Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Make up and scary faces

Sometimes a little make up and costume brings out the scary in you.  I have asked myself many times what my images mean? What my story is? I decided I don't want a story, a label of what I create.  I see different things in my images than another person might see, so I would like to leave it up to you the viewer to decide what it means, the story, the label.  Now for what I see...Theses images that use my younger two daughters as the models, some princess dresses and a bunch of halloween make up were last minute photos we decided to do.  For me I see a lot of dark things, which makes me wonder why? And should I see these things? What does it mean? I have a close relationship with death, not in a creepy I want to die way but I have experienced death first hand in my lifetime so it appears for me in my art a lot.  It is hard because I use my own children as my models but death does not have to be a scary thing. It can be beautiful and interesting.  Though these images here are meant to be scary, there is still beauty, at least I see the beauty.  

I used my iPhone 6 for many of these images and used Instagram, Lightroom 5 and Photoshop CC for editing.  I also used my Nikon D810 with a 70mm lens. 

















Thursday, October 23, 2014

Depth

I named this image "Waiting for depth"
Basically it means I am tired of the mundane everyday, same old same old!  I want more people to have deep conversations, I want more adventure, I want less anger, hate and competition.  So I am ready and waiting patiently for the world to join in. 







Self portraits 2014

Using a ring light on my lens.