The 52 Weeks Project

Amanda | June 27, 2009

In the past year I participated in the daunting 52 Weeks Self Portrait project. You have a year to complete 52 self portraits- one a week.

Week 4: Celebrating Canada Day
I took on this mammoth project last May after deciding that I needed to push myself in a direction I didn’t want to go. I had [...]

Polaroid NoteCards from The Love of Light!

Amanda | June 27, 2009

I am very excited to announce that the next step in the For Love of Light adventure are some beautiful notecards put together by Chronicle Books.

The notecard set includes 20 different notecards of Polaroids from the book. Jenifer Altman has received the first set and has kindly taken this shot of them. I received word [...]

33 Today

Amanda | June 23, 2009

And was I spoiled.

I will admit, I love birthdays. I love celebrating other people’s birthdays and enjoy celebrating with loved ones on my own.
It was a rather eventful day. Birthday wishes and love from family, friends and work colleagues, bunches of flowers, cakes, a lovely dinner at my favourite Italian restaurant, a beautiful Oroton bag [...]

Length of Love

Amanda | June 15, 2009

One of the last in my 52 Week project…
I know a girl, a girl called Susannah, Susannah girl…she writes one of my favourite blogs and takes some of my favourite photos, she is sweet, she is smart and she nominated me for this little thing called the Creative Blogger award. The idea is that you [...]

So You Want to Buy a Film Camera

Amanda | June 13, 2009

If you hadn’t heard yet, I’m a bit of a film photography obsessive. I get a lot of emails and flickrmail from people asking me about my cameras, how I use them, which ones to buy, so I thought I would put up a little feature here on why I personally love film cameras and [...]

There’s Something About Portland

Amanda | June 11, 2009

Have you noticed? Every day it seems I stumble across another blogger, artist, photographer or fashion designer who lives in Portland. I’m not sure whether Portland itself has a creative magical dust sprinkled between the leaves in the trees, whether the culture of the city automatically means its residents are artistically minded or artistically minded [...]