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YOU AREN'T BEING PAID TO BELIEVE IN THE POWER OF YOUR DREAMS

from Despair.com, a totally hilarious website. Go there and spend money.

Outkast

One from the archive: Outkast at Stankonia Studios, right after the release of Stankonia

Bigfoot

Calder, in the babysitter's shoes.

Greetings from The New Digs

Howdy Y'all! This is my first post from the new Parker Smith Portraits Mothership.

Apologies for the light blogging recently. We've been knuckled down renovating our new studio space and moving out of the old studio and into the new; it's very exciting and exhausting all at the same time, as transitions often are.

We spent most of the day today hanging artwork and getting organized. Kristin has done an amazing job with the design and layout of the new space. It feels so fresh, so bright and open and inviting. I really love it. Mmwwah! (big kiss)

So, scroll down and be sure to vote for us on the GoCity Kids' website. Vote today and every day for the next month, if you don't mind. Please and Thank You.

We'll be posting some photos and updating the website soon, so stay tuned.

Parker

Barbie and Tanner

Tanner wants a treat!

Nickelodeon 2009 Parent Pick Nominee

Wow! We're a Nickelodeon 2009 Parent Pick Nominee for Best Family Portrait Studio in Atlanta.

We'd love to have your vote! Just click the logo below. Thanks for all of your support.

For Family Photographer
in Atlanta

Kids say the darndest things

Walker:  "Tillman, you can't kick a dead squirrel!"

Later in the day...

Tillman:  "Can you stand on top of a rainbow?"

The Thinker

Snapper

Meerkat

Potent Quotables

The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false.

British historian Paul Johnson

Rabbit

This is how we do

when the kids get out of control

The Mexican Suitcase

Fascinating article and slideshow in The New York Times about a very important discovery for photographic historians:

When the three weathered cardboard boxes — known collectively, and cinematically, as the Mexican suitcase — arrived at the International Center of Photography more than a year ago, one of the first things a conservator did was bend down and sniff the film coiled inside, fearful of a telltale acrid odor, a sign of nitrate decay.

But the rolls turned out to be in remarkably good shape despite being almost untouched for 70 years. And so began a painstaking process of unfurling, scanning and trying to make sense of some 4,300 negatives taken by Robert Capa, Gerda Taro and David Seymour during the Spanish Civil War, groundbreaking work that was long thought to be lost but resurfaced several years ago in Mexico City.

Twins

M.