Suzanne Carey Photography

What is a “faceless portrait?” Let’s start with what a portrait is. Wikipedia states, “A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant.” To me, a “faceless portrait” is a representation of a person but without showing their face.

When I sat down to really think about it, I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I am friends with a ballet dancer and her family. I have photographed her many times, including her senior portraits. I thought it would be so neat to photograph her feet. I have always heard the about the damage and abuse that is done to a ballet dancer’s feet. It was a somewhat amusing phone call to make to tell her I really wanted to photograph her feet. She was very kind and let me do it.

I could not think of a better representation of her, this gorgeous dancer. Her feet show the countless hours that she has spent perfecting her craft since she was a little girl. I have watched her dance on several occasions and she never ceased to amaze me!

I had to include a few of her actually dancing because she looks so beautiful!

Please do not forget there are other fabulous photographers that you must continue to see! Up next is Celeste Jones of Celeste Jones Photography, Wilmington Delaware Photographer. She was the brain-child behind our theme this week so I cannot wait to see what she did!

I am so excited to be involved with a new group for a bi-monthly project for 2012. If you are new here, let me explain! I am involved with a group of other photographers from all over the US and Canada! We will have themes that we will use to inspire us with our photography. 13 are “Me & Mine” which allows us to be in the picture with our families and 13 weeks of creative themes.  I love the challenges this type of project brings because it helps you think outside the box and it makes you keep shooting, which is what this is all about! It also allows us to get inspiration from each other and to support each other as photographers.

Our first project is “Me & Mine.” I am already cheating on my first assignment. I had a mere minutes to capture an image for this week’s theme before I had to dash to work, since sadly, I did not already have an image of me with my kids. I had no make up on my hair is about 3 days dirty so there was no way I wanted to be seen. I opted to show my bottom half with my three beautiful children. (Yes, there MAY have been some retouching of my thighs. I am just sayin’!)

So here is “Me & Mine!” My kids fought us every single moment but we pulled it off! My hubby took the shot for me.

You MUST continue with the fabulous Celeste Jones of Celeste Jones Photography, Wilmington Delaware Photographer. She is awesome and I cannot wait to see what she came up with for this week. Please continue until you have reached all the participants. You will not want to miss a single one!

This year has gone by so fast it is hard to imagine! I was privileged to have spent this year with a wonderful group of fellow photographers from all over the country. Each week we had a theme by which we would photograph something to represent the theme, 52 weeks worth. Some weeks were very challenging, others were so much fun! I thought I would share my top 5 submissions for the themes this year.

5. Week 28: Night Lights

This may have been my favorite shoot out of all the weeks. My husband and I drove around while I used the Bulb setting on my camera to get the coolest images of the traffic all around us. It reminded me how much I love photography.

4. Week 1: Self Portrait

This was done our first week together. It was so fun going through each person’s submission to see what we each came up with for our “self portrait.” I lost those glasses in a field during a shoot. I really miss them.

3. Week: 33: Cars

Okay I am feeling really vain that I have another image of myself, but this image makes me laugh every time I see it! The theme was “Cars” and I had this vision of a session with a model and an old vintage car. Well, that did not pan out so I had this crazy idea last minute to photograph myself with my van in a sort of a mockery of a beautiful model in front of a sports car. I did this all by myself with off camera flash. It was such a feat to pull this off by myself. I will never forget how much fun this was.

2. Week 6: Someone You Love

I kind of cheated on this one. I did not take this picture but when I thought of the theme I immediately thought of my Aunt Clarice whom I loved dearly and missed so much. My submission was a scan I made of one of her recipes and a picture of her with her Bookmobile.

1. Week: 24: Father

My favorite submission this year was actually one I did for a contest on the Bloom Forum. I actually ended up placing 2nd and won some awesome stuff! The theme for the contest was “Love Letters.” I thought of the lines on my dad’s face are like a love letter to his family of the sacrifices he has made for us. It was the most emotional thing I did this year.

The weekly project kept me going and gave me a reason to shoot, even if I did not have client session that week. I loved the ladies I have worked with and have learned s much from them. Please continue this journey of our last week with Twice As Nice Photography | Inland Empire Wedding and Family Photographer.

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