Images from the past 2 shoots at The Lodge at Woodloch a destination spa

Going back through my past assignments I am trying to catch up on my blog until the rain passes here in NYC. The Lodge at Woodloch is a little hidden gem located in Pennsylvania’s lake region. I had my first amazing experience working with the team last spring.



The Lodge at Woodloch is a smoke free, cell phone free, totally organic Luxury destination Spa. On any given day you can spot deer, eat wild blueberries, or get lost in a spectacular sunset while kayaking on there private lake, or if you prefer you can just sit in the outside Jacuzzi and feed the chipmunks while gazing into the woods..


I have done all the above and I am waiting to go back to indulge once again!

Erin in Miami May-June 2009

“Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.” ~ Mary Lou Cook

Erin in and around Miami! Some fun, some sun and a few late nights and alot of shooting!

A Cat on Miami Beach May 2009

A Cat on Miami beach............ more to follow later!

Signs that shaped my present

“To dream anything that you want to dream. That's the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.” ~Bernard Edmonds


This post is about all the signs that have come my way, whether by accident or by curiosity which drove me to that destined place. Years have past since I have found myself starring at and capturing signs, clouds, roads, trees, graffiti, license plates while on or off assignment. Today after going trough the many images that I have shot over the past 3-4 months while out on the road. From crossing tanks signs, humps signs, warning signs, trespassing signs, animal signs, welcome signs, vacant signs you get the idea there are so many signs that have crossed my site. Over the course of the 6 months signs that have been written in many languages including Spanish, Dutch, English, French, Chinese and also Native American.. Today lessons for me are simply: to stop, to read to listen and to learn from…




For instance flash flood signs which are common through out the Southwest and the west go hand in hand with rattlesnake signs or bridge freezes before road signs. All these signs have lead me back to NYC where after a year of thinking about her or it or them or how I was not paying attention to the signs. Today those signs brought me home to NYC, those signs made me realize that I was viewing without seeing, driving with out a destination, swallowing but not chewing, breathing but not living.. Out and about so many ideas came into my head while many new friends made random appearances, old friends become lovers and my new chapter has been forged.



Today I show you signs, signs that changed my path, signs that prevented me from going further, signs that made me work harder and drive further, signs that still have more meaning that the words written on them. Simply put. Signs are there for each of us: to protect us, to prepare us and to warns us it allows us to see and understand that we all have to find our way home. I am on such a journey and the signs are all there by way of man, women or by way of an animal, in either case I am now plugged in and can see, and I can finally say I hear…

June NYC 2009

Graffiti: that caught my eye while on the road!

When you try to pick out anything by itself you find it hitched to everything else in the universe. Comments by John Muir regarding the Tree of life.




While working and traveling I have gotten caught up with my surroundings and like the above quote by John Muir I have found myself hitched to life and all of its colors. For the unknown artist these murals have jumped off of the walls and landed in front of me.





Where hours were spent by these amazing artist creating these master pieces, and I found myself enamored and saying to myself I have to capture and share their art. Today I am here showing you their words in colors, I am listening to their voices and I am passing it on you so you can share it with others.



NYC June 2009





Until the next post Pass it on!

This Cat has been amused. In times of chaos I find the beauty within and without!

My next destination will become my destiny in the mean time. I will enjoy.


Miami 2009

The Return to Miami: On this trip: I stopped I listened, I saw, I smelled and I learned.

After almost 3 months on the road selectively shooting everything and anything that has caught my eye. On most occasions I was lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time.

From: landmarks, bridges, signs, sunrises, sunsets, rainbows, forest fires, bikers, mountain climbers, hikers, divers, Dj’s, glider pilots, Indian story tellers, or a spiritual guide, musicians, bartenders, farmers, wild animals and topping it all off were the old friends and the new ones that I have met all along this trip that have forever changed my life.

Whether it was words or a polite gesture that stirred up a conversation, I was left with more then memories It seems that I had traded knowledge, insight and further learned the deeper understanding of life: Sometimes with out speaking as it happened while meeting a few Germans bikers, a couple of Portuguese dancers and a Spanish rodeo star crossing over the multi languages and getting asked to take another picture or sit down and enjoy a beer, a coffee or a quick joke. Normally these are the nameless, faceless shadows or outlines of people, I or we pass every day, people who come and go just as quickly.

Somewhere in the middle of the comings and goings I was touched, I was aware, and now I am home revisiting them once again.

Some of the faces that allowed me to learn about myself or capture more then just these images. It allowed me to be………………