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Friday, December 24, 2010

these are a few of my favorite things

2010 was an awesome year. We traveled so much, to places I had only dreamed about & to places I once called home. Below are some of my favorite images of the year. We are off to Barbados tomorrow, to spend Christmas with my family.

Thank you, dear blog readers, for making 2010 one of the best year's yet. Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy New Year & Happy Festivus!

See you on the flip side!

Boats in St. Lawrence Gap
Barbados
February 2010

Photo (c) Christina Saull - All Rights Reserved

Paris
Las Vegas, Nevada
April 2010

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Indians hit
Cleveland, Ohio
July 2010

Photo (c) Christina Saull - All Rights Reserved

A beautiful summer afternoon
Hudson, Ohio
July 2010

Brooklyn Bridge
over the Hudson River, between Manhattan & Brooklyn
July 2010

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Stacked kayaks
Kennebunkport, Maine
August 2010

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Rocky Coast
Kennebunk, Maine
August 2010

Photo (c) Christina Saull - All Rights Reserved

Portland Head Lighthouse
Portland, Maine
August 2010

Photo (c) Christina Saull - All Rights Reserved

Ocean Kayaking
Bar Harbor, Maine
August 2010

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Peggy's Cove Afternoon
Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada
August 2010

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

New York Holga Love

In mid-July, I took a long weekend up to the greatest city in the world with the hopes of getting the creative juices flowing again. To help enhance the creative energies, I took two cameras: my D200, with only a 50mm lens, & an old fashioned, good ol plastic Holga.

This Holga is life changing, let me tell you! The lack of control over your image, the "what you see is what you get" when shooting with film, the light leaks & the imperfections of each image make each image, to me, all that much more perfect. These were all shot on Kodak Black & White 120mm film & are straight out of the glorius camera.

I'm in love.

Monday, May 17, 2010

Henri Cartier-Bresson

I'll start this post by saying this: if you're a photographer and you live on the east coast (or have the opportunity to get to New York City), you absolutely must get thee self to MoMA to see the Henri Cartier-Bresson exhibit before it closes at the end of June.

Holy. Moly.

To say it blew my mind was an understatement.

300 of Cartier-Bresson's photographs in simple white frames with white matting on gray walls in room after room.

I spent 2.5 hours wandering around the exhibit on Saturday and it was worth every penny I spent getting up there and back (and every penny I spent at the gift shop afterward!). Also, if you go, pick up the free audio guide at the entrance to the exhibit. It offers some really interesting commentary on his photos and world travels.

I went with the goal of being inspired to improve my street photography and portraiture - I came away with more inspiration than I thought possible.

I fell in love with several of Cartier-Bresson's photographs during my visit, including one that I cannot find anywhere online (must mean that I have unique taste). I'll have to take a photo of it out of the coffee-table book I purchased that has a copy of all 300 photos at the exhibit.

Some of the others I found most inspiring:

Cartier-Bresson didn't shoot many landscapes and never shot a landscape without a touch of something "man-made" in it. I love the simplicity of this shot. I bought a 16x20 version to hang in our office, where I do a lot of my photography work.

Simple. Perfect lines. Perfect blurred motion. Perfectly contrast-y.

Taken when cameras first became portable enough to do street photography and fast enough to capture stop-action. Look at the poster in the background, with the dancer in almost the same pose. Genius.

Monday, March 24, 2008

Happy Spring!!!

Spring has finally arrived in Washington (I hope!!!) Thought I'd share some fun tulip macros with everyone to celebrate its arrival. I'll be in Tulsa Tuesday through Friday, so hopefully I'll have some fun Tulsa pictures to share upon my return.

Thursday, January 17, 2008

It's Snowing in Washington!!!

I just had to run outside this morning and take some pictures :) My coworkers thought I was nuts

Friday, January 4, 2008

A little warmth in the cold weather

I have recently expanded on my love of taking macro photos of flowers. I should seriously quit my job and be a flower photographer for National Geographic. Since it is ridiculously chilly out, I thought I'd share some pictures from a recent trip to the Botanical Garden here in DC to help warm you up. The first two are pictures of the beautiful red and white tulips my Dad sent Brad and I for Christmas :)

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Christmas Mornin', Part 1

Red and white tulips from Dad to help make the season bright

Brad and his stocking

Christina and her stocking

new earrings from Brad... good stocking stuffer!

Brad opening all his cheese related gifts from Dad

Christina's pretty sweater from Dad

Thursday, December 20, 2007

Macro

Have I mentioned how much I love my new camera that my awesome hubby got me for the wedding? While Brad was at his men's group at church last night, I got nerdy and took some macro pictures. I think they turned out pretty good :)