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Welcome-archive photo of the day, 6/10/2009

elisa sherman — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:09:17 +0000

The image here was my first, and really only try at shooting film at a show…I shot an old 35mm fully manual slr(Minolta SRT 101, 55mm f1.7 lens) along side my old Olympus ultra zoom point and shoot…to date it is still one of my favorite early concert photography images from my archives!

Welcome – archive photo of the day, 6/9/2009

elisa sherman — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:15:13 +0000

Tim Farriss…riff making guitarist for the legendary Aussie rock band, INXS…he is a viewfinders dream…he does love mugging for the camera;) This is one of my favorite early fan photos that definitely led me to pursuing this genre of photography more seriously…Thanks Tim!

Welcome – archive photo of the day 6/8/2009

elisa sherman — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:38:28 +0000

This photo showed up today as the most viewed photo in my flickr stream, so it seemed appropos…the color version is the 9th image in my portfolio…

Welcome – archive photo of the day, 6/5/2009

elisa sherman — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:08:21 +0000

…the above is one of the images from the header…I took it at a Folk Festival in Seoul…This man went out with the other festival performers…he was just part of the onlooking crowd, and was just having he best time joining in…you can see the pure joie de vivre on his face as he danced…

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Have a great day!

xoxo

~Elisa

Welcome – archive image of the day 6/4/2009

elisa sherman — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:06:18 +0000

This is probably my first favorite vacation photo…I fell in love with the fact we could see Maui there in the horizon peaking through the haze……..

Welcome – archive image of the day 6/3/2009

elisa sherman — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:50:45 +0000

I think as a tradition for the front page of this site, I will choose a photo from the archives and post it here each day, to keep it fresh, and tell a little story about what led to that image: happenstance, travels, assignment, etc…

This is not a replacement for my blog at photosbyelisa.com/blog, it’s just a nice little front page highlight:)

So here’s the first entry for June 3rd, 2009…

The above image features a multiple exposure of the Fairmont Olympic, downtown Seattle–all ghostly and whatnot…

Anyways, here’s the backstory…While buying new lenses last spring, I saw the plastic holga’s on sale at the camera store…only $25 dollars! I had read and seen various photos taken with them, and I thought why not…so I just threw it into my rather large lense purchase (Canon EF & EFS lenses for my XTi) and went on over to the film building to trail back to their refrigerated film section to pick out some 120 film–had never bought any out of a fridge before!

Anywho, I chose some b/w and color…and took it around town along w/my XTi over the next few weekends…I played a lot, I confess, with multi exposures, just to see what crazy artsy images I could create…it was great fun awaiting the development of rolls and scanning in the cool shots…I might make a print of this and hang it, it is easily one of my favorites, as well as one of the first few frames…I would call this type of image… “artistic happenstance”…

Until tomorrow…

xoxo

~Elisa