I am not a dog person, I am a cat person, but I am in love with Cate’s Living with Clowns set on Flickr.  The expressions on her dogs’ faces are simply priceless.  I also love the set-up of the shots, the composition and framing.  They have such lovely light, color and texture.  These are wonderful animal images but are also beautifully shot photographs.

{images shown belong to * cate *}

Noticing that occasionally I talk about people’s work from Flickr, I decided to create a new category and recurring post: Flickr Finds.  Today I’m being inspired by Perfectbound’s amazingly styled tabletop photographs.  I love the vivid colors and sharpness of their work (Perfectbound consists of the creative duo, Julie & Kathryn).  Flipping through their Flickr, it seems they’ve explored every color imaginable.  I also love the “props” that they use; china tea cups, vintage books, food, flowers…  these are my kind of photos!  I will definitely be using these photos as a guide for color and pattern for the next time I need to photograph my work.

(I’m noticing a tea cup pattern here in the photos I chose to show…  maybe this is my subconscious telling me to go have a cuppa?)

For more of their photographs, check out their Flickr or visit their fantastic blog.

{images shown belong to Perfectbound}

Going through my Flickr favorites, I recently added a slew of Camilla Engman’s Sweden photos.  I already fell in love with her Organization photos, and these are just as inspiring.  I cannot stop looking at this first photo… I’ve never wanted to be able to walk into a photo and into that moment so badly.

I’ve wanted to visit Sweden for the last few years.  Unfortunately I don’t know much about the country, but photos of it’s landscape have always intrigued me.  Camilla’s photos are making my itch to travel abroad to this northern country that much stronger for me.

{images shown belong to Camilla Engman}

One of the things in life that keeps me most happy is organization.  I like when things have a place to live happily where I know I can count on finding it.  It makes it “interesting” (that’s a good word for it) to be married to someone that is the complete opposite: who lives in chaos and disorganization, and isn’t bothered by it.  In any case, when I come across something with order and sequential arrangement, I can’t help but swoon (I flipped a lid when a Container Store opened near me).  I was definitely head-over-heels this week when I came across Camilla Engman’s Flickr set, Organized Collection.  I think I managed to make almost every single photo a favorite.  Here are some of my absolute favs:

Who knew that a photo of organized seashells or beetroots could make one so happy?

{images shown belong to Camilla Engman}