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Tuesday, February 14, 2012

happy love day!

valentine's day window display at Beads of Paradise in NYC

xoxo

Saturday, February 11, 2012

With Valentine's Day only 3 days away you may be thinking about what you can do that is special and unique for your loved ones? My sister was home making old fashioned Valentine's with my nieces last night (just like our mom did with us as kids). We were looking at images of vintage Valentine's this week at work and and really today's commercial imagery just does not compare. I thought I would share a few of the images with you here. Why not print some out and make your own homemade Valentine's? Vintage Holiday Crafts has so many great free images to use, just please be sure to read their rules regarding the use of images.

all above images courtesy vintageholidaycrafts.com

Here’s another great set of vintage Valentine’s Day cards I found on a Flickr stream. [via]

Happy Love Day

♥

Sunday, January 8, 2012

shadow chasers

12/31/2010

1/7/2012

notice the lack of snow...it was almost 60 degrees!

both photos were shot in the Ward Pound Ridge Reservation

I took a photo yesterday that was almost identical to one I took almost a year ago. I didn't realize it at the time. I take photos of shadows a lot. It is actually one of the assignments I gave my students when I taught a photography class a few summers ago and I remember having been given the assignment in photo class myself many years ago. Shadows are made from light and are things we see everyday, but there is something very intriguing about them as a photographer and artist. Photographers have always paid very close attention to light and many noteworthy photographers have recorded remarkable shadows on film. Here are a few of my favorites.