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The Very Best Saturday [Bristol, RI]

admin — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 14:37:26 +0000

I’m fortunate enough to have a pretty wonderful boyfriend, and he further cemented his place in my cold, black heart with the notion of spending an afternoon rummaging through antique stores. In fact, he’d already looked some up. Be still my beating heart! Off to Bristol, RI we went.

This involved 3 of my favorite things: 1. Old shit 2. Shopping 3. Instagram opportunities. And I got to do it with my favorite fella. It was pretty awesome and I’ve got the Instagrams to prove it.

The first place, Alfreds, was cramped full of beautiful things…a lot of Asian art and furniture. We fell in love with this piece and couldn’t leave without it. It needs a better frame but look.at.it.

Next we walked over to Robin Jenkins Antiques. This place was great, it’s small but full of cool things. I am having remorse over not grabbing a pair of vintage specs and a book of circus posters, but I did grab a beautiful sterling ring and a fun shot of her vintage election buttons!

Last up was probably my favorite just because of the sheer volume of amazing junk/treasure, Second Helpings Consignment on Gooding Ave in Bristol.

So much to see and check out the haul we came home with.

Vintage Coca-Cola tray

Close up of two small framed drawings. $6/each!

Trippiest ginger snap tin ever.

AMAZING tin recipe box full of blank cards. Score! Nick spotted this and the Coca-Cola tin for me…he’s good!

And $4.00 worth of fabric, which has glamourized my wall behind the living room TV.

After being struck by a couple of LL Bean catalog models driving a ginormous SUV making an illegal 3-point turn, we settled in for lunch at Leo’s Ristorante on Hope Street. I got the eggplant parm and garlic bread and Nick got a “petite” pizza (that lived up to its name!) The food was delicious though and the staff was very friendly.

I’ve decided I love Bristol and of course, my amazing guy.

Sunset over Battleship Cove

admin — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:09:29 +0000

Enjoyed some “photoshop for fun” time after my wedding edit session tonight. I’m really pleased with this one.

Tonight’s Sunset

admin — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:05:28 +0000

City scenes!

admin — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:34:46 +0000

Here’s a couple photos I took in my neighborhood. I’m on a mission to pull some decent photos out of this miserable place, because I like a challenge like that.

Laundry in the City

And the inescapable plague that is advertising.

And just to keep this post from being too cynical, my son in his first “big boy” bath. The sink can no longer contain his water-splashing fury. Or I can’t. Either or.

Shooting Local

admin — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:24:31 +0000

I’m pretty mad at myself for not shooting more…you know…outside of my living room. I ventured out for a couple of hours yesterday shooting around Fairhaven and New Bedford. I wasn’t wild about a lot of the pics but came away with a few cool ones. The cannon is my favorite, I would have had a lot more but a pack of hoodrat teenagers were intentionally walking into my frame after the first shot. Jerks.

An update for Aunt Nancy

admin — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 18:03:43 +0000

Just when I thought no one would notice me neglecting my photo blog!

Moving pretty much zapped most of my time but here’s a few photos from the last month. I’ll be updating later with last night’s Withered Sun promo pictures.

365.74 – Random Selfie II

365.69 – Me, at home. (For The Hideout’s “You at home” self portrait challenge.)

365.70 – Baby Mackin’

Last Minute Family Photo for Xmas Presents. Which reminds me I need to get some printed…

(Taken sitting against my son’s white wall, strobe behind a shoot-through umbrella to camera right. Reflector disk to our left to fill in some light)

365.47 – Well, shit. (Only snow could make Fall River look that pretty.)