juneray

cynthia

2008-12-14T09:41:00.002-06:00

cynthia, originally uploaded by angela.m..

cynthia has been a friend since college and she was the maid of honor in my wedding. i was recently visiting her in bloomington-normal, il and we thought we'd play around and take some shots. this is one of my faves. she's holding a silver reflector and flash is bounced off the ceiling. i underexposed slightly to blow out the highlights to make it look more contrasty with her dark hair. thanks for being my model cyn!

pink sky

2008-12-05T16:59:00.001-06:00

altus, okla rodeo, originally uploaded by angela.m..

another one of my fave rodeo pics

Lady

2008-11-25T18:52:00.001-06:00

2008Nov23_1678, originally uploaded by angela.m..

I'm alive!! And, my parents got a dog.

art & business

2008-10-17T01:01:00.010-05:00

okla, originally uploaded by angela.m..

i've been super busy. teaching is taking a ton of time since i am teaching 4 courses between depaul and saic--whoo.. it's a lot. also working on my art-some new video pieces while processing and thinking about my photos from okla. in my (not so) free time, i've been taking pics of people for cheap to build a portrait business.

i'm working on a new blog so i can post much larger images which i'm really excited about. the photos look so different large than they do tiny on the blogspot space. by the summer, i hope to have the business website built. i'm trying to figure out if i should share my art stuff on the new photo blog. i am thinking about expanding the blog on my art site instead along with the much needed updates. i just don't know about maintaining the two spaces.. still thinking about how to do that. thoughts? preferences?

here is a shot taken at an okla rodeo. its one of my faves. til my next post..

sheet

2008-09-26T12:15:00.005-05:00

study1, originally uploaded by angela.m..

i've had white bed for years. only white sheets and a white comforter. it just feels cleaner and more peaceful to me. recently we painted our walls grey in the bedroom since it was way too much white. its perfect now. i wish i could lay in bed all day :)

snl skit

2008-09-19T18:32:00.004-05:00

in case you missed the palin and clinton skit by tina fey and amy poehler.. sooo good!

dawn roe

2008-09-15T15:53:00.020-05:00

and more isu goodness..
dawn roe is an artist i lived with in bloomington when we were in grad school. i was just browsing her website to see what she's been up to. this photo is titled Interior Landscape (Wet Patio). isn't it stunning?! you can see more of her work at dawnroephotography.com.

printing

2008-09-08T21:51:00.004-05:00

studioWall, originally uploaded by angela.m..im in the midst of going through a thousand or more photos i took in okla and putting them in collections. trying to edit edit. i am bad at getting rid of photos that i know i won't use so i am trying to make myself discard if i know i don't love an image immediately. i'm promising myself to have something sent off to the Service Bureau by the end of next week. i do have a fabulous pic of a cowgirl in pink jeans that's a keeper :)

kitty

2008-09-08T19:07:00.004-05:00

sasha yawn, originally uploaded by angela.m..

glass birds

2008-09-02T00:20:00.005-05:00

glassBirds, originally uploaded by angela.m..

i just returned from spending a week in oklahoma. it was a trip to celebrate my grandfather turning 80 and also to work on a series of photos for my own work as an artist. here are some detail shots i took at my grandparent's house. more pics to come from the okla series..

watch & glasses

2008-09-02T00:19:00.003-05:00

watch&glasses, originally uploaded by angela.m..

rosie and dad's boots

2008-09-01T23:35:00.005-05:00

rosie and dad's boots, originally uploaded by angela.m..i love this photo of my grandmother and i believe these are my dad's bronzed boots.

Heidi holding flowers

2008-08-30T16:13:00.006-05:00

, originally uploaded by am....

The bride wore her fathers ring.

first dance

2008-08-30T16:12:00.000-05:00

first dance, originally uploaded by am....

