My friend Andy is a graphic designer and we have a similar taste in all things visual. Recently when our mutual friend Erin was choosing the picture for the birth announcements of her new baby, Andy and I both picked the same picture giving her reasons that she said were scarily similar. When Andy passed by all these old TV's lined up on the curb for the garbage he saw a great picture and took me by there. Just as we were about to leave, the owner of the house and the TV's came home and we were able to talk with him and get a little bit of his story. He had recently retired and was in the process of cleaning out some of the things that he had been collecting over the years. He told us how when he sees these TV's out for the trash somewhere he would have to pick them up because he couldn't stand to see these perfectly good TV's being wasted. Well, he had gotten to a point where he realized that he just wasn't going to do anything with them. He was hopeful that someone would take them from his curb. By the time we got there, the smallest, a blue TV, the one he knew would be first to go, had been taken. He is also an amateur photographer and was proudly wearing his Nikon around his neck. Those of you who know me, know that this is a man I can relate to! Tim and I are never too proud to pick something great out of the garbage. Our living room is sporting a great 1950's RCA in a pale wood casing and a Victrola connection, courtesy of a curb in Ferndale. And you all know how much I love my camera!

The black and whites are all lined up in the front. The three TV's in the back are color.

I have been anticipating seeing Radiohead live for many, many years. They don't play in Detroit, so I've been waiting to be able to see them out of town somewhere. They were playing in Cleveland this past Monday and this time, I was there! We arrived at the Blossom Music Center early Monday evening in order to hang out in the lot for awhile before the show started. I was able to grab some pretty decent pics in the lot before hand. Inside the show was a different story, I was so mad at myself for not taking my camera and the iPhone just wasn't cutting it in the low light. The shots I tried to take inside of the show just didn't turn out that great. What really, really sucks about this, is that the setup of the show was amazing. They would have made for great pictures. When will I learn? Kicking myself again now.

This seems to be a running theme in my life, I think that it will be better not to have to worry about my camera, and I am mad at myself just about every time! I now vow to myself to just take the damn thing everywhere. It's better to have it and not use it, then to want it and not have it.

Anyway here are some really fun ones from before the concert. On most of them I used some Photoshop actions (TRA, love them!) to change tone and coloring, etc. But there really wasn't much other editing. I'm pretty impressed with the quality of the camera on the iPhone in good light.

Check it out:

Wesley, I love you! (isn't this effect that makes it look old fun?)

Brother Jones, caught singing a tune

the gang

Heidi and Mike, don't you just LOVE that back lighting, I love it!

and another, great face Heida

I was so in love with the light that I decided to do a lil self portrait session. This one is not the most flattering, but it was too funny not to post!

Little did I know that Heidi was sneaking into all the pics!

oh look...there she is again!

...and again...

Me and Timmey, he makes me a little crazy sometimes :)

The fold on the bottom of my pants was pretty big, they all found it kinda funny and were trying to use the cuff as a pouch to transport things. This one is completely unedited, this is exactly how it came outta the phone. Love the motion. Not too shabby!

Tommy always wears the best smelling deodorant. We all know this and are very willingly to smell his armpit whenever he asks us to. Here's Michael doing just that. He was not, however, the first that night. (This one is also straight outta the phone.)

Tim and I have zero decent pictures of ourselves, so I figured I take a few of us while I was at it.

I saw this on a blog of another photographer that I check out from time to time and had to post it here too! Love it!

radiohead here we come! woo hoo!

So for those of you who didn't know it, yesterday was my birthday. I am now the very,very excited owner of a brand new iphone! OMG! I love it, I love it, I love it! This post is actually coming from the phone! We went out last night and here's a pic of me and Heather. Taken with my new favorite present ever! Thanks to everyone who came out! I love you guys!

My friends Andy and Melissa have the cutest, cutest little girl, Ryan. Somehow between all of the busyness we never see them anymore and we really love them! Luckily they were at the BBQ we went to on the 4th. A great surprise, because I didn't know they'd be there. I got to snap some shots of Ryan for the first time ever. Man am I lucky because it sure does it make it so much easier to get great photo's since my friends children all are so photogenic!

I think this might be my favorite

oh, and this is my other favorite :)