Summer's End

Love this spread by Corrie Bond for Marie Claire Australia...love the moody blues and nautical stripes, makes me yearn for the cooler beaches of Northern California.

mix & match

Charlotte Free in Wonderland Magazine, knocked my socks off.

calm waters

Something about this photograph really strikes me.  Found at MonMignon

Vivian Maier

In 2007, an amateur historian by the name of John Maloof bought 30,000 negatives on a hunch.  They happened to be the photographic work of Vivian Maier, a lifelong nanny in Chicago who died in 2009 at age 83.  She is posthumously being lauded as one of the first street photographers, and her work is being compared to the likes of Brassai & Diane Arbus.  Maloof has edited a book of her photography called Vivian Maier: Street Photographer.

California Marilyn

I am obsessed with this picture of Miss Monroe, all cozy on the beach.  The woman looks just as good fully clothed - and that sweater makes me excited for the fall weather I've been waiting for.

Jonathan Saunders

 Fashion Week photos by Linda Brownlee

Among Flowers

Lovely new photos by Anna Malmberg

Pure inspiration coming out of Vogue Nippon 2005, photos by Yelena Yemchuk.  The braids and the layering of knits are what I'm imagining in my days to come.  In the meantime, LA is still bringing the heat, and I'm alright with that too. 

then & now

Sent M'ahesa (Elsa von Carlberg) by Hanns Holdt, 1928

here

New Gypsies

These breathtaking photos, mostly taken in Romania, are part of a series The New Gypsies by photographer Iain McKell. 

love these oversized flowers, would be pretty as wedding decor, no?

River Dog

I'm pretty sure this day gets filed in Henry's top 10 funnest days ever.

Las Manos

 photo by Todd Webb of Georgia O'Keefe

 

Man Ray

ethereal color

the fourth

After getting major sunburns on the beach the morning of the fourth, in the evening we all lounged on the rooftop to watch all the fireworks going off in LA.  My favorite "fireworks" were from the neighbors down the street who instead of spending money at a firework stand, 

simply lit flares into the sky.  classy.

LIFE

4th of July, 1954

Photographs by Peter Stackpole for LIFE magazine, 1954

dance among the flowers

photo by Viviane Sassen, found via BlackEiffel