Her voice reminds me of a song. He is sometimes shy in front of a camera. They will be married in August.
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“To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.”
~ John Ruskin
I am excited to announce Things We See. This collaborative website founded by Britt Bailey, Bonnie Berry, Jennifer Domenick, Emmy Sherman and me has a simple vision: share what we see. If you are interested in contributing please visit Things We See for information on how you can be part of this new community. You may also email us at contribute@thingswesee.net. We hope to see you soon.
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{ location } private home, Bethany Beach, Delaware
{ event planning } Eclatante Event Design
{ catering } Chef Du Jour Catering
{ tent } The Party Center
{ floral design } Beautiful Blooms
{ invitations } The Papery
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“Mostly people just wanted me to listen to their story.” ~ Bonnie Berry
She called me from Love’s truck stop. We wound up in a retired postal worker’s field of donkeys. And that’s what happened on an afternoon in Texas.
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I saw a place from the corner of my eye. I was heading to elsewhere, late. After elsewhere I found it again, tucked along a lonesome frontage road. Late again to the next elsewhere, I heard the debate of my familiar internal committee members. I ignored them. I listened instead to the words of my friend, reminding me to hear when I see something whispering to me.
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{ location } Chesapeake Beach Resort Spa
{ cupcakes } Becki’s friend, Jill
{ flowers } Becki’s aunt Karen
{ music } Digital Sound Services
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NACE professionals from the Baltimore and DC areas donated their time and artistry to create a beautiful fundraiser for Meals On Wheels. Over 250 guests attended Uncorked! Unplugged held at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore.
If you visited the Amy Deputy Photography studio photo booth, your images are available for complimentary download until March 30. This is my studio’s way of saying thank you to the many people who join together to serve the community and have a very fun party.
Here are a a few of my faves from last night.
Enjoy!
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“The subject matter is so much more important than the photographer.” ~ Gordon Parks
A very long time ago I was a photography student at Western Kentucky University. I met a teacher named Dave Labelle. This teacher taught me of compassion and composition. He taught me to tell stories about people. He challenged every notion I held about anything at all. He taught me to show in pictures what I heard in my heart. He endlessly irritated me with ruthlessly kind and honest critiques. He believed in me when I did not. He taught me of passion and gentleness, to honor love in all the faces of humanity. An image was nothing, no matter how tasty and flashy, until it touched this place of universal remembering, this place called heart.
I graduated. He moved. We lost touch. Fast forward…2o years later to a hotel lobby in Nashville. We met again.
photograph by Neil Cowley
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Last snowflakes melted this weekend. Time has moved to spring. I remember one snowy day, stabbing cold fingers, music accompanying my photo delight, couchy snowdrifts and tiny cling on ice balls in dog fur.
I played with how I see.
Do I focus on the flakes and watch each in sharp relief? Do I look beyond them and feel them blur into me, like an ever washing tide? I am woozy in the blanket swirl, reminded of a baby curl cowlick…I poke my nose outside and smell as they touch the ground, each making way for the other, each changed by the next and the one before. I remember more as I see the photographs…laughter, blue snow light and a neatly hurled snowball in my lens. ~ Amy
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Every so often I meet someone who I feel I’ve always known. We introduce ourselves and then begin where we finished. Thishappened when I met Kendall Brown of Eclatante Design at a beach wedding last summer. And so I did what I do. I went to her mother’s home to photograph love.
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“Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire
humans have for a moment – this very moment – to stay.” ~ Sam Abell
I am co-teaching with the fabulous Anna Kuperberg in San Francisco on March 30-31. The two day Anna + Amy Workshop has two spots remaining. Our workshop is available to professional photographers based on portfolio review.
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I am feeling particularly nostalgic this evening…
Maybe it’s the snow and the soft cloudy days nestling me…
Maybe it’s my delayed reaction to a new year, a chance to trace my time and reorient my compass…
Maybe I’m savoring a sense of completion…
Maybe and most likely, I’m simply grateful.
I hear my husband and my son bantering in the next room, snippets of laughter and ever~so~earnest questions waft like the chocolate chip cookies I baked. Homework is done. Folded laundry rests. Neat white reminder bundles stack on the stairs. And the slideshow below…it rests, at home on this journal, complete.
Shadow and Grace chronicles 22 years of my photography. It starts with the first worth~a~darn photograph I made as a student in Kentucky. It ends exactly this time last year after my husband received his new kidney. What you might want to know before viewing this lengthy piece it this…some find the content challenging. I offer a very personal no~holds~barred collection of photographs. I trace time by revisiting my years at newspapers, my challenges of coping with my now 14-year-old son’s Cowden Syndrome, my husband’s Polycystic Kidney Disease and running a small business. Some folks have asked how I photographed my family, particularly my son’s early years. My answer? I knew then and know now, one day these images would be needed for him to trace his time.
What I see now, a year later, are beautiful laundry piles on the same steps lulled by the gentle snores of my family.
love ~ amy
{ music: courtesy of Triple Scoop Music }
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