Remember When ... There Was A Blizzard?

Remember when there was a blizzard?  Yeah, me too.  No?  Well, let me show you!

Mobile Device Photography: Rainy Mornings with Hipstamatic

I haven't been inspired lately so my camera and I are having a bit of a breather. Like any photographer, even when taking a breather you can never completely stop taking photos.  Mobile devices pretty much ensure that a breather means you may not be using your big bulky camera and lens but you will still be taking photos! 

I've been spending a lot of time taking photos with my upgraded mobile device. I've titled these images "The iDevice Chronicles"

Rainy mornings with Hipstamatic...

Rainy Days and Mondays ... at 6:55AM (photo by LaNita Adams)

Stop Rain (photo by LaNita Adams)

Jewelry Rewind: Mickey Lynn

Back in 2011, I attended a Southern Designer showcase.  One of the designers there was Atlanta based Mickey Lynn.  I left that day with a pair of round Agate druzy earrings which I love.  I wrote about that back then in a more official manner, here.  This time around, I write as simply a happy wearer.

Sometime in the latter half of 2012, a pair of earrings show up in my Facebook feed. I email my Mom with a note, "aren't these CUTE?!"  She responds back, "CUTE!!!"  We often share these types of exchanges.  Come Christmas, she hands me a package.  I pull out a box stamped "Mickey Lynn."  I probably, kinda, sorta squealed because I knew exactly what it was going to be.  Yep, the earrings.

The earrings in question, Druzy Wrapped in Gold Rings.  Aside from being incredibly cute, they are extremely comfortable and easy to wear.  Not only that, they make me smile every time I put them on.  Swing by the Mickey Lynn site and check out the new Spring Collection.

Druzy Wrapped in Gold Rings (mobile device photo)

My Favorite Images: Derek Trucks

I was going through photos I took this summer. While doing so, I ran across this image of Derek Trucks who was performing at the Newport Jazz Festival. I'm a big fan of close-up shots of hands playing instruments.  It's one of those shots that I always try to capture.  Sadly, they don't always turn out the way I envision them in my head.  This one, however, did.

On Film: Signs, Banners, Displays and Such

Film camera fun...

On Film: Newport Jazz Festival

Film camera fun at the Newport Jazz Festival.

3 Cohens: Yuval, Anat & Avishai Cohen

Christian McBride

James Carter

Joe Lovano 

Tedeschi Trucks Band

Audience

On Film: Newport Folk Festival

Film camera fun at the Newport Folk Festival.

In color ...

Alabama Shakes

Brown Bird

Dawes

Preservation Hall Jazz Band

Sharon Van Etten

Audience

In black and white ...

Charles Bradley

Gary Clark, Jr.

Arlo Guthrie

Joe Fletcher and the Wrong Reasons

My Morning Jacket

Patty Griffin

Sleepy Man Banjo Boys

Trampled By Turtles

On Film: Music

I took my film camera out to the Newport Folk Festival and ran a couple of rolls through it.  I need to spend more time learning the ins and outs of the camera.  Nothing a little time and patience won't fix.  

When I use digital, I usually end up fiddling around with my various editing software to add grain, fading, light leaks and any number of things that give me what I want.  Well, the good and in some cases bad about my film photography foray is I got all of that without the aid of software.  It's one thing to take a nice crisp digital image and dirty it up.  It's a completely different thing when you get no choice.  If I didn't know the camera was capable shooting well, I would be concerned that it was a bad apple.  

Alabama Shakes
This is the kind of photo I wanted when I was toying around with my Holga, not so much with my slr.  I love the photo though.

Sharon Van Etten
Again I like the photo but would rather it be the result of my toy camera.

Nature: The Opossum

There are butterflies and bunnies in the backyard but they aren't as adventurous as the opossum that I found dangling from my porch light.  The photographer side of me had to grab the camera and get some images of this little daredevil.  

Historic Sights: Fort Adams

While I was taking in the music at the Newport folk and jazz festivals, I decided to spend a little time exploring the fort itself.  The festivals take place at Fort Adams State Park and the structure screams to be photographed so, that's what I did.

I'm not completely positive but I think the clothespins were left over from the folk festival when a photographer used the room and had some images, probably Polaroid's they had just taken, displayed.

I tried to capture the connected rooms in a sort of infinity way visually.  I think I would have achieved my goal had I used a wider angle lens.  While I like the images, they're just not quite what I saw in my head when I took them.  

At first, I thought this was another image that would have benefited from a wider angle lens ... I would have gotten the whole medallion in the image.  But, I find that I like the portion that was captured and now I'm glad I didn't have a wider angle lens handy.  

I went up to the roof of the fort to get some images and as I was coming down, I became fascinated with the stairs.  They're precarious to walk up and down but there was something about them that I just liked.  I'm afraid of heights so with one hand I'm doing a death grip on the handrail and with the other, I'm snapping the stairs as I'm inching down slower than a snail.  Once I made my way to the bottom, I looked to the left and noticed a gated in bit of the fort that in three years I've never noticed.  Yeah, I know, not very observant  for a photographer!  Anyway, the wall caught my eye and I wanted to get a shot through the bars.  I'm happy to say it, as well as the stair photo, turned out exactly as I saw them in my head.

This is the flag that flies over the fort.  This is one of those photos that I did something that I didn't notice until I started processing my photos.  I took the photo from the back of the flag.  I'm not an overly patriotic person but having the flag appearing to fly backwards bothered me.  So, thanks to my editing software, with the click of a button, I sorted out my photo.