This One's for the Ladies

DC Scenes

So truth be told, I did not love DC when I first got here - and I felt that way for a while.

Vroom

You can zoom around with four big wheels like us.

Yum too

Two things. 1) I find food photography very challenging, and when done poorly it is truly gross.

Faces too

These are faces of people I like very much. And a couple dog/cat types, who I also like very much.

Happy, Part 1

Because my husband was away, and, as Jerry Seinfeld says, Well you've gotta do something, I started the 100 Day Photo Challenge, where every day you take a picture of something that makes you happy. Here are pictures from the first week-ish.

Spring slowly showing up.

Flowers

My mom's cat and some African Violets (I think)

Green

Yum.

These are a few of my favorite things.

Red

Honeymooning In Key West Part 3: The Importance of Ernest

This is Ernest Hemingway's house.

Mind the Gap

Please forgive the huge delay in posting.

Rolling Thunder

Rolling Thunder comes to DC every Memorial Day weekend. Thousands of riders come here for this celebration that honors veterans, with a focus on POW/MIA.  

Karen's Photo Shoot

Pictures from Karen's photo shoot - my first ever professional photography gig. 

New Family in Maryland

This is a picture of D's sister, her husband, and their wonderful family. 

Box of Bullets

Walls and Signs

Topsail, NC

Cheesy Sneak Peek

I hate. pictures of food. They never ever make it look delicious, and please stop taking pictures of your food and just live your life. But I'm trying to challenge myself, so here's a picture from the omelet-making that happened this weekend.

Lights on Lights on Lights

Always focus on light. 

I don't mean that as a metaphor, but yes focusing on the positive is a probably good idea. I mean that when you're taking a picture, focus on an area getting a lot of light.

Except when you are taking pictures of lights, in which case focus on something else.

When Kristen met Kristin

Disclaimer: This post has a lot of photos. That's my fault. It's because I'm having a hard time feeling confident in representing the participants in this transgender fashion show my dear friend Kristen brought me along to. (She is not transgender. She is a reporter on our local news station, and she let me tag along when she covered the show. Not that you can't be both transgender and a news reporter.) 

Due to my own ties with the SOF (Special Operations) community, both personal and professional, the person I feel the most duty to here is someone also named Kristin. Kristin Beck is transgender and a former SEAL.

Point being - the tremendous courage all the participants in the show displayed makes me feel the stakes are higher than usual for me, because the stakes are deeply tied in with the subjects' sense of self. Their aesthetic journey - granted, just one part of their journey - has not been an easy one. However, it's one worthy of knowing, I think.