My Boston Terrier (Pancake) loves the camera, and my friends love him, and we all love taking trips together. And I love Polaroid film, and my Fuji Fotorama camera, and perfect natural lighting. Going on vacation is always a great excuse for me to work on a creative side-project. Here’s a series I did last [...]
I truly believe that Thanksgiving is a time to pick your head up and be grateful. Maybe it has less to do with the historical event than simply a personal check-in, but either way I have a lot to feel grateful for this year. I have a great community of friends, photog associates, fellow artists, [...]
I love getting to know other local artisans, whether they’re photographers, designers, crafters, print makers, etc. Having a community of creative businesses around me always keeps me inspired, supported, and entertained. Pancake recently posed for our friends over at Design Lab Creative Studio – a sister company to Photo Lab Pet Photography. I recenty met [...]
“Attention please. Attention. This is Pancake. It’s ‘Take Your Dog To Work Day’. It’s a very important day. I go to work every day but today I kicked my dad out of his desk and made him follow me around all day while I did important studio things. Like edit photos and make frames and [...]
This past week I packed up only the essentials (5 cameras, 8 kinds of film, a box of various camera accesories and attachments, 3 camera bags, 1 tripod, 1 light meter, Pancake’s life jacket, dog food, and a change of clothes) and headed North for some much-needed R+R. Doubling as a 30th Birthday Celebration, this [...]
I can’t believe a year has already gone by. Can you? Exactly one year ago today I was in the studio with a group of my close friends, sewing and taping and glueing and getting drooled on by some of my favorite dogs in the city. Pulling Polaroids and flashing strobes and laughing and pushing [...]
To celebrate a very exciting, exhausting, and succesful first 1/6th of 2011, I decided to take Monday off, throw the dog in the car, throw a million cameras in the daypack, 3 types of film, snacks for me, snacks for dog, water for me, water for dog, doggie bowl, 27 layers for me, 1 layer [...]
My very very secret stash of original Polaroid T-669 film is quickly dissapearing. My cameras keep eating it. In order to make it last longer, I’ve hidden expired packs of this revered film in easily-forgotten places: the back of my vegetable drawer, under files in my file cabinet, inside boxes in my trunk, sealed in [...]
It’s the day before the day before the onslaught. All is quiet. The groceries have been purchased. The house cleaned. The dog fed. But in 48 hrs family will be descending and there will be a lot of hustle and bustle in all directions. So, to celebrate this quick calm before the storm, I thought [...]
Every once in a while I meet an artist whose work I truly love and respect. Then I make them my friend. And convince them to do a barter. Lili Chin (of Doggie Drawings: www.doggiedrawings.net) is an artist like me- her work is original and fun and personal, and all about dogs. It celebrates the [...]