Filter Photo 2009

I am very excited to announce Filter Photo, the Midwest's first large scale photo reviews, which will be held on Saturday, October 31st, and Sunday, November 1st, from 9am to 5pm at Loyola University's Crown Center Gallery in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood. Filter Photo's mission is to bring together fine art and documentary photographers with the Midwest's top gallerists, educators, curators, photo editors, and photo professionals.

Please check out the website www.Filterphoto.org for more information and please pass this on to other photographers who you think might be interested in attending!

Hope to see you there!

Lishui Photo Festival

I am going to China in November as part of the Lishui Photo Festival. I will be showing photos from my new series - The Water's Edge. Here is an image from that series. You can see the rest of the series on my website.

We went downtown to the Art walk last night and it was so cool to see the streets teaming with people. Normally downtown LA is a little sketchy, but it was alive last night and there was art everywhere. I was waiting for Rob's comedy show to start and walking around with my camera. I haven't just done some street shooting in ages and it was really fun because the light was bouncing from all over. This guy caught me pointing my camera at him and he grabbed the girl and posed. She looks so amazingly young and vulnerable. I just love it.

Santa Monica pier at sunset

Santa Monica pier at sunset, originally uploaded by mind the light.

Crawfish on a Pancake

We go to Michigan every year with my husband's college friends. The house is just down the street from Lake Huron. They have an old black raft in the garage which we have been using forever. Some years ago, my husband dubbed the game of trying to shake the kidlets off the raft "Crawfish on a Pancake" I think because we had had a fabulous crawfish dinner the night before. The name stuck and here it is in print in Light Leaks magazine. Though here Stella looks more contemplative.