Tripping on Asphalt
This past few weeks I’ve been packaging awards entries for clients right and left, so it was exciting to receive some great feedback.
The design team at Beinfield Architecture has been awarded a 2012 Business in Architecture Award from the Connecticut American Institute of Architects (CT AIA) for this great private jet hangar and FBO.
The coolest thing about this award for me, besides the experience of taking photos at dusk on an airport tarmac, is what it takes to win according to the AIA’s criteria:
This statewide award honors architects for solving business problems for Connecticut clients, thereby demonstrating the power of architecture to shape business performance, to improve peoples’ lives and provide a value added service to clients in a business setting that far exceeds the costs of that service.
It’s why we do, what we do, right?
Mom always taught you to share…
Oh eM Gee I may have a heart attack and die today
between this awesome guest blogging opportunity on the fabulous Paola’s blog, Mirror Mirror
and wanting to make it funny.
(Check me out there later this week? Please?)
How the hell do you make Five Top Tips for Architectural Photography funny?!
And now I get an email saying that I have a package at home.
A package. At home.
The only thing this package could possibly be is the NEW AWESOME AMAZING GAZILLION DOLLAR MYSTICAL MAGICAL LENS I ORDERED FROM B&H PHOTO!
And I cannot possibly play with my new lens, which was made by unicorns, and write this crazy incredible blog post that has to be funny at the same time. And wasn’t there something about working on an updated photography website this month. I seem to have forgotten…
*sigh*
I am Wonder Woman. Well… I have the outfit at least. I can totally do this. Oh, man, I think the outfit is in one of the boxes. In that room. That horrible, horrible room.
*sigh*
I need to lie down. Here. In this photograph. Now.
It’s the only way I’ll survive.
Mom always taught you to share…
This is an interior photograph of my laminate floor, which happens to include my brand new sneakers and a kettle bell. I took this photo, of my floor, to guilt myself into using the workout equipment pictured. Because, how seriously lazy would it be for me to stage this photograph of a kettle bell and fab new sneakers and then not use them in the way in which they were intended. Especially since my husband got up at the ass-crack of pre-dawn to use his (way way way larger) kettle bell and sneakers while I slept.
‘clink’ ‘clink’ ‘clink’ {stirs Crystal Head Vodka over ice}
Ooops.
Mom always taught you to share…
Today is Diana’s 70th Birthday. Thankfully. she was feeling well enough for us to take her out to an amazing dinner at Michael’s in Brooklyn. She told Dug stories of me playing the piano in the historic Italian restaurant when I wasn’t even 10 years old. We had the best traditional Italian meal and a lot of laughs.
Clearly we know where I inherited all the drama. Here are just a couple of the family facial expressions of incredulity. This is Diana wondering why I’m taking pictures “without a pretty background.” She was busy with more than a few calls from well-wishers throughout the day.
I didn’t manage to get the shot Diana loves that chronicles the food of the event, but that menu was seriously spectacular. Funny how she and I have the very same ‘why the eff are you bothering me’ look. Doesn’t she look cute in her reading glasses?
Shortly after this photo Diana reminded us, yet again, that she hated the cake at our wedding. Six months ago. A cake that we forgot to order until 3 days before the wedding because, well, I dislike all cake. And Dug never met a cake he didn’t like, so I guess it wasn’t that important to us. Neither of us actually had a piece of the cake on the day, nor did we take any home to eat on our first anniversary. But the conversation got heated slightly heated nonetheless and more than a little funny. And the truth is, after 70 years on this planet, she has pretty much earned the right to hate any cake she wants. Her only daughter’s wedding or otherwise. So, Diana, you’re right. Your cake wins.
Mom always taught you to share…
Purple is my favorite color, though I’ve never used it to decorate in my own home… well, that’s not exactly true… my last bedroom closet was stripped an amazing shade of glossy purple and a matte lavender. But Havilande Whitcomb Design brings purple unabashedly out into the open to create this incredibly fun, yet serene, seating area that I had the pleasure to photograph for Beinfield Architecture. Between the colors, the animal skin, the reclaimed hemlock wood floor and ceiling, the airiness, and the elegant, modern toddler toy, this nook looks like it was designed just for me to sit and read a gajillion books.
I’ll have to settle for the photograph.
Mom always taught you to share…
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