Miksang – Images by Christine Prichard

Thanks to Flash and the kids for excusing me from Mother’s Day festivities @ home. Instead, had an unbelievably great weekend at the Shambhala Center in Birmingham. Did a photo workshop on Miksang–or Good Eye. Awesome! These are all images made @ the workshop this weekend.
Hope to start a Miksang photo group in Birmingham soon. Great for all levels of photography experience from never held a camera to pro. The beauty is in it’s simplicity. Stripped down pure vision. No flash allowed. No cropping allowed. No Photoshop allowed. No manipulating the scene. Very different from what I usually do.

Gaga for Art Bash; Birmingham, Alabama Photography – Images by FLASH
Flash was the roving candid photographer at GAGA for Art, a fundraiser for children’s programming at the 2010 Magic City Art Connection on Saturday. Looks like fun!

Picture Party – Images by Christine Prichard
We hosted a multiple photo session bonanza at The Okey Dokey Ranch last week. Foul weather forced us into the garage; we had hoped to do an outdoor shoot. But we managed to get some fun and unique images anyway. Flash was a wonderful assistant, right-hand man [...]

“Is that a UPS truck or a Feta truck?”
–Avery Prichard, after seeing a white box truck drive past

Marley: “CC is basically our sister now. A sister we only see occasionally.”
Avery: “No she is not our sister. What does basically mean?”

Avery: “Is Flash a part of our family now?”
Me: “What do you think?”
Avery: “Yes, he is.”

Birth Cast – Images by Christine Prichard
Did a quick shoot of the cast of “Birth” at WorkPlay yesterday before rehearsal. The photos will be used to publicize director Elizabeth Hunter’s reading of the play, which will be performed at Alabama School of Fine Arts for one night only on January 30 at 7 pm. [...]