Going on a bear hunt...

I am looking for clarity and inspiration in all new places. I feel myself soaring above and trying to achieve more, more, MORE! I haven't felt this driven since I was a senior in college trying my HARDEST to slap the smirk off of one of my fiction professors. Who was dumbfounded that the rest of her colleagues thought I was an amazing writer, yet all she saw was poor grammar and lack of what she deemed 'creativity'. Her motto was 'grammar first, creativity last'. Well, that's not how I roll.  This time I am aiming to prove to MYSELF that I can get rid of my ADD tendency and go towards my goal, whatever that may be. I want to center myself and become zen in my work. Is that possible? I hope so!


  I took this picture earlier today of my wonderfully artistically talented mother, Gayla Hodson. I have always admired my mothers ability to look younger as she aged, and even more beautiful. I have an odd obsession with eyes when it comes to photographs. I always deem to take a picture that captures that true color, vibrancy, and wisdom that eyes seem to show. My mother's are by far a pair of my favorite.

I am so grateful to be blessed with an artistic mother who can help lead the way in the colorful world of artists. That can show various doors, opportunities, and paths I can go towards. I don't know how people with non-artistic parents do it.

My goals for 2011 as an artist:

• Move to Indy or some other metropolis that offers artistic outlets
• Save towards a fish-eye lens
• Get into one major show
• Canvas and market some of my pieces

       My biggest ambition for this year and the years to come is to try to make a piece that I could amplify what I want all of my work to express to my viewers. I'm not sure what that will encompass but I am hoping it will be bright and colorful, and mix different genres of photography into a ball and explode into print.

Mason

   Recently I did a shoot with a five-week premature baby that is now almost three months old and thriving wonderfully. At his first newborn shoot, a little over a week old, we attempted to place him in a stork sack--the end result disastrous. Poor Mason not only hated being in it, naked, but he also was too tiny to see in the sack. Last week we tried it again. At five pounds larger and 2 1/2 months older. The results were beautiful.

 

Pictures like this make me fall in love with my job. When you are able to take semi-par lighting, a toy room, and a teething baby and end with a gorgeous portrayal of infancy--it makes me passionate about the job. It makes me want to take all babies in the world and line them up side by side and see if I can get the same result. Mason makes the job easy because he is a gorgeous little boy [not to say ALL babies aren't gorgeous in some way or another], but I have to wonder if I had less to work with--if I could come up with something quite this captivating. If I didn't have this picture on my SD card I doubt I would believe I actually took it.

      Each time I do a different genre of shoots, I decide it is my "favorite genre". I had yet to do a newborn shoot until Mason, but now I think newborns will be my new 'favorite'. I have an upcoming newborn shoot for a baby named Jack and I am interested to see if I can still say it's my favorite. If I can take some pictures of him that I will love, like I love the pictures I have done of Mason. I am a very critical artist and have a hard time accepting compliments towards my work, but I have to say, as pompous as it sounds...I love this work. Newborn shoots may require more prep, more time in between takes to nurse, rock, or change babies, but I still think the results are worth it.

 

a warm welcome...

 

Incorporating color into the bleakness of a winter's day

Welcome to the new Daisyhead Photography blog. This won't be an official website, nor will it be a professional blog. It will most likely be the daily ramblings of a frustrated photographer trying to find a new outlet. My goal of 2011 is to try to go outside of the box of the 'normal' maternity, child, wedding, newborn & family photographer and make a name for myself in the photography community. I aspire to be the next Ansel Adams or Dorthea Lange, cliche as that is. When I use the word "aspire" I mean I aspire to put the world on its axis with my work--to IN[spire] the next generation of photographers and artists. I don't need to be a household name like them...I just ASPIRE to touch a life or two along the way. It may be a pipe dream, but even the smallest people make the difference.

    What is the point of this blog... In my experience every artist that doesn't unleash their work in some other outlet, seem to implode within themselves. They artistically die. Like the end of a fireworks show on the fourth of July. I am one of those artists that feels themselves slowly imploding and looking for some outlet. I also want a new "hype" way to reach out to my fellow demographic. I hear blogs are slowly dying out...but maybe, just maybe I can reach a few people from my banter and over-analysis of my work. 

      I hope I haven't scared you away with my opening post, but I think if you continue on throughout the weeks, months, hopefully years, I plan on doing this blog...you will see that the reader is also rewarded. Maybe someday I will take a picture that will cheer you up, make you think, make you laugh... If all else fails you can just get a chuckle at me...I promise I take no offense.