this precious life.

i drove ellyn down to louisville last weekend & then took some time to work & brainstorm at please & thank you . new coffee drinks, records, soup w/ biscuits & a bright coffee shop atmosphere always motivate me to be productive:) this time around i tried the mexican latte & goodness was it yummy! their tomato bisque was pretty near perfect too:)  a few of these images i pulled from the archives & were taken on my visit there last year (hence the reflection of a woman in summer clothes in the first picture! ha! and they've also replace the front counter with another glass display case for pastries & other treats) ^^ my workspace before i sprawled my stuff over half the table:) ^^  

I am so excited to share these street fashion posts with you!!  As soon as I heard I would be spending a few days in London, I knew I wanted to capture some of the street fashion. Originally I though I'd use the approach of stopping people on the street & asking them if I could photograph them. And I did that with my first shot. But then I realized that with our time crunch, I'd have to do something different because we couldn't be stopping for a few minutes every time I wanted a picture of someone! So I resorted to shooting as I walked {often from the hip--excuse the crazy angles!} and from the top of the buses. Those buses were awesome because I could take pictures of anyone I saw on the street -point blank- and they wouldn't even know!  London fashion is very classy for the most part. You don't see a whole lot of artistic runway fashion like you would in Paris but often times, people's black coats hide anything spectacular they are wearing. ...