Hey! New Toys!

For me! For my birthday in September my great friend Maureen got me a gift certificate to a website called www.pinkinkstudios.com. They have great actions, masks, frames, texture overlays and stuff for photoshop. I did some shopping last night and got some really cool new stuff. Spent part of today playing with my new toys.

#1. Dead end- urban texture with frame

#2. boys on stairs- mask

#3. timmy on step- dirty frame

#4. timmy on beach- frame and desaturated.

They are all so cool. I just have to be careful not to go overboard and use them on EVERYTHING. I think I might be ordering a new canvas or two from my favorite museum gallery wrapped canvas supplier www.canvasondemand.com. I think the boys on the stairs would look so cool on a huge canvas with the brush stroke looking edges.

I had a photoshoot scheduled for today, but got rained out. Rescheduled for Sunday, I hope it’s nice by then. The photography show in NYC on Saturday was so. totally. cool. I left a serious trail of drool and envy around Javits. The whole thing was so great- so interesting to see all the different products out there. I loved the lensbaby (seriously cool stuff- a lens set on a bunch of springs that gives such blur except for one little spot in focus), I want Mark at the camera store to get satin finish paper (he has metallic coming in soon, which I also love). The make it yourself photobooks are super cool and he has a bunch of those coming in soon too. Highly reccommend those. So cute. But the lenses…oh, the lenses! I spent a few hundred thousand dollars (all in my head of course) on all the L glass I could see, a few new camera bodies, some accessories, and a ton of new programs from Adobe for post processing to round out the package. Oh, to dream….

This Saturday, I am heading to Pennsylvania for the day (yes, the day only) to take a photography class with one of my heros- Karen Russell. She is a scrapbooker and scrapbook designer first and foremost but has a background in photography and takes the most excellent pictures. And she has such a great way of explaining things so that I can understand and apply it. I took a scrapbook class taught by Karen in Conneticut a few months ago with my friend Beth. We drove 2hrs to that one and home the same day. But it was so worth it. So for the class on Saturday we are going to have to be on the road at around 6am (going with Beth again). So you know I must really love her classes. I don’t get up that early. EVER.