•too long, much to share.

I've finally joined up with the rest of the world and now have instant access, there-at-your-fingertips internet. And this could really be good or bad. In my absence of posting I've stockpiled on quite a few things to now share.

First, a new favorite quote. I'm a big fan of quotes so the term "favorite" should be applied loosely. While I'm not keen on people taking other people's content/ideas/work and posting it on their own blog without credit, this was too good not to pass on and I'll do my best to give credit where it's due. I saw the quote on A Photo Editor and below is a screen shot from his blog. (Good photographer's resource for the latest happenings)



More recently he posted a link to a documentary video/photo compilation. The following piece was shot, edited, and produced by a student at Ohio U as part of the SoulOfAthens project.

A Life Alone. by Maisie Crow

A Life Alone from Soul of Athens on Vimeo.

I dare you to tell me this bone shaking, heart quivering piece is not incredible. Now go give your grandparent(s) a call.

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Love•A documentary

Love is Love Farm

About 40 minutes from downtown Atlanta is a wee, organic farm where the passion of its owners is written in its very name. Two people who absolutely love what they do.

Assignment: A six-week documentary

While brainstorming for the assignment, I came up with a list of things/people that I thought would be fun to document. Gracing the very top was a farm. Farms in or even near Atlanta? Yeah right. I chalked that one right up to wishful thinking and an impossibility. Long story short, thanks to a photographer I'm interning for I was proven wrong.

At this point I've visited the farm twice and have loved all eight hours invested. This is quickly becoming my favorite project of the year. On each visit I tag along, snapping as I please and given every freedom to do so. Joe and Judith are incredible people who devote loads of time and energy into what they do, but as Joe noted, they make sure to take time off to enjoy life outside farming as well. They are foodies, inside and out and every which way. Everything that they do, every item that they use or buy, and the process in which they grow each produce is intentional and done with meaning. I haven't asked about posting pictures of them on here yet, but once I do I'll be sure to post more.

a preview into the details:



location: Love is Love Farm; Douglasville, GA

•Glitter & Glue

Being the visual person that I am, I tend to pull inspiration from just about anywhere. An antique yellow, wooden box in my living room houses scads of past issues of catalogues and magazines. Among my favorites are Toast, Anthropologie (have you seen the newest?), Garden & Gun, and Donna Hay. Films are a great source as well, especially indies and documentaries. In the movie, The Holiday, there's a scene where the little girls drag Cameron Diaz into their wonderfully styled, magical blanket tent with stars dangling from the ceiling of it. Ever since, sparkly stars have danced in my head, begging to take part in a shoot.

Assignment: A portrait of a child under 10 years.

The night prior to this shoot I was covered in pink glitter and modge podge from head to toe. But oh, it was worth it.







Little Mei Mei was so very sweet and obviously full of smiles. Afterward she even treated me to coffee and eggs straight from her Fisher Price kitchen.

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•trails

This kid doesn't just pave her own trail, she plows it and blazes right through. As I'm sure her own unique style attests to this in the photograph, there certainly has never been another 'her'. The knee socks and gel crocs day was one of her better combos.






location: virginia highlands

•Cloudy coverage

One of my favorites from the beach at Tybee. The cloud coverage was incredible and just a tad creepy. I thought this one deserved its own post.


location: Tybee Island, G.A.

•a day at the beach

This was a freezing day at the beach and very reflective of the weather most of our time spent in Savannah/Tybee Is, but I had a blast shooting here with my family as the subjects! Here are a few:








location: Tybee Island, G.A.
details: a grey, cold and overcast

happy•spring!