winning weekend!!!!!

Dave and I holding hands, yes, but really we are holding the BEST IN SHOW award!

saltStudio won the Montana Addy Award on Saturday night for the OPI poster project that I was involved with. Anyone that has been following me knows what a great time I had on that project. It was a honor to photograph the inspiring individuals below, work with Dave, travel with Eileen, and see ALL of Montana. I'm so proud of those photographs and proud I could help bring in the gold for saltStudio.

more winning moments...................................................................................

Cig Harvey likes me!!!    Cig Harvey likes me!!!     Cig Harvey likes me!!!    Cig Harvey likes me!!!
Not as much as my friend Susanna Gaunt, but she likes me!

I entered the Uncommon Portrait contest that Cig Harvey judged. There were two groups of winners. I made it in the second group. Second place maybe the first loser, (what does that make a group of second placers?) anyway,  I'm pretty happy that my image got a head nod from Ms Harvey and made it past the waste basket. Congrats to my silver friend Eileen Rafferty, good to have you in the circle. PDN is next girls!

Self-Portrait

I'm presenting a self-portrait vignette for this video. I love the morning light that never lasts long enough. And the man-made lights with their variety.
** Music by Doctor Rosen Rosen
** Images and editing by Athena

Individually Grouped

I like to live a full life. A life of friends, jobs, careers, projects, home tasks, hobbies, play, adventures, and a bit of trying something new. I'm truly experiencing the journey AND the destination. My favorite quote to live by is "Water find new path" - Memoirs of a Geisha. Much of my life is happenstance mixed with determination. I head in one direction, and then due to obstacles or opportunities my path finds a new direction. I chose the day before the opening of my show as the focus of my video. It is a very fitting day to give you an essence of who I am and how I can fill my time.

** Music by Doctor Rosen Rosen

** Copy by Brett Peters

** Images and editing by Athena

playing with my sister

This is Christina, she is my younger sister. She is a Sagittarius like me, who likes to blend in sometimes and get noticed other times. I was in high school when she was four. I had my Pentax camera and she had a black eye, chicken-pox, and a old lady wig....we had a great time.

it's my birthday!

a Dog and His Girl

I've been very busy with my show ....a Dog and His Girl.....check on the link to see what I've been doing.

to Portland and back

to Portland and back from Athena Lonsdale on Vimeo.

I went on a photo retreat, I guess you could call it, with my friend Eileen. We went to Portland and to the Oregon coast for a week stay. This video is my spin on the Portland section of our trip. Traveling with Eileen is always enjoyable. She is a good match for me. The trip was filled with creativity and I want to thank Eileen for being somewhat of a muse for me. I look forward to the next trip.

Looking up and looking down

Portland reminds me, again, interesting things can be found just by looking up or looking down.

I worked in Government Camp, Oregon at High Cascade Snowboard Camp. On rain days when we couldn't or wouldn't snowboard, we would take the campers into Portland for the day. One day, someone on the street pointed high at an apartment window and told us we needed to go in there. We entered the building, climbed stairs, followed whitish walls, and where glad we didn't have too much in our wallets. The older woman's door was ajar, she welcomed us in and lets us roam. Two bedrooms, a living room, a kitchen, a bathroom all over-filled with Elvis Presley. Elvis dolls, belts, beads, bathmats, tissue holders, tapestries, tongue depressors, lamps, luggage, Elvis lollipops, Elvis lives behind her unmarked door in downtown Portland.

Communication

Communication

the imparting or interchange of thoughts, opinions, or information by speech, writing, or signs.

• to or too = 2
• for = 4
• you = u
• your/you're = ur
• are = r
• be = b
• be right back = brb
• talk to you later = ttyl
• nothing much = nm
• just chillin = jc
• never mind = nvm
• right = ryt/ rite/ ri
• probably = prbly/ prob
• ta ta for now = ttfn
• back to homework = bthw
• what = wat/ wut/ ?
• just wondering= jw
• just kidding = jk
• what the fuck = wtf
• oh my god = OMG
• laughing out loud = lol
• great = gr8
• love = lv
  

I grew up on a commune in the Southwest. My phone line was shared by three other homes, none of them being my best friend's. Shana lived a mile up the mountain from me. She lived with her parents and brothers in a one room adobe home without electricity, running water, personal space, or a phone. If I wanted to see what she was up to I would hike a mile and see.
And to this day, there is no cell phone service.

MAC Group Shoot (part two)

My first year of high school was spent in a big California public high school, the kind of schools they make movies about.

I remember one night, my new friend and I quietly made it back into her house as the clock turned midnight thirty. We changed out of our Friday night party gear and sat on the couch amongst the covers recapping the evening we had together. Our stories were cut short by a ping on the window in the other room, her bedroom. A boy from the party was there. She tried to tell him to go away, that we were doing our own thing, that she didn't want him to wake her parents. He kept at it, he wanted in. She gave up, rolled her eyes at the inconvenient situation, and he walked around to the front door. On her way to the door, she asked me with a bit of hope and of genuine hospitality if I "wanted him". My answer was quick "no thanks". She quietly opened the door and guided him back to her room.