Month: April 2007
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kate, better known as boo, holding her prize in the hunting room. she turns 15 this week. her dad, todd, says he will shoot any boy she brings home.
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every year todd has an easter egg hunt in one of his giant pastures, for all the neighbor ranch kids. this is the pre-hunt egg filling party in todd’s hunting room. todd is the real deal when it comes to ranching…..you can’t get more authentic.
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but not many smiles from this one. it is nice that many of our friends are reproducing (just add water) because there is never a shortage of cute little people to practice photographing. arann’s friends came to visit the farm and i played photographer…7 months is the perfect age…they don’t move much….and sometimes you can…
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and back to jeanie changing my life…..here is a person with an amazing soul and so much talent but without the one basic sense that my whole life and future career revolves around…..without the ability to see light. i have never had a friend who was blind before. so i have so many questions that…
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and when jeanie sings people listen. she has an amazing voice, kind of like janice joplin and she is able to sing in four octaves….most people can only sing in one or two. the most amazing thing is that when gennie sings you can hardly tell that she is blind. jeanie is singing with the…
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gennie is a massage therapist. she works at a fancy health club in novato and practices on her own clients in her home, in petaluma. meeting gennie changed my life.
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This is a continuation of a portrait project I worked on for The Dance Palace, a community center in Pt Reyes, California, before I went to London. They added more people to the list for me to photograph so I spent a day taking portraits. It felt good to be more confident with my portraits….I…
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so I was also hoping to get some quality paper writing time in, in the quiet of the country……i didn’t plan on having to deal with a sick cow. so this is me studying walker evans. the cow didn’t make it. hard life lessons on the farm, it was a sad day.
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Inspired by photographers we have been studying at lcc….I sorted through my files and started creating my own collection of america photos….and was determined to find more on my two week visit. My first photo for the collection…..jesus and the incredible hulk…enough said.
somewhere between a handshake and two kisses 