inspiration

i've been a b-a-a-a-a-d blogger. Events (or, rather, NON-events) have been pressing me down...my "maybe" good news of a few weeks ago has not come to fruition, and I'm trying to keep my chin up, but...sometimes it's just hard.

i've also had a little unfortunate run of no-show models recently, which is frustrating and tres bad for business :-( so while i haven't been taking many pictures of my own lately, I am constantly looking at other people's work. there are a number of photographers whose work I look to for inspiration - past and present, famous and unknown.

Jeanloup Sieff was a very well-known and highly-acclaimed fashion and art photographer during the second half of the (oh dear, I always get confused on which century it is/was, ha)...the second half of the LAST century :-) Sieff first fell in love with photography when he received a plastic camera as a gift for his fourteenth birthday, and he tried using photography as a way to meet girls (!), but instead he started on a lifelong path as a talented artist.

He shot for all the biggies - Esquire, Glamour, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar.

I find his work so crisp - there's something about "old fashioned" black and whites that I rarely see duplicated today - *I* certainly can't do it! And his subjects are sort of alluring and haunting at the same time...while being very simple and to the point.

Here are some of my favorites...

til next time....

xoxo

this week's vintage goodies....

these are all newly-listed (mostly!) vintage delights in my ebay shop right now

come take a peek in the shop...

Dragonfly Vintage Clothing

my life begins today

Quiet and pensive, my thoughts apprehensive, the hours drift away. Leaving my homeland, playing a lone hand, my life begins today. ~ Rush, Fly By Night

I *may* have some wonderful news...but I don't want to jinx it by giving it away too soon. So I had a quiet day...did a little work, did a little relaxing, did a lot of thinking.

My only trip outdoors was to cut a little bouquet of the last of the privet blossoms. The bees so love these fragrant little buds, the shrub looks like it's vibrating....

Hope everyone else had as pleasant a day as I...

xoxo

it's late

had a great shoot tonight...we had a little daylight time to run out back and do some pictures in this one amazing dress..the union label indicates its 70s...it's a pale pink sheer dotted illusion lace over a halter style lining, with an incredible ruffly cascade down the back. doesn't have a manufacturer's label, but a sample label. seems almost a little betsey johnson-ish to me, with the ruffly bubble tiered skirt, but I don't know. anyway...took almost 500 pictures, the laptop is still downloading them...but I pulled a couple out to play with...I'll have more to share in a couple days...

doesn't she look kinda like alice in wonderland??

Lately it seems I'm happiest when I'm taking pictures....

It's late.

xoxo

change of plans

so, today's model rescheduled and the shoot didn't happen. so i did a little extra thrifting this afternoon.

leaving the first thrift store, got in my car, was just putting on the seat belt, turning on the radio, and a guy comes out from the store, walking quickly towards my car. comes to the driver's side window. tells me i left my child's sneakers on the counter. "thank you, but they're not my sneakers." they're not, he asks? then he goes on to tell me who i am, and that he knows me - aren't you linda, married to max the mechanic in wantagh and you used to go to my gym, don't you remember me?? Uhm, no, no, no, and no. He's pretty insistent that I *do* know him and that he definitely recognizes me. asks where I work, where i live, where i hang out...he's pleasant enough, doesn't speak the english all that well, but he doesn't seem scary, so i'm content enough to chat for a few minutes...but then, "so give me your phone number and we'll be friends." yeah, i don't think so. "you're SURE they're not your sneakers??" yeah, no, gotta go, see ya later, bye.

who knows, maybe that was my prince charming, and i just blew him off. a diamond in the rough that i was too blind to see. we certainly apparently have a history and a lot in common.

oh well. here's what my backyard looks like this week...

xoxo

lazy afternoon

it was a little rainy this afternoon and i got so sleepy on the drive home, that i decided to get in bed at like 6:00 and watch a movie. felt so luxurious to be in bed in the daylight, yum. now i'm up to get outfits ready for tomorrow's photo shoot - it's just me and the iron tonight, baby...

here are some pictures that suit my mood this afternoon...

all photos are links back to their original source...

xoxo

i don't like to brag, but....

...there are some seriously cute things in the Dragonfly shop this week...

click on the dragonfly to go to the store...