My antique doll collection creeps most people out.
I have hundreds of dolls that I collected throughout my childhood. I love their faces. They don’t scare me at all. Some of them are so expressive. So I decided to work on a new photo series called Life to the Lifeless.
Here are a few shots from today.
Sunrise was beautiful this morning…
Deep, deep colours.
This is the view from my steering wheel of my parking space at work.
I just liked the light and the dust.
The clouds today were very intriguing…
Rain on the way, but not quite here yet.
I’m back in the studio tonight with another Vintage Glamour shoot.
This time with Andrew, who did a great job of looking like a 1940s mob boss or suave actor. Oh how I love studio work…
This is the one and only Johnny Marr, guitarist for The Smiths.
A guitar hero of mine, is Johnny. I got to meet him in November of 2013 and he was lovely. I took lots of photos that night and this is one of them.
So why am I posting it today? I don’t know. It has nothing to do with anything from today except that I posted it on my Instagram account today for again, no apparent reason.
Here’s Johnny!
In all honesty, there’s not much to say about today.
It’s just another beautiful day…
My son and I worked hard in the yard today.
I have a top level in my backyard that is covered in ivy and vines. I want to clear it all out and put in wildflowers and trees.
So far, so good…
I found out last night after my class that a dear childhood friend of mine had died suddenly of a heart attack on Wednesday.
His name is Eric, and I’ve known him since I was 6 years old. I won’t lie–it hit me hard. He’s only a few days older than I am, and that of course is hard to think about. But harder still is that I lost someone who was a constant in my youth, someone who was always positive, kind, and encouraging. We hadn’t seen each other in over a year, but every time that we did see each other, we picked right back up where we left off. He was an important part of my childhood friendship circle, and I will miss him dearly.
I shed many tears last night and today.
As I often do, I processed my feelings through my camera. It was a busy day, starting off with working half a day, then driving to Asheville to pick up my daughter, making it back in time to swing by Sawtooth, going to the gallery hop (I have 4 photos in a new gallery show at Delurk), grabbing some dinner, and then heading home.
My sadness over Eric’s death stayed with me, as it will for some time. I am okay with grief, though. To me it serves as a reminder of love.
The photos I took today carried me through lots of emotions…
Another cold, rainy day today, with the threat of icy weather ahead.
I don’t mind…I just hope it doesn’t cancel my class tonight for a THIRD week in a row!
Mid-Century Me 