In a click…
Sometimes, ‘simply beautiful’ walks through the door, or crosses my path in the street, a café, on a bush trail and with or without my camera all that matters is making that connection—to exchange details for a date with my lens or, if already armed, to flip the lens cap and fire. And that’s how it is with Alexis. We see each other only occasionally, having met at a party to ‘kick-off’ the filming of the BIG ‘short’ Queen of the Bees which we’ve both worked on—(acting and pre-production stills. see Special Projects under Portfolio and blog post Aug 15, Artists’ Appetites). We just click. And it’s with few words that we make pictures. I raise my lens and she moves in graceful ease to its tilts and turns, and together we move around a room in a creative silence easing into spaces of available light, each knowing our own steps […]
Hello world!
On a lazy Saturday recently I sat with this gorgeous young tattooist and with one armed pinned by the needle, took these quick shots to tell a simple story – that photography, be it fashion-inspired, lifestyle, fine art or documentary each in their own profound way, is my most moving love and simplest of joys. Love happens at the tip of my finger with the click of the shutter, with the world and all the storytelling and beauty inside it, staring back at me down the lens. With the camera to my eye I take my deepest breaths and live, a most joyous life… What makes you ‘smile’ to the tips of your toes and fingers?
Artists’ appetites
At a recent cast & crew event for the Queen of the Bees short film I, as usual, whipped out my camera and documented the night. As is more my style I couldn’t help but get fashion-inspired and being amongst gorgeous young actors lured my lens to capture some of them in that way. Actor Alexis Watt, who loves the camera and the camera in turn loves her, likened my appetite for shooting this way to NYC photographer Bill Cunningham. And I joyously laughed, cause his style, and that infectious smile of his, is how my heart sings when I have my camera-to-eye, and distill the beauty in everything around me. Photography is an ‘inloveness’ that only the image in the end can express…
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