roundness

Well, January is over folks, but there's no need to grieve - this photo-a-day project will continue!  We'll be inviting a guest photographer to join us each month, so if you would like to be one of our guests, please get in touch.  You can email me at info@monicalacey.com.

Joining us for the month of February is Lee Clarke.  You'll be able to see his photos here. Lee is a great friend, and creativity seeps out of his pores full time in the form of music, writing, and artwork; we're very happy to have him on board!

Also, we really appreciate you sharing this project & telling your friends!  We hope you continue to follow and enjoy in the months ahead.

If you've been following the blog but you're unfamiliar with my other artwork, come have a look here.

Roundness. Here are the tunes I was listening to today while I did my shoot. See Juliana's photo for today here.

untitled (visual buzz) - monica lacey 2013

B&W

Oh Black & White, my old love.  I can still remember the first darkroom course I ever took, a million years ago, when we all shot film, in 1996, at Holland College, and I was addicted. I would spend all night in there printing photos.  The following year, when I entered the full-time Photography program, I got in trouble because I refused to shoot colour.  Those rich blacks & glowing whites still have my heart, even after all these years and all these other colour palettes.  I had a little fun with it today :)
See Juliana's photo here.  Tomorrow we shoot our last theme for January, Roundness.  I'll fill you in tomorrow about February and the continuing adventures of this photo-a-day project!

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directions

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gnocchi carbonara - monica lacey 2013

Every Tuesday at the Superstore here in Charlottetown they have a cooking class/lunch event.  It's always delicious, you go home with recipes & lots of great information, and you pay 10$, but then they give you a 10$ gift card - so it's basically free.  The chef gives you full directions and goes over the recipe.  Today my mom & I went & feasted on the gnocchi carbonara (the king of all the sauces) and a green lentil & green bean nicoise salad.  Delish.  

This afternoon I took a trip to the Belfast Mini Mills, one of my favorite places ever to buy art supplies.  You get greeted by this guy, need I say more?

look at those eyelashes - monica lacey 2013

Because you can never have too much llama, here he is with his trusty sheep sidekick:

buds - monica lacey 2013

Check out Juliana's photo here.  Tomorrow is B&W (black & white).

ice

In PEI, where I live, it has been one #$#%^! cold January - record-breaking, in fact.  I was all set to go out & photograph lovely icicles hanging from the eaves, and then today - finally - the temperature went up a bit, all the way to -8!  So, no icicles, due to the 'melt'.  But the sun was out & the nasty street ice-dirt was shining, so that's what I turned my lens toward.  Here is a glamour shot of ice-dirt, for your viewing pleasure.  That stuff will stick around until May.  See Juliana's photo here.  Tomorrow is Directions.

gunmetal ice - monica lacey 2013

nourishment

quiche me - monica lacey 2013

Nourishment for me today meant doing lots of yoga, putting in some time on my current painting, having quality time with my sweetheart and by myself, and this tasty supper we made together.  Today was actually the first time I've photographed food.  It's amazing how awful you can make it look, playing with different lighting & effects - you can make it look so gross!  I had fun with it though, and then I ate it when the shoot was finished, yum :-)  Arranging the setting had me thinking of the amazing credits at the beginning of Napoleon Dynamite, remember those?  The delicious sprouts you see there are from my amazing farmer friend Soleil (she's both an amazing farmer and an amazing friend).  If you're in PEI you can get those sprouts at the Riverview Market.  See Juliana's photo here.  Tomorrow is Ice.  No shortage of that where I am...

shelter

my neighbour's house - monica lacey 2013

This is a shot of the adorable playhouse my neighbours built last summer for their kids.  I think it's such a lovely little house!  See Juliana's photo here.  Tomorrow is Nourishment.

passages

the old wall - monica lacey 2013

Well, I have a bit of a confession to make.  I did three different shoots today and wasn't happy with any of them.  I was feeling pretty frustrated when I realized I had a shot from this past fall, taken in Sardegna, that I really wanted to use, and that fit my vision for this theme.  So I used an older photo.  Not proud of it, but I did still shoot today, multiple times.  You gotta do what you gotta do.  See Juliana's photo here.  Tomorrow is Shelter.