♥ About Me ♥

I love this old image of me it was on the very first roll of film I developed by hand back in the fall of 2000 my first semester of school. You can see the development area in the background if you look close.

I've been blogging since 2004 right after my second son was born. I needed a way to write down his and my older son's milestones and a way to keep in touch with family on the other side of the states. I started before I even knew what blogger was just posting on my web site. My messages somehow were more meaningful back then it seems. I'm trying to get back to that. I'm like to write but I don't know that I'm really any good at it.

Anyway back to "about me" Hi *wave* I'm Patricia aka Rici, Ricius, Pat, Tricia or Patty depending on your relation to me. We have four boys and we live in a University town in Eastern NC.
I've been taking pictures and making photographs as far back as I can remember. These images were enlarged and toned from 8mm film my second semester of college. They are of me at my 3rd birthday party taking photos with my own camera. Around 1998 I started playing around with digital manipulation and I had a small 35mm camera with a tiny zoom. It was about then that I started getting somewhat serious about wanting to learn more about photography. Late in the spring of 2000 during a time when I needed a different direction in life I decided to go for it and enrolled in CCC's Photographic Technology program. I met the love of my life that same summer and we have been together ever since. I spent three years at CCC while he was in the USMC and graduated just before we moved to San Diego in 2003. He attended school during those years and I spent a lot of time doing portraits and weddings and raising babies.

Now-a-days(I'm from the south don't you hear the accent?) my situation has led me to a renewed interest in fine art photography. I'm enjoying macros of flowers as well as some Polaroid work and digital when the money doesn't allow for film. I'm trying to embrace the journey I'm on and live for the moment instead of letting it pass by.
I love a venti Mocha Frappachino, a day at the beach alone (like that ever happens) a pair of yellow box flip flops with pink sequins or pink converse, a good book preferably Twilight or Harry Potter. I'm dying to go to Paris and have no plan what-so-ever just time to walk and take photos and have romance. I am incredibly messy, although I like to be neat it just doesn't happen... I keep hoping that I'll have more energy after my medication is regulated and that will change but I'm doubtful because I just really just hate cleaning. My favorite flowers are roses. My favorite photographer is Dorothea Lange I did a project on her my second year of college and although I know a lot about several others she always sticks in my mind. I miss California maybe we'll go back some day. I'm half tom-girl half girly-girl the tom-girl side is winning...I *think*. We okay...*I*... have a yorkie-pom named Pepper. My enemies are procrastination and indecisiveness.

Stuff in my bag::
Polaroid SX-70
Canon 400D
Duaflex IV
Polaroid 600 film
Photoshop CS3

This last image was taken by my 7 year old.