February 11, 2004

mustard flowers

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Mustard flowers, Santa Cruz, Polaroid SX-70

You all are making it very hard to choose the winning stories. They are all so good! The judges are making their final selections...

In the meantime, here is a photographer that will knock yer socks off. Her name is Loretta Lux and she is my new photo hero. How in good god did she get these images to look so magical?

Posted on February 11, 2004 09:46 AM
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loretta is one of my favourite photographers as well.

i was actually in conversation with her about being able to show her photographs in the gallery. she mesmerized me with her photographs, but she is just as amazing a woman in life. having not yet met her personally, but her emails, the phone calls.

she sees the world in a magical way.

another one of my favourite photographers is joyce tenneson [www.joycetenesson.com] and she also has an amazing project called The Light Warriors [www.lightwarriors.org]

and the beauty in it all, is that each and everyone of us sees the world in a way, that no one else can. and these are the things we share... the magic in us.


oxo

Posted by: angela at February 21, 2004 05:18 AM

Went to the opening of Loretta Lux. It was so great to see the art. Thanks.

Posted by: Christine at February 13, 2004 10:57 AM

Awesome!! I just went to Loretta's site and the photos are just amazing. Thank you for sharing the link. I Love your photo of the mustard flowers as well.

Posted by: Julia at February 12, 2004 03:24 PM

WoW - very interesting portraits - great link, once again.

Posted by: stef at February 12, 2004 01:36 PM

Wow! i just went to Loretta's web site. Stunning. Stunning.

And I am even more blown away that she painted the backgrounds herself.

a

Posted by: andrea at February 12, 2004 01:31 PM

Your photograph is so refreshing. This is coming from someone who hasn't seen flowers growing outside in a couple of months. Loretta Lux's photos are beautiful. I have to wonder though, how does she get her subjects to stand so still? Children, I would think are very difficult to photograph in a pose.

Posted by: Claudia at February 12, 2004 06:03 AM

andrea,

you must not realize the way your photographs touch people also, they are just wonderful.

Posted by: jenn at February 12, 2004 05:24 AM

Loretta Lux has her own website, too, where you can see more of her work - and a gorgeous self-portrait: http://www.lorettalux.de/

Posted by: Katrin at February 12, 2004 04:22 AM

The text below the photos on the site says something about how she puts the images together. The backgrounds are actually paintings!
They're amazing - thanks for the link!

Posted by: anja at February 12, 2004 12:59 AM

andrea, youre always providing good links!

Posted by: azura at February 11, 2004 06:29 PM

why thank you!
:)

I think she must have put the portrait and the background together digitally. (masterfully)

If so, what an excellent use of technology!
andrea

Posted by: andrea at February 11, 2004 05:47 PM

I think your mustard flowers have a special bit of magic in them as well.

I'm really curious as to how her photos were put together. They're very surreal.

Posted by: rachael at February 11, 2004 05:37 PM