Winterjoy Burkart

     Salut! Thanks for stopping by. Allow me to introduce. My name is Winterjoy (yes, really) and I ventured down here to North Carolina 7 years ago from Manasquan, New Jersey. Manasquan being the Native American word for "island of the women (or squaw)"! So I mean..ya know..naturally. Eh, just kidding. But in all seriousness, I love photography. I hope to someday be the one behind the camera taking and creating beautiful images. For now, I'm being in front instead and having alot of fun doing so. Even being the one in front, I get to learn alot. I hope to find more photographers on MM willing to use me for their ideas and concepts.
     I truly admire different and am greatly pleased when a photographer can go far out in left field and try something out of the norm. I am looking to add these types of images to my port. I also like glamor, vintage or edgy..anything really. I am open-minded and want to try new techniques and themes. No full nudity but partial or implied is fine. I am up for just about any style so don't be afraid to ask. Alright..that's enough of my babbling. Bonne journée!




She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb; excerpt (just because I can)

"So I got my stuff and the girl at the register puts these other things in my bag, too. Little free samples: gum and a comb and a marker pen. So I says to her, 'Look, girlie, I got false teeth and I wear a wig.' So she fishes back in my bag and takes out the comb and the gum. Left the pen in there. Anyways, I went back to the van, even though I knew it was locked. Figured I'd just wait and have a smoke. You can't smoke in the van, see? So while I'm waiting there, minding my own business, this car pulls into the handicapped space right next to us--brand-new car, white and clean, and it's got this bumper sticker on it that says, 'Life Is a Shit Sandwich.' Isn't that stupid? So this guy gets out--good-lookin' fella, in his twenties. I say to him, 'Hey, handsome, tell me something.' He takes a look at my walker and gets all panicky. 'I'm just running in for two seconds,' he says. See, he thinks I'm going to yell at him for parking in a handicapped space, but I ain't. I don't give a rat's ass about that, you see. I'd rather walk the extra ten feet than be called handicapped. Where was I?'

She amazed me. 'Life's a shit sandwich,' I said.

'Oh, yeah. Right. So that guy goes runnin' into the store and here's what I did. I fished that free pen out of the bag and marched right over there to that bumper of his. Got myself right down on the ground--and I wrote--just after the 'Life's a shit sandwich' part--I wrote, 'But only if you're a shithead.' 'Course, then I couldn't get myself back up again--had to yell over to a couple of kids at the phone booth to come pick me back up."

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