Happy Holidays to me! It’s been a long time since I’ve had a decent point-and-shoot camera…I mean a loooong time. I do have a half-broken 3 MP digital elph lying around somewhere but the image quality was always so lousy that I couldn’t even bare to have anything printed…and isn’t it sad to not have any pictures of the fun things you do in your life? And since I’m not one of those photographers who likes to lug around a big SLR & lenses everywhere I go, I decided it was finally time to get myself a new point-and-shoot. So as a holiday gift to me, I got myself a Canon G-10 from Samy’s…who definitely had the best deal around on this baby. Did you know that if you order online from Samy’s, everything is about 10% cheaper than in the store. Good to know, right?
So now I have a great camera that I can stick right in my purse and take with me everywhere. That’s what I thought anyway but it seems that the husband has hijacked it for the past week to take to tv shoots. Hopefully soon I’ll be able to steal it back from him so that I’ll be able to shoot images to share on this blog of regular life again. I do have some to post tomorrow about our little holiday trip to Palm Springs…
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I know I’ve been gone for absolutely ages but after my craziest holiday season yet which included photographing 30 families in 30 days (am I crazy or what?), after a nice little vacay, I am back and back with some New Years resolutions.
1. To embrace social media & contribute to my various blogs more often. When I first started blogging back in 2006, I blogged about everything in my life. I blogged so much that I had nothing interesting to say in person because everyone I knew had already read about my life. Not that I want to be uninteresting in person, but it’s all been photos & business lately and I’m resolving to blog about regular life as well.
2. I have given up any and all meat that is not from a humane farm. I have not become a vegetarian. I will still eat meat & fish etc. This basically just means that I am only allowed to eat meat that I purchase myself from Whole Foods. It’s not that I don’t love meat…believe me, I do. But I’ve recently been having a personal crisis over animal cruelty and have decided that this is one small thing that I can do to promote humane treatment of farm animals while treating my body a little better too.
3. Oh yeah, and get in shape…but isn’t that every year? But this time I mean it. :)
I’m also happy to announce that we just launched a brand new blogsite for the DC studio that I have with my mom & sister, www.studiodiana.com. Go have a look when you have a free moment, I think it’s just beautiful and I can’t stop staring it. This is yet another blogsite by the amazing amazing folks at Identity Kitchen.
They have been kind enough to offer a 10% discount on new branding/ blogsite projects between now and January 31st. Mention Studio Diana to redeem your discount. Okay, that’s all for now but I have tons of images to blog so I will be back soon.
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Sometimes I like to blog about things other than photography just because living in LA, some experiences are just too ridiculous not to write about. So the other night Gary and I met our friends Lisa & Roey at the Nokia Theater downtown to see our good friend Juan Patino who was on tour with the legendary Hall & Oates.
We had great seats right smack in the middle amongst lots of “super fans”. But none of the crazy dancing ladies could even hold a candle to the guys sitting across the aisle from us in full head-to-toe 80’s style Hall & Oates garb. And they seemed so serious too. People came from all over the theater to take pictures with them. Of course we had to as well. Leave it to a pro photographer to have only iPhone & Blackberry pictures of her own life but maybe one of these days I’ll pick up a new point-and-shoot that actually has a flash on it for this sort of occasion.
After the concert was over we went backstage to find Juan and in the process ended up meeting John Oates who is a super nice guy and was kindly mingling with all of us common folk. :) At that point Juan escorted us to the back-back-backstage dungeons where we were introduced to Daryl Hall. Now my husband is a huge fan so we had to get our picture taken with him and I must admit it was a little more exciting than meeting the faux Hall & Oates.
But after seeing those guys we’re now considering dressing as H&O for Halloween…that may even top our Sarah Silverman/ Jimmy Kimmel outfits from 2 years ago…
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