Babes in the Wood: Paloma

Little Paloma in a vintage crib.

big bro Diego helping out

Family portrait gets interesting

Kmart and the cart(s)

Again, to Reno and Sugar Bowl to ski. I brought lights and we explored a closed-down Kmart for a possible shoot setting. 

I liked the weird shopping-cart drama here.. in suburban Reno why do people push shopping carts into a loading dock? Can't be the Oakland can man zombie recyclers..

We had just stopped for gas at a nearby 7-11 and I bought a blue (raspberry?) Slurpee to use as a prop. It was way-weird for 10am, but Tony actually drank it.

here's a list of ingredients, per foodfacts.com:

Corn Syrup High Fructose

Water

Citric Acid

Flavor(s) Natural & Artificial

Quillaia Extract

Yucca Extract

Sodium Benzoate ( To protect taste )

 Blue 1

 Who doesn't need a little Blue 1 in their morning?

Last Week in the snow..

We went up to ski Tahoe a few days ago and I brought my lights and camera gear.

Traffic got bad at one point on the drive back, so we pulled over and I shot another portrait of Tony in the trees.

Not sure how valid it is to be working on a series of photos of my boyfriend.. but I am true advocate of a project working itself into play. So maybe that will happen if I shoot him enough.

how awesome: a subject who carries the gear..

Babes in the Wood: Ginger

This weekend I photographed another child for the Babes series, this time going for a more literal fairy tale costume..

Ginger was photographed at the Twin Pines park near Belmont, a very pretty setting!

The typical fashion I envisioned for Ginger was based a bit, after seeing her gorgeous blonde hair, on wanting to cast her as a Gretel, who gets notoriously lost in the woods.
In looking for images of Dirndls and Trachtenkleidung costume, I came across some articles about womens' costume during the Nazi reign.

As a prelude to the Nazi party coming into power, fashion in Germany was changing to shorter hemlines, more masculinity, makeup, shorter hair. Conservatives decried this Hollywood and French influence as evil and through exaggerating the influence of Jews in the fashion industry, the Ministry of Propaganda formed a unique school (German Fashion Institute) to bring back the uniquely German style of dress for women.

There's a fascinating link to more detail here

But back to Ginger, here's some cute outtakes:

Babes in the Wood: Astrid

On winter break between holidays, I took to the Joaquin Miller Park for the third time to photograph the final contestant of the Smith family trio of kids: Astrid.

Hero photo from the shoot:

 

Some seconds:

 

 

The whole family as a triptych:

 

Babes in the Wood: Fiona

Last weekend I travelled up to Camp Meeker to take Steve and Megan's daughter Fiona out on a raft in the Russian River. 

Tony helped (actually made, entirely) with the building of the raft, with old fence boards and a bunch of styrofoam pilfered from Pottery Barn's photo studio (thanks recycling bins) and the SF dump (thanks Sharon!)

It floated Fiona just fine, Steve not so much....

My favorite from the day

Fiona's dad Steve testing the raft, giggling maniacally...

This is Fiona quite over anything more to do with standing on the raft..

Babes in the Wood: Milo

I took Milo to Joaquin Miller Park and shot him last week. Two times. Two afternoons of Milo, and then a trip to toy shop at Target

this is Milo earning almost half of a SpongeBob Lego kit

 

Camo Net

When looking up online photos of camo netting for inspiration and to procrastinate doing something else, I found a story about Seattle's Boeing plant using camouflage netting to hide the production of Boeing B17 Flying Fortress aircraft from Japanese aircraft attack and from aerial surveillence. I'm very intrigued by this photo, especially the two women pictured who worked at the plant:

Here's the whole story and the page I swiped the above photo from: http://www.taphilo.com/history/WWII/USAAF/Boeing/index.shtml