Sarabella's Sassy Raspberry Chutney

Glad to announce that the next flavor of Sarabella's Sauces has been produced and is available for purchase online or in stores. 

Take a look at Sassy Raspberry!

$35 Gift Certificate Give Away

In contrast of being somewhat of a non-settler, I've successfully lived in the same apartment for 4 years. I've made my one bedroom comfortable and love the area, but will be moving out soon. The great thing about moving is whenever I get to my new place, I get to redecorate! Reorganize!! Recolorize! Get new furniture! I think that Frank (my cat) would love this end table.


I mean really, why didn't I come up with this before?

I'm writing about furniture and surroundings because I have been lucky enough to be contacted to give away something on my blog! CSN Stores has a huge collection of furniture, shoes, home accessories, kitchen items, and more... and over 200 stores to choose from. If you're interested in getting a $35 gift certificate from CSN Stores, you need to do these 2 things:

1. Leave a comment and tell me what item you'd buy if you got a gift certificate.
2. Like me on facebook.

Contestants can be located in only the US and Canada.
The Giveaway will be open until November 1st.
A winner will be selected using Random.org.

THIS GIVE AWAY IS CLOSED!

Congrats to Bailey!!

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I'm calling it! It's Over! Electric Lion is Dead. Long Live Electric Lion.

I'm calling it. Electric Lion is done! It's been going for 2 Years 275 Days, with blog posts every day for two of those years and 2.5 blogs per week for this year, on average, and a bit under a thousand posts.

More importantly, my original goal is been totally destroyed, I've learned so much about making photographs, learned so much about myself (even if it'd be hard to articulate what those things are), and I'm finally at a place where I can comfortably walk away from this project. BUT I AM NOT DONE POSTING PHOTOS AND BLOGGING ABOUT THEM. And in that spirit, I'll tell you all something else.

Finally, my new site is more or less done, and is online. THIS will be the hub of all my photo activity henceforth and thus the transplanted home of Electric Lion, Poptpop, and the blog that is/was on theordinary.org (which will also come down very soon).

CaryNorton.com is now up!

Being a concise portfolio and a unified location for almost anything related to my photos. That's the goal of the new site. As such, you'll see tighter edits of images in the portfolios and consistent blog posts about new work, ideas, travel crap, thoughts about photography stuffs, poptpops, personal work, etc.

THE NEW BLOG URL AND RSS FEED:

Blog URL—carynorton.com/blog
RSS Feed—carynorton.com/feed


I hope the new blog serves not only as a place to keep new work updated, but a place to start conversations and do my best to keep the updates consistent and interesting.


I'll eventually put up one more blog here with a long term note about the new blog and its URL.

For now, please go HERE.

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Cats, old and young.

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The Help - Dreamworks Pictures filming in Jackson, MS

Some of my photos from my encounters of the production of The Help movie are on the Jackson Free Press Loungelist website here.

More recent print

I also recently shot a story for Birmingham Magazine called Best of Birmingham for which I made several portraits of the winners of different categories. My favorite of which was photographing Frank Stitt at Highlands Bar and Grill for three different wins: Frank for Best Chef and Best Local Food Advocate as well as Highlands Bar and Grill for Best Service (for which I also photographed a server, Goran, who has been there since Highland's opened their doors).

The main photo I wanted to get was a classic portrait of Frank shot on large format with simple, natural light. We chatted a bit about what we both wanted out of the shot and I was pleased to know he wanted his kitchen staff in the photo with him for his "Best Chef" shot. I went with the same natural light setup I'd thought about for the solo shot and applied it to the whole group with the goal of creating a photo I could visualize hanging in the restaurant's kitchen at the turn of the century. An image with a certain amount of pride and dignity to it. (I don't know that I could have pin pointed it like that in the moment, but thats the emotion that came with the idea of the group shot and the chef wanting to give credit to his team.)

Enough rambling. I ended up shooting the main shot with a Crown Graphic (127mm) on Fuji FP100C45, recovering the negative, and scanning that. It turned out super gritty and made my day.

While waiting on the kitchen crew to get ready we chatted a bit in the dining area during which time I shot much more casual frames of just Frank which, to my surprise, ended up running as the cover. Below is the cover as it ran for the September issue.