Had a great day! Worked on an acrylic painting of Semiahmoo Bay that I'd been meaning to work on for a while.  Used a new support, a Gotrick wooden cradled panel.  Certainly different to work on but would use again as I find canvas a bit too springy.

Semiahmoo  Bliss ($200) - acrylic on cradled panel

Got a new toy for only $6 from Value Village!!! I'm very, very excited about it..... here's a clue :)



Yes it's a Polaroid camera, model Sun 600 LMS exactly as shown above. I don't know anything about these cameras but I remember them from the 80s. I remember a few years ago they discontinued the film but I believe they've started making it again due to a resurgence in popularity of these cameras.

Can't wait to play....

Check out this cute dress I made for little I (also known as child #3).  The dress is made of fabric and a Moda jelly roll (Botany).  Jelly rolls are fun to work with because they are already pre-cut and the colours are already picked out for you.  Even still, with 40 choices of fabric in a jelly roll I spent almost as much time picking the fabrics as making the dress!



Little I isn't very photogenic like her big sister.  However I did manage to get these cute shots of her once she put it on.

The pattern can be found here at Moda Bakeshop.

If you're wondering where I've been lately all I can say is "sick, sick, sick!". The problem with having 3 kids, including 1 that has been to daycare for the first time, is that they bring home everything! I mean every germ, virus and bacteria in a 15km radius :)

So far we've all had stomach flu, fevers, coughs and regular colds, even mom! For 6 solid weeks, arghhhh.... (cough, cough). Even now I've had a cough for 8 days straight.

Here's a picture to keep you going.

I've been watching and experimenting with Erin Cobb's clean color tutorial.  I deliberately took one of my quite terrible photos of baby I (underexposed, color cast as well as nasty baby skin) to see what I could do. I think the improvement is amazing, especially considering this is my first attempt at this. It took a pretty unusable photo and turned it into something I might actually print!

I'd love to hear your comments!!!

Here is a really interesting video from Tim Mantoani, photographer.  I had never heard of Tim until recently when someone on the dpreview forums suggested I watch his Blue Crane Digital Nikon Speedlights video.  The speedlight video was really informative and I went to his web site to look at his work and stumbled across his Behind the Photos project where he is taking photos of photographers standing behind their famous photo.

In this 1 1/2 hour presentation, Tim talks about his work and some of his projects including the Behind the Photos project.  Very inspirational.


Focus On Your Passion: Finding Yourself in Your Photography from PhotoShelter.com on Vimeo.