Admit it, you’re all looking at that X, almost dead center.  Well, so was I!  Saw this in someone’s bedroom and thought it’d be a fun little self portrait.  That’s my trusty little FM2 that I take everywhere with me, including to Charleston, South Carolina. I’m there right now, photographing Ryan and Alaina’s wedding.

Last year it snowed here in Austin on February 23.  How do I know this?  I was shooting a cookbook in balmy Los Angeles for all of January and most of February.  I was trying to sidestep winter.  But the morning after I got home, the joke was on me.

Actually it was sweet and lovely.

Sometimes we need to embrace that which we cannot control.

Have a happy, delicious, chocolate dipped, sugar-dusted Valentine’s Day

Last year around this time, I was in Los Angeles photographing a cookbook.  Here’s a look behind the scenes. If it seems like there’s a lot going on, there is!

It’s weird when someone says, “hey you look just like (fill in the name of a famous person).”

In my case, it’s been Jeanine Garafalo (yeah…I can see the resemblance) and Robbie Benson. The guy from Ice Castles.  I dunno, I’m not really seeing the resemblance there. Is it because we both have blue eyes?  Um, us and half the planet.

It’s even weirder when you find out that you look like a Mexican cartoon character.

And that they’ve made a puppet of that character.

And that my friends Yvette and Fred felt compelled to buy said puppet and place it in their guest room so that I would have a heart attack when I opened the door and saw “me” waving back at me.

Now all I need to do is black out one of my teeth…

Back in 2004 I was skating in Santa Monica and came across this graffiti. 

I don’t know if I just happen to look at the ground a lot (because I’m short?  because I’m nearsighted?), but I document sidewalk graffiti often.  Which means it occurs often.  Which means that there are people who must express themselves and this is their medium.  Pretty intriguing!

From San Francisco, last year:

From Chicago, the year before:

from Austin, circa 2000:

And my personal favorite, seen in Los Angeles:

I’m amping up the cute factor here.  Oh my, what a doll and everyone at the coffee house was fawning over her.  Now I want a pot belly pig for a pet.  Noah is concerned….

This time of year I like to shuffle through old photos and get ideas.  Just found this self-portrait session from 2001.  I’m wearing Noah’s suit.  Kind of tomboy, but kind of girly too.

That’s Noah and me, our 16th year together.  Today is our 9th wedding anniversary. 

Noah rolls his eyes and says “Nine LONG years”.

Photo by Alina Prax of La Dolce Vita Photography

Turkeys, prepare yourselves!