Birth of "The Kelly Calendar"

So sorry for the lack of updates on the website, between work and school, I haven't had a chance to do any updating in the past couple days.  I promise to do some more updating before the weekend is through.  I still have many to sift through and post. 

If anyone reading this has any favorite photographers or photos in general, I would love for you to share them with me!  I ador photos of all kinds and especially enjoy seeing new insight on different artists ways of thinking... So please share with me!

I'll never forget...

I went to a photo exhibit one day with my bestie Damon (R.I.P).  There were thousands of pictures up in an airplane hanger.  I was like a kid in a candy store and didn't know where to start first.  Since Damon knows I am a "little" OCD, he let me decide our course of action...  I decided to start from the outside and work our way in through to the middle of the building... 

We weren't even there half an hour when I came across a photo that I knew I had to have!  It called to me, and I didn't understand why...

Up until then, I had only enjoyed taking the photographs and wasn't shown to appreciate others art until Damon revealed it to me that day.

This picture that I fell in LOVE with was provocative yet sweet and almost innocent.  I couldn't stop staring at it.  Damon then told me that it was a Horst P. Horst.  Horst Portraits : 60 Years of Style.  Of course I had no idea what that meant, I just wanted it!!!  When the man came over to help answer any questions I might have, I asked how much?  He told me and I about fell to the floor! How could a photograph be so much money?  ...Damon then explained to me (after he stopped laughing at me) who Horst P. Horst was.  Here is a book...  Horst Portraits : 60 Years of Style was.  He was an artist who had passed and his work is very well known, which is why it cost so much... 

To say the least, I did not leave with the picture I fell in love with... But Damon told me that he would recreate it with me, so that it would mean even more! 

We got so wrapped up in the idea of taking fun reenactment pictures with me as the model; he came up with the name "The Kelly Calendar."  We came up with posses and props from past and present.  We would even take pictures from different magazines, posters and movies when we weren't with one another and send it to each other to add to the idea log.

Unfortunately my dear friend was taken from us way too soon and "The Kelly Calendar" was never started.  Not physically anyway.  I still have all of the ideas that we came up with and I add to them everyday...

I have decided to go ahead with the project, because I know he would have loved to see me finish it!

I love you Damon L. Nicholson!!! Miss you more than you know!