Amanda | January 23, 2012
The Shoot By Design Spring session registration is now open. The Spring class runs from Monday March 5 to Friday April 13, 2012. You can find out about the course here, read the testimonials page here and register here now. To coincide with the Spring session, I’ve written a guest post about style and photography [...]
Amanda | January 18, 2012
Dearest Paris, For the longest time I have loved you from afar. You with your style and poise, never once knowing the longing in my glances, never once feeling the depth of my passion, you and I have been absent lovers for the longest of times. In vain have I struggled. Struggled to recreate your [...]
Amanda | January 13, 2012
The woods and I have become kindred spirits. – from a little project I’m working on. I’ll be adding more each week to the set here. Lately I’ve been: enjoying flickr on a daily basis. Rachel from Buttons Magee wants us to bring back the flickr love and I’m totally on board. I’ve posted every [...]
Amanda | January 10, 2012
One of the best things about living in Canada is the time spent experiencing new things and ones that I dreamt about as a kid. Wandering around a Christmas tree farm, all snuggled up in our winter coats and boots is a fairytale kind of existence, if only for an afternoon. I guess when you [...]
Amanda | January 6, 2012
What do you do when you have a post all lined up for the first one of the year and then your first book arrives on your doorstep? You ditch that post, snap a Polaroid with the only colour film you have (expired beyond expired) and do a happy dance. Friends, yesterday, Susannah, Jen and [...]
Amanda | December 31, 2011
2010 was a tough, tough year. 2011 brought needed stability and strength and I’m hoping that 2012 will be the year we build ourselves back up again. I can feel it coming. In January we started a year long journey snapping photographs once a month with the Twelve Photo project and I had some Polaroids [...]
Amanda | December 28, 2011
As is now becoming a Mocking Bird tradition, I am signing off for the year with a look back at some of my favourite Polaroids from 2011. These Polaroids were all shot with either my Polaroid SLR680 or my SX70 using a mix of Polaroid 600, Polaroid 779, Impossible Project PX100 and Impossible Project PX680 [...]
Amanda | December 23, 2011
I’m Dreaming of a Christmas Moments List Attend the German Christmas markets in Germany and Vienna. Ice skate in Central Park. Drink eggnog out of Griswold style reindeer cups. Spend the week before Christmas in New York. See Silent Night performed in Austria. Ride in a sleigh. The horses must have bells. Have a very [...]
