Finally spring has come to our corner of Connecticut so I thought I’d share some photos.
I’ve started taking some photos with “Hipstamatic” which is an iPhone app. When people started posting Hipstamatic photos on FB and Twitter a while back, I recall thinking that they were annoying. Kind of the way I used to feel about blogs. Of course, now that I have started using the app, I think it’s totally cool.
Lulu’s the only dog I’ve ever known with cloven paws.
I captured a photo of ghost girl:
I took the dogs to the eyesore over the weekend and Gomer went for a swim (not Hipsta)
The water was cold, so the girls stood outside our future kitchen and admired him:
And today I’m heading back into the city for another Tribeca event and then home tomorrow.
I do so love the non-Hipsta photos so much better. In fact, would you mind revealing what kind of cellphone you’ve been using? I’d like to get it for my mother.
I prefer the non-Hipsta photos also. The color is darker on the Hipsta ones. They remind of old color photos from the 60s.
Or prints made from old color slides.
I think they’re supposed to have that retro, Kodachrome look. I agree, the new photos look nicer. Sandy, I have an iPhone and most of the photos in the blog have been taken with it.
Many thanks Ann: I love the colors from the iPhone.
Thanks again for the great photos. I love seeing them.
Ann, the view from your “eyesore” is so beautiful. I think you might want to invest in a really long fishing net to bring Gomer back in. He seems to have no fear, that boy.
Is our Lynne on her way to London? I’m getting pretty excited for the big day!
Aislinn, Thanks for asking! I’m here now—Ann will keep you posted re: Hash Hags! (I’m calling them “Hash Ladies” for the Royal Wedding period! Loving London, fighting technology! Talk to you soon….
Lynne, so exciting! Don’t leave your brolly in your boot!
Lynne How exciting!!!!!!!!!!! if you get a chance have a chocolate called Walnut Whip for me… YUM!
Hipsta is my favorite photo app too. I find I enjoy using my iphone for taking pics more than my Nikon. That sounds crazy.
But it’s true!
Ann, thanks for the lovely pictures…..always love seeing pictures of your darlings…..just love them!!
Ann, I am always a day late and a dollar short, but I have to share that I finally watched “Recount” this weekend and I enjoyed the movie. Great casting. I rememeber staying up very late that election night as my husband and I watched things play out. Love the pics. Still not too spring like here yet.
Looks like Ghost Girl has a new ‘do. Who would have thought?
Lovely pics!!! Middle child was at tribeca too… she met someone and is having voice lessons by a big shot….. I love hearing her tales as much as i love reading your blog.
Bev,
Tell us more!
Wow Bev, tell us more? Is your daughter a singer or was it voice coaching for an accent or something?
Well, one of Daughters friends is Kristin Hanngi who produces the Rock of ages, and at the festival daughter was introduced to Kyle Puccia, to cut a long story short, he called her, she sang for him and he asked if he could give her a lesson on Sunday… How very exciting! She is loving her life in Soho and i just love hearing about her day, and the people she meets
beats my boring humdrum life!
There are definitely those who over-hipstamatic their pix, but i took some great photos in Sea Ranch, CA, last summer that make it look like the Loch Ness monster is lurking in the Pacific.
Ann, I have got to tell you when I googled cloven foot I learned that cloven “the mark or symbol of Satan”, interesting.
Cloven paws!!!!!
The return of Ghost Girl!
Gomer swimming in super cold water!
So much cool stuff happening on the blog…I just love this place!
PS We all missed seeing photos of Lulu at our house.
I met a prince at Bergdorf’s today. A very handsome prince.
Ann, Do tell!!!!!
Um, hellooooo. Don’t leave us hanging.
MORE!! MORE!!! MORE!!!
Too tired now. Tomorrow. Promise
Oh Goody! Can’t wait.
….. ummm, it’s tomorrow!
I love the pictures! The color is different, like super-charged.
I had noticed Lulu’s ‘feet’ before. Some recombination of the DNA in her, of course, as she is an angel…
And watching the films at Tribeca must be lots of fun and lots of work. Like food for thought, and getting to know more talent – new stuff – and such. Enjoy for all and share if you feel like it.
