A portrait each month.
January
I have had this in my head for a while. I have all these treasured family photos and little memories that have been passed down to me and I feel so lucky to hold them! I wanted to portray my curiosity in this photo of my lineage and my interest in just looking at these old photos.
Hand written notes by my second great grandfather of a funny story of him going into a Paris library to look up a word but he was made to jump through all sorts of hoops just to do it. A handwritten letter by my great grandmere to her future husband, written to him while she was visiting Yosemite with her family. A journal in my Grandmere's handwriting opened to a page where she wrote about my grandpere's story of the gypsy trees in the California valley. Purses belonging to my great grand aunt, cameras that belonged to my grandparents and Dad. I also tried to portray my curly hair to show the traits that I carry with me from them.
So many treasures that I will treasure for always!
February
I shouldn't have taken up two of my ideas in one month, but they were so fun to try. The first one I put my light behind me and used a spray bottle to create this neat effect. I call it SOUL LIGHT.
The second one is my try at double exposure. I took a photo of myself in front of our window and then overlayed a recent photo I took of the sunset. I am also holding Dad's coffee cup which I treasure and use pretty much everyday. He is always on my mind and heart.
March
Sometimes things are hard to put into words, but I can try and show you how I feel..
I took this a few hours after getting word that Dad had weeks, possibly days to live. If you don't know, he had been suffering for a while from Parkinson's and Dementia. It is hard to loose someone slowly, and I felt that part of me was fading away with him. I wanted to capture that somehow in an image. This was going to be my test shot to see if my idea worked. I had been thinking of it for a while but I didn't have the energy to go back and try again. So here is the raw form of my idea, I think it perfectly shows my emotion of that day and the sentiment of my overwhelming emotions.
Dad passed three days later.