Hummingbird Cocktail Hour.

Let’s Get This Party Started. Hummingbirds at My Fountain.

Photos ©Erika Burkhalter.

Hi, Brother.

Hey boys. Mind if I join you?

We are little sparks of sunshine.

’pool vibes’ - Jernej Graj

Ungasan, Indonesia

50 ways to photograph a mud puddle

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Close-up of a ladybug on a leaf in black and white

Ted's World of Imaging: Fujifilm–Automotive Photography Workshop, Dural NSW, Saturday 22nd April 2023, 3:15-7:00pm AEST

https://events.humanitix.com/fujifilm-automotive-photography-workshop-or-dural-nsw-119550 “Join Ted’s World of Imaging, Fujifilm Australia, Benzin Cafe (Dural) and Michael Catabay for an exciting workshop for photographers looking to who would like to learn how to photograph automobiles using natural and studio light sources. This workshop will also teach attendees how to create video reels…

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Taste The Rainbow

Self Portrait

Let's touch skin 💕

(via JHALAL DRUT: Sophia Loren - David Montgomery on February 28, 1966)

Custom Dress worn by Elaine Roebuck to her Bat Mitzvah

Christian Dior

Spring 1957

“It all started when I was twelve years old and I wanted a bat mitzvah. My father said absolutely not — girls didn’t have bat mitzvahs in those days,” Roebuck tells me. “My mother rallied for me and finally my father said OK. The next thing I knew, we were on the train to Montreal to look at my dress.”

The dress in question is a silk organdy masterpiece custom designed by Monsieur Christian Dior himself. Dior did not design for children back in ‘57, but he made an exception. “Not just anyone could go in and say ‘whip me up a dress for my daughter’s Bat Mitzvah’ – that wasn’t their business,” says Dr. Alexandra Palmer, the museum’s senior fashion curator. But that’s just what Elaine’s mother, the late Molly Roebuck, did. “She had a motto: If you’re going to do something, you better do it right,” says her daughter. “And in her mind, Dior was just right.” Likely, the exception was made on account of Dior’s relationship with Holt Renfrew, the prestigious high-end retailer with exclusive rights to his collection in Canada back when it launched.

So, with the help of her friend, buyer Betty Macpherson, Roebuck commissioned the dress in Paris. It was to be modest, but fantastical enough for such a special night. After a few months of trading sketches with Dior himself, the muslin models arrived in Montreal, where Dior’s pieces were made-to-measure for the Canadian market. “The dress was dreamlike and it made me think, or maybe even feel, like a princess,” says Roebuck. The end result was a full-skirted silk organdy cocktail dress with daffodil embroidery. As it was a one off, the fabric never appeared in Dior’s collections. “I knew the dress was special, but at the same time, I didn’t think I was different from any of my friends,” she says. (Teen Vogue)

Royal Ontario Museum (Object number: 2013.68.14.1-2)

Caterpillar of orange lacewing (Cethosia penthesilea)

PHOTOGRAPH BY JOEL SARTORE

by Denny Bitte

colors of the spring

2024/02/25

Ted's Word of Imaging: Fujifilm - Macro GFX Experience with Australian Wildlife Displays, Sydney, Saturday 11th March 2023, 2:00-4:00pm AEDT

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I love spring