last satellite yay!
July 2, 2016
This is cool. One of the photos from the photo shoot is up on the Last Satellite Instagram page. Yay!
*Hair & makeup by Kate Letherwood, photo by John Allen, Last Satellite Salon
photo shoot success!
June 10, 2016
So I spend all of this time beating up on my workshoppers saying, get a good photo. But I’ve been using a photo taken on a friend’s camera phone that’s over two years old a while now.
Clearly, if I want to set a good example, I had to go out and do new photos right?
[Right. God. Dammit.]
So I did. Yay!
Special thanks to Kate at Last Satellite for hair and makeup and to photographer John Allen for the shots.
“don’t be so hard on yourself” my ass
January 10, 2016
I just got a “don’t be so hard on yourself” comment on Facebook —
It was in response to the Duck Girl post. Which is supposed to be funny and IS tagged #humor btw. Jeez.
It’s a weird and totally aberrant response to a humorous post about a photo.
It’s been my job to objectively evaluate images of myself since I was a model in my teens. That hasn’t changed during acting, writing, or being in some odd way minimally a public figure.
[Yes that image above is me in my teens doing the modeling thing. Check out the goth hair. Yay!]
I don’t remember a photographer or agent ever, when we were evaluating shots and I said, “The lighting is amazing,” or, “It’s a terrible angle,” saying, “Don’t be so hard on yourself.”
Who would say that, evaluating a photo? We weren’t talking about me. We were talking about photos.
Two kinds of people say “Don’t be so hard on yourself” when you’re talking about a photo.
Female “friends” who for some reason feel compelled to take horrible ugly photos of you and post them online. And if you object, say, “Oh don’t be so hard on yourself.”
[I wasn’t being on hard on myself, I was telling you that photo sucks don’t put it online.]
And men who think you could be an easy female mark and a little reverse bolstering might get them in.
[You’re not in, you’re weird and predatory and transparent and scary go away.]
Being hard on myself is me saying to myself, “Look at those marbled thighs for the love of Christ, Go to yoga!”
Saying, “The lighting and angles in that photo suck”?
That has nothing to do with me. That’s about a photo.
PS: I can kick bullshit “something is wrong with you” reverse psychology sash to the curb. I know I am beautiful on film — there’s a portfolio in a closet to prove it. I worry about the girls that don’t have that portfolio in the closet though. So know this:
Photographs are the way someone wants or chooses to see you. Not you. And —
Don’t spend time with people who take ugly photos of you and post them online and when you object? Say, “Don’t be so hard on yourself.”
this one is for kym & mara
March 16, 2015
photo day!
February 7, 2015
I really love this photo — despite the fact, looking at it now, it is clear I need to burn those pants.
That is me and Pumpkin walking through Austin to the Bat Bridge.
Photo by :::Chesher:::
captain america
July 3, 2014
A lone USA supporter dressed as ‘Captain America’ sits in the stands after Belgium defeated the USA 2-1 in extra time to advance to the quarterfinals during the World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Belgium and the USA at the Arena Fonte Nova in Salvador, Brazil, Tuesday, July 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
photo day
July 3, 2014
throw back thursday
June 5, 2014
cry baby cry!
March 6, 2014
Word is [via Slate] Getty images just dropped the pay wall and is trying something new, embeds that link back to the original source. I see that news and think, cool, I can go link some of my Getty photos without the watermark. [See for even me to use Getty photos of me without the watermark, there was some sort of pay scheme going — which seems wrong but there you have it.]
I do a search. They come up, but not on Getty. On Zimio. Whut?
Here’s a Getty photo from the 25th Nicholl Fellowships Awards ceremony. Look how spiff we all look yay!
[L-R: Rafael Arrieta, Donna McNeely, Michele Sutter, Max Adams and David Kurtz attend AMPAS’ 25th Annual Don & Gee Nicholl Fellowships In Screenwriting Dinner at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel on November 4, 2010 in Beverly Hills, California.]
I love that photo but that’s not my favorite photo from that night. My favorite photo is not even a Getty photo it is an iPhone photo shot on the way to the awards when I hadn’t put my heels on yet and was stopping for a Diet Coke on the way. Yay!
[I had been off sugar, chocolate, sodas, coffee, bread and booze for two freaking weeks before the awards ceremony. Your face looks pretty for the camera if you knock all that crud off for a couple weeks — but you are crying hard for a soda. Cry baby cry!]
not your ‘mom’s’ soap bubbles
January 5, 2014
That is not a shot from Hollywood’s upcoming hot new science fiction flick. [Though maybe it should be.] That is a photograph of a frozen soap bubble by Washington photographer Angela Kelly.
Kelly’s images are starkly beautiful and unusual. So starkly beautiful and unusual they’re on the internet everywhere from weather blogs to the Washington Post. Which rocks. It’s amazing when a photographer gets that much coverage for a single series of photographs. It’s career changing.
—> :::see kelly’s flickr portfolio:::
What is disturbing is, while I was trying to unearth the source of these images, I kept getting smacked in the face with “look what happens when a ‘mom’ takes pictures.”
Over and over again, that was a the headline. “Look what a ‘mom’ did.”
I kept wondering, what if a woman is a rocket scientist and designs the space shuttle navigation system, but also has given birth? How are they going to report that? “Look what happens when a ‘mom’ puts a steering wheel in a Space Shuttle”?
I have never seen a man who is a professional photographer and ALSO a parent described by reporters as “look what happens when a ‘dad’ takes out his camera” in national press coverage. Why? Because it’s fecking rude to totally discount someone’s professional accomplishments by diminutizing them with a child’s title for their parental status.
What next? Hillary Clinton is just “a ‘mom’ goes to Washington”?
I do not think so.
So.
For the slow kids in the back row?
Dear Reporters: The correct title you are looking for is “professional photographer.”
You’re welcome.
:::visit professional photographer angela kelly’s facebook page:::
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