the floating forest

the floating forest, a photo by elle.hanley on Flickr.

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when things became too heavy she retreted to her floating forest. where everything was so light that her troubles simply couldn't weigh her down...

I wish I had a floating forest right about now. a week ago the unit about mine's toilet overflowed and I had water raining from my ceiling. they've been tearing apart my home all week and now the pup and I are in a hotel untill they finish the tear down and repairs. :S and now my check engine light is on....

hope your weekend is going far better. happy sunday~

model: Freya

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the jade bird

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another from the birds nest shoot. I wrote a behind the scenes blog post about it below if you're interested. :)

the Id - The Object of Self exhibition at Darkroom Gallery opens tomorrow. I'm happy to have 3 of my images shown in this exhibition and to be along side so many other talented artists. if you're in the area you should check it out~

model: Freya

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behind the scenes - birds nest shoot

I've been wanting to do a shoot at this giant pile of branches that's piled up in the very front of Magnuson Park for a long time.  this past saturday I finally had the perfect combination of good weather and a great model.  

this pile is basically that.  the area of the park where maintenance lay all the cut branches and tree trunks from throughout the park.  when I went to scout the location earlier I found that it was laid out rather well.  you could see there were no animals living in it and that it could be surmounted with a bit of help. yay! finally my birds nest shoot~

extra large birds nest.

not far from the car but the ground was deceivingly uneven. lots of holes underneath that grass.

my model Freya is a pretty free spirit and was totally up to try to climb into the "birds nest" so I picked up a couple of small brown area rugs at the thrift store a few days before the shoot so she would have something to lay over the pile and climb across.  when she got to the end of one she could lay down another and so on until she reached the center of the nest.  while the rubber bottoms of the rugs were nice and grippy and the fluffy top was sort of comfortable the rugs did nothing to help free her from all the clinging branches that tried to hold onto her.  

Freya in position and placing black goose feathers in her hair.

laughing and battling the brambles...

you can really see the size of the nest in this image

she was great, such a trooper and we got a lot of amazing shots one of which I posted yesterday and there are many more to follow.  I hope you enjoyed a behind the scenes look at my birds nest shoot, some thing I've been wanting to try for quite a while. :)

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sparrows sanctuary

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I had the most wonderful shoot on saturday with the very lovely Freya. as she was traveling and had other shoots booked she let me keep her for most of the day and we did 5 different shoots.. maybe more? anyway, she was amazing, didn't even flinch when I asked her to climb up into this giant pile of branches or, birds nest as we liked to imagine it. :) like a little mountain goat she climbed up to the top and posed gracefully even while the brambles snagged the 70's evening dress she wore and tried to claim her.
more of our adventures to come~

model: Freya

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drawing down ships

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I wanted to take a selfie, edit it and post it all in one evening, like I used to do during my 365. and I wanted to wear the mermaid crown. ;) I had intended to do this on my birthday two days ago but I decided to be lazy, watch tele and order thai food instead. :) happy birthday to me~

please see my most recent interview with art & culture magazine Quint~

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three birds

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I feel like my selfies have been pretty lame lately. I've done several in the last two weeks but not posted them because they sucked. I've been so tired when I come home from work it's hard to motivate to shoot one.
dug my old kimono-moo-moo out to see if I could do something with it but I felt it was still too plain so I added the little birds. I dunno, what do you think?

~put a bird on it!~

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bearing branches

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I feel like I haven't done a selfie in forever. just needed to do a nice simple one to get back in the groove.

happy sunday ya'll~

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the water maiden

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another fun mermaid photo~
with the warm weather lasting so nicely maybe we'll be able to get in another mermaid styled shoot before summer is over.

model: Wanderlust

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siren

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had a shoot yesterday with one of my favorite models. we had a mermaid theme and I even made the crown you see her wearing out of coral, sea shells and pearls. luckily she already had the costume. we even decided to do a whole series on all the different types of water spirits/mermaids there are so expect to see us try this again. :)

model: Wanderlust

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