Amanda Fiebing

A few weeks ago I asked a friend to pose in some of the dresses I am selling on my Etsy store All are vintage finds I have accumulated and made slight repairs to. The whole experience was new to all who participated. Henry signed on to photograph so I took care of the details: where the model would stand, poses, dresses and accessories. It was such fun. I did feel bad I wasn’t selling parkas and warm wooly mittens because Jessica was SO cold.
I did bring her things like big furry boots to keep her tootsies warm while waiting for various adjustments.

And then we took them off…

Tags: art direction, etsy, model, photoshoot, styling, vintage.

Over at Booooooom.com there is an awesome contest. It goes along with the soon-to-be-released and highly anticipated Where The Wild Things Are movie. While perusing the many entries I was heavily inspired to create my own. And seeing that the deadline was today there was even more incentive. So, last night, after a fun-filled weekend and gladly having a film crew invade our apartment all day yesterday I came home and pushed through the fatigue to make my fort.
Here are the pictures my entry!

Photography by Henry, 2009

Tags: art direction, Felt, fort, me, project.

Sometimes ordinary events are made meaningful by something momentous. Such a thing happened one night in September when Henry and I were out taking pictures in the darkness. My niece was born. Before the call came, the night was so far just so. I was wearing this orange mod dress, and Henry was sporting his new blue patterned button-down, and we had our cameras. Then the news came that a fiesty crying baby was the newest member of our family. And our experiments in photography turned out to represent a sort of welcome dance for this beautiful new baby, Sula.

Welcome Sula, 2009, Amanda Meyer

Tags: Art, art direction, babies, Family, orange dress, photography, Sula.