champagne!'s photostream  

I love to travel & photograph a bit obsessively pretty much everything. Born and bred in Boston & the south shore of Massachusetts. Married. Silly. Drink a lot of tea. Love champagne (& anything with bubbles) but drink less of it than I used to! Belong to a Jane Austen book club! Love Anais Nin, Dorothy Parker, Jean Rhys & Artemisia Gentileschi. Bit of an art hound and anglophile. Live near the sea. Home decor & style junkie. You know the drill. etcetera, etcetera.

Favorite places to shoot are Italy (especially Rome) and New Orleans, Louisiana. I live in New England so I plan on shooting a lot of picturesque countryside and quaint old New England towns this spring and summer.

I have worked off and on as a freelance photographer and graphic artist but fell out of the loop over the last several years! I spent the last couple of years after my old nikon cameras broke shooting from the hip with my iPhone using instagram and hipstamatic.

I recently upgraded my equipment, bought a canon 60D and two swell tamron lenses. I also have a canon eos5 film camera. I love film, but I love the versatility and storage of digital (and the price of developing film is costly) so I pick and choose my film shoots these days!

I'm mostly self taught though I've studied photography off and on for twenty years - since I was a kid with my first hand me down Nikon film camera. I would like to study more and I hope to build a portfolio (as the cliche goes) this spring & hopefully open part time for on location, primarily natural light portraits of children and babies and the odd engagement shoot. I've shot a lot of local businesses and artists in New Orleans since Katrina.

I joined flickr years ago but haven't been active it in for ages. Looking to reconnect with other photographers here & on tumblr, pinterest, weheartit... etc!