• Skip to main content

Erin Flegg Photography

  • Portfolio
    • Branding Portfolio
    • Family Porfolio
  • Blog
  • your session
    • Family
    • Branding
  • About
  • Contact
You are here: Home / Blog

Blog

The Benefits of Birthday Portraits

by ehflegg

Birthday portrait of Erin from December 2022

How often do you look at your own face?

This is my pale moon face, and I look at it all the time because I made it my desktop background.

I went looking for a new background image recently, and I decided I wanted something different that usual (it’s usually somewhere on the Juan de Fuca) and having fairly recently got the scans back from my birthday portraits in December, I decided to put my own birthday portrait on my desktop.

I thought I would feel weird about it, looking at my own face all the time (I spend a lot of time on my computer) and change it back to the beach within a few days. But honestly I don’t feel weird at all. I love the photo. Shot on my Super Ricohflex medium format camera, it fulfilled the vision I had for it. And I like seeing my own serene face looking back at me. I’m wearing my favourite green sweater (it has a a skater knitted on the back) and a pair of leather boots I bought at Value Village for $15 seven years ago.

I’ve been trying to get used to posting photos of myself on the internet for reasons of #marketing, and while I don’t know if it really does anything for my business, I’m finding myself more and more at ease with my face, more interested in handing over the camera sometimes (it helps that Kaleb as gotten used to my go-to camera and has a good eye themselves) and curious about documenting my own self in different ways.

Last year’s birthday portraits. Different wool sweater, same boots. Same moon face.

I recently booked a gig to shoot a 70th birthday celebration, and I’m looking forward to it so much. I think everyone should document their birthdays, look at their own faces over time and appreciate the sameness and the change. Then when you’re 70 you can make a book of all your birthday portraits, trade books with your friends and all gaze lovingly at each others’ faces.

Anyway, my point is, I think you might be surprised by what happens when you spend a little time looking at your own face. Give it a try and let me know how it goes?

Filed Under: Portraits Tagged With: birthday portrait, medium format, self portraits

In Which We Contemplate Our Own (Friends’) Mortality

by ehflegg

So Kaleb comes to me one day a little while ago with a tweet (or a tweet-turned-video-turned-Instagram-aggregated-whatever I’m too old for this nonsense) that said, give or take a little depending on actual circumstances, you’ll probably see your out-of-town friends another 15 or so times. In your life. Forever.

What.

[Read more…] about In Which We Contemplate Our Own (Friends’) Mortality

Filed Under: Uncategorized

On Resolutions (or New Year, Weirder You)

by ehflegg

First of all, if you haven’t already got it, here is your annual reminder that you don’t have to lose weight ever, you don’t owe anyone health and you can make whatever changes in your life you want for whatever reasons speak to you, at any time of the year, regardless of what anyone else thinks. You can make no changes! Don’t let anyone tell you what to do.

[Read more…] about On Resolutions (or New Year, Weirder You)

Filed Under: Cornerstone, Families, Portraits

Love, Rage and Solidarity Portraits

by ehflegg

Artwork by jen white johnson in tribute to the 5 victims of the Club Q shooting

The week of Dec 6, the day where we all list the names of the women murdered in Montreal 33 years ago, seems like a good time to talk about solidarity and interconnectedness.

[Read more…] about Love, Rage and Solidarity Portraits

Filed Under: Lifestyle, Portraits

Cowichan Micro Wedding on Film

by ehflegg

Alex in profile gazing at Richelle, whose back is to the camera

I’ve shied away from weddings in the past, mostly on account of the heteronormativity and general pressure and excess they often entail (as a queer, I wasn’t even legally allowed to get married myself until 2005. Super fun.) But I love love, and love celebrating it (big fan of anniversary parties), so when I got an email with the subject line “Micro wedding Thursday” I was intrigued.

[Read more…] about Cowichan Micro Wedding on Film

Filed Under: Family, Weddings Tagged With: Cowichan territory, micro wedding

Cowichan Valley Food – Cooking with Haltwhistle

by ehflegg

I had a client meeting with the lovely people at Haltwhistle Cheese Co yesterday, which means staring into my fridge at dinner time today I was spoiled for choice of delicious local cheese.

[Read more…] about Cowichan Valley Food – Cooking with Haltwhistle

Filed Under: Branding, Food

Queer- and woman-owned business -Branding

by ehflegg

Tess and Ariss, owners of queer- and woman-led Awl Together Leather

Few things make me happier than photographing old, well-made and useful things with my old, well-made and useful cameras. Cobbling tools + film cameras = <3 <3 <3

[Read more…] about Queer- and woman-owned business -Branding

Filed Under: Branding, Branding Porfolio, Lifestyle, Portraits

Victoria Local Foods – Mini branding session with Kith + Kin Charcuterie

by ehflegg

Local charcuterie

High-end local foods, homemade treats and the most amazing kitchen = perfect new addition to the Victoria food scene.

[Read more…] about Victoria Local Foods – Mini branding session with Kith + Kin Charcuterie

Filed Under: Branding, Branding Porfolio, Food

  • Go to page 1
  • Go to page 2
  • Go to page 3
  • Interim pages omitted …
  • Go to page 11
  • Go to Next Page »

Copyright Erin Flegg © 2023 · Log in

 

Loading Comments...