New Camera, New Pics

We recently got a new camera and have been having so much fun playing around with it. Bye bye small three year old point n shoot that I thought was good until getting my hands on this new little beast. It's not the lightest thing in the world, but the pics are already worth lugging it around. And we don't even know what we're doing. We have some learning to do, but here are a few of our little babies, four-legged babu included.

Gray Malin Photography

Photographer Gray Malin's work is on One Kings Lane right now. I love this "XO" one. I love balloons so much and this print just makes me smile. Wouldn't it look great in the 44" x 32" size in a baby's room? I think the nesting phase of pregnancy has officially begun.

See more of Gray's work here & his collection available on One Kings Lane here.

Craig Cutler

A year ago, commercial photographer Craig Cutler created CC52 - a personal project and promise to create personal work, every week for a year. These beautiful photos above use letterpress type with the goal "to compose and create photographs using various letterpress type; to look at the individual type, and sometimes their environments, as abstract forms rather than objects of function." 

You should check out the rest of his CC52 work here. I could easily post them every day. They're stunning. And I love his pledge to produce more personal work on a regular basis. I'd be interested to hear how this project has impacted his commercial work.

Well done.

[images courtesy of Craig Cutler]

Goodbye Home

One of my best friends left New York this week. I know it's the start of bigger & better things for her, and I try to focus on that to make myself feel better, but I miss her already. And terribly. We've shared several homes over the past 16 years - Pennsylvania, Maine and New York - and I feel a little lost knowing she's no longer a walk down the hall, a stroll across the quad or a quick subway ride uptown. I'm not sure what I'm going to do without her, but I think it involves being better at talking on the phone.

She recently posted some of her favorite New York snapshots & I'm re-posting a few of them here. Such great New York moments.

I miss you Miss Lizzy!!!! Go get em sister.

[All photos taken by Lizzy Sall.]

Menagerie by Sharon Montrose

I have a print of Sharon Montrose's hanging in Griffin's room and gave another to a friend.  I love her work (especially her baby animal shots) and cannot wait to get a copy of her new book when it comes out this fall.  Here's the sneak peek cover she just unveiled on her blog.  Gorg, no?

Have a great weekend, everyone.

xoxo

ps - how adorable is that baby porcupine in the middle?  Want to squeeze him.  But not.

[image courtesy of Sharon Montrose]

Stay Tuned

A quick hello & Happy New Year from my sick bed.  It's been a rough start to 2011 for me.  Turns out that all those antibiotics I took a month ago have left my stomach without any "good bacteria" and a little devil of a virus.  I'm sloowly starting to feel better, but "better" is relative and not at all close to normal.  So hang in there with me while I get healthy.  In the meantime, a couple pretty pictures - because as a friend reminded me, they really can make you feel peaceful - even when the reality seems worlds away.

[top image Sledding on Hill (Dusk) by Joseph O. Holmes, courtesy of 20x200; bottom image by Kelley Stewart]

Happy Fourth of July!

Cooking Dinner Vol. I from William Hereford on Vimeo.

This video has nothing to do with the Fourth of July holiday, but it does have to do with cooking, which is what I end up doing a lot of on the Fourth, so I thought it was sort of relevant.

It's shot by William Hereford, a fellow (& much younger) Bates grad, and NYC-based photographer. He created the piece "as a kind of experiment combining typeface typical of magazines with video which has been shot and edited to feel like a still photograph." Read more about the video on his blog here. And while you're there, scroll through. It's pretty darn impressive.

L&H for Sunday Suppers in Martha Stewart Living

Have you seen the gorg Sunday Suppers photo shoot in this month's Martha Stewart Living? Karen Mordechai, the photographer/creator behind Sunday Suppers, put together a beautiful "rustic Italian" spread for the mag and asked me to contribute the paper elements. (John & I were supposed to attend, but I couldn't make the snow date! So bummed. When will that ever happen again??) I used kraft paper for the larger recipe booklets and tea stained and hand stamped the beverage tags. Check out more images on the Sunday Suppers blog here. They are stunning.

[photo courtesy of Karen Mordechai]

Phish announces Summer Tour

Phish announced its Summer Tour yesterday & of course in typical cool Phish phashion.  (Sorry, that was too tempting:)  I'm obsessed with these images from their announcement video - probably because I'm chomping at the bit for warmer weather & anything having to do with it.  Check out the tour dates & see the full video here.

[images courtesy of Phish]

Kari Herer

Thanks to Katy, I was reminded of Kari Herer's beautiful prints over at Etsy for a mere $25. Kari shot our wedding collection for our website and is such a wonderful talent and person.

Check out more of Kari's work here.