My FIRST art exhibit...S by M: Real | Sensual | Male

So, I am a photographer by trade, and I just opened my very first art show this past Friday night at a terrific little bar called The Korner Lounge in Downtown Shreveport. The exhibit will be up for the entire month of February. Stop in and see it before it's gone forever. Each piece is $98, and half the show is already sold! In the meantime, here is a sampling of custom 8x12 vignettes from the photo shoots of ten models that did not make it onto the wall but are still gorgeous and available for purchase at $20 each! You can also see the vignettes at the mollie | corbett | photography facebook page, and you won't hurt my feelings AT ALL if you LIKE my page! ;-)

30 Day Photo Challenge: Day 4--Favorite Color

Teal! I am SO into this color lately. I found this gem among a local consignment dealer's shelves. Such a find!

30 Day Photo Challenge: Day 3--Clouds

30 Day Photo Challenge: Day 2--What I Wore

First meeting out of the house since before Christmas and cold symptoms. Feelin' fine, yessir...

She said No

My heart breaks for them, but what's tragic to me is not the embarrassment of the moment. I know from experience the heat of that eventually fades to nothing. People forget, move on.

It's the competitive fairytale aspect of the moment that makes my skin crawl. People really have no idea of the commitment to which they are agreeing. We spend more time working out the marketing of it. "How cool would it be to..." Nauseating.

Within five months of marriage, my husband became seriously ill with a near-rupture of his appendix and a several week hospital stay. Still, even without these rare catastrophes, there are bills and schedules and preferences and compromises and duties and disappointments and struggles and heart breaks. For those who approach the experience authentically, there can be joy, intimacy, bonding, friendship, trust, elation, familiarity, sharing, and love. These are the just the beginning of what we risk when we ask and say yes. It's a contract of agreement through the years, meant to last but often doesn't. Can we at least dignify it with a more appropriate exchange than the kiss cam at a sporting event?

Life is not a series of fairytale moments. Surely, we know this. Why do we punctuate the major transitions of our lives in such pithy, shallow, and irreverent ways? Do you really want to ask someone to be with you, beside you, forever if you aren't already sure of what their response will be? In a sporting event? On camera? On YouTube?!

30 Day Photo Challenge: Day 1--Self-Portrait

I feel like poop and spent most of the day wrapped in a cuddly blanket and browsing pinterest. I did have a burst of energy out of a desire to take a shower in a clean shower. I nearly killed us all by mixing cleaners. This is the fault of soap scum, the giant irony of the bathroom--residue that gets left behind while making us all "clean." So I got my clean shower, but I did in fact use soap. Curses.