A few photos from my vacation, where I was stung by a wasp and slightly sunburnt in the same place (and only there. Sunscreen is wonderful.)
More to come, blues and sunlight and summer flowers. Here in SF it’s cold and I really need a scarf that doesn’t cause me to itch like the animal allergies I have. We have bright, warm lunches outside and then cold walks home in the fog at night- the best of both worlds, but everyone seems to hate it besides me. My stoutness protects me from cold bones.
Long awkward video starts now.
giveaway results from Amalia Sieber on Vimeo.
I sure do say “anyway” and “so” and “anyway, so” a lot. Urggh. Tongue-tied! I’ll be emailing you winners soon to get your addresses and double-check your winning choices :D
(Lee, Kenta, Clare, Rachel Reagan)
(Due to the fact that I’ve gotten over 1000 spam comments this week on this entry, comments are now closed.)
Wow. It is certainly hard work editing 5 variations per photo of my Fade to Black. But I love all versions, so here is my second installation. (If you missed my first f2b series, here it is.)
(Final peeling result and putting the two halves back together.)
The left is about an hour after I shot it, which darkened quickly since it was so cold. The right is by the time I got home and got everything ready to scan at first pass, almost completely dark!
These two images are the results of peeling the photo, which halts the darkening. The left is a BW “negative” and has a matte finish, and before it dries after peeling, it’s easily distorted. So don’t touch it or you will lose proper sharpness and shading- you can kinda see my handprint in the tree area =| The right is the clear negative that holds the color after peeling. I love how watercolor-like this half seems!
If you haven’t entered yet, don’t forget about my print+polaroid giveaway! It ends on Tuesdayyyy.
It’s been a while since I’ve done something cool to my hair. I saw this Vogue spread months ago featuring Abbey Lee Kershaw and decided to do it sometime in the summer. Here we are. Since I couldn’t find a pink I liked, I mixed 2 oz of Cotton Candy and 1 oz Red Passion, both by Manic Panic. (I was hoping to buy Special Effects but my Sally Beauty Supply is limited.)
(Past Amalias have sported bleached tips for 2 years of high school, dark brown tips for hs graduation, shaved head, mohawk, pixie cut. Finally after 2 years of growing out, long but two-toned hair turned dipdyed pink.)
Mmm. So back during Spring ‘Roid Week I mentioned I’d be doing a print giveaway, not mentioning when. People have probably forgotten by now, because that was in May. Yikes! But since I’ve finally gotten 100 shop hearts on etsy [http://www.etsy.com/shop/amaliachimera] and it’s my birthday next Wednesday, I’m doing a three-parted giveaway. Giveaway trinity. People have been really generous to me on polanoid and flickr so I wanted to give back.
The prrrriiizes!
As I said, this is a giveaway trinity, so your one entry actually gives you three different chances to win.
one, two, three, four, five
six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve
Winner Two gets to choose one set of two 5×5 or 5×7 print- duos – they are paired by the duo.
one, two, three, four, five, six
Winner Three gets an original Polaroid! Not a print.
one is a variation of this, two, three
four, five, six is a variation of this
The rules.
1. As your entry, tell me your favorite book.
You only get one entry, but you can tell me about however many books you love! I love books so I’m always looking for new recommendations.
2. Tell me what photo you would pick for each giveaway. Look to the above photos for what you can choose.
**A couple more things- this ends next Tuesday night, July 27 at midnight PDT, and I’ll draw the winners on the 28th (my birthday!). As on the 30th I’m going back east for a week, I’ll send them before I leave- therefore you MUST leave a valid email in the required field, not in the comment, so spammers won’t steal it. Only I can see your email and will never use it for anything but if you win.**
Recently a very kind SF (The Gentleman Amateur) traded me my 600BW for his Fade2Black film. Although at first I vowed never to use f2b, seeing the amazing yellow-whites and red midtones and cyan shadows made me crazy with jealousy, but by the time I saw examples and changed my mind, it was all sold out.
I decided to document all the stages possible for what I shot. The whole pack was shot in 4 hours during a day at Sutro Baths/Seal Rock Beach/Sutro Heights park, probably my favorite place in the city limits of San Francisco. And walking distance. It was chilly and windy (WHICH I LOVE, geez people in the city are always complaining about fog and cold but that’s why I LOVE ITTTTT) and it reminded me of being on the moors, since I was hanging out among ruins. Except that I’ve never been to Great Britain, but it was always how I imagined it from BBC period films.
Left is an hour after I shot it, which I think darkened quickly since it was so cold. Right is by the time I got home and got everything ready to scan at first pass, almost dark!
In order to stop f2b from going all the way to black, you have to peel the Polaroid open and let it dry out, so you get two images. The left which holds all the form and most of the picture’s shading, but is in black & white! The right is the clear negative which houses the color. I love it because it looks like a painting.
This is the final peeling result, after putting the two halves back together…amazing that the colors lightened back to how they looked initially after I shot it. I got home a little disparaged because they darkened so quickly, but it all turned out beautifully I think.
The most beautiful colors chase the sun
They wrap her trail in a taunting gesture
That seems to sing out loud,
“This is what you’re missing”
Sun Hands….such a good song.
I love living by the ocean. Baker Beach is a short walk away, and Seal Rock Beach is double the walk but also worth it. This past weekend, San Francisco was in the high 70′s and we spent the days basking in the sun along with hundreds of other people thankful for the chance at a summer glow.
Not as many Jersey Shore wannabes as in Santa Cruz, thankfully, but if you wander closer to Golden Gate Bridge then you may see a naked body or ten (part of Baker Beach is a nude beach! heh), so each area has its downfalls. But lots of sun. My hair is blonder already!
Growing up is difficult to me, not because of dealing with money and paying rent and doing taxes and hangovers and growing wider, but really just moving away from friends. The chosen exodus in four directions after high school and college graduations. Here in California, I have my good friends but no best friends (excluding Brian, o’course), and boy do I miss youse guyse. Alphabetical order GO!
Ame, bridge balancer extraordinaire, lives in Austin and hangs out at music festivals and rivers.
Emily, sun catcher back then with short hair, lives in Winston-Salem for grad school and hangs out with cats/bunnies/bears.
Julie, whose hair glows pink in the snow, is also in Austin but strangely doesn’t know Ame.
And Sarah, my first Esquire Theatre friend that was formed by her making fun of me, a sign of a similar mindset. Currently MIA (but possibly in Ohio, Kentucky, or Alabama?), due to cancelling her cell phone/facebook/not responding to my emails because they may be in a spam folder. :(((
Bonus favorite goofy photos.
whoa whoa two posts in one day?! These are my latest forays in the new(ish) PX100 film. By latest I mean I took these during the last month. May has flown by so quickly! Especially for being a month with 31 days – somehow I’ve lost my sense of time. (It’s hard spending so much time alone these days!)
*Steff modeling a dress that sold like 3 hours after I listed it on etsy. I love it when that happens!
