Posted by on March 12, 2009
I’m off to Mexico for a brief vacation. My trips to Mexico aren’t margarita-swirling dance fests. No, they’re visits to my grandparents’ house and it’s been that way for as long as anyone can remember. This year is extra special because every child, grandchild and great-grandchild will be there to celebrate my grandfather’s 100th year on this earth. The photo above was taken the year World War II ended, a.k.a. the year of my father’s birth and my grandfather was in his late thirties then. He may have thought he’d already lived quite the life, but there were actually many more ‘lives’ in him than he ever dreamed.
I’m packing up my gear right now, as I plan to take a formal portrait to commemorate the occasion. I want to capture him as he is now–so wise, so tired, so amazing.
Posted by on December 31, 2007
It’s Monday, December 31st and I’m getting ready for my shoot tonight. I’m taking deep breaths and will try to meditate in a bit. I’m pretty relaxed (even though I was sick yesterday) especially because I was able to take a brief vacation last week. I made it over to Houston to spend the holiday with my family and while I was there made the most out my time by stopping in to say hello to Lucy! We visited the Houston Museum of Natural Science on Thursday and it was thrilling to say the least. I think mostly because my nieces and nephew were so excited. We’d told them about it before going in so the whole time they were say “When are we going to see Lucy? I want to see Lucy!” So when we finally got into the room they were ecstatic and amazingly interested in what all the museum people were saying. Lucy was under a class case that we could walk right up to. Also, there was a statue of her as she would have looked like before death. She stood just over 3 feet tall and my 6yr old niece liked that she was the same size.
Now I’m charging everything up and getting ready for tonight. Two of my classmates are going to help me out tonight. I loved their work during class, so I’m ecstatic that it’s the two of them helping out tonight. I think it will go well 