Outtakes
Last month when we went to Brooklyn I hardly took any photos. I think I'm alright at documenting and sharing the big adventures, the details, my outfits and my work. But when it comes to living real life - that's a little more difficult to capture. 
The candid, real life stuff always seems to fall flat or come out double-chinny. Or maybe it's just impossible to for my photos to give justice to the way I feel when I watch stuff like my brother check his mail or Jeremy prepping our taxes - in case you are wondering, that feeling is love. 
Or maybe I'm just not good enough at making real-life scenes look perfectly art directed - like snapshots of scenes from a beautiful Wes Anderson movie. And as an art director that kills me. 
I want my stills to translate what I'm actually seeing. What I'm actually feeling. 
Just like I refuse to call myself a runner I would never call myself a photographer. The word photographer is reserved for people who can really take a picture - people whom I admire for their ability to make real-life translate on film. People like Ryan. And Jason. And Simon. And Broderick, Kathy, and Bryan.
These people make me look at my own photos and say "Who in the hell do you think you are?" But despite those hard feelings on myself I have always had this urge to point and shoot. I have this drive to marry photography with design and make life as I see it translate. So this is me committing to stepping it up. I'm ready.
That photo of Donny checking his mail made me start to get all teary-eyed instantly!! And then I read your comment, and you are right... it is love.
Shucks.
Only recently have I felt slightly more comfortable referring to myself as a photographer. Grand statements of intent/talent/skill are weird.
I love the photo of Jeremy with his ice cream! So cute.
Thanks for the Love sister. The truth is your design inspires me to look more at a subject to make the most of it. So, when I give you a photo it compliments your high quality design.
I feel like my photography is sometimes the ugly duckling that got lucky enough to marry your design, the beautiful princess.
I know this feeling and I want to commit to being better at photography too. In this day and age with everything so much more accessible, I feel like I'd be remiss not to try to learn. I have no doubt you'll pick it up fast, 'cause you're smart as a whip and super talented. :)
Photography is such a tense term with the accessibility of DSLR's and magic of photoshop. I can't believe it when acquaintance after acquaintance become "photographers". I try to stay as faaar away from that term as possible! Sometimes the best photos are the blurry ones like the one of your and J at the subway. I love that one!
I'm pretty good when it comes to food photography, but things involving people -- I just don't know how to handle a camera in those situations. Maybe this summer I'll finally take a class or read a tutorial. Something.
I feel the saaaame way when I'm somewhere on vacation. If I'm not somewhere familiar, it's like all of my "photography skills" vanish somewhat. Urrrgh!
Cheers to stepping it up!
(I love the last photo by the way)
xx bre
oh my god, i saw your brother perform at a side show act on coney island a few years ago! i couldn't get enough of his mustache.
is that mustache REALLY real? really???
kelly
p.s. i was kind of surprised to read this. i heart your photography.
Kelly - The moustache is most definitely real. Really.
Thanks for the compliments on my photography - don't get me wrong. I don't think it's terrible. I think I have an eye for it. But I'm ready to step it up - take it to the next level. I need the proper tools (a better camera, a bit of education) and lots more practice.
It was such a great idea to do this post. I think your photos are lovely and I've always mourned the fact that I can't take nice pictures that really capture what I see. But I guess that frustration comes to all of us. cheers & keep on snappin'
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