seeing double

This past Labor Day we discovered that the West Indian-American Parade and Carnival goes right in front of our house.  Despite the bad rap it gets due to the seemingly unavoidable outbursts of violence, and in that way not being unique to many crowded events all over the city on a holiday weekend, it definitely provided us with a unique people watching opportunity and chance to enjoy the spirit of our neighborhood.  I didn't get as many pictures as I would have liked.....I've had to trade in some of my camera cradling for baby cradling....but I did manage to get this picture of two little girls who stopped to get a better view of the festivities from the neighbor's stoop.  Nothing like a baby to make you realize that sometimes one picture is enough....

beginnings

When you're pregnant you look at life in terms of weeks and then months and then you begin counting down the days. In labor you look at the hours which then become minutes. As soon as your baby is born you look at every single second. Then you start to look at the hours and then the days and then the weeks and then the months. Eventually you look at the years. Through all of this you realize that time goes by very quickly and at some point you just have to stop looking at all the minutes, months and years of time gone by and all the minutes, months and years yet to come and stop to look at now. Now, I'm a mama and as I cherish every second of being in love with my amazing daughter and having the one thing in the world I wanted the most I realize there are no more excuses to let time go by not doing what I want to do the most.....so as I welcome baby Eliza into my life I also welcome my commitment to my creative practice back into my life. This blog is a visual reminder of all the ideas, people, images and projects that inspire me and feed that practice. It's so good to be back.

things long overdue....

a trip to see my sister, her husband and my precious nephews....baby makes three beautiful boys in late April so a trip to Oregon is right around the corner....

editing the thousand plus photos I took when I visited them last August....here's the first one I pulled from the bunch just to get me started....

starting a new photo project....so many ideas....so many excuses....

ending soon on ebay

this week's great deals on ebay....ending Tuesday

from the archive...

Sara....another of my amazing friends....requested some photos from a shoot we did about a year ago....always fun to take a look back 

carefully worn - now on ebay

jess and tiff
her amazing sense of style
my photo eye
our love of clothes and all things vintage

visit our new store on ebay

steamscapes

it's cold outside and i've caught a cold....has nothing to do with me running around in nearly nothing on a 12 degree day in Ithaca....that was weeks ago and more than worth it....but today I'll remember it through steamy car windows

where's the beef?

you'd think the beef's in Argentina where grilling meat is a national past time and vegetarians are outlawed....when I first spotted the literal meat wagon delivering slabs of beef I was sans camera (yes, me!) and spent the next several days chasing the elusive golden chariots for a photo...on my very last morning in Buenos Aires, I was sitting in a cafe cursing my missed photo opportunity when the metal rumblings of a truck gate lifting brought me to attention....I ran outside and as if sent by the photo gods themselves this is what I found.....

tiffy

just one of my many amazing friends who indulges my incessant need to turn everything into a photo shoot...