Here is another image from the thicket. A thesis for this project is slowly being made in my mind. Greek literature is what began this whole thing believe it or not. In all the stories I was reading I noticed how, often, cities and towns were gated, and to go beyond those gates put the characters in danger of the temptations of the untamed. To throw someone out of the city was often a punishment. The banished had to fend for them selves in the wilderness. It's just the beginning of my idea, I will see how it develops.

I am not exactly sure where this work is coming from, but I am absolutely loving making it. Maybe it is the result of looking at an Ansel Adams calender all year, or maybe it just being tiered of making portraits. I am enjoying the solitude of making on my own, portrait work is always a team operation. I can go into to the woods alone and shoot without being seen or seeing. The compositions that present themselves to me are sometimes phenomenal and I am always happily overwhelmed by the plants ability to overgrow each other.

My dear Zoe Brown, quite possibly my favorite sitter. Zoe visited me recently and we both agreed that a nice portrait of her with one front tooth was necessary. Besides this detail, Zoe seems to give a lot as a sitter, allowing me and all of you, to look at her in depth on our own time.

Ahhh summer. It is slowly leaving us behind. This is some of the family on the lake; Squam Lake actually, the same place that "On Golden Pond" was filmed. That is my Aunt Cassy all golden with sunlight.

This was finally the summer that I was able to commit to a dog. This is Sadie. Ryan and I rescued Sadie from Greyhound Friends in Hopkinton MA. Apparently Sadie was terrible at racing because her breeder got rid of her at a very young age. Before us, Sadie had been in two homes and she is only 2.5! The other homes rejected her for aggression problems, she did snip at us once on the first night we had her, but she has been a dream ever since. I think she just finally found the right home.

This is the famous Scott. He stayed with Ryan and I for a few weeks this summer. He was great company and a darn good vegan chef to boot!

Whew, I have not been the best blogger lately. The good news is that I have been spending my time printing like crazy. It had been more then a year since I made an image larger the 11x14. Now I am printing 30x40's!!!!! I have also been shooting black and white which has been fun. I can develop my own film again and I enjoy having the control over the film in the developing process. Any-hoo, here are two new shots. The one on the top is an image that I am surprised I made actually. I tend to over think it usually and this time I just did and I like the results. The bottom is my little, almost three year old, neighbor. Making pictures of kids with a 4x5 is no easy task. Morgan did pretty good though, she may just be a natural!