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Good Morning Friends!  Happy Monday!!

I’m super excited…have four photo shoots planned for this week, and on Saturday, I’m photographing an actress/singer whose debut album will soon be released.

Wishing all of you a beautiful and most splendid week!

source: photographs and layout 1 thru 4 © Ty Keennon; photograph 5, photographer unknown.

Saturday Loves 03

Happy Weekend!   I just returned home from pilates.  I feel great!  Just finishing up this post, will replenish my water bottle with coconut water, then it’s off to the gym for 5 to 6 miles of cardio.

Will spend the rest of the weekend reading, editing photos, organizing my home office, and cleaning my photography gear for next week’s photo shoots.

…a few lovely links that have inspired me this past week…

I’m endlessly intrigued with photographer’s homes and studios.  Ana Malin has been incredibly gracious to share photographs of her charming bedroom.

The photographs of Ray K. Metzker are currently on display at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles until February 24, 2013.   Metzker’s innovative use of compositing images, perceptual intricacies, and compelling use of depth of field was considered ground breaking at the time.

During the Christmas holidays, hubby and I watched Moonrise Kingdom written by Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola.  If you enjoy nostalgia and quirkiness, you too, will love this movie!

My Scandinavian Home featured Nina Hoist’s chic Norwegian Home.  Nina is the curator for the popular blog, Stylizimo.

I’m enchanted by Louis Vuitton’s L’Invitation Au Voyage Advertising Campaign. Beautifully edited, there’s so much movement and story crammed into 60 seconds, perhaps this is why there have been more than 19 million views on You Tube.

Encouraging inspiration for creatives courtesy Ira Glass via Sparks; and lastly, I recently updated my cool vibes playlist.  I added Sunset by the British Indie trio The xx.  You can find the song here.

Have a fabulous and fun weekend!  Take care!

Unfurling Falling Petals

Taking a short break from chores to read poetry while merlot tinged silken peony petals ripened by age—unfurl, collapse, then fall away.

While dusting bookshelves, I stumbled across the following bookmarked poem:

The Outpouring

by David Meuel

It’s the wetness I like.

The way your pores give birth to glittering salty beads

that sprout about your forehead

and run down your cheeks.

Tiny, clinging waterfalls.

The way their adhesive yields

as I unwrap you

each part of your blouse

peeling like sections of a moist tomato skin.

The way more beads grease our kissing bellies,

letting them slap and slide

like rapids on rocks in a river

pounding its path to the sea.

source:  The Outpouring poem by David Meuel appears in Intimate Kisses edited by Wendy Maltz; photographs © Ty Keennon - Henry Peony

New Year’s Day: 2013

Happy New Year!!

Today, my heart is filled with amazing joy for 2013!

I have been blessed with another wonderful year to achieve and transform my dreams into realities…

Warm heartfelt wishes to you…May 2013 bring  you  an  abundance  of creativity, joy, love, peace, and endless merriment!

source:  Kate Moss photographed by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott for W Magazine 2005 via Kate Moss.