chilly boardwalk

We did a little driving around on our beach weekend and ended up heading down to Ocean City. Lu and I got out to explore the boardwalk which was still quite the scene, even in winter. Most of the food and game stands were closed up, the seats were removed from the ferris wheel and the rides were fenced off, but the arcades were open and busy. Apparently gambling, and playing skeeball for tickets to win shell covered lamps and mermaid statues is always in demand! I left my camera in the car bringing only my iphone, and took quite a few hipstamatic photos. It was just as well, as the camera would have been way too obtrusive. There was a two year old boy with a blond buzz cut shooting an adult sized rifle at a video game with such skill that you had to see it to believe it! I wanted to take his picture, but his teenage caretaker didn’t look so friendly. We left with only pink cotton candy and these photographs (although truthfully I would have loved to bring home a mermaid statue for the back yard) and Lulu raved that it was her favorite part of the trip.

2010 in photographs

With the holidays rapidly approaching and the temperatures dipping way below freezing the past two weeks I have been spending a lot of time indoors on the computer – creating press products, testing out photo labs, and organizing all of the photos I have taken in the past year. What a joy to sort through all of these images! I am so grateful to have them. I collected some favorites to share and then edited some out, then edited again, and finally decided I couldn’t narrow it down any more. These actually only encompass the second half of 2010, the first half had a rather rocky start (moving, etc) and my camera stayed well out of it. Too bad, really – I am sure there would have been some beauty in those memories as well.

So, here is a collection of favorites from 2010 (and these are just the ones of my family… wait until you see the others)!

Weekend in Richmond (a photo essay)

We spent last weekend exploring Richmond, VA, our state’s capital! We stayed downtown at the historic Jefferson Hotel (lovely) and explored so many of Richmond’s neighborhoods, restaurants and museums. I realized during our visit that I had only travelled through Richmond in the past – never really had the chance to stop and see what the city really had to offer. I have since decided it is definitely a place I could live! As you can see below, there are so many fantastic areas for photographs and I love that feeling of actually being back in the South (that as you Northern Virginians know we generally just don’t have).

While the middle of November is probably not the best time for a busy photographer to plan a getaway (note to self for next year) it ended up being a perfect little break for me and my family. I actually planned the trip around a visit to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts to see the Sally Mann exhibit and was in heaven feeling like I was actually doing something just for me for a change. Lu and I took our time through the show and really examined the glass collodion printed self portraits – getting to see every one of Mann’s beloved imperfections up close! The grand scale images of the Civil War battlefields also really grabbed me as I have been spending so much time in those very fields lately myself.

On our way out of town we breezed through the Science Museum and I was thrilled to see they had a planetarium. Lu has been really interested in constellations at school and we had been talking about the night sky quite often, but hadn’t been able to pick out too many stars in our own back yard. We got to relax in the dark together watching the sky sparkle and move above us, then chuckled and shh’d as we listened to Coco loudly repeat almost all of the constellations names after the narrator would state them…”Cassiopeia??!!!!”

I took way too many photos (of course) but here are some of my favorites from our time together in Richmond. Can you believe how amazing the fall color still is?

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