Door Knocker

This is one of the amazing door knockers that you can find attached to the beautiful wooden doors in the colonial town of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. It was my 3rd time visiting the town, first time by myself. Photographically, I was attracted to many of the same things.

Mary Moving

Jumping and photographing go well together, dontcha think?

Virgin Woodblock

I found this as an image on an ugly t-shirt they were selling on ebay. It is a shame because it is a great image of the Virgin.

I already have it on the bag that I bought from Urban Indigo last month, pictured on the right.

Armand Marsaille smashed

This is what happend about 1/2 hour after I brought the doll to my studio. Sadness. Total sadness! At the time I didn't even really appreciate what I had, I just knew I was excited about photographing it.

Julie Arkel

This is and image of Julie Arkel's studio and the cover of her book. I really like her work. I was reminded of her work again when I was at Summer House on Saturday in Mill Valley. I'd like to get a copy of her book but can't find it anywhere around here or on the web. I've got a lead in at Loop (a store in London) http://www.loop.gb.com/index.html
but they haven't emailed me back.

Another image of the Virgin

This was taken at my studio today with natural window light around 4pm. I used my sx70 camera with a nd filter and 600 (unexpired!) polaroid film. I brought the image home and scanned it and cropped off the white polaroid borders. I love the shallow depth of field and limited focus that the sx70 is able to attain.

My Mary

I bought her at Summer House in Mill Valley today. I love that store. They often have a few (expensive) Santos. I went there looking to see if they had any wooden hands/arms and they did, I almost bought one for $120 and then I thought wait, this is a lot of money for something that I just want to photograph. I bought a couple of marbles and some saint b/w tiny photographs from Mexico and she was behind the counter. I almost didn't ask how much they were asking for her because everything else was sooooo expensive (the head of a santos figure, just the head, was $875 but they said they have lay away!). I snatched her up before I had time to change my mind. She is beautiful.