I love flowers. Of all kinds. It is very fascinating to me how you can put this little seed in soil, add water and get this big beautiful, colorful, complex piece of art.
This flower if from a bunch I bought last week and I was taking it out to throw it away and I just found it so very pretty that I started wondering around the house with it taking pictures. I’m very pleased with this image and I think I just may have to order a large print of this to hang in my house.
Back in wedding mode.
I shot the most emotional wedding yesterday that I have ever done – may turn out to be the most emotional of all the weddings I will ever photograph. The wedding was my cousin Laura to her now husband Josh (very sweet couple). They had Ruthie almost a year ago and she was born with pretty much half a heart, she is in the hospital now waiting on a new one.
It has been a very emotional year for them with many highs and lows and they wanted pictures with Ruthie on their wedding day. Seeing that tiny baby hooked up to all those tubes and machines is such a sobering experience. All the stupid things I see people getting upset about seem so trivial in comparison. Laura & Josh are such strong people, I have so much respect for them.
The photos I took at the hospital have got to be some of the most emotional and honest photos I have ever taken. I’m so grateful that they trusted me and wanted me there to capture that very special moment for them. I almost want to do an entire body of work around Ruthie and Laura & Josh. It’s a rough line though because I don’t want to be disrespectful or invasive. Maybe I will just go visit her more often and support them in anyway I can.
Probably need to stop writing now because I’m starting to cry again. I’ll post more of Josh & Laura later on.
Test drawing of the leaf on a small piece of backer board that I painted the same color as the 4 canvases. This is just colored pencil, going to try watercolor pencils next. This looks a bit flat to me. I need to bump up the colors of the leaf, need to see the veins more. Don’t get me wrong, I like the look of this, I just think it is not quit there yet.
This amazing leaf caught my eye as I was taking my walk just now. I think with a tad more yellow, this leaf was meant for these canvases. I need to do a few sketches of it before I commit it to the canvases though.
This is the 4th thing that I’ve painted on this set of canvases. I love the idea of them I just can’t seem to commit to a design for them. I’m really liking this so far, lets hope I don’t screw it up. It will probably end up with leaves or flowers, not totally sure yet. I’m going to play with a smaller version of it and see what seems to work on it. Post more on this project later.
I’m currently working on putting an album together for the last wedding I shot so nothing fun to post right now. I was trying to add some old photos of a trip to Iowa but the image upload on my site is not working correctly right now. But please bare with me and hopefully those will be up soon.
I’m shooting another wedding in a couple weeks. They are pretty exhausting but I do enjoy doing them. Of course, I only do 1 or 2 a year so I don’t burn myself out on them. I don’t think I would want to do it full time. There is a lot of work that goes into getting the images ready for the couple.
Maybe I’ll post some pictures from my sketchbook just to show what ideas have been playing around in my head the past couple weeks.
I was going to draw a butterfly on this painting, but I’m thinking of changing it to a flower. Of course, I also like it the way it is… Maybe I’ll leave it alone for a bit.