Ellen Lundgren : Blog » white http://www.blog.ellenlundgren.com Artist • Designer • Crafter • Photographer • Geek • Writer • Poet Mon, 23 Aug 2010 02:34:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc First Snowfall of the Season http://www.blog.ellenlundgren.com/2009/12/first-snowfall-of-the-season/ http://www.blog.ellenlundgren.com/2009/12/first-snowfall-of-the-season/#comments Fri, 04 Dec 2009 06:40:35 +0000 Ellen http://www.blog.ellenlundgren.com/?p=578 The first fresh blanket of winter white always manages to take my breath away. But never have I seen a first snowfall come this heavy or fast. Usually the tips of the green grass are still sticking up for a week or more before there’s enough snow to cover it and not melt in a day. But today it started snowing, and didn’t stop… and it’s sticking. After about three hours, there was four inches of snow on the ground. I ran back to my apartment, grabbed my new camera (I bought the Canon Rebel T1i over Thanksgiving break), and ran back on to campus and took photos of the freshly fallen snow.

Of course, I was not alone out there, even though it was eleven at night by then. Plenty of other people were already out making snowmen, having snowball fights, and taking their own photos of the first snow of the season. Walking around in such a beautiful snowy world put a goofy grin on my face and just made my day.

In my excitement, I’ve already uploaded a few photos on my flickr tonight. Nothing like enthusiasm of fresh snow to get my motivation going.

]]> http://www.blog.ellenlundgren.com/2009/12/first-snowfall-of-the-season/feed/ 1 Richard Avedon http://www.blog.ellenlundgren.com/2009/08/richard-avedon/ http://www.blog.ellenlundgren.com/2009/08/richard-avedon/#comments Sun, 30 Aug 2009 19:53:15 +0000 Ellen http://www.blog.ellenlundgren.com/?p=498 So I’ve been missing my weekly post quota since moving back to school. I figured I can relax a bit before getting blasted with school work. But I’ve been doing some work today, prepping for classes and renewing my photography club and I got buried in viewing one of my very favorite photographer’s websites, Richard Avedon. His portraits of people are just so oddly striking and captivating, I can’t help but be mesmerized by them.

His portfolio ranges from fashion photography in his early career, to capturing celebrities as “everyday” people. See this photo of Marilyn Monroe. In most photos, displayed as the happy famous celebrity. Here she seems dejected and depressed. Who else but Richard Avedon could capture this?

marilynmonroe

He could also make you just as interested in someone from the American West. This girl made it to the cover of his first edition book of his American West portfolio filled with people from the countryside and little towns.

freckles

And you might recognize these photos:

beatles

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