Happy Monday! Who else is feeling slightly bleary-eyed from the weekend? I have my first steaming cup of coffee sitting next to me, and I'm hopeful that after it's gone I'll feel bright-eyed and ready to take on the week! (Gotta be some serious coffee to expect that much...but I'm always an optimist.)

I am sorely in need of some eye candy today, so here we go!

I first discovered these from Honestly WTF's blog, and loved them so much that I had to share them too!

1, 2 and 3: Hamptons // 4, 5, and 6: St. Tropez

They're by a photographer named Gray Malin (how cool is that name?), and they're part of a series, "À la Plage, À la Piscine". (For those of you who know a little French, yes he also does aerial shots of pools.) From his website:

Shooting from doorless helicopters, this series has been photographed around the world from the U.S. to Brazil to Australia. From above, a simple beach or pool becomes a blank canvas that allows me to start seeing the world as art. People and objects become patterns creating repetition, shape and form. These photographs are a visual celebration of color, light, shape--and summer bliss.

Love them! If I had a beach house/summer home - excuse me, when I have a beach house/summer home, I'll buy and frame a print or two and hang them on a gallery wall.

Left // Right

A lot of times I really wish I already had my own "grown up" apartment already so I could decorate it properly. I bought one print about 2 years ago and to this day it's still sitting in the original cardboard it was mailed in, since I envision it as part of a wall collage rather than on its own, and never got it framed. 

Anyway, my point is that Kari Herer's photography has got me wanting to purchase more (that would probably - sadly - end up still in the original packaging until I get my act together and start getting things framed!), and my absolute favorite is the rabbit at the bottom. I have a thing for rabbits and mermaids. (Don't ask.) I can imagine this one hanging in an entryway or a foyer or a hallway to a main room - somewhere I'd pass it all the time and smile. Because that's what I do when I see rabbits! 

For more of her work, click here