#stayhome
/Dreaming of the day we can capture these types of moments again. Wishing you all a peaceful and healthy weekend.
For the Love of the Game
/…and siblings.
SidePorch Squiggles
/Looking for a creative project for your kids? How about creating art from race maps?
A mundane Monday, or is it?
/As photographers, it’s our job to capture moments in time, but realize we can’t be there to take photos of our client’s everyday life.
I find the most powerful times to photograph are in the ordinary. It’s just that most don’t realize the importance of these until the years have gone by. The backgrounds and images you see every day are so robust and right there in front of you. Getting ready for school, your spouse drinking their morning coffee in their favorite chair, or your three year old on a step stool brushing their teeth before bed. Those images that you see everyday, but are gone in a blink.
It’s never been so easy for you to capture these moments than now. My suggestion – pick up your phone and take a photo of your everyday life. No pomp and circumstance. Don’t fix a thing. Let your child in their sweaty sports gear at the kitchen table doing their homework with messy hair. Get in their world, and put your camera lens at their eye level and snap the shot. I promise, it’ll be an image that stops you in your tracks 10 years from now.
If in writing this someone photographs an image of their mundane Monday, I believe I did my little part as a photographer today.
Family of Three
/There is such a special sweetness in being able to photograph a new family of three.
Christina's World
/As I walked up the side of a mountain in Antigua, I captured a photo of this bicycle in the grass, looked down at the image in my view finder and said, "Christina's World, ~Andrew Wyeth."
Again, so thankful to my high school art teacher for the lessons in art history.
Happy Birthday Miss Gerhard
/Messing around with a new font and quickly felt the need to give it a Piet Mondrian flare. I thought, wouldn't it be funny if his birthday was today. Turns out, he died 76 years ago tomorrow. Close enough, I suppose.
This in turn, made me think of my Art History lessons. While my high school didn't offer Art History, I was in a small advanced oil painting class with about five others. Coincidentally, each of us in that class were all serious about furthering our college studies in the arts, so while we painted, our art teacher, Jane Gerhard, took it upon herself to feed us information about art history. This was not in the syllabus, but we were sponges to it. I remember it clearly.
The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel. ~P. Mondrian
Huh. Getting ready to post this, and just remembered, while it's not Mondrian's birthday, guess who's birthday it is today? Happy Birthday Miss Gerhard! (So strange.)
Celebrating 15 Years
/This morning, I find myself sitting behind my desk grateful for 15 years in business. I am filled with thankfulness and gratitude to those who have entrusted in Silverbox over the years, and cannot thank you enough. Here’s to 15 more!
