Day trip

Another post to show my versatility, ahem, the things I do for the love of the camera. Yesterday I went to a day trip to Ottawa. Yeah, left at 6 am came back the same day, I am annihilated. The day trip was to photograph the winners of a new car for a market research company, which is not my everyday kind of shoot. But it went Ok. I am alive. The camera is safe. The car trip just slightly removed a notch of my patience level. And I managed to pass the time. :)

That lost sign on the post had a lobster drawing. I call the first picture "coffee, cigarettes and lobster." The second one- "view from the car 234"

Widget bling

I think I am going a little carried away with the widgets, but once I found one I can't seem to stop.
There is the new one that people can ask questions, another with the little speech bubbles that links all my key words in my blog for better ranking.
Cool eh? more reasons I can't really hide my nerdness.

Q: Hi Marlen, welcome to Askablogr (and great shots)! Have you ever come across a photographer named Chas Krider (chasray.com)? He has a motel / lounge aesthetic that reminds me of your stuff a bit.

Asked by Chris DeVore

A: I just saw his site, it's awesome. Thank you for the great compliment. Ideas are now twirling in my head :)

Ask marlenjames a question.

Have you seen my widget?

Ha ha, I love that word, widget. Get mine or get your own! I like widgets :)

Tease

Ok I've been a little behind on blogging, but what else is new! There was a session a little while ago that it was really hard to edit because I liked a lot of pictures! And I have to narrow them down for and easy 30-50 tops, but it was hard I tell you.

She was really nice, and a bit shy so because I completely respect the fact not everybody wants their picture all over the internet, I have here just a peek. It was awesome. Light was perfect, hair was perfect and she was wearing hot pink.

You can call me Cleo

I've heard it enough times that I am answering to Cleopatra, or Cleo for short. So of course I started playing a bit and took some self portraits, these are the less dorky. For someone who takes portraits for a living, it takes at least 10 shots for me to relax. Both tequila and camera shots :)

Inspirational quote of the day:

"Free your mind and your ass will follow"
Amen