Clark Street

2008-08-30T16:11:00.001-05:00

, originally uploaded by am....

posting more

2008-08-26T23:49:00.013-05:00

i've been a bad blogger. i am going to try to post much much more. thank you to those of you that comment i love it and to those that tell me you liked a post via phone or email :) i'm happy to have a collection of friends and family looking at my little blog. i'm going to try regularly posting at least a few times a week. also, on a side note, i am working on building a photo business to add to my current list of occupations as artist and professor.. sooooo if anyone needs some photo love or knows anyone that does let me know. specifically, i am looking for couples, families and children to build a portfolio for a portrait photography site. i will cut you a super special blog subscriber deal.
more soon, a

bob jones

2008-08-26T09:29:00.011-05:00

some more isu love. bob jones. i heart that he has a page dedicated to the space he works in.. check out the stu dio link. i will never ever forget his amazing studio at isu.. it was a piece in itself.

C's Moustache

2008-08-20T22:40:00.005-05:00

C's Moustache, originally uploaded by am....

C rocked this creepytastic look for a bit.. so we had a moustache photo shoot before he shaved yesterday.

SpiralJetty

2008-08-09T17:42:00.005-05:00

SpiralJetty, originally uploaded by am....

i'm just starting to post some pics from our trip out west this past july. this was one of the highlights.

SpiralJetty

2008-08-09T17:41:00.003-05:00

SpiralJetty080710Web, originally uploaded by am....

i'm using binoculars not rubbing my eyes :)

SpiralJetty

2008-08-09T17:40:00.002-05:00

SpiralJetty, originally uploaded by am....

if you want to see the large version, click on the photo into flickr and hit the all sizes button above the pic.

2008-08-08T12:35:00.003-05:00

my friend mike sent this to me. it was taken with high speed cameras for playback in slow motion. beautiful.

introducing some ISU artists

2008-08-01T13:41:00.018-05:00

i was thinking, since i posted on
bill conger's work recently i should highlight some other work here that i think is super fabulous coming out of the illinois state university community. i graduated from ISU in 2003 with an MA in painting even though i mostly do lens based work now (working on a series of photos of southwest oklahoma--more about that later this summer) . i met some amazing people in bloomington-normal. i still keep tabs on their work and thought i would show them off here.

first up, matt pulford, who authors the bluegoldandgreen blog.
above: a child on the way, wall installation-hand carved wood and oil paint, 36x30x30, 2008

Lydia

2008-07-31T17:54:00.002-05:00

Lydia6, originally uploaded by am....

Ella

2008-07-31T17:23:00.002-05:00

Ella2, originally uploaded by am....

i'm still going through all of my vacation photos and i processed some for my friend beth of her girls, ella and lydia. we stayed with them the night before we returned to chicago. i thought i would post a couple of snaps i took here.. they are soooo cute i can't stand it.

badlands

2008-07-04T09:25:00.005-05:00

Yesterday Clayton and I started an 18 day trip west from Chicago. I'm writing from a small hotel in Wall, South Dakota. Our attempt to stay in Interior, the community inside the Badlands National Park failed when we realized the community had a population around 60 and all motel offices are closed around 10pm. We tried 3 motels and found 3 closed offices. We were too late to camp so we had to drive back out of the park and into Wall. Driving in the Badlands at night is beautiful and terrifying all at once. We saw deer and some animal we still can't identify :) The landscape has been described as a moonscape. I've never seen anything like it. Today we're going back to the moon but in daylight...First, we'll hit up the famous Wall Drug Store!!

I'm posting some googled images of the Badlands, since I don't have any of my own yet.

my street in okla

2008-06-27T16:42:00.006-05:00

these were all taken around my parent's house when i visited in may. i was stuck with a grandpa Canon Rebel and even more horrific.. a kit lens!! ahh.

art crush

2008-06-27T15:25:00.010-05:00

i was just looking at bill conger's website today. i really love his work.

the pieces are always tinged with a sadness or a feeling of longing. then, there is this other layer of humor brought out by his use of seemingly benign materials and their arrangements or placement in a space. the work is so smart but not too clever.

