Rough Day

Throwing after math & window shopping

November 7th

Nature is crazy beautiful.

November 6th

Hot Chocolate-O'clock :)

November 5th

Sanity Mandala

November 4th

Somedays...I don't see much else :/

November 1st

I'm so doing this! Check it out! http://www.chookooloonks.com/blog/naphopomo-national-photo-posting-month-day-1

Here is my first one...
#NaPhoPoMo

November 2nd

Roasted Cauliflower Cheddar Soup~

For the love of blue

Virginia Beach October 2013

Rocky Gap State Park - August 2013

FOTO BAZAAR!!!

What a great night!!! Tons of stellar work at this cool event!!!

Thank you so much to all who came &
I wanted to post my email in case anyone has questions regarding a piece from the show you may not see posted, or any other questions you may have about my work.

e-mail: obscuragirl@gmail.com

A great time had by all!!!

Sky watching

Creativity witnessed

My first unfettered day of summer took me to a new coffee shop in my neighborhood. It's was peppered w duos of women post-yoga class, mothers chatting about their summer plans with and without their kids, a few office dwellers in their summer suits working on laptops, and this girl sitting across from me. She was working very carefully in a plain notebook, drawing frames & arrows to and around thoughts, and making certain words dark and bold with her fine line pen. (Yes, I was staring...but it was reeaallly close quarters :) It may seem irrelevant to most people, but to me...her intensity & focus on not only her writing, but on the act of putting it down on a piece of paper...made me so happy I had to catch a shot of her. She spun the book as needed to get just the right angle for each line, it was great. Putting her words down on paper was obviously a crucial part of her creative process. It was facinating to watch & made me think about my own. We all have a process that we need to go thru when creating, but with the influence of technology, sometimes the simplicity of it gets blurred & cocked up with mindless surfing and distractions. I think, or rather know this is why I always carry a journal so I can write or draw ideas at any given time. It gives them permanence, shape, form & a little more ooomph. They are tangible, they exist and they breathe a little deeper by being birthed from the co-mingling of pen and paper...au natural as neither are reliant on a power source. I hope I run into her again & get a glimpse at her next entry...and maybe get her autograph ahead of time.

It's iced coffee season

As the school year winds down, I gear up for some artmaking! I have the great luxury if spare space (for now at least) in my back room to spread out and do a little work. Today I finished prepping 3 canvases for some large image trasnsfers I'm doing of new images. I've got some new found inspiration & that combined with a fresh iced latte my very kind co-worker (also a dear friend!) ran out and got me...I am ready for anything, and ever so very, very grateful! Here's to a motivating, inspired start to summer...cheers!~

Look3 Festival

The Look3 Festval Of The Photograph is coming up in June. This is some serious stuff, like...Carrie Mae Weems is speaking, serious! Check it out!

www.look3.org

Instagram power

Anyone who has an iPhone, knows what Instagram is. Those who have embraced this photo-sharing social media platform know the power of an image combined with the speed of a twenty-somethings ability to type on a micro-qwerty keypad is limitless. (Despite their disappointing merging with Facebook...#sellouts) But there are a few remarkable folks out there still creating images, well...for the sake of creating images! Hallelujah! Check out these great hashtags listed on Ink36 awesome blog!... #cleverhashtags~

http://ink361.com/blog?tab=all