Glamour at the Roundhouse. {Twin Cities, Minnesota | Creative Portrait Photography}

What do vintage glamour and steam engines have in common?  Everything!

I had the amazing luxury of a "photographer playdate" with a wonderful friend and photographer (her lovely work can be found right here).  We decided to do a forties-style shoot at a local train museum.  Because... well, why not?

So, without further ado...

What Photographers Do on Their Free Spring Weekends:

Simple Things.

At times a photographer forgets to take shots of the every day things.  To help us remember these important shots of real life, a group of photographers that I am involved with have decided to start a little blog series called "The Simple Things."  Every month we will photograph one of those simple moments in our lives.  At the end of the month we each will make a blog post and share our stories.  At the bottom of each blog post will be a link to another photographer in the group so you can share her story, forming a complete circle of stories.  I hope you will enjoy these posts of "The Simple Things."

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THE SIMPLE THINGS: CURIOUS GEORGE READS A BOOK.

This is George.

He is a good little monkey and always very curious.

Today George is reading a book.  George is a smart monkey but he is still very little, so he doesn't know all the words in his book.  He tries and tries.  

George soon gets tired.  Reading is hard work for a little monkey.

This is George's brother, Sam.  Sam also likes to read.

George sees Sam reading.  George is very curious.  Is this a good way to get Sam to read with him?

No.  But Sam has a better idea.  "Come over here, George," he says.  "I will tell you what this book says.  It is a good book.  You will like it."

George does like the book.  But he likes Sam even more.


The end.  


For more Simple Things, visit the wonderful photographer Nikki Ruttley of Spalding, UK.

The Fab Four

Ladies and gentlemen... give a nice warm welcome to...

Quartet Tzigane!  They are an amazing piano quartet (violin, viola, cello and piano), and the four members are between the ages of twelve and fifteen.  They can play Mozart like... well, Mozart.   Young musicians always "get" Mozart.

"The sonatas of Mozart are too easy for children and too difficult for artists."
~ Artur Schnabel

(Except that these kids are artists.  Artists who can play Mozart.  And a lot of other difficult repertoire.)

At times during our photo shoot they reminded me of some other foursome... Hmmm....I can't put my finger on it...

Now listen to them play Movement Four from William Walton's Piano Quartet in d minor while you look at the rest of the photos.

(Are you listening?)

It's nice to see the world in such capable, music-making hands as theirs.  It gives one a lot of hope for our future.

And besides: being a musician is fun.  Just ask Mozart.  And the Beatles.  And these four.