Archive for the Family tag
I can’t possibly begin to describe to you the complexities going on in this photo, so hear it directly from the man himself.
Pops is now an official switcher. After 30 odd years attached to a PC, he is now using a Mac, with Aperture no less: “I feel like I just got rid of my old clunker dodge with the AM radio and got a Prius.”
We’re now officially an all-Mac family. Each person with their own rig. When we’re together, we don’t sit in front of the TV, we sit around the living room with laptops, each in his/her own world. Marcia and Mom on their 12″ PBs, Mom playing Bridge games, Marcia tweaking speadsheets (and checking Perez Hilton). Dad, Beth and I on our 15″ MBPs in Aperture tweaking photos. And all of us emailing political/economic articles back and forth.
Welcome to the tribe, Pops.
Lilah is the resident myspace fiend of the family. The kid spends all day writing messages on the social networking teet. Hooked I tell ya. The above pose is her typical rebellious anti-camera pose and as soon as the camera comes out, the hands come up to the face and the hair becomes a flowing dirty blonde shield. Lilah is 13 going on 21, I’ve never met a smarter, more mature 13 year old in my life.
She got a heart a gold.
Bella is the aspiring actor/model of the family. Her personality has the perfect mix of Miranda July’s frank observation of human minutiae and Michel Gondry’s inventive curiosity. This child is eleven and studies Mandarin Chinese. The classes at her school were not so good, so she opted for her own tutor. Bella will probably grow up to be a world-class mathematician with a fierce dedication to fashion. She’s got brains, creativity and style.
This is Claire’s favorite animal pose, an elephant. It also happens to be her signature “don’t take my picture” face sans elephant ear hair braids. You might remember Claire from this photo from awhile back. Claire no longer goes by Claire. You must now call her Coolio. This child is strange. She knows who Coolio is but she doesn’t know what Star Wars is. What is the world coming to?
Her shirt says “go figure”.
My little cousins are here visiting us from New Hope, PA. and we’ve been hanging out this past weekend. They are beyond photogenic and my camera seems to love taking their picture.
more pics over at my flickr stream
UPDATE: the above photo (claire + bella + lilah) was featured over at PhotoDoto, thanks John!
My mom has just returned from a summer long jaunt up in Woodstock, NY (photos from my pops). She’s coming back to a just finished house that she spent the last year designing and building. It’s in the ‘Alta Vista’ colonia (neighborhood) high above old-town Puerto Vallarta. She’s got a sick view with a gorgeous pool, on the other side of that edge, a 40 foot drop to the walkway below. The house is super tight and I’m putting the finishing touches on a start to finish photoset. It’s good to have moms back in the general vicinity, but the downside is that she will no longer be living a half a block away, rather a 40 minute drive to the south side of Vallarta. I have a feeling my spanish is about to get a whole lot more polished.
