I’ve recently begun to get more into creating art.  Saturday night, a group of girls came over to pose for fashion photography in front of my camera.  I looked like a pro with my tripod set-up and didn’t use the flash (doing those two things makes you a pro, right?).  The girls and I had a lot of fun dressing up, posing, and shooting.  During the days since, I’ve found myself reading photography composition websites and editing the photos endlessly.  As I lay here on my couch thinking of my delving into online browsing in a way that I thought only my husband could, I can look right above my computer screen and see a large black and white photograph with beautiful composition.  In the bottom center of the shot is a girl, curled up, knees into body and arms hugging legs, head resting on the woman’s right knee.  Two unique square-painned windows line either side of the girl, and a pulled curtain flows behind her.

This is a picture of me taken by my friend Lindsay.  Lindsay, the girl in the lovely color/composition photo above, was the one who got me into thinking about fashion modeling and fashion photography.  A couple of years back, she asked me to come to her house for martinis and modeling for her eBay store. One night and I was hooked.  It was deliciously fun and made me feel pretty and feminine in a way I hadn’t felt before.  After a few more photo shoots for eBay with Lindsay, she asked if I would come over one morning for her to shoot artistic shots of me.

The morning I was getting dressed to go over for my “shoot,” I had a giddy excitement.  Someone, and not just anyone–a cool, fashion-wise girl, has asked to take my photos for art.  Me, the girl my mom still claims could have looked prettier sooner if I had merely heeded her advise and donned dresses and make-up all those years of middle school and high school she had been suggesting my outward feminization.  Yes, this long-time, self-made tomboy was being asked to model.

There was a bit of a pause when Lindsay asked me to put on a mint green slip dress, or was it just a slip, but I went with it and soon got into the mood of the shots.  From chair to bed to wall, her bedroom became background to some great black-and-whites.  Lindsay is a stellar photographer and has an incredible knack for getting texture on film.  She had several of the photosgraphs matted on foam board and even had an opening with them all in a coffeehouse in downtown Chattanooga.

So as I jump more into photography, and visual creations in general, I’ve got to stop and thank Lindsay.  Frankly, the party Saturday night would not have been dreamt of had it not have been for her.  Hope you are well!

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