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dave ihmels: local musician.

singer-songwriter featured in the washington post – with photo by blonde photo!

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a feature on musician dave ihmels appeared in today’s LIVE! section of the washington post. i had the pleasure of hearing dave perform at melinda + tim’s awesome post-wedding bash where i shot the above photos. i was thrilled when he told me that the washington post was writing a piece on his work and honored to contribute a photo to the story, which appears online HERE. more importantly, you can catch dave playing music from his independently released CD Expandable, TOMORROW at fireflies in alexandria with linda sublett + todd baker.

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a few of my favorite things…

polaroid fun with POLADROID!

a new twist on the classic one-of-a-kind camera!

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just a small sample of some of my favorite *new* poladroids…yes, thats poladroid, not polaroid…poladroid is a program that allows you to create polaroid images from any digital file! it’s awesome! i love my polaroid cameras and i treasure the unique images that they produce, but this is so much fun! i can take my favorite high-res images and tweak them to look like polaroid originals! the actual application is an icon of a polaroid camera on your desktop that you drag images onto…within seconds it “pops” out the photo and you wait for it to develop right before your eyes! it even messes with the color and exposure, resulting in a unique new image! 

i’m in love.

*favorite things include, from top: my favorite wedding image from 2008, me being crazy on the streets of dc, funky random art, my dear 22-year-old cat cricket, and my awesome man with me in los angeles for the EOS launch party.*

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best present ever.

one of the (many) fabulous gifts that my awesome boyfriend gave me for christmas was a painting by the super talented artist kristen mills – who we met at the fort point art walk in boston.
not only do i adore her current project, titled from one to one hundred million but i *love* my 5X5 original, #47, that i purchased last spring. for christmas, john contacted kristen and she created another painting to compliment mine, inspired by john’s favorite themes that she uses throughout the series. i was so touched by such a thoughtful and unique present, and *so* excited to have another fantastic painting! check them out:

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so happy together…
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