I just can't stop shooting awesome women

....with my camera. AND I WON'T STOP!

Enjoy these new photos!

Women!

Recently, I have decided to photograph every woman I know who inspires me, who works in fields previously dominated by men, who fearlessly goes after what she wants because she knows she can. This project is very near to my heart because I know too many women who feel trapped, who feel like they have no choices, who feel like they can't be anything. One woman who lives in fear is one too many. We live in a wealthy country with plenty to eat, with fresh water, full of so many opportunities-- all you have to do is to go out and work for what you want. However, there are so many of us who feel so crippled by fear or politics or opinions. So many women are afraid to walk in their neighborhoods after dark, to drive alone, to meet their neighbors, to quit their job in favor of something better. I'll even mention politics here: The conversations in the news regarding women and their choices about reproduction is making me absolutely sick to my stomach. The only person who gets to make the choices about my body are me. End of discussion.

I want to celebrate women. We are fantastic, brave, strong, artistic, athletic, loving, intelligent, passionate, ambitious, we can be anything and everything as long as we realize it and then go do it.

BRRRRONICA

I'll admit that I'm not the biggest fan of Hasselblads... from poor experiences (It's pretty silly, I know) But I have nothing against Bronicas, so I figured I'd give this one a shot. The guts of this camera are pretty cool. The mirror runs on a track inside the camera and slides down and out of the way rather than flipping up to reveal the shutter. The resulting sound is something that I found deeply satisfying but which startled the wholy bajeesus out of my cat. I just got my hands on it last week, so there will be more photos to come, but for now, enjoy these abstractish pictures of my cat!

Isn't she a beaut?

New friends, old friends, and sunflair.

A bunch of fantastic things happened this week. I finally had my mamiya c220 fixed (It has been out of commission all summer due to finding some mold in the foam lining on the interior of my camera. I know, right? gasp.) We also had some out of town visitors (awesome!)... So of course out of sheer excitement in all directions, photography happened. I've been interested in trying to get some sun flair images for a while (ever since I read this article about it and was sort of like, oh yeah that sounds like fun..why haven't I done that yet??).

Some of the sun flair photographs were pretty cool, but I ended up getting a few shots without it that I liked as well.