White Gumballs Photography

Girls' Portraits for 2011

I'm not a huge fan of this one with the two of them.

The singles turned out ok I suppose.

Posted September 17, 2011

I have thought about the old late 50's early 60's The Twilight Zone several times in recent days and I don't think it's just because I watched the July 4th marathon. I was always fascinated by how disgusting the swimming pool looks in the episode "The Bewitchin' Pool". These people are clearly wealthy but their swimming pool looks like it would be green in the episode if it were in color. In reality that was probably just the limitations and budgets of television at the time and the pool looked perfectly clear and possibly blue. Considering the heat I have also thought quite a bit about the episode where everyone is dying due to excessive heat because the Earth's orbit changed, but that is a different story.

Anyway the pool is now completely full and of course it's going to be a bit green until all the chemicals have time to do their thing. So I decided I wanted to take these photos with some filters that exemplify those photos we are so familiar with from "retro" days. Such as the seventies..and eighties..nineties? These are typically called vintage although I think all these filters are relics myself.

Adam and I routinely talk about innovation and what it means to be innovative and in photography and cinema what is art and what was the available technology. The grainy images from the seventies were somewhat faddish but also that was the best you could do with an affordable "consumer" camera. I don't know, maybe it's nostalgia that makes people want that again.

The good ole days perhaps? If it isn't the brown grainy sepia filter prominent in many of my parents photos from their early adulthood it's this overly dramatic color stain. To be fair, I can appreciate nostalgia and a different perspective and I even enjoy showcasing photos with these filters on them or "Presets" as Aperture likes to call them.

But then again, right here, right now, isn't so bad either.

It's flawed. And that's the way life has always been.

Posted July 20, 2011

Posing Techniques

Rory demonstrates posing techniques. For instance, here we have the "Sexy Shoulder".

The "I am so cute and sweet how could I have possibly done anything wrong, Mommy?"

And a post in 2011 wouldn't be complete without the topical "Facebook profile duck face pose."

Thanks, Rory. You've been a doll as always, until next time..

Posted July 19, 2011

Galleries

On that note, if you are interested I have added another gallery to the galleries page at the top just click through to see it. Also you can double click on the images to see them larger if you didn't already know. Thanks for checking it out.

Posted July 15, 2011

Effects of the #Drought

This is the creek that runs through the Boulder Picnic Area at the Wichita Mountains in October of 2007.

Another from 2007

This one below is from last summer

As is this one..

And this (below) is what it looked like yesterday, July 10, 2011

This is last year,

A year later

One of my favorites..

Filed under // Lawton Photography Wichita Mountains

Posted July 11, 2011

Check it out!

Don't forget to check out the two galleries I have added to the site and also pricing and about information. You can also follow me on twitter @whitegumballs and check out my other site http://whitegumballs.com

Thanks for stopping by. I hope to be able to work with you in the future.
Kendi

Filed under // Lawton Oklahoma Photography Portrait

Posted July 7, 2011

The differences

The differences between a photographer and a mother..

I thoroughly loved these two photos (above and below)

but her mother chose this one (below) to print the most. I felt bad that I had to placate her with her favorite toy, her mother however saw it as a photo of her beautiful daughter at 6 months old, with her favorite toy.