I'm the short girl with a camera in front of her face
I spent today in Elmwood Park for a bitch photoshoot with a friend and awesome photographer Teresa Prince. Teresa came up with this awesome project to take portraits of various girls with signs depicting what kind of bitch they believe they are. This is a project for girls to take back and own bitch as a word. I loved the idea of the project and jumped at the chance to participate. It was a rather rainy and dreary day today but since we had both rescheduled this shoot about a million times, we decided to stick it out. I’ve been to Elmwood before but not often and was able to find plenty of cool places to take photos. We managed to not get rained on and also got some cool portraits of yours truly. I won’t lie, I enjoy getting my photo taken. To see my portrait and many others you can visit Teresa’s blog or check out the facebook Bitch album.
When we wrapped up the shoot I decided to wander Elmwood a bit to take some fun nature-esque photos. It had just rained that morning so I couldn’t resist because the leaves were looking extra green today. I think I managed to find some blog worthy photos to share here. Enjoy!
For some reason I really like taking solidarity photos. I felt weird creeping on this guy because he looked like he was trying to having a moment to himself. Maybe the reason why I like taking photos like the one above is because I like to imagine what they are thinking. Sure, the view is ok, but there’s a reason why they are here alone clearly out of visible public sight. I also felt a litle scared of taking his photo, maybe I’ve lost a bit of my photojournalism touch but I was worried about what would happen if this man knew I was taking his picture. That, or I was afraid of ruining his moment alone or ruining the natural moment I was trying to capture.
