Hey everyone it was sooo great to meet all of you yesterday!

PLEASE post your thoughts re: What is "GOOD" , "ART" , "PHOTO", and reflections on "YOU + 1st SEMESTER IN PHOTO CLASS"?

I had some thoughts too... after meeting with all of you that I will post later today...

REMEMBER to shoot a new roll/ 30 images for digital by next Thurs. Feb 6th - influenced by your thoughts + inspirations of where you are creatively with photography at this point...

YOU ALL HAD EXCELLENT/INSPIRED ideas...

get shooting...

Snow Landscape... + I am coming back....

I just shot these today in my other "landscape place" that is my favorite place to take pics - Everhart Park. It is where I had my wedding, the park I played in as a child, the park around the corner form my home now, the park where my older daughter 1st swung on a swing and sled down a hill - she just went today as she does every time it SNOWS!!! The snow is in "my" park, and I have photographed seriously there every season except winter - so in the name of that - and teaching - and blogging - and a landscape assignment on all of your plate, I went today and took these shots - they are unedited and I have many more...after I shoot - I usually need 24hrs to let my pics sit and "breathe" before I know which ones are the "ones"...

I am coming in tomorrow...yay! I am looking forward to working with all of you...ps-it was definaltely a challenge for me to post on here every day - how about you?

I'll try once I return to be your teacher to not have ALL my pics be of my daughters...however, I do believe that photography should be what you are passionate about, interested in, LOVE, what is in your own backyard, that you feel comfortable, inspired, and connected to your subject matter - that your camera is an extension of your hand...so for now - it might be hard for me to NOT photograph these girls...

I have no idea how I got this
layout..I have a few things to learn about arranging my photos and text in blog world...maybe some of you PFA students can show me!?

Holiday pics...

Our girls are happy that Santa was good to them...

Doll Face

This photo of Isobel is from over a year ago when she was in her 1st ballet dance recital. She does not like ballet anymore and is currently really into gymnastics. However, she claimed recently that she wants to be a dancer and singer when she grows up...so we will look into some modern dance classes for her...she wants to go to PFA one day! I am posting it because I love to look at those blue eyes of hers...

Brandywine River

This is my husband and baby girl Sasha and the afternoon light overlooking the river at the Brandywine River Art Museum. PFA went on a field trip there a couple of years ago...it would be nice to go again on a "shooting" field trip - one of my all time favorite places to take photos.

Mr. Reeder and I are also talking about the possibility of a photo field trip to Eastern State Penitentiary in Philly...we'll see...!

Pink Roses

I DEFINITELY will be doing a still-life assignment with you all this 2nd semester...I have been doing some very recently of traditional objects flowers, fruit, shells etc... I want to do some with you all where we REALLY experiment a lot with different kinds of light, objects, and meanings...I like the "found" still life that Mr. Reeder shot about school grounds - great texture + color!

"Daphne"

This is one of the 1st composites I ever did in Photoshop almost 15 years ago! It si still one of my favorite artworks...I have it printed very large - about 3x4 feet and framed in a beautiful rustic wood frame. I would like to do some "collage" orinted work like this with you all...and I would like to do some very large scale prints with a few of you this year for the Spring art show...

This piece is about the story behind my 1st name "Daphne" - Daphne is a Greek myth - look up the story and see if you can tell me what you think this piece is about/what is the imagery?

Isobel in morning light

pic #2 for Mr. Reeder challenge...here I can see my daughter getting ready for school every day in our bathroom down the hall from my bedroom...with many of my photos it is the LIGHT that captivates me 1st in to running to pick up my camera to catch a moment...usually for me to bother with a photo there has to be something also, besides the light - something "sentimental" to me about why I am taking it - and what it could mean to others as well...

accepting Mr. Reeder's challenge...

Figured I'd better accept the challenge too!!!! - so as to keep up with all of you students for my return in two weeks - I am looking forward to YOU guys teaching me more about blogging + sharing photos this way...

MR. REEDER! - WILL U PLEASE HELP ME GET CONNECTED WITH ALL THE STUDENTS CORRECTLY SO I CAN BE PROPERLY FOLLOWING THEIR BLOGS?

THANK YOU MR. REEDER FOR DOING A TREMENDOUS JOB WITH BLOGGING AND EVERYTHING ELSE WHILE I WAS AWAY ON MATERNITY LEAVE - REMEMBER TO COME BACK ANY DAY- ANY TIME!

The photo here was my holiday card this year of my daughters taken in my in home studio...I wanted to replicate the feeling of some of the 1st prints in photography's history - the daguerreotypes...