Family Photos

I have known these two good looking kids for pretty much my whole life.   Tonia and Dennis have been happily married for five years, and now have a beautiful ten month old Baby Evan.

Because I am incapable of keeping things simple; for my first photo-shoot ever I chose not one but three people...    However, I think we spent more time laughing than actually taking pictures.

Thanks to the beautiful Evan, Tonia, and Dennis. I love you guys.  Also, thanks to Marianna and Tanya for helping out. 

Missing summer and of course more chairs

Hello Friends,

Its been a while, I know.  Here are some pictures I fell in love with while browsing around.  Promise to do my best and return to regular programming soon.

More chairs. Of course.  I saw a pair of these in a furniture store display on 23rd Ave in Portland a couple of years ago and fell in love with them.   So imagine my surprise when I stumbled on this photo here! Sadly, I have no idea who the designer is. 

This photo makes me remember all the things I love about summer.  Just looking at it helps me remember the warmth of summer. Oh how I miss that sunshine.  Especially when stuck in traffic at 7am  in the dark, with rain pounding on to the windshield.

An awesome plate of bicycles from a Russian book. From Vintage Printable.  Love the site, but it is impossible to navigate for some reason. 

R&B: White

The first of all single colors is white ... We shall set down white for the representative of light, without which no color can be seen; yellow for the earth; green for water; blue for air; red for fire; and black for total darkness." -- Leonardo Da Vinci
 

Nautilus print by vintagebytheshore

Simplicity is beautiful.

Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, Elizabeth, The Ditchley Portrait, 1592

Elizabeth aka "The Virgin Queen" was one of the first to figure out the power of PR. She made sure that she was portrayed wearing white to keep up her image.

Happy New Year!

Hello there friends, all 2 of you! I am having trouble picking topics for my new blog. There are so many different ideas, that I want to write about all of them at once.  In the meantime, let me just say that one (yes, there is a list) of my New Year resolutions is to make more and start sharing art.  How about you? 

Here are a couple of photos that make me want to go back in time.  I love the silhouettes, the simplicity, and most of all the femininity.  There is something so distantly familiar and eminent about vintage fashion photos.   All of these came from the LIFE Google Archives.

By Martha Holmes.

The shape of this suit is amazing.  It would have cost you $20.00 in 1948.
(The beret/pearls combo makes me giggle).

By Gordon Parks.
Just a beautiful photograph that captures the elegance of the model and a fleeting moment in time.

Chanel Models by Ralph Morse

Classic Chanel.
The posture of the models makes me want to walk around with a stack of books on my head.