Not only have I created a desktop calendar but also a wall calendar with some of my floral images. Great holiday gift for parents, coworkers and friends.
The calendar is printed on high quality, high density paper that’s easy to write on and comes bound and ready to hang on the wall (size approx. 12 x 16.5″)
Click here to view the calendar month by month and here to purchase.
I huge thank you to the Ace Hotel & Swim Club in Palm Springs for featuring one of my images on their blog today. I especially like that they wrote this entry because it pays tribute to Kodachrome film. The entry is below:
“We bow our heads in reverence to Kodachrome film’s 74 years as a photography icon. Only one remaining lab in the world still processes Kodachrome, and they will run their last prints this December. April Rocha, a devotee of Kodachrome and other endangered and nearly-extinct forms of photography, sent this shot to us and delivered the sad news. Maybe you remember photographer Steve McCurry, whose portrait of Sharbat Gula, or the “Afghan Girl” graced the cover of a 1984 National Geographic. Steve requested that Kodak allow him to shoot the last roll of 36 frames it would manufacture, and vowed to document the entire life of the roll. “It’s definitely the end of an era,” he said. “It has such a wonderful color palette … a poetic look, not particularly garish or cartoonish, but wonderful, true colors.”
If you have any Kodachrome shots you'd like to share with us, send them our way and we we'll post them on the blog. If you haven't processed them yet, better send them to Dwayne&'ss posthaste.Kodachrome, we're not worthy. Here's to a more patient, flawed, passionate and saturated age.Click here to view the blog entry on Ace Hotel's site.
Album companies have many different types of cover choices for albums including leather and japanese bookcloth.
My client wanted a gold cover for her wedding album so I found a bookcloth for her through a bookbinding company and Leather Craftsmen was willing to use the bookcloth the client preferred.
I just love how the album turned out.
I am pleased to a part of Wil Jax’ second annual theme show. This year’s theme is COLOR and I was honored that the gallery chose two of my images to be in the show.
The opening reception is Thursday, August 19 at The Warehouse in Cleveland, Mississippi.
As many of you know Frances Reid from DAYS OF OUR LIVES was my great aunt.
We finally buried her ashes last weekend near Berkeley, California, where she grew up.
I was extremely close to her and in many ways I do not think it has quite hit me that she’s gone. I still imagine myself going to visit her and her face lighting up when she would see me.
I refer myself to friends as Julie from THE LOVE BOAT. My family’s version of a cruise director.
In 2002, I organized a family photo shoot with my sisters, mother and my Aunt D’Ann at Francie’s house. I am so happy I put the photo shoot together as the four rolls of film and Polaroid’s from that day are just amazing. I found them the other day and was surprised at how many gem images there were that I never printed.
I printed this one of Francie and I. It was shot with a Contax 645 camera. Reminds me why I love medium format film so much.
Special thank you to Russell Adams from Shulman Photo Lab for printing this for me.
My dear friend and former theatre professor Ron Marasco was the officiant for our small family service. I wrote this and had Ron read it for me at the service.
There were many times when I was young I was asked how Francie was related to me. The question always puzzled me because I thought every family had a great aunt. That indescribable presence in a family. — so unique and so special. Francie was always there for us but not in typical way. My parents didn’t look to her to take care of us while my parents had somewhere to go. That was never the role she played in our life. Francie was our hostess, our listener, our mentor and our jester.
Francie taught all of us how to listen and how to listen with intent. She never cared to talk about herself, which is rare in an actor, and always wanted to hear about other people’s backgrounds, adventures and experiences. Right before she passed away I realized that she was ours and we were hers and it made me feel so fortunate.
There are so many things I will miss about her. I will miss her calling my mother Laurie Gail. I will miss receiving my Christmas gift in a Vicente Foods grocery bag. I will miss her asking the adults “Martini or a Bloody Mary?” I will miss sitting next to her while having dinner in her home. I will miss her smoking her cigarettes. I will miss going to the theatre and having grand discussions about what we saw on the drive home. I will miss sitting at her kitchen table talking for hours and hours about just about everything.
I feel so incredibly grateful to have had her in my life and we are lucky enough that the world also knew her as well. They didn’t know the real Frances but that’s okay because we did.
I asked Francie once where she wanted her final resting place to be. She said she wanted to be with “Mother and Daddy” and so it has become her final resting place. She wanted there to be a “talk” and I think she would approve. My dear Aunt Francie you will always be in my heart and my mind and I will always miss you.
In 2002 I got out my grandfather’s old Polaroid 450 camera and some Polaroid 665 Positive/Negative film and did a portrait shoot at my great aunt’s garage.
I try not to think too much about how this film isn’t available anymore because it upsets me so.
I do admit to have some of this film stocked up in a cupboard. The question I keep pondering is what to shoot with it since I have a finite amount of it.
In the meantime enjoy this photo of me taken in 2002.
I have always loved Jessica and Paulo’s wedding at the Hotel Metropole on Catalina Island. Catalina is such a majestic place to get married.
And because of my “special connections” on the island we also got to shoot at the iconic Catalina Casino.
The ever talented Kerry Murphy of Ever After Book designed their wedding album and I just love it.
You can view the whole wedding album by clicking here.
I am honored to be in the show “Plastic Fantastic” at the LightBox Photographic Gallery in Astoria, Oregon.
The show opens June 12 and closes July 7.
My “Childhood Memories” image was selected. In viewing all 50 images in the show I was so impressed with my fellow artists’ work.
You can see all the images in the show by clicking here.