playing around...

i've recently been working on a self-assigned "project." i shot some 300 photos of marshmallow peeps and other easter candy to create easter and spring cards for my new etsy shop. setting up the shop actually took much longer than i had anticipated, but i am happy to say i now have 6 easter/spring cards for sale and will hopefully have some other cards to offer in the very near future.

i had a lot of fun shooting this "project", and eating the candy afterwards! (in the end, i'd always rather be shooting). i shot many with a blank or solid colored background, so i thought it would be fun to play around with them in photoshop. this is a very crude mash-up of one of the peeps photos with another of my photos of the painted ladies, which i've phlogged about in the past. just a silly thing to make me smile. please check out my cards on etsy and check back for more peeps photos later this spring. 

auspicious autumn...

autumn signals a lot of things. back to school. football season. halloween. harvest time. fall stirs in me a feeling that pretty much anything is possible. i suppose it is left over from all those first days of school, when what the new year would bring was still left to the imagination. and in most places, fall also means better weather. although we don't ever have really bad weather here in the bay area (at least not if you've ever lived on the east coast), fall is the time that the fog lifts and we get some of the most amazingly clear blue sky days possible. i live a block away from one of the most photographed places in san francisco, but instead of avoiding it, i walk up the hill from time to time looking for something new to shoot, some new way to see it. here's today's shot, in celebration of the first day of fall.