More Pairs (1)

Posting a couple of photo pairs tonight and tomorrow, mostly due to the lack of a consensus opinion about which photo was best out of the four or five options we shot… The top photo is the most accurate copy of the professional image from Amanda’s archive that we appropriated. The model’s shoulders were slumped forward, as though she was… Continue reading More Pairs (1)

Your Attention, Please

By nature, I am not a needy person, and so I didn’t take it personally when Holden suggested the concept for this one. He only meant to illustrate one of those moments in the lives of committed couples when one person suggests — quite directly and sometimes topless-ly — that the time has come to put the… Continue reading Your Attention, Please

Leaf Me Alone

Something funny and playful for your Monday evening: During our shoot on April 23, Holden had me go into the kitchen and turn the lights on, while he made his way onto the back porch stair landing with the thought of creating a photo along the lines of this one. What he had forgotten, however, is that… Continue reading Leaf Me Alone

Drifting

Happy Sunday, y’all! We enjoyed a much-needed relaxing weekend, catching up on sleep and not much else. With plans on the horizon — house guests, celebrations, travel — this might have been the final lazy weekend for us for the next month-plus! This photo is a close approximation of how I prefer to fade into sleep.… Continue reading Drifting

Our American Gothic

The room in which this photo was taken is decorated exclusively by family portraits. Most are school pictures of our sons, ranging from gap-toothed grammar school boys to awkward adolescence to nearly grown-up senior portraits. There are baby pictures, wedding photos, strip-mall portrait studio mementos and fading images of the long-since deceased from previous generations. For this… Continue reading Our American Gothic