but fearing that bored “are you kidding me you’re *fine*” look that physician’s love to give.
I’m sad I won’t be hanging out with you on a gorgeous and windy patio at WPPI – I feel like the dorky kid watching through the bushes as the cool kids party and get radical.
I’ll get radical someday, I’m sure. (I hope).
I hope you find out the reason behind the headaches – and get some relief.
Can’t wait to hear more from you…more often. xoxo
Gladyyy -January 10, 2012 - 3:14 pm
A 10 week headache? Thats no bueno. Feel better, Anda!
anda!!! get thee to the doctor! this isn’t to scare you AT ALL but my sister had a 3 month headache and found out she had a brain tumor. not cancerous but she still needed neurosurgery. because of this, when i had a 6 week headache i was terrified but went anyway. turned out, my astigmatism shifted and my straining eyes were the culprit. hope you feel better!!
Really bummed to read about your headaches! On a brighter note…I am excited to see you will be at WPPI! I look forward to meeting you!! :] Headache be gone!!
-Miranda
I can sympathize with you on the headache front. For the last 10+ years (I can’t even remember), I’ve had almost daily headaches ranging in pain degree from very-tolerable-but-annoying to turn-off-the-lights-and-sounds-and-curl-up-under-the-covers. My mom sent me to doctors and specialists and had me tested and poked and prodded with a very unsatisfactory diagnosis of “sometimes headaches just happen”. Here’s what can trigger headaches that I’ve learned so far: dehydration, low blood sugar, certain foods, lack of/too much sleep, lack of/too much caffeine, weather, light, smell, sound, allergies, and the worst of all, painkillers. I get rebound headaches like crazy, where I get a new headache the day after taking painkillers for a previous headache.
What keeps my headaches tolerable is staying hydrated and trying not to let myself feel hungry. I try to drink a ton of water and eat small, healthy meals frequently.
Hopefully you either get some answers from a doctor or find a balance that helps you gain control of your 10+ week headache before WPPI. Best of luck!
(I hope this helped a little)
So here I sit, two and a 1/2 years into my photography career. It’s crazy really … 3 years ago I’d never think myself a wedding photographer. But I’m usually at a loss to think of something more rewarding.
I find these posts difficult because I always feel that the collection of images I create from a certain event/session is far more powerful than any singular image. I love to tell the whole story and I wonder sometimes how just a slice of something translates when set apart. But without getting into that any deeper, here are some 2011 images that caught my eye as I scrolled through my desktop folders last night:
2011 was the year I finally saw my style & work come into their own. The year I stopped looking to other photographers for inspiration or comparison … and didn’t feel a sense of panic that I was doing things wrong. I no longer cared about that; I really finally felt comfortable shooting 100% from my heart. I’m not here saying I’ve sworn-off looking at other photographers’ work. In fact, I believe it’s important to foster that virtual community by being out on friends’ and others’ blogs, leaving comments and encouraging one another in all of this. I keep up with my friends’ blogs, as they’ve become my coworkers, in a sense. And family in yet another way. I do remain inspired by many many other photographers. But I’m no longer mimicking what they do. It’s all part of learning though … I think we all emulate those we admire when we start out.
I have to end this by thanking my clients, without whom none of this is possible, obviously. They’ve flown me all over the country yet again this past year … including to the west coast several times … my favorite place. People are starting to call it my home away from home. Definitely suits me. Thank you thank you thank you to my clients, friends, and other photographers who’ve helped and encouraged me. I’m glad I don’t foresee any end to this most exciting of careers.
you are unreal! before reading the bottom i was just going to comment on the consistency of all of these (something i need to work on) and you’ve got your style, you know it, and you’re flaunting it and it’s just the greatest.
i completely agree about the collection of images, each one as strong as the next when they’re all together. these selections, though, are very much you. i can see you in every frame. ;)
gah! i love them. i love you. i love watching you on this journey – seeing you do exactly what you just said: come into your own. you – the true, amazing, from-the-heart Anda – are remarkable. stunning. creative. visionary. i am so blessed to know you, honored to be your friend, and so excited for 2012. xoxox to infinity.
remember that time in the OC (few years ago–feels like forever) when you told michelle and I that you wanted to become a national photographer? your goal was to shoot more outside of wisconsin + all over the country. you looked at us, and almost said it like it was too far to reach. we simply shook our heads and told you that you’d be there in no time. we. were. right! my friend, i hope you know just how truly beautiful you are. your heart is written all over these images. when you set your heart and mind to something, you can do anything. you are proof of that. xoxo
I totally understand what you mean when you say that it’s hard to just pick a few photos from one shoot. The collection makes the story. However, these images create a different collection, a different story, and they are all beautiful together! You have had an amazing year, my friend, and I’m glad that I can call you just that. Many cheers to you and wishing you a fabulous 2012!! P.S. I love love love that sunset silhouette.
MARK H. -December 20, 2011 - 6:41 pm
Anda, you really make the rest of us look bad. Way to do it though. KEEP IT UP TALENTED GIRL!
Hey, I don’t know what happened to my last comment but in short… Your work is awesome. I’m originally from Wisconsin. I would love to meet you if I’m ever in the area. :)
Get excited! That was the theme of my trip to borderland Texas to visit one of my dearest friends of all time, Jenny. Tacos for every meal (minus one?), beer on patios, rollerskating, border patrol, flea market, Spanish! Spanish! everywhere!, high school basketball, high school cheerleading, high schoolers, The Great Gatsby, lonches, roadside citrus, 90 degree humidity, walking downtown, bedazzled jeans, cactus, SECEDE!, freakshow dog, the Scamp, boots, shave ice, fresh citrus juice, green smoothies, cupcakes & chai, Pac-Man on the Island, standing on the Gulf in silence as the waves crashed.
The best part was connecting with Jenny. One of my closest friends in Madison years ago and still today. Our talks are the best … never surface-level. We both get so busy and might not always connect a ton between visits, but when we see each other it’s always as if we haven’t skipped a single beat. Easy like that.
I got to hang out with Jenny for a day at the high school where she teaches and her students adore her. She is so inspiring; I love having so many friends who are living their passions/callings. I almost teared-up a few times seeing her students interact with her. It’s so obvious when people are doing what they’re meant to be doing. xoxo, Jenny. Love you, AM.
First series taken on Fuji 400H film with a 1970s Pentax SLR I borrowed from my dad over 10 years ago. The shutter is broken so it only takes photos at 1/100th shutter speed no matter what. Makes for some interesting thinking on your feet.
The second series was taken on my iPhone. Only brought my oldest & newest cameras with me.
YUM YUM YUM! These photos have me drooling over the food! :) This set is so raw and amazing…you NEED to shoot more film my friend! It is so gorgeous! :) I would frame nearly all of these on my wall! :)
Two things:
1) I always want to eat whatever you’re eating. Always.
2) Your introduction to this post made me think back to an essay in one of the books I read (and loved) this year, Shauna Niequist’s “Bittersweet”:
“Share your life with the people you love, even if it means saving up for a ticket and going without a few things for a while to make it work. There are enough long lonely days of the same old thing, and if you let enough years pass, and if you let the routine steamroll your life, you’ll wake up one day, isolated and weary, and wonder what happened to all those old friends.”
Love that you’re doing that very thing, Anda. It’s incredibly inspirational. Hope WE get to meet in 2012 :)
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