Stephen Shore

I stumbled across a book of his yesterday at the Orem Public Library and immediately was stricken by his work. The book was Uncommon Places republished in 2002. I have to say I love his look at American life. His pictures cause us to stop and think about why someone would take a picture of a parking lot yet his work has no center focus, no subject to look at, every eye can wander as it pleases in the work. I like it. Its real and banal but somehow its beautiful. (Plus all these pictures are from the 1970's and I have always had a fascination with american culture from 1950-1970.)

Skeleton O Mystery

What is it? It wasn't longer than my whole arm. Cat? Any guesses?

Abandoned

I drive by this abandoned truck on my way to Walmart and thought it would make an interesting photgraphic study. Yesterday I ventured out into the boiling heat and high contrast lighting, learned how to control my shutter speed and aperture and captured the beauty and nitty gritty detail of something left to mother nature and the elements. (I also found a cool skeleton completely free of flesh but perfectly intact, I cannot figure out what it is and decided it was too yucky to put on here)

Our Favorite Little Artist!

We got a fantastic surprise in the mail on Saturday. Thank you Rachel!

The Things I love

Once or twice a year I like to do an inventory on my favorite things, the things I really enjoy and love. I don't know why I started doing this, its not so much a list of the things I am grateful for but more just a list of things I like. It helps me try to prioritize my free time.

Here is this years list in no particular order: (Oh and I never mention the givens, you know, family, church, etc. I feel a person goes beyond the givens)

-my sweet adorable husband-I know this is a given but its new
-a really good double cheeseburger
-the shiny pages of a fashion magazine especially Instyle
-baking in pretty shaped pans
-sexy high heels, in particular BCBGirls and Christian Louboutin
-reading
-laying in bed
-that moment right after the previews and right before your movie starts when you are so excited for the upcoming movies you've forgotten what you are there to see and then you remember and you're excited again, its also the moment the lights go completely off
-black and white photography
-Dior mascara
-The Shins new album, Wincing the Night Away
-the Elliptical
-the Food Network

New York Part 3

The City. I love the City but by the end we were tired of all the people and the expensive prices. Here are some of my favorite pictures we took on the trip.

Trinity Church, Wall St and the New York Stock Exchange, Bank Street in the Village by the Magnolia Bakery

Washington Square benches and arch, see the empire state building 20 blocks away in the back ground

Times Square and the theater district

The Statue of Liberty as seen from the Circle Line cruise around the island we took

Brooklyn Bridge shots from the cruise


City Views from the Cruise

Views from the 86th floor of the Empire State Building

Les Miserable, the Manhattan Temple and the Empire State Building

Little Italy and Central Park

New York Part 2

Steve and I went to so many museums. Some we're better than others but all we're memorable. Here is some of the great art and things we got to see.

Unfortunately the Guggenheim prohibited photography above the ground level but here we are inside the rotunda.

At the Met we saw lots of cool modern art, here is Steve with a Warhol and a Georgia O'Keefe, also my favorite sculpture, Brandisi's, Bird in Flight. The Met has lots of cool impressionists pieces and a great photography area but those were under construction so we couldn't see them.

The Museum of Modern Art was definately our favorite. Her are 2 Picasso's and a Chagall.

There was actually a huge swarm around the Starry Night and it had its own security guard, Go Van Gogh! More Warhol and the tree is Klimt.

More of the Modern Museum of Art, me looking at a Pollock, some graphic print I loved but didn't remember to look at the artists name and this huge wall art, also forgot the name.

Steve and I definately loved this museum the best!

Steve in the American Museum Natural History.