monster hair

first of all, i've been listening to Lord Knows Best by Dirty Beaches on repeat for the past few days. sooooo good.

secondly, with my broken car, i've just been bumming around town... therefore, my found series is debatable tomorow, and i apologize for the lack there of the last week-ish.

and finally, i wanted to share with you something i did a month or so ago.
a friend of a friend, Ashley Love, needed some updating on her hair styling portfolio (is that even what it's called???), and so i, because of the red hair, was asked to model.
a. Ashley is an incredible hairstylist. i mean, wowza... she did a great job. currently freelance & working for Baxter Salon
b. Quinn Ballard is an incredible photographer.

 dannnnng. did you even know a white girl's hair could get that big???

i mean whoa.... do you see how my eyes are struggling to keep those lashes up?!

i will say, i am certainly not used to having lashes on... so thanks to them for putting up with my teary, heavy eyes.

- k.

digital / film

in a land far far away i studied photography. moved to nashville to teach kids, lived with three other photographers, and got burnt out. somewhere in there everyone else was trying to be a photographer as well, and in my true anti-hip anti-competitive nature, decided that i didn't want to compete to be cool. my conscious continuously told me that having a camera around my neck automatically made me someone who wanted to be just like everyone else. the fear being that whatever greatness i could possess would get lost.

when i first got my camera i vowed that if it became something more than a tool (for art or documentary) i would stop taking photos.

so i put my camera down.

it collected all sorts of dust for a solid year.

in pursuit of great treasures a friend and i went to a yard sale and found a pentax for five dollars (and a half-broken lightbox). of course not having more than a couple bucks on me (everything at yard sales should cost a quarter-one dollar) he bought the camera for me. one of the greatest gifts i've ever received.

my pentax is so deeply treasured, and has become my favorite form of documentation. my digital camera, however, still sits on the shelf (mostly), so when nathanael mehrens asked me to take photos for him, i had to wipe a few years worth of dust off of it.

so here's a little preview from the digital :

i'm excited to share the great treasures that come back from the pentax film, but i'd say this is pretty decent.

remember the things you once loved and put down. they might surprise you if you tried them again.

- k

just a little love for you : mexico city. 

images ©kbaergen

enjoy your tuesday, friends. 

i'm headed to the ymca, 

-k

ps. listening to the mexico pandora station, you should too.

saturday treasures

yesterday i re-discovered a photo that i had taken a century ago few years ago. 

this is codey holliday (great name, right?) a dear friend of mine & an artist. see his work here.  (disclaimer: most of his more recent work got burned in a fire earlier this year... i just wish you could see the things he's working on now)

the end. 

enjoy your weekend. 

- k.

sunday's whatevers (in photos)

every year thanksgiving becomes less and less of what it was when we were children. at some point this has to reverse... but when will that moment be? maybe when we have children? or maybe when we have family?  i miss that kind of celebration - i think it takes people you love, i mean, love love, immensely, as well as the dedication to tradition and celebration.

we didn't do the greatest job of that this year... the dedication part. and this is just turning into a sadly long apology for my absence of photos of the day. yes. i know. i'm terrible, i didn't bring my camera (like i promised). i even choose not to take photos. we're still working on this long recovery back to the camera. man, is it hard. really. it's so difficult. but i'm trying to change my thoughts on it - instead of "someone will have a camera there" or "there's nothing really worth photographing" let's get back to "how about i document everything."
here are some photos for you to indulged in... these are the car rides in LA. i know, silly, but it's something... right?

 where my brother's wedding reception was: 

 huntington beach, with jeff & jacquie:

 catalina island in the distance:

so i just ran down stairs and took a few photos.  its beautiful out. i mean, incredibly cold, but still, beautiful. cold, grey & frosty. mmm. i've been waiting for this weather for months. 

my messy studio (with fog spots): 

 the dr. seuss backyard:

 isn't it lovely?

more to come tomorrow. 

all images ©kbaergen

sionara, 

-k.

i've been listening to Yelle radio on pandora ALL week morning. (includes: the cardigans, lily allen, lykke li, etc.)

east tennessee

this season in life has certainly been one of travel.

between the beach and Seattle, el & i went to east tennessee to explore the mountains.

i had an entire day of wonderful shots, i mean, just unreal photographs. but i made a total rookie move and came to find that i'd forgotten to put a new roll in... thus, all those beautiful shots, gone. everyone makes that move at some point in their life (and you'll never do it again), but that weekend was my time to learn the lesson.

here's what i got, later (definitely nothing close to what i initially had, but i tried):

all images ©kbaergen

listening to a lovely mix of Noah & The Whale, by Pandora.

and it is lovely outside. absolutely lovely.

oh! i finally found the charger to my digital slr.... so there will be some less expensive shots soon.

enjoy this beautiful day (no matter where you are),

- k.

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seattle, pt. 1

so, there will be a second edition of this post, considering there is a roll of film lost somewhere in the midst of traveling (!), packing, unpacking, and moving (!).

but for now, here are some wonderful things from the pacific northwest:

family (and our lovely hosts)

feels like home

two of my best friends

flying a kite

hidden anemones & urchins.

little things & great colors.

alki beach

freemont troll

all images © k baergen

life is exploding, love every moment of it,

- k.

listening to Beach House right now. loving it.

pentax 1.0

as photography has been on the back burner, i am slowly easing back in with my lovely, yard-sale-find, $5, old, fully-manual pentax film camera.

please note that slowly easing also means that i've made a lot of rookie mistakes, and forgotten a lot of things i've learned. take that, add it a top the fact that i had never used a pentax before this year.

thus the focus is all off (i think i finally figured the camera out... just wait for the photos from the mountains), there's a lot of experimenting, a lot of messed up shots, but practice makes perfect, right?

here's a few from the 4th of july (my favorite holiday):

all images © k baergen

more to come,

- k