All New Things (New Blog)

Dear everybody. I have a new blog. And a new website. And a new showing going up. And .....I think that's it. I will no longer be updating this blog, so change your google readers/bookmarks/etc to http://www.christinearmbruster.com/blog/ Also, check out my (nearly complete) website at http://www.christinearmbruster.com And, be looking for posts regarding upcoming exhibits on the new blog (monday). If you're anxious until then though, check out my sidebar where I have all upcoming events posted. Thank you all for reading, and get ready for new posts on the new blog!
-Christine

Working Identities (Misc. Images)

Incase you missed potentially the last exhibit I'll be having of Working Identities (it's time to get my Bosnia), I decided to go ahead and publish the rest of the photos from my exhibit on my blog. I think I'm pretty much covered the rest of them through various posts. If you want to see them all you can always buy my book (hint hint) or just scroll through a year and then some of blog posts and sort it for yourself.

Balloon

Over the weekend I was sent out on an assignment for the Desert News. It was for a story regarding breast cancer and awareness through sports and I was sent out to photograph the Provo High vs. Timpview High School football game. This was the kind of pictures I came back with. There were some that looked like photojournalism images, but a lot ended up like this.

San Antonio Photo Sessions [book now!]

San Antonio photo sessions—now booking! E-mail me for details or to request a time info@christinearmbruster.com

Available for photography in San Antonio, Texas November 19-29.

Aviator Cap

Aviator cap.
Photographed in studio.

Sauces

Tree and a Honda CB360

Studio shot of Tree and his motorcycle.

Maybe the hardest thing I have ever photographed in my life.

And the second hardest edit of my life.

But, I like it.

San Antonio Group Exhibit.

ATTN San Antonio People::
I'm having a piece in a group exhibit in the Southwest School of Art & Craft, downtown San Antonio.
Incase you don't know where that is, here are some directions.
The show will be up till the end of the month, but the opening reception is tonight! 6:30-8:30pm.
Best part is, it's sponsored by Planned Parenthood and all night for $10 not only do you get a cocktail, but also a party favor of condoms.

Melanie and James Engagements, State Fair Style

State fairs just might be the best place to photograph, especially engagement pictures. During the Utah State Fair, Melanie and James and I headed up to Salt Lake City to take a few pictures and it was a blast. Between cotton candy, darts, and farris wheels, the whole thing ended up being a lot of fun. Can't wait until December when I get to photograph them some more in California!

Broken Lines

"When you come to Sarajevo, be prepared and be mature. It might prove to be the most important decision you have ever made in your life. Bring: good shoes which make you walk long and run fast, pants with many pockets, pills for water, Deutsche Marks (small denominations), batteries, matches, jar with vitamins, canned food, drinks and cigarettes. Everything you bring will be consumed or exchanged for useful information. You should know when to skip a meal, when to turn trouble into a joke and be relaxed in impossible moments. Learn not to show emotions and don't be fussy about anything. Be ready to sleep in basements, eager to walk and work surrounded by danger. Give up all your former habits. Use the telephone when it works, laugh when it doesn't. You'll laugh a lot. Despise, don't hate." -Sarajevo Survival Guide by Miroslav Prstojecis for FAMA

Aerial Views

I feel like I've been MIA for a while [fact]. I had a injury involving an awl, my ulna nerve, and arm surgery in the last week and a half. So things have been crazy and I haven't really done much except eat pain killers, but I am back in action[ish]. Fully recovery will take a month, but I am somewhat functional now. I should be blogging more from the photo shoots I've been editing and the images I'll be taking over this next week, so don't you worry, I didn't fall off the face of the earth. Also, I finished picking out my Bosnia project, so I'll be writing all the statements and captions and submitting to galleries, so be looking forward to that as well. And possibly I'll have a new website soon? Get ready.

[images from the many aerial adventures I've been on recently]

Oak's Tattoo Machine

This semester I'm in a still life class in which we have to photograph products. The first one I photographed was this tattoo machine, hand made by Oak of Painted Temple, a tattoo studio and art gallery in Provo.

Temporary Homes: Twin Falls, Idaho

The more I travel, the easier it becomes to make a place feel like home. It's to the point where I now call everything home: hotel rooms, my tent, even sometimes when I get in my car I feel like I'm home. I begun to realize this in Idaho Falls when I stayed at some hotel on my drive back from Oregon and loved the bleakness of the room with the strange details, like the bed cover with RVs and desert landscapes on them. Be looking for more, I'm sure they will come up as I continue to be restless.

Kirton 50th Wedding Anniversary; Wente Vineyard, California

Two weeks ago I attended a 50th anniversary party for the Kirton's in Livermore, California at the Wente Vineyard. The vineyard was beautiful and everything the restaurant did with food was equally as beautiful. Put that together with a lot of laughs and memories with old friends, and it was quite the event. To see more, check out my website.

LAX

LAX.

Los Angeles International Airport, California.

Rock Climbing, Maple Canyon, Utah

Rock climbers on Labor Day at Maple Canyon, Utah.

We Are Women book release

There has been an on-going project that I have been a small part of over the last year nearly. Collecting images and stories, the We Are Women project has been compiling a book of all these things. It's finally put together and the book will be available from lulu.com on Tuesday, 28 September as a soft cover book ($11) and pdf/ebook ($7). Before then, however, there will be a book release party to whoever is interested on Monday 27 September. Flier is above.

Chelsea & Chris Hill Wedding, Las Vegas

A while ago I went to a good friend's wedding down in Las Vegas. She had someone else photograph the wedding, which meant I got to be in it and shoot whatever I felt like, which means plastic cameras and tilt-shift lenses.
These are just some of my favorites, to see more, check out my new proofing site.