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All of these photos I took inside the exhibit..to show what stunning work he has accomplished.

This next photo is my favorite, I was sitting there watching this older gentlemen look at this photo of Marilyn Monroe and I knew I had to snap this. The angle almost looks as though she is peerly directly back at him.

A photo of another famous photographer, below.

One of his earlier images

A self portrait in the reflection, below.

A photo below of a man’s stomach with severe scars.

The detail in his portrait work is incredible…

This next photo below is 8 x 10′s of politicians and political figures from around the world that he was commissioned to do portraits of.

A self portrait of Avedon in his prime

and lastly, a series of self portraits of Avedon two years before he passed away

It was an awesome exhibit and I recommend to anyone who can see it, go! I believe it’s traveling around the country, just click on his website!

In other news, I have so much to post, I’m finishing up a fundraiser that I was a part of that I can’t wait to post images from, I’m working on a brand new wedding website for 2010 and trying to update my current portrait site!! Lots of plans in the making!! Keep checking in! XOXO

This first photo below on the left is of a mailbox surrounded by rocks that sits at the top of the Summit. Inside the mailbox is a pen and notepad..every person who Summits Mt Olympus writes in their name, the date and something they may want to say of significance. It was very meaningful.

You can see the boulders that we are climbing are huge!  But then…we reach the top!! Here the girls are signing in their names…

One of the many views from the top – all of the Valley and beyond!

I encourage anyone who loves to hike to make it a goal to hike Mt Olympus, you won’t regret it!!

I have been meaning to post my 365 photos everyday now and everyday slips by…so beware because I am about to post 18 days worth of this project..so photo overload ahead…I am entering a new phase of this project..at first when I started it was something “new” to do, then boredom ensued because I just was so tired of having to constantly think about the “next photo and the next day” and what was I going to do…but now I am coming to a new phase and that is one of excitement and looking at the world in a different way each day..how many times have I just walked by a leave with raindrops falling on it and thought nothing of it..but now it’s a new oppourtunity to photograph it. Or my dogs leash…I walk him almost everyday and then I started looking at his leash differently..the way it spirals around in my hand as we walk proved interesting so I took my camera out. It’s been these little things that have made this project worth pursueing..it hasn’t been easy but I am enjoying it…I hope a few of you are too..

so here are days 137-155/365

p.s. images are film and digital. if you want a little fun thing to do and are extremely bored, ha! ha! go back through some previous posts, many of what I have been posting is film.

102/365…

Or out of focus?

Does a photo always have to be “in focus” to be considered interesting?

I like the one out of focus, I think it makes a normal everyday coffee cup just a bit more interesting..by the way I love coffee!! Love the smell of it, love tasting it, love everything about it!

Leave me a comment and let me know which one you like better!! Come on, don’t be shy!