i want to go to there... seattle

James Moes' engagement photographs are so beautiful. i love love love them. is that dry ice? genius.

oh, gobble.

Once Wed is so great. These are from Nathan & Anna's wedding in Mexico.

I love the gorgeous scenery and whimsical decorations.

Photography by Belathee Photography

Event Design and Paper Goods by Rifle Design

that is the guestbook. a typewriter. :)

happy president's day!

colorado photos, recent & more!

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the top three photos are from my fuji instax camera! i've been experimenting, trying to do panoramas? and staining the sides with coffee and such.

next is colorado! including expired 600 film, digital photos from denver & fort collins, a photo from the spectra camera i purchased! it was a very nice trip, & fun to see zoe. we are awesome, as evidenced by the bathroom mirror picture.

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inspiration? yes please.

+ brian ferry is continually amazing, and has a new website!

+ rebecca hansen's engagement/wedding photos are too cute.

+ lovely images of winter by grassdoe.

hope your last days/week of winter break is nice!

study break!

i haven't posted in forever. school has been pretty crazy and now its finals week! oh joy. however, that means i am home for christmukkah and then off to colorado in no time. only 4 more days.

i love laporterouge's photos. she and her husband moved out to an adorable farmhouse in the beginning of fall, i think, and her documentation of life there is lovely.

another gorgeous set of photos- Anthropologie photographer David Eustace and his daughter's photo-journal across the U.S. called "in search of eustace."- they go to eustace, Texas! the website is also quite great.

songs i'm loving...

Little Lion Man, Mumford & Sons (they're Britons!)

Fables, The Dodo's

Different Names for the Same Thing, Death Cab for Cutie

For Emma, Bon Iver

Say Please, Monsters of Folk

in other news, i am excited/nervous about a certain someone/something.

it's new.

hope you are enjoying the cold weather!

i saw god in the forest teaching tai chi to the trees

today is an inspiration post extraordinaire!

firstly, among the things I am most excited about in life... art history. my history of photo class is absolutely wonderful and every day i leave class with my brain bursting with excitement and zest! i can't wait to take more. yesterday we talked about the bauhaus. it's an art school in germany that's still operating, but it began in 1918 during the weimar republic after wwi. it was part of the beginning of modernism and so many influential artists taught there, like piet mondrain. (i knew there was a reason i always loved him.) i love the design- especially poster design. i think we do a bauhaus project in a later design class and i'm excited.

last weekend i saw the movie bright star when my mom came to visit. it was wonderful. it's about the poet john keats and his love, fanny brawne. i love john keats' poetry and the movie was beautiful. a bit slow, but we saw it on a rainy day and it was perfect. this is one of my favorite keats poems.

When I have fears that I may cease to be
Before my pen has glean’d my teeming brain,
Before high piled books, in charact’ry,
Hold like rich garners the full-ripen’d grain;
When I behold, upon the night’s starr’d face,
Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,
And think that I may never live to trace
Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance;
And when I feel, fair creature of an hour!
That I shall never look upon thee more,
Never have relish in the faery power
Of unreflecting love! - then on the shore
Of the wide world I stand alone, and think
Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink.

next on the list of inspiration is photographers! brian ferry's photos are excellent, and make me want to travel and eat in pretty resturants. the photos below are from portland and brooklyn.

marie hochhaus also takes lovely pictures.

a tulle + forest photoshoot is definitely in order.

& where the wild things are comes out tomorrow! horray! jen and i are making crowns!

& i can't stop listening to the latest michael buble - it's called "haven't met you yet." :)

& ben sollee, an cello player/singer I heard at ACL. he's adorable.

Everything's Not Lost

Before dear Zoe left, we took a last photo adventure through the suburbs. An abandoned strip mall! We even had to kick out some skateboarders. Haha. 

Life is good. Free Press Summer Fest was quite enjoyable, I quit my job on Friday, and we move back to school in two weeks. :) 

Also, I am a featured photographer on {Simply Hue!} Horray!

:) 

and if the answer is no, will you change your mind?

Definitely the best discovery I have made in a while. The next two photographs are by British photographer Tim Walker. I want to live inside his photographs so that I may live in libraries and beautiful houses and wear dresses on trees. 

I really love the lighting in these pictures of vintage slips from Capricious Traveler. 

Did you know Urban Outfitters has a DIY section on their website? Printmaking tools, sewing supplies, cameras, looms, DIY jewelry kits, and crafty books! One more reason to love UO- the sale of (now extinct) polaroid film, both 779 peel apart and 600, as well as 600 camera & polaroid packs! Poppytalk has all the info. 

And now, I am away to the YMCA. I'm so happy with all the progress I've made this summer, even though every time I go to Mat Science/Pilates I wish to never move again. Haha. :)

wonderful glorious photography

Today I stumbled upon {Sandra Juto}! Her photography and illustrations are absolutely gorgeous, and she introduced me to the term Fika! Fika, according to Wikipedia, is a "social institution in Sweden; it means having coffee and often a pastry with friends, family, or a date." GLORY! Can Pink Foam's name be changed to Fika? I think it's a possibility. No, seriously, I do. 

Anyway, I have completely fallen in love with her {photographs}. Naturally, I am drawn to her photographs of Fika and cafes, because the Swedes and the Brits have lovely latte art. Please visit {this photograph}. I can't get it to show up on blogger, but it's really great. 

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It is among my new aspirations to master latte art. Today I was thinking about dinner parties & soirees, and I imagined this lovely party with pretty lights and candles and music and colorful dresses and latte art and Jen's pies and cinnamon oil cookies and little french bread rolls and jam. Just as I started to think when this should commence, I realized the party was held at (the currently nonexistent) Pink Foam. :)

As much as I hate the Texas heat, it does make Sweet Leaf Tea all the better. I suppose that's why iced tea isn't such a huge deal anywhere but here...

Wow.

I will absolutely be a wedding photographer if I can take pictures like Max Wagner.