I think that Daphne is starting to influence Holly… don’t you think?. She would have gone head first before, even if the water was cold.
I found…. some more pictures !!
You guys look PDG (pretty darn good)… expression from the past in the mortgage industry – when a file was a winner.
http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/JuWD950vNOK/Vanity+Fair+Party+2011+Tribeca+Film+Festival/5D0M42LJ4Um/Denis+Leary
and here is the link
wicked good photos, Lupe!
wow lots of pics thanks lupe!!.. I saw a few of them … but there were a lot!! I think I like DL’s hair long… who’s with me?
Bev, I think the short look is cute, but not very cop-ish, no sideburns and a moustache,, right Candy?
Lupe, how do you find these pics? Good job. Ann, I have asked before but must ask again, can I have the black leather jacket when you are done with it? Denis looks very boyish with the cropped hair, I wonder if I crop my hair if I will look so young…….
Bet if I cropped my hair, i would look like a right frumpy ole bag…. NOT FAIR!
great pictures ~ ann, keep wearing the jacket, it’s fabulous! when i saw the one of denis and annie leibovitz i could help laughing, thinking of what he said about her in his book – so funny!
Great photos! Ann, your skin looks radiant. Denis looks like a 15 year old who skipped school to go to the film festival. So adorable.
Cool skirt too. It looks like it’s waterproof. Neoprene? Very chic.
If you bring that jacket to the After School Arts awards, don’t let it out of your sight. At least I warned you.
I like the longer hair on Denis too, don’t care for the little boy look.
Faboo outfit, Ann,love those pointy toe shoes!
I prefer the longer hair….
Otherwise, it is like those style people do NOT appreciate the beauty of hair, the fact that lots of people are bolding (so sorry to bring this up), or that it (hair) does not know how to hold nice, flow nice. It is a gift to have nice hair like both Denis and Ann!!! (and their daughter too). But I figure that he had to have it ‘done’ that way for the movie, for the look. Much better than if he had to gain weight, God forbid. (now, why do I worry about that???)
Also, it is nice to see a normal content expression, rather the tortured look during the last series. Poor fellow, drinking like a fish!!.
I love the short hair on Denis, but it’s for the Spiderman movie, and Mary L, you’re right, he plays a cop. Seeing all the photos together makes me think it’s time to retire my leather jacket. I wear it to EVERYTHING. Maybe I should just wear it around the house and to bed from now on.
Did you watch coverage of the wedding, Ann or anyone? I’m just coming down from the excitement, so perfect and beautiful.I started watching at 5:30 EST just in time to see the arrivals of the parents and the Queen and Prince Phillip.
The coverage was so well done.
Yes, I watched….so beautiful and elegant. They look so happy and genuine. Oh, and I just LOVE Prince Harry. Yummy.
It is a nice jacket!!!
I love the altered way of seeing that the Hipstamatic App. affords – and what’s more, I get excited about the surprise/mystery factor, because you’re never quite sure what you’re going to get. Which is the way picture taking used to be before digital.
Remember? How you never knew exactly what shots you got or didn’t, if the light was right, if the subjects were blinking or smiling or even facing the camera. You shot everything on faith, with hope, and a sense of adventure. You dropped the film off at the store, and, oh, the suspense, the anticipation. In a way, a story building momentum.
And then you got your photos back and the mystery was all revealed – the funny faces, the too-dark or too-light-saturated photos, the just-missed or just-barely-captured moments, your finger over the lens, the dog licking his butt in the family group shot, your dad beaming at your mom as if no one else was in the room, those magical double-exposures that revealed accidental/unexpected views . . .
OK, OK, so I get carried away. Just maybe I love the nostalgia attached to the Hipsta photos as much as the actual images themselves. But I think what I love most of all is being afforded a kind of grab bag treat with every click. For an artist, being able to see with fresh eyes, in new ways – well, that’s the goal, isn’t it?
Oh, and if I had a jacket like that, I’d wear it to grocery shop, to the dentist & dog park!
Happy weekend, everybody ~