Week 26: Wildcard Week (Member Photos)
Kati York - Our happiest, most relaxed moments happen right in the ocean like this. My favourite place to be!
Kortney Fox - When in the field sometimes I get down time waiting for wagons to load. Most of this time I spend wandering around finding interesting things to photograph, but sometimes a really awesome song comes on and I decide to jump and dance across the piles of hay. "Everyday I'm shufflin'"!
Cai Vail - My Wild Heart /I’m taking The Wild Heart workshop on CM this month (as an SA), and am really enjoying it so far. It’s bringing all of these questions about my photography journey that have been rumbling under the surface into the forefront. Confronting my fears of success vs. creativity, and making me reconsider if that even needs to be a battle. Here are a few from the workshop so far.I may have mentioned it before, I’m not sure, but I’m also a freelance illustrator, and went to school for painting. There has never been any other path besides art for me, it’s just the medium of art that has fluctuated tidally depending on my cycle of life. It’s interesting to me that photography, which was my first love when I was quite young, around 7-12 (I took film photography classes at a community college with grownups and wanted to be a gritty, world-traveling photojournalist ;) ) has come back to the forefront after many years away. Interesting because the past few years, since finding out that I was pregnant and deciding to start our family, has been like a rebirth for me in so many ways, and has reconnected me with that earnest and emotional being that I was as a child.Yet I’m also working hard to launch and maintain my own business in photography, and that comes with a ruthless business side and a sacrifice of creative exploration. I’ve spent the past months working towards warmer, brighter images for my clients while wading in the depths of moody, cool-toned, darker imagery with my personal work, and especially my self portraits. I worry that the two can never be reconciled, and that my life will always be the bipolar pull between business (fake) and personal (real). Yet, the Wild Heart workshop is leading me to question that. Many of my favorite photographers working today are doing just that - emotional, moody, artful client work. I fear that risk, taking that leap and saying, *this* is what I do, nothing else, and fighting tooth and nail to find clients that will pay for my creative vision instead of pretty pictures that don’t speak to me and my talents. I have to help support my family, but does that necessarily exclude my creative vision? I don’t think I’m there yet. But where there there’s thunder, lightning often follows.
Loren Haar - I wanted to do a profile shot. This is the side that looks like my mom. (If I have time, I'll do the other side, that looks like my dad -- really!) I've been thinking about her a lot lately, and how much I resemble her -- sometimes, from this or that angle. She died on the 4th of July 12 years ago and even if I'm not consciously thinking about her and her death, it seems I am always thinking about her unconsciously this time of year. This image was a great help to me in bringing those thoughts of her and love for her to the surface. I miss her. www.lorephotography.com
Tausha Coates - Today I decided to shoot in my 2 youngest daughter's bedroom. I had noticed this light before, but never tried photographing it.
Briar Marie - Headshot /I know I don't need to have a "standard" headshot on my website. But I'd really like to have one. I'd like to have one image that shows my face. And man oh man is that hard to do. I am SO awkward. And looking into the camera is so awkward. My smile is instantly flat. It's why I've fallen in love with the documentary approach. I just take a picture of myself being me, doing my thing. Looking deeply into my 50mm is just not natural. Anyway, I've been trying to nail this for a long time with mixed results. These turned out okay.
Emily Ingalls - Sometimes all I want is a glass of wine, a good book, and peace and quiet. And even that seems impossible at times. But when it does come together, pure bliss!
Tina Huba - Today is busy taxi-ing everyone around so I just took a few shots with flowers from a friend's garden. Also, I picked up a few new dresses at the Goodwill & just had to wear one!
