These are awesome. I will be checking out your flicker sometime, you’ve got a great eye.
I don’t think I knew how many times a day I check tumblr until opening my phone and remembering not to open it today. And I’m afraid what it will look like tomorrow.
They look so cool! I was just thinking today (after the 9th advert came on full of shiny tall women with swoopy hair and fluttery dresses and megawatt smiles and perfect skin and giraffe necks being all aspirational about perfume or makeup or diamonds how FUCKING SICK I AM of media being exclusively full of women who look nothing like the women I see in real life. Real live women are MUCH more interesting and aspirational than that. It makes me angry that we're supposed to aspire to be something *less* than what we are.
Wow! I admire your ability to get good action shots like these! I don't have that skill.
I am totally in favor of support/acceptance/appreciation of diverse body types. A good friend of mine is a long-time size acceptance activist, so I was exposed to the idea sometime in my twenties, I think. (Teens would've been better timing for me, but I'm glad I got it as early as I did. I have always been built with a seriously rounded belly, no matter what my age or weight. As a teen, that was hard. I'm still somewhat self-conscious about it, but finding out how variable human beauty standards are/have been was definitely helpful. I eventually took up belly dancing, and have performed as a belly dancer, though not commercially, big surgical abdominal scar and all! :)
Are you familiar with a coffee-table photo book called Women El Large: Images of Fat Nudes? (Apologies if I've asked you that before. If not, here's a NSFW link to some photos from the book: [link]. My friend Debbie is in several of the photos at that link, and she co-authored the book with the photographer. They blog about photography and body issues at Body Impolitic. Both also have individual dreamwidth accounts.)
I'm curious about what else you liked about doing roller derby, if you feel like saying. Please feel free to point me to one or more links, if you've written about it elsewhere!
These are fantastic! Sports photography can be tricky, and I'm with everyone else in feeling that it's doubly great and refreshing to see such good shots of female athletes. I especially love the framing in the top and bottom photos, and in the black&white shot of the jersey grab.
(I've also been meaning to comment on your Istanbul photos over on Pillowfort. At any rate: I totally concur with paean, you have a great eye.)
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I don’t think I knew how many times a day I check tumblr until opening my phone and remembering not to open it today. And I’m afraid what it will look like tomorrow.
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I am totally in favor of support/acceptance/appreciation of diverse body types. A good friend of mine is a long-time size acceptance activist, so I was exposed to the idea sometime in my twenties, I think. (Teens would've been better timing for me, but I'm glad I got it as early as I did. I have always been built with a seriously rounded belly, no matter what my age or weight. As a teen, that was hard. I'm still somewhat self-conscious about it, but finding out how variable human beauty standards are/have been was definitely helpful. I eventually took up belly dancing, and have performed as a belly dancer, though not commercially, big surgical abdominal scar and all! :)
Are you familiar with a coffee-table photo book called Women El Large: Images of Fat Nudes? (Apologies if I've asked you that before. If not, here's a NSFW link to some photos from the book: [link]. My friend Debbie is in several of the photos at that link, and she co-authored the book with the photographer. They blog about photography and body issues at Body Impolitic. Both also have individual dreamwidth accounts.)
I'm curious about what else you liked about doing roller derby, if you feel like saying. Please feel free to point me to one or more links, if you've written about it elsewhere!
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(I've also been meaning to comment on your Istanbul photos over on Pillowfort. At any rate: I totally concur with
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