Halloween-ing

A few months ago, my mom and I were sorting through some old family photos and I stumbled upon these gems of my grandmother and her twin brother in their Halloween costumes. The photos weren't dated, but I am guessing that these were taken sometime in the early to mid 1930's. What better day to share them than today?

Don't they look great? I am particularly enamored with the beautiful eeriness of their masks. Although the sepia tone of the photographs surely has something to do with the eerie quality. If I know my grandmother, I am sure she was excited and probably had some devilish little tricks up her sleeve :)

Happy Halloween!

Color Studies: Red and White

My love affair with red happened slowly. Stealthily. Like a crow with shiny objects I began gathering little things here and there until all of a sudden I took a look at my desk where all the evidence had piled up. I'm still a little timid when it comes to wearing red (working on that), but it definitely makes me happy to incorporate it into my creative space.

Trinkets

Anthony had to go to Switzerland all last week for work. In between moping and eating lots of candy corn and spending an unspecified number of hours watching embarrassing tv shows, I managed to get some photo editing done and traveled far and wide across Atlanta and South Carolina for a birthday-wedding-family-friend-weekend-extravaganza.

Little trinkets from A's trip have been sprinkled across our apartment since his return home. While the Swiss have a reputation for being reserved, they certainly don't hold back when designing currency. I burst out laughing the first time I saw the wildly colored notes with pictures of such stern looking people on them...they look like monopoly money! And the coins go up to 5 CF...looks like a massive Robin Hood style coin purse is necessary to tote all this around.

Oh yeah, and a tin appeared, filled with lots of little chocolates that come individually wrapped in the most awesome little packages.

This picture is from yesterday. The volume contained within the tin displayed below has diminished greatly since as I performed a series of quality tests to ensure that Swiss chocolate is really all it is cracked up to be.

Schlappyfendsdarymurmfurnsmaaaufsfulrarvscnoklarfvevnoizarnflyfernszduhbfrkst.....

Translation: happy Wednesday from one whose mouth is filled with chocolate even though it is only breakfast.

Erin and Josh engagement photo extravaganza

My wonderful friends Erin and Josh are getting married this weekend and for 2.5 days, the great city of Chicago will be a handful of southern folk lighter as we all make the trek down south to celebrate. In anticipation of the upcoming festivities, I'm sharing some of the engagement photos I took of them one exceptionally hot morning in August.

We warmed up with some 'sexy muffin' shots at Dunkin Donuts as they fueled up for their intense morning of looking pretty. 

We decided to shoot on and around the lakefront as it is such a beautiful part of the Chicago landscape and a perfect setting in the morning as the sun is rising and the beach is not yet crowded.

Congrats guys! I had so much fun photographing you!