Another great collection of images to choose from in
this year's Fraction Magazine Holiday Print Sale.
The print I have for sale, is from a larger project that can be
viewed in it's entirety here: Ironing
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
New Baby, New Work on the Horizon
How do you raise a family and continue to nurture yourself and your passions? It's obvious that in order to be a good parent you must continue to take time for you but that's easier said than done.
Each time I've been pregnant and raising an infant, I have turned inward with no desire to pick up a camera or converse with that part of who I am. My focus is always so intently pointed at one thing and one thing only, this new life I've created. I don't make a conscious choice to let it go, it just happens. This time was no different. In fact this time, it was worse. Thankfully, my desire to focus on a new body of work is beginning to stir inside.
I can't pick up my previous work from where I left off though, because my life feels drastically different. The focus of my previous body of work was on a very tumultuous time in my life and thankfully, the pieces seem to be slowly fitting back into place. For now, the health scare we fought for two years, is now being managed with excellent care.
So how does one manage to continue to develop creatively when raising a young family? For me, I will need to shoot more often until a new body of work reveals itself. At that point, I can begin to research my ideas and shooting again with purpose. For now, I'm not putting any pressure to make that happen too quickly. Instead, I'm allowing myself to shoot with an instamatic camera of sorts. I've recently joined the plethora of folks using instagram. I'm shooting snapshots and loving the freedom of shooting without boundaries. It's stirring up my passion and it's, dare I say it, fun! For me, it's just a way to let loose. I don't plan on publishing any of those shots here, I'll save this venue for my "real" work. (That statement is a can of worms just waiting to be opened.)
If you are using instagram, I'd love to follow you. Find me with the user ID, mothervsartist.
Each time I've been pregnant and raising an infant, I have turned inward with no desire to pick up a camera or converse with that part of who I am. My focus is always so intently pointed at one thing and one thing only, this new life I've created. I don't make a conscious choice to let it go, it just happens. This time was no different. In fact this time, it was worse. Thankfully, my desire to focus on a new body of work is beginning to stir inside.
I can't pick up my previous work from where I left off though, because my life feels drastically different. The focus of my previous body of work was on a very tumultuous time in my life and thankfully, the pieces seem to be slowly fitting back into place. For now, the health scare we fought for two years, is now being managed with excellent care.
So how does one manage to continue to develop creatively when raising a young family? For me, I will need to shoot more often until a new body of work reveals itself. At that point, I can begin to research my ideas and shooting again with purpose. For now, I'm not putting any pressure to make that happen too quickly. Instead, I'm allowing myself to shoot with an instamatic camera of sorts. I've recently joined the plethora of folks using instagram. I'm shooting snapshots and loving the freedom of shooting without boundaries. It's stirring up my passion and it's, dare I say it, fun! For me, it's just a way to let loose. I don't plan on publishing any of those shots here, I'll save this venue for my "real" work. (That statement is a can of worms just waiting to be opened.)
If you are using instagram, I'd love to follow you. Find me with the user ID, mothervsartist.
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
While I was away...
While I have been on hiatus from blogging, I made this beautiful baby girl. She is the perfect addition to our family of three boys.
Please comment if you read this and let me know if you're still out there and interested in this blog picking back up and continuing.
Friday, November 25, 2011
Fraction Holiday Print Sale
Buy someone you love a gift this year and support an artist while doing it. I am selling the image below at the 2011 Fraction Holiday Gift Sale.
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
National Geographic 2011 Photo Contest
Voting ends November 30, 2011. I don't ever go to the NG site but this image was brought to my attention recently and I'd love to see it win. Click Here to Vote!
Pure and Utter Joy, Photo and caption by Jane McCrae
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Spring Green
I love the color of spring green. It doesn't last long unfortunately. Not much content, I know, but these little moments are still worth photographing even if they lack longevity... just like the spring green.
Friday, May 13, 2011
Center and Kickstarter
Blogger has been down for a few days but thankfully we're back in action.
Center and KICKSTARTER have teamed up to support those artists involved in Centers Review Santa Fe fund their projects. Getting to Santa Fe in order to put your work in front of some of the biggest names in the Industry is an expensive but important step in one's career.
The review is juried and I invite you to go to their web page and read more about the process. It's an honor to be chosen to attend the three day event. The wonderful people at Center invited me to post my project on kickstarter and I'm happy to say I just launched it moments ago.
PLEASE VISIT THIS LINK. :)
Center and KICKSTARTER have teamed up to support those artists involved in Centers Review Santa Fe fund their projects. Getting to Santa Fe in order to put your work in front of some of the biggest names in the Industry is an expensive but important step in one's career.
The review is juried and I invite you to go to their web page and read more about the process. It's an honor to be chosen to attend the three day event. The wonderful people at Center invited me to post my project on kickstarter and I'm happy to say I just launched it moments ago.
PLEASE VISIT THIS LINK. :)
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Welcome back, Me.
Where in the hell have I been?
I feel like I have been suffering from writer's block in all forms.
I can't finish a blog post, feeling like I have nothing to say.
I haven't picked up my camera in a few weeks.
I had a very bad interview for a job I really wanted. It was a bad interview on my part and on the part of the woman who interviewed me, asking awkward and inexperienced questions. ( One question in particular questioned why I haven't been working. This sent me in a tailspin of slight depression, grappling with how staying at home with one's children is unacceptable to mention in a first interview and yet is so undervalued...ugh, so much more to talk about on that front.)
Other things that have been happening:
We finally felt ready to adopt a new dog, so we did.
I've been dealing with trying to figure out how to pay for a trip to Review Santa Fe and buy ink for my printer to reprint my portfolio... payment due May 22.
Our basement has been flooded for the last week. I have dumped our large shop vac some gazillion times. (Yay 105 year old house.)
Because our basement is wet, wet, wet, our laundry is a mile high and we now have boxes drying all over our house.
There are so many other things that have taken my attention away from being productive but I will tell you about those when I can wrap my head around them.
Oh right, and on top of everything I still have three little boys that are wearing me out. They are wonderful, of course, but exhausting.
Stick around, there is more fun in your future. (Until then, five more days of rain in the forecast.)
I feel like I have been suffering from writer's block in all forms.
I can't finish a blog post, feeling like I have nothing to say.
I haven't picked up my camera in a few weeks.
I had a very bad interview for a job I really wanted. It was a bad interview on my part and on the part of the woman who interviewed me, asking awkward and inexperienced questions. ( One question in particular questioned why I haven't been working. This sent me in a tailspin of slight depression, grappling with how staying at home with one's children is unacceptable to mention in a first interview and yet is so undervalued...ugh, so much more to talk about on that front.)
Other things that have been happening:
We finally felt ready to adopt a new dog, so we did.
I've been dealing with trying to figure out how to pay for a trip to Review Santa Fe and buy ink for my printer to reprint my portfolio... payment due May 22.
Our basement has been flooded for the last week. I have dumped our large shop vac some gazillion times. (Yay 105 year old house.)
Because our basement is wet, wet, wet, our laundry is a mile high and we now have boxes drying all over our house.
There are so many other things that have taken my attention away from being productive but I will tell you about those when I can wrap my head around them.
Oh right, and on top of everything I still have three little boys that are wearing me out. They are wonderful, of course, but exhausting.
Stick around, there is more fun in your future. (Until then, five more days of rain in the forecast.)
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