Wallpaper Wednesday
This photograph is also from Sam and I’s epic trip to the west coast, I took it as we drove from LA to San Fran with two of our favorite girls! Somewhere before wine country, but after Santa Barbara.
Dear other photographer named Kate Benson… thank you for not being a crazy person.
No seriously, thank you. Because as much as it sucks to have another photographer with the same name as me (we’ll both agree it kinda sucks), it doesn’t suck as much as it could. I appreciate that you are a normal person, not a crazy person. I count myself lucky that your working in a different genre than I am, living in a different part of this country, and I’m really lucky you are a great photographer so when we are confused for each other at least no one is walking away. So for the times I’ve gotten upset about the mixups that have happened. I apologize. You are awesome. You are nice. Thank you for that.
Here is a string of emails I received this week from a photographer who shares the name as another photographer. I think he wanted me to take down a link I have that goes to the other guy. But the other guy is a great photographer, and not at all crazy, so I am not taking the link down (besides, bullying is just wrong)… but here’s the conversation. It started last weekend and just in time for this blog post he sent the last one. Hope it gives you a good laugh this Friday! I took out the name of the photographer, but see if you can guess who it is…
This is 2012. Tradition is dead.
A great NY Times Post about Ben Lowy who uses his cell phone and Hipstamatic app to create some of the most compelling war photography we’ve seen. He is published by the biggest names in news, and the winner of the some of photography’s most prestigious awards. Well played Ben. Well played.
image copyright Ben Lowy
Wallpaper Wednesday
My husband and I just finished an epic series of trips. We flew to Scottsdale, AZ for our future God Daughters baby shower (Elle should be here this month! Very excited!), rented a car and drove to LA (got to see so many of my awesome friends and family), drove with one of my best friends and her sister to San Fran (where we got to meet so many new friends), flew home, had a visit from the awesome Cousin Pete, flew to Portland, OR (and totally fell in love with it out there). I think we completed all these trips in less than 4 weeks. Now I could promise that I’ll be better at posting Wallpaper Wednesdays and I was just flaking on these posts because of the nature of being on the road, but one quick look in the archives would dispell this myth fast. I’m terrible at it. This time last year (shhhh don’t tell anyone) I had my awesome intern (and super talented) photographer turned, assistant to the city planner, turned romancer of my little sister (she’s moving in with him this fall) Matt Mornick write all my blog posts. Go to his website and check out his blog posts. If he wasn’t distracted by his new socially responsible path of hopefully becoming a city planner someday he could deviate and make an amazing photographer. So now it’s up to me. To try and focus (ambitious). Can I do it? Can I actually buckle down and dedicate one blog post a week to an image that dear reader, you can post as your wallpaper? I hope so but won’t’ be holding my breath either.
My husband Sam posted this image on Facebook just after our trip, guess he was too excited to wait to show everyone (given my history with posting wallpapers I will let him off the hook). He’s had this as his background image since then (3 weeks?) he loves it and so do I. Making this a great image to start with!
Biscayne Park vintage car show
On Saturday morning my shoot canceled. Always a bummer. But the good news was my friends and neighbors were bringing their car (and tiny chihuahua Taco) down to a car show in the center of our little town. So I walked down there and brought my camera, took some fun shots of their car (a Lamborghini named Hazzardo that looks very similar to the Bat Car) along with some of the other cool cars there. Maybe it was because of my love for UK Top Gear or growing up in a car family (thanks dad) but it was way too fun shooting these classic cars. In all the shooting excitement, I forgot to put on sunblock, which left me a nice burn. I think the pictures were worth it (and yes, that is Taco standing on Hazzardo).
