ok...so it took me a week to get posting again + to add all of you as blogs to follow! Please post your unique assignment idea...work due Feb 5th -oops did I say 6th last week? you know I mean tomorrow...

my thoughts from last week in class - every time I so this it is different...

GOOD - white snow covering everything clean, play time, breathing

ART - my babies expressing themselves in their unique ways. bursting at the seams energy that cannot be contained.

PHOTO - light made permanent catching specs of eternity

ME + LAST SEMESTER - family, Sasha becoming human, more time with Isobel, still-lifes, cleaning my house + messing it up again + you can't tell I cleaned, dealing with the concept of being mother, teacher, artist, wife, artist-photographer, + trying to be a good person for the lucky and blessed 100 or so years I get on planet earth

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!?