Entries from Studio Mathewes tagged with 'oneaday'
Butterfly Garden
Along the lines of yesterday's post, I bring you a butterfly garden. Again, I had a lot of fun with this, finding objects and fabrics around my house with which to create an illustrative scene. This whole thing was inspired...
Falling Star, Round Two
Well well well, my attempt at a "one-a-day" project has been upset by a staggering lack of internet connectivity while on vacation. Happily, we are home safe, and I return to my regularly scheduled program. Do you all remember my...
Steve the Music Geek
My husband, Stephen, is a music aficionado. Graduating from UMBC with a degree in Musicology, he's amassed quite a collection of CDs for himself. I vividly remember the day when his collection outgrew the two small bookshelves he had bought...
Suburban Tree
I spend a lot of time at my sister-in-law's house. She lives ten minutes away, in a suburb of Baltimore. Many, many times I've photographed her kids while enjoying conversation, dinners, and games. This is the tree that shades their...
Feet Feet Feet
While my brother Kevin visited last week, we had a little fun with our feet in the fisheye department. A colored flash helped make this shot even more strange....
Beach Diptych
Well, I'm sad to say that I missed blogging my "one a day" portraits the past few days. However, it was for the absolutely wonderful reason that my cousin Martha got married in Barnstable, MA (Cape Cod) on Saturday. I...
Flash in the Mirror
One of the things I usually try to avoid when using flash is mirrors. Not so this time! And what's more, it's all fogged up and smeared from a recent shower. This shot was taken with my brand new...
Meet Sonja the Music-Maker
One of my dear friends, Sonja, hired me to do her headshot before she moved from Harrisburg to Philadelphia. I had a blast, not only because I love spending time with her, but also because I got to play with...
Merry-Go-Round
Back when I was teaching at Park Camps, we took a few field trips. Once, we went to Patterson Park, and the last trip we took was to the Inner Harbor in Baltimore. Down by the Federal Hill area is...
Hands in the Horizon
Remember that cardboard box in the back of my fridge? Well, quite a bit of film has returned from the lab, most of it medium format black and white work. It's been such a trip looking through it and seeing...
Falling Star
It's fun to play with props. When selecting jewelry the other day, I wondered what kinds of pictures I could take of jewelry to make it look like something else, a la Michel Gondry's crazy videos, but not even close...
Inspiration with Heart
The discipline of posting a photograph each day stretches me. In the past week, my reading, thinking, and personal conversations have led me to sit down and sketch. Today's shot is an example: I noticed this heart-shaped box in my...
R is for Ruth
I didn't stage this photo, I swear.One of the benefits of running my business from home is that I get to be around my daughter a lot. She's an endless source of entertainment, frustration, fascination, learning, and love. Her latest...
Mysterious Mound
I mentioned in one of my last posts that Stephen's grandmother has a house in Mandarin, Florida. It's an old place, built a long time ago, with an old collapsing dock and other interesting buildings slowly decaying as she is...
The art in my house
I remember hearing once that you should fill your house with nothing other than what you believe to be useful, or find to be beautiful. So, I like surrounding myself with original art by people I admire and know. The...
Dip in Your Toes
In the back of my refrigerator, there lived a cardboard box. This box held undeveloped film, as well as scads of developed rolls that I hadn't touched in, well, who knows how long. Recently, I dropped it off to be...
The 'Rents
While at Eureka Springs, I seized the opportunity to take portraits of my immediate family members. When everyone is spread across the country in four different states, you don't often get the chance to do something like that. I snagged...
Bamboo Stalks
The other day I ran across a giant pile of bamboo stalks, recently cut.I'm sure many people will agree with me that although bamboo has "gone native" here in the U.S., there's still something exotic about its lines and shapes....
Introducing: ellen cherry
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you local Baltimore musician, ellen cherry.ellen cherry is the stage name of Kristin Putchinski, who I met while teaching at Park School Camps. In passing conversations surrounded by the giggles and screams of excited kids,...
Unfocused Self-Portrait in Star Shirt
This portrait was a lucky accident. While attempting to take an in-focus shot, my autofocus settings decided to take over during the time my camera was counting down, leading to this deliciously strange version of, well, me. I'm not...
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