inspiration & concentration.

today I scheduled a "work day" for myself. I already work M-F full time at my office job, so the fact that I had to schedule a day to get work done on a Saturday proves how far behind I've been on post-processing and other little photog things. Good thing I love working on images of the beautiful people that I shoot or else this day of rest and work would be more like a day of torture.

Does everyone out there know about the free wi-fi at Starbucks? This magical-ness just started a few days ago and it is saving my life in all kinds of ways today. For one - I can never concentrate when I try to get work done in my apartment. My big plans for getting work done at home always turn into a night of watching West Wing (!!) and playing around on facebook. fyi – these things are not, in fact, work. Second thing - I am easily inspired when sitting in Starbucks. The colors, the mood, the constant smell of coffee and the cool jazz music get my creative juices flowing and will me to focus. I bet if I picked up this little place and plopped it into my living room I would actually be able to get work done at home for a change. You'd just have to take the West Wing dvd's away from me to prevent temptation...

An iphone shot of my view...... :)

Hope you all have a great weekend! Some fancy pics from my shoot with the very adorable Heather G. are coming tomorrow, so check back!

The most wonderful time...

20091107-DSC_0309, originally uploaded by aislinn victoria.

When exactly did the arrival of christmas cups at starbucks begin to signal the official beginning of the holidays? It felt like a sudden, and swift shift starting at about the time I moved to nyc (2004), now its really not the holidays till the cups arrive.

I was messing around with my new 50mm, 1.4 lens at starbucks and got a few cool shots. couple that with trying my hand at lightroom for the first time and lookey!

happy holidays, all!