my secret place

my secret place, originally uploaded by wendymd.

found a new photo location! thanks to my brother who took this photo. Post processing done using Nichole Van's amazing urban actions. It is so worth it!

angel

angel, originally uploaded by wendymd.

I was a guest at a wedding two weeks ago, and decided to practice! I got nice photos with my tamron 90mm - such a sweet, sharp lens! Yesterday, I played around with photoshop, and used an action by Rita of Coffeeteaphotography (i love her blog! Thanks!). Love the pink, vintage tone of this photo. I will be shooting a real wedding next week, my first! Nervous, nervous...but hopefully it would go on fine. Wish me luck!

...and the lomo wall lives on!

 

 After a few months of absence, i'm finally back to blogging.  The lomo wall that i made last october is going places!  I tore it down after the exhibit but somebody wanted a 4ft x 16ft wall for display, so i made one for them.  This time around, the photos are stuck to eight acrylic boards that will be mounted on the wall.  Neat!  And ehem, ehem, it's going thousands of miles away from here....Yay!

I just miss shooting lomo...gotta get those cameras out in the sun soon! 

The Art Show

Lomo!, originally uploaded by wendymd.

I am doing my first art show on October 5th. It's a group show, most probably I am the least artistic of the bunch, and I am the only one doing this kind of thing - a LomoWall - old meets new kinda thing, which is certainly classified as contemporary art. Most of them are painters, carvers, old school artists, and I am a bit scared that my kind of art might be met with mixed responses. Oh well, who cares right? Art is meant to be enjoyed anyway and it is a form of expression. So here it is, my huge lomo wall - 13ft long by 8 ft wide. I just wish people would enjoy it!

heaven

heaven, originally uploaded by wendymd.

I have been wanting to do double exposures for the longest time, but i am kinda apprehensive with it not turning out the way i liked it to. I tried it today with the Polaroid Spectra Pro, and here you go. I shot the first layer in dim light, second layer outside. Maybe next time i shouldn't shoot at the noon sky, maybe i should've waited a little bit later because it almost overexposed. But anyway, i loved the vintage effect...and yeah, it's almost like heaven!

last

last, originally uploaded by wendymd.

It was a sad day yesterday at the clinic i worked in. Little did i know that this would be the last picture taken inside. Me, blurred, taken by our xray tech, elmer. The clinic is closing its doors for the first time in 28 years, indefinitely, a big shock to all of us. I have very fond memories of working here, the clinic where i built my practice for the last 5 1/2 years. In this clinic that i grew to love. How ironic, since today, 9/11 was a day that changed a thousand lives in the US, and today marked a big change in our lives too, here in our small island. I just wanted to say, thank you for the wonderful opportunity. And thank you to all the people who had faith in me for the past years. I only wish that this institution would rise up again, much stronger than ever. As of the meantime, life goes on for everybody.

vintage

and my day starts with something vintage, originally uploaded by wendymd.

I decided to go vintage today, just to try out something different. I have been seeing a lot of vintage postprocessing done at flickr which totally amazes me. I tried doing one on a flower photo i got from Boracay last April, used the Coffeshop Vintage Honey preset from Rita of coffeeteaphotography, and i was surprised with the results! I got carried away and decided to do a whole page of vintage! Thank you to Rita, for sharing your PS presets. I am hooked!