Wednesday, February 19, 2014

February - Fine Art Session

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Continuing on with my goal of a fine art session each month this year, I felt it was time to post this! At the beginning of the month we headed out to Pointlbank, Texas to visit my grandmother, who I call MommaMilly, for her birthday. Her property has always been inspirational for me, I grew up visiting them every weekend, every holiday and I even had my Wedding back in 2012 out there.

A lot of my ideas stem from playing in the woods, seeing all the trees and watching nature. There is a particular tree that is shorter, but has these branches that span out really far. I remember finding Easter Eggs on the limbs as a child and trying to climb it (remember I was a lot younger - its a rather small tree). I had asked my sister awhile back if I could photograph her holding on to it and flying away, but our timing never seemed right or the light was not what I wanted (nor the weather).

I was going to make it happen for the February session - the temperature was just right and the clouds were closely netted throughout the sky. I put Liv in a silk pink dress (she insisted on the cover up and I think it actually works). Special shout out to my cousin, Skyler, for helping me with the session.

To me this represents a fleeting memory of childhood. How sometimes the memories just pop into your head of finding that pink Easter egg that was so magical,and high up in a tree that seemed too tall, at the time, for my short frame. Playing hide and seek, picking out rocks on the trail and counting the ants that walked in line along the road. You move on, you age, but you hold on to these precious memories.

I entitled this photo 'Cherished Memories'



Thank you for reading my Fine Art posts. It is a side of photography I adore. Please feel free to leave your thoughts about what you feel the photo represents.





Tuesday, February 4, 2014

January - Fine Art Session

I know I am a little behind on posting this - but this session was from the end of January. One of my goals this year was a Fine Art/Conceptual Session a month. This is January's.

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Awhile back, we were visiting Cody's sweet Grandmother and I had walked outside to let the dogs out and saw a rather large birdcage. Of course my first thought was, 'I have to shoot with this'. So who did I text? Why yes - my dear sweet amazingly awesome and talented muse - Savanna. I wish I could show you the exact text message, but it went something a little like this...

Me - So say I had a giant birdcage...
Savanna - I'm in!

So I knew during the Holiday season this would be a no go, so to follow my personal goal for the year of doing a Fine Art/Conceptual Session each month, I thought January would be perfect! Well I had a pretty busy start off to 2014 with Weddings, but luckily we were able to fit it in with the end of the month (as I mentioned above.)

So I present to you my Bird Cage Session with Savanna. I feel like I may need to warn you that some of the photos are a little PG13 and may not be safe to view at work.

I wanted to portray a storyline with these photos of feeling low and set in your ways, but then show the longing of wanting to grow and move forward. We are always frightened of change and tend to stay close to what we know, because it is 'comfortable' and 'safe', even if we long for new adventures. To quote my muse 'It says something about the self-inflicted shame of longing for the stability of chains'. But we take a chance and step forward, releasing our embrace from our cages. Only then we can florish.

Instead of titling each photo, I am calling this a photo story line.
I am entitling this photo story line: 'The Change We Make, The Flight We Take.'

Please feel free to comment and tell me what these photos made you feel.