While checking out myself on Google this morning (don’t lie, you do it too) I came across this,
Who knew! I guess America’s Next Top Model liked Gina and I’s photoshoot at Little Palm Island, they’ve got the whole shoot up on the website. See all the fun things you find when you’ve got an hour before your first photoshoot!
Check out the full article here.
A couple of months ago, I had the privilege to again photograph one of my favorite people, Romero Britto. For those of you not familiar with Britto, we’ll assume you live under a rock (teasing you). He’s easily the most well known pop artist of our time and fortunately for me, lives in Miami. Romero is such a fun guy and so happy to try new things proving to be as creative a model as he is with his art. Here are a few of my favorites from that day!
This is geeky. Aren’t photographers supposed to be though? I don’t have an iPhone, I don’t even like the iPhone. But it’s because I LOVE Google Voice (so if you ever call me and are prompted to say your name you are calling my Google Voice number) and the iPhone doesn’t support Google Voice. So I will never buy an iPhone. That’s okay though, because in June Sprint released the HTC EVO and everyday my husband or I find something new and fun that this phone does. But I’m not trying to sell you the phone, I want you to check out this app and whether you like the iPhone, the HTC EVO, or any other smartphone this app is too much fun not to recommend!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.retrocamera.photoeffects&hl=en_US it’s a free app that applies filters to your photographs so that they look like different types of Polaroids, a pinhole camera exposure onto film, or other really cool effects. I’m in love with it. My only negative thought is that the images produced are teeny weeny tiny files and my phone has an 8 megapixel camera on it. So while these images will never do anything more than live in cyberspace, I will keep using this app because it is so neat.
Here’s a few to check out, there will be many more Retro Camera App posts… oh yes, this is way too fun.
Shooting portraits is hard so it’s nice to get on the other side of the camera and remember how much work it is to be photographed. Sam really was my motivator this morning, he has been twisting my arm for months to get a new artist portrait. So with the help of our dog Budapest (I like to call Boo because he is afraid of just about everything) we had a little photoshoot in the backyard. For the most part, we were shooting for fun. Sam did a great job as photographer and I choose the first shot we took to be my new headshot, after that we just decided to play.
Here’s some of the photographs!
I was really excited and lucky to have my sister Jacquelyn Benson (she’s an amazing writer) and her boyfriend Dan visiting this week. Besides hitting the beach and BBQing almost every day we also took a fishing trip, visited Tobacco Road, and had many more adventures. Naturally I was sad to see them go back to their home in Maine but I look forward to heading up north sometime this summer to play with them again.
To start you off, a little love shot from Sam of him and I!
Hope I have been able to temp some of my family and friend in far away lands to come visit too!