So not a whole lot of people I know seem to agree with me yet, but I LOVED "How to Train Your Dragon" it was AWESOME. The whole time I kept thinking of my kitty, Simon, who has so many of the same facial expressions as the Night Fury. It was great.
Animals are so interesting to me (especially kitties - I'm obsessed), how expressive they are and how they can have such different personalities. How to Train Your Dragon is definitely my pick for animated films so far... way better than Toy Story 3.
Alice in Wonderland is a great story, for kids and for adults. When Tim Burton got his hands on it, it became a phenomenal piece of art. I shot this photo last summer doing a portrait sitting at the Detroit Zoo for a little girl. When she showed up in her blue and white polka dot dress with her long blond curls the first thing I thought was Alice. This image for me captured the idea of Alice entering Wonderland - a place that may seem unattainable to some (hence the chains) but that can also be easily entered by those who choose (as she easily pushes the chains aside). The lushness of the plants through the chains also invoked that sense of richness and colour that Wonderland is so often captured by filmmakers.
What images invoke wonder for you?
I am a movie nut. I love watching movies at home, in the theatre... I just love movies! The past few years I have tried to view as many Oscar nominees as possible between the time they are nominated and the time the winners are announced. This year I am working on my annual quest, but as I was watching Toy Story 3, I was inspired to shoot some photos in tribute to it. I had so much fun with it, I've decided to try and shoot a tribute shot to each of the nominees I watch, so be on the lookout for my photo-interpretations of each film! What has inspired some of your own works?
I am currently working on edits for a client album while *supposedly* watching a movie with my wonderful husband. He came home from his gig tonight (he's a musician) and we decided that a good way to spend some time together while I worked was to choose a movie we could both enjoy. We have started and stopped about 6 since we sat down with this mission. It's been about 45 minutes.
The constant changing is due to my husbands seemingly uncontrollable boredom. We get about 5-6 minutes past the opening credits and he stops the movie and picks another (thank God for streaming Netflix for Wii!) Speaking as someone who can only remember having bailed on a movie *maybe* three times in her life (I'm a movie nut and even if it's bad, I watch it all the way through, just in case it gets better, or so I can at least speak intelligently about how bad it is) it's driving me a little nutsoid, and not in a good way. If I weren't splitting my attention between the movie and my editing, I may actually be much more than mildly annoyed.
I decided to try and turn it into a positive, and drew inspiration to break from the editing long enough to share this image with you. I often use the phrase "ooh, shiny!" to describe a specific personality trait, and my incredibly wonderful husband, whom I adore, it currently exhibiting that behaviour (though he *may* have now settled on G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra... *maybe*) and so I am sharing a shiny photo with you.
This photo was taken in Brussels, Belgium (one of my all time favourite cities in the world!!) It is a structure called the Atomium, which Austin and I visited on our Eurotrip back in 2008. The trip to see it was a whole story in and of itself, but I wanted to share the photo as an expression of an "ooh shiny" moment. What images come to mind for y'all when you think of "OOH SHINY!!" or what imaged portray distraction to you?
