Key to the Hound’s Heart – A Halloween theme photoshoot
Year 11. Eleven years of dreaming up an image every Halloween, inspired by and centered around our goodest girl, Willow the Wild. Unfortunately, and not dissimilar to previous years, the world is heavy with hurt. So much pain, violence, injustice, death and despair. I’m not here to write about that, there are far better voices […]
A Ten-Year Spell: Capturing Halloween’s Hauntingly Beautiful Moments
Themed photoshoots are our jam. They are a journey of personal discovery – a project that’s entirely outside of the ‘business’ of photography. Thoughtfully chosen, a recurring personal theme can wield a power that pushes aside bleak thoughts or burnout and keeps us falling in love with our craft over and over again. Halloween became […]
Willow, this is for you – a Halloween theme photoshoot
Year 10. We’ve been doing this anti-burnout creative project for ten years! This year marks the tenth concept we bring to life; and our supernatural dog muse celebrated her 10th birthday. Every concept is tied to her, inspired by her, dedicated to her, created for her because… she came into our lives and opened a […]
A Visit to Madame Leota- a Halloween theme photoshoot
I probably say it every year. My favorite thing about doing this Halloween project for the past nine years (nine???), is the ability to bring a little magic and creativity during a time when we feel burnout most heavily. This is truer still, in the wake of a pandemic we are all still trying to […]
Soñé con un Alebrije- a Halloween theme photoshoot
Part of doing a yearly Passion Project is knowing that it, like many of our collective plans this year, could easily be sidetracked or otherwise postponed. The term “hindsight 2020” will take on a whole different meaning for all of us. This year has indeed been brutal with a global pandemic, a deeply divided political […]
The Moon – a Halloween theme photoshoot
Our favorite season is back! And with it, the 6th year in a row for our Halloween Passion Project. We had toyed around with a few different ideas to bring to life this year, which is good because that means we will be pre-prepared with ideas for future pieces. This particular one had been hanging […]
EXPECTO PATRONUM! a Halloween theme photoshoot
“This ancient and mysterious charm conjures a magical guardian, a projection of all your most positive feelings. The Patronus Charm is difficult, and many witches and wizards are unable to produce a full, corporeal Patronus, a guardian which generally takes the shape of the animal with whom they share the deepest affinity. You may suspect, […]
FOREVER TOGETHER: Celebrating All Souls
For the third year in a row, I have been dreaming up ideas for our fantasy-themed shoot, one where we let loose and where limits and “inside-the-box” thinking are not welcome. I had a book full of ideas for this year, but with the launch of our new site, time kept creeping up on us, […]
Once Upon a Dream : A Halloween Theme Photoshoot
If you spent 5 minutes talking to me about creating for a living, you will hear me say time and time again how important I think personal work is. When putting food on the table depends on your creativity day in and day out, it is very easy to feel drained, tired and uninspired; the […]
Howls and Ghosts : A Halloween Theme Photoshoot
I had forgotten how much fun themed photoshoots are. We used to do them in photo school all the time, and kept it up when we were a part of the 52 Weeks Project. Life happens, your busy season starts and time left for personal work can be hard to find. But since we are […]