The Birds

2008-06-24T14:39:00.002-05:00

apparently black birds are attacking chicago residents. yikes. click on the pic to be taken to the article. if you're in chicago wear a helmet :)

earthquake images by wedding photogs

2008-05-23T10:50:00.004-05:00

my friend Maria sent me a ny times article about wedding photographers capturing images of the earthquake in China. click on the pic to be taken to the article. you can see more pics there.

there is a future to share

2008-05-22T20:51:00.005-05:00

oklahoma dirt

2008-05-22T19:08:00.007-05:00

i just got back from a weekend home to altus, oklahoma.. aahh the red dirt.

back in the studio FINALLY

2008-04-10T14:46:00.009-05:00

life got busy, busy for a second so i'm finally back in the studio today.

i'm looking at a book of photography by Franco Fontana called Unpublished Notes. He considers these photos sketches for a larger body of work. funny, because i'm not into his fine art photos at all but the everyday shots are really amazing.

it's snowing AGAIN

2008-03-21T19:15:00.007-05:00

we went out this morning for coffee and on the way back clayton took this snap of me. fun times in snowland!

zoo shoot

2008-03-16T18:21:00.023-05:00

some pics i took yesterday at lincoln park zoo.. i don't usually photograph animals other than trying out a new lens or flash on sasha so it was a good exercise on being quick.

another image about looking up

2008-03-13T21:16:00.016-05:00

most of my close friends know that i have a crazy weird fear of storms. i attribute this to growing up in tornado alley. my father was also in a tornado and i remember the radio saying it was hitting in the area where he worked. it was really scary. i was very young and i think these things just leave an impression on you. i was recently taking pictures of storm clouds (photo 101 :) and i had a happy accident. when i was about to discard this image I found a plane coming just over the clouds. i thought i would post it keeping with my theme of looking up. i know, i know, planes are loaded image these days but i love how its just spec in the sky and smack in the middle.. i didn't crop. i also like how the lights make a funnel as they recede..you can click to see it big.

below, i'm posting the first photo of a tornado. one image is the original and the other looks to be a document or newspaper print titled Cyclone. According to National Geographic, the image was taken by an unknown photographer on August 28, 1884, about 22 miles (45 kilometers) southwest of Howard, South Dakota.

c's fam celebration

2008-03-12T23:46:00.010-05:00

here's a couple of pics i took during our family celebration for c's 29th. kay makes clayton's favorite cake every year for his b-day.

birdies at lake michigan

2008-03-09T14:24:00.006-05:00

looking up

dinner at work

2008-02-27T19:17:00.005-06:00

i have a very nutritious diet :)

aahh, miss them

2008-02-22T20:25:00.009-06:00

i just came across this super cute pic of some of my video installation students from last semester--jake, min jeong and nadia. the photo was taken during a class on rear-screen construction. we built mini screens..fun times..

Claire's shoot

2008-02-21T20:21:00.017-06:00

above is a studio shot i took during a video shoot this past weekend in bloomington, il. you can see claire's sculpture here. she hires me to make the videos that are installed with her sculptures. below is one of the photo stills from the shoot. we let kids run through the jell-o poppy sculptures at the end. so the still below is of the teensy legs of one of her toddler models. you can double click to see them bigger.

what we do

2008-02-08T21:39:00.004-06:00

a shot of steve while we were talking in his studio.

neighbor's fence

2008-02-07T00:01:00.000-06:00

it looks best this time of year.

foggy and rainy

2008-02-04T23:46:00.001-06:00

the last few days have given us a break from the snow and it's been rainy instead.. oh grey chicago... clayton is crossing his fingers for a snow day tomorrow. the weather man says maybe up to a foot.

the squirrel that taunts our kitty

2008-02-03T22:42:00.002-06:00

i thought i'd start my blog with the squirrel that has been taunting sasha for the past month. this morning i finally got a couple of pics. unfortunately, the last one is blurry but shows how this little guy likes to hang out on the electric wire that runs just outside our window. i think we'll have to name him soon..