What do you get when you decide to take your time leaving Brooklyn to get to the Museum of Natural History the weekend before New Year's? No chance of getting in to see the exhibit you spent two hours traveling to see. Oops. At least I got some pictures.
Someone was too distracted by the magazine Santa left in her stocking to notice the big lump covered by a blanket in the corner. To see more pictures, go here.
The point was to get a picture of all the flour on Scrappy's face, but I noticed in editing that I actually finally got a reflection of myself in my muse's eye like Gilles. Not as nice, but I don't think he was using an Elph that's hit the floor a few times...
I've always liked the idea of doing something special for Christmas cards, but have never really been motivated enough to even send the sets I buy on sale after Christmas. This year, we actually illustrated, designed, printed, addressed, and mailed cards. If you didn't get one, send me your address.
Toward the end of Scrappy's birthday party, we popped up the seamless white and studio lights to make room for expanding my portrait portfolio. This is a rather unsuccessful attempt at desaturating and stylizing the picture. But it was one of the five frames I got with the Philly Phanatic, so that's a plus...
Today I redesigned madelinestrum.com. New edit, new colors, smaller pictures (though the white background helps them look bigger than before) all for a better site.
This time the beauty shoot was done with a real model, a real make up artist, and a diffuser instead of a silver umbrella. It's hard to say if the make up or the diffuser made more of a difference in the skin texture.
This is one of LV's Top Ten toys of 2007. As with all projects, I was happy to shoot them all at once (it's my first black background) but then never delivered the CD. Not that Crazy Colored Glasses has been itching to post its official Top Ten list. Several more action figures have been added to the list since the shoot, so it's hard to say what exactly will make the cut.
I don't feel like putting these on facebook or myspace, so here are pictures of us decorating the tree.
This is Scrappy and Streaky finding some extra joy in the twine that binds the tree...
Note the Gilles Bensimon picture of Christy Turlington. That'll come up again later.
