infuriating!

I have shots that I want to get, and I can see them in my mind's eye, and even guess at what to do to get them, but I just don't have the technical know-how, or the equipment... I guess that's what I get from hanging out with professionals. Aim high, Lizzy, aim high... the gear will follow!

Scouted out a photoshoot location this evening with Derec. Yeah, the shoot is tomorrow. We have backup locations. This site is grand and glorious, with COMPLETELY tricky lighting that I don't know how to work around. Hope for lucky shots!



kit lens, 2 second exposure, tripod, faked the water spill.

incandescently happy, eh?

ah, such a piece of period romantic drivel, is Ms. Knightly's Pride and Prejudice (while by contrast, Ms. Elhe's P&P is divine in every possible way). In this particular interpretation of Jane Austen's world, middle class women keep their hair in a perpetually unkempt state; it is always 4:45, or dawn - whenever the light is most golden; there is a footman for every guest at the table; one can apparently make a living keeping chickens; pianofortes sound like steinway baby grands. utter silliness!

... until Mr. Darcy strides across a misty morning field, long linen topcoat swinging, no cravat, hair disheveled, looking completely lovely. i'm smitten. it's an ideal, with magic hour sunlight and warm English mist. but that bit of romantic drivel gets me every time.

day o' birth

it's my mommy's birthday today. we started ignoring birthdays years ago :)