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February’s personal project: Colors

Ever since Spencer Lum’s workshop back in July of last year, I’ve been thinking about my palette. Palette, in photography, refers to the colors that you use. In any given scene, a photographer chooses to include or exclude based on artistic choice. And a photographer chooses which scenes to photograph, obviously. My palette tends to pops of color, but I sometimes find myself avoiding color or working against it. So in February I made a conscious effort to seek out colors and work with them in their vibrancy. Here are some images from my experiments.

This is probably my favorite from the set. I’ve always been fascinated by geometry and shadows. When working with just color forms, balance becomes the key player.

I wasn’t purposely trying to be abstract, but that’s how my initial wanderings turned out. Later on I took some photos with George while we were “ingressing” (don’t ask).

StephenMarch 21, 2013 - 2:11 pm

If we give the images numbers. I love 7, 8 and 9 as a triptych!

Dale LempaMarch 21, 2013 - 2:37 pm

Excellent; thank you for sharing. Reminds me of Josef Albers.

Ain’t-Got-No-Time Ain’t-Got-No-Money (AGNOAGNM) Workday Lunch #2

Y’all seemed to like lunch #1 well enough, so here I am with another popular lunch here at the Wilkie household (minus George… he doesn’t like any of this stuff. I make it when he’s at school.) Today we’re making “fried” eggplant with sour-cream-and-a-shit-ton-of-garlic-and-dill.

There are two mandatory items here and neither of them is eggplant. I’m pretty sure you could do this dish with any kind of soft squash and will probably hit up some zucchini in the near future. The two items you need are Trader Joe’s Organic Sour Cream and an olive oil mister. Now, to be fair, I made this before I got the mister but life is way better with it. I bought one on Amazon for like $11 so just suck it up. And the Trader Joe’s sour cream…. seriously, don’t make this with Daisy. I have eaten sour cream my entire life, with abandon, and this freakin’ sour cream is by far the best I’ve ever had. I don’t know why it’s so tasty but it is really, really tasty. I more or less invented this dish so I could eat sour cream on something.

ElizabethMarch 18, 2013 - 12:51 pm

Are you still doing the slow carb thing? This looks delicious.

ktMarch 18, 2013 - 4:01 pm

Have you tried the frozen garlic cubes from Trader Joe’s? They’re great, I never chop garlic any more.

Heather & Gary | DC War Memorial wedding

Heather and Gary got married on a day that should have been uncharacteristically warm for winter, but was instead blustery and frigid. But Heather stuck with it in her awesome bright pink dress and we shuffled off to the National Gallery of Art for portraits after their ceremony at the DC War Memorial. These two are so sweet to each other – it was really cool to document their wedding.

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They hired one of my favorite officiants in DC – Sue Mosher. She always does a great job and tailors each ceremony to the couple’s believes and history.

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Love this candid frame.

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“We got married, yeah!”

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We were well done with being outside, so we shuffled to the National Gallery of Art for some quirky portraits.

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And today I learned how to make a gif in Photoshop!

StephenMarch 14, 2013 - 11:16 am

OH MY GOD – THAT GIF IS AMAZINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!

Dale LempaMarch 14, 2013 - 12:34 pm

Cool stuff. Nice work, excellent compositions and posing.

AlbertMarch 16, 2013 - 4:30 am

LOVE the ” we just got married” shot!!

JoeyMarch 16, 2013 - 4:31 am

The shot thru the rings ROCK!!

BobbieMarch 25, 2013 - 10:33 pm

Heather, Gary & Amber – Absolutely beautiful! We’ll be at the same site this Saturday. Thanks for test driving it for us! ;) Can’t wait to touch base post-wedding!

Jason JarvisMarch 26, 2013 - 9:20 pm

I love your images! I’ve been on your site for about 20 minutes looking at all of them!