windmills & whirl-i-gigs

windmills & whirl-i-gigs, originally uploaded by minervacat. Rocking my world in terms of inspiration this week: How Shooting Film Can Improve Your Digital Photography. Sub-Studio Design Blog’s color-coded gift guides made me wish I bought nicer stuff. The work of Andy Goldsworthy, which came up in a conversation with Maj about people who produce huge…

abandoned swimming pool, sanford

abandoned swimming pool, sanford, originally uploaded by minervacat. People say photographs don’t lie. Mine do. — David LaChapelle

north carolina state fair

north carolina state fair, originally uploaded by minervacat. Rocking my world in terms of inspiration this week: Terrible Yellow Eyes. In honor of Where the Wild Things Are opening today, this is a blog that’s a curated project of artist submissions, tributes to Sendak and his masterpiece of a book. There’s some amazingly clever, beautiful,…

west point on the eno

west point on the eno, originally uploaded by minervacat. Second test run with the 100mm today, farting around with Ash and shep. at West Point Park on the Eno River in Durham, and I’m still loving it. It’s incredibly crisp, the depth of field I can get is unbelievable, and it just grabs color so…

old carrboro cemetary

old carrboro cemetary, originally uploaded by minervacat. whoever named the fall sure did a bang-up job — Rhett Miller, “Haphazardly”

tiny tiny flowers

tiny tiny flowers, originally uploaded by minervacat. Currently rocking my world in terms of inspiration: The Blue Hour. Brian lives and works in New York and has been mucking about with a Pentax K1000 recently, and his results have been wonderfully muted and dreamy. Matt Pence. Drummer for Centro-matic and South San Gabriel, producer extraordinaire,…

saxapahaw, nc

saxapahaw, nc, originally uploaded by minervacat. It’s a weekend for impromptu road trips to the eastern half of the state, for comfort eating trips to Sonic, for wandering around in small towns in the next county over, for late night phone calls.

suburbia

suburbia, originally uploaded by minervacat. Lesson learned this week: take what you’ve got and make it work.

that way is home

that way is home, originally uploaded by minervacat. i don’t expect a southern girl to know the northern lights — Bowerbirds, “Northern Lights”