happy weekending | the fall

So I might be in love with a movie called The Fall.

It’s one of those story-telling-as-movie films, but in an artistic genre with few others for company. (It’s been out for a couple of years, but some of us seem to always be the last to know.) Stunning displays of color, space and symmetry and shot through with cleverity. It consistently unraveled all of my expectations…and I just like that descriptive phrase too much to add another. I may also a bit biased since Lee “the Pie Maker” Pace is the main actor, but that can’t be helped.

It’s STAGGERING to imagine that all the locations they used are real, (like the stairs above) and are still waiting there for the exploring. It was filmed mostly around India, and then also from Nepal to the Czech Republic and 18 other countries in between.

Roger Ebert and I both think it’s magnificent, so that’s really all the street cred you need. Watch it!

Whenever you travel, one of the most difficult challenges is trying to fit all the views and feelings of a place into a photograph. It’s a good challenge, (and also a good one to ignore) but the kids over at Photo Jojo came out with this camera that gives Death Cab hope for their see-in-all-directions-at-the-same-time dilemma. It’s a 35mm camera with a ripcord and 360 degree spinning action.

Gimmicky? Sure, maybe. But sounds fun all the same.

In other news, my friend Carrie (the loveliness behind Fleurish Events) and I just recently signed a lease on an office space of our very own. It’s an idea we’ve had and hoped for all year, and it came together in less than an hour. It’s in the heart of Old Town Leesburg and we can’t wait to move in. We spent today antiquing at my favorite spots in the area, and actually found most everything we needed. We’ll going to start painting and filling it next week, and I’ll show some pictures as soon as I can.

Weddings are slowing down for the year, and I’m happy to get the next two weekends off from shot lists and All The Single Ladies. Instead, I get to do a pretty unique engagement shoot tomorrow. Tonya and Brian first saw each other on a Southwest Airlines flight, (yes, like that two-seconds-longer-than-polite-eye-locking) exchanged email addresses at baggage claim, forgot each other, reconnected, started dating, got engaged (on a Southwest flight!) and are even having a Southwest-themed wedding next year. It makes me happy to know that impossibly improbable things like that STILL HAPPEN. And! thanks to some string-pulling we’ve special permission to have their shoot in BWI airport, where they first said hello. Stellar much?

Doctor: Did she just ask me a question?
Alexandria: No, it’s just how we talk.