Mariah & Eric

Rain, rain, and lots of laughs.  

Mariah is a friend of mine from a few years back at a summer camp.  A little while ago she contacted me wanting some photos with her boyfriend Eric while he was home from the slope, so we set up this shoot!  It was wet and gray the whole time but these guys were the GREATEST.  Thanks to their good humor and cooperation we managed to have a great time AND end up with some pretty stellar shots.  You guys were so awesome to work with, thank you! Enjoy (:

 

Week 8/52 - Start Over

the impossible is possible, but your fear is so responsible
for keeping you down, keeping you down
your unreachable is reachable, but you'll never grab
the wonderful
with your feet on the ground, your feet on the ground
you only fail if you never try
you'll never live tryin' not to die.
I'm telling you now, I'm telling you now

don't ever stop, give all you've got
don't hesitate to take a shot
it all comes around, it all comes around

I love sunshine, this song, and the free feeling of starting over.

 Lyrics: Start Over, The Afters

Cage On The Ground (pt2)

 This is my sweet, funny, beautiful porcelain doll. But most people just call her Kassidy. 

She graciously agreed to model for one of my weekly song challenge photos.  Her sister and I had way too much fun picking her outfit, curling hair, doing nails.  

And then I had too much fun shooting.  I had my challenge photo, but she looked oh-so picture-perfect!  How could I stop? So we just kept going. 

This was also my first time experimenting with free-lensing, and I'm in love. 

So delight yourself in these photos full of pretty purples and teals, Christmas lights, curls and ballerina twirls.

Sweet smile.

Week 7/52 - Cage On The Ground (pt 1)

Another dreamer steps onto the stage
He sings his hope and his fear and his rage
As the applause from the crowd start to fade
He hears them swallow the key to his cage

The dreamer dances inside of his cage
All his music and words are the same
But in the moment he exits the stage
You hear him whisper a prayer for the flames. 

I was beyond excited to shoot someone other than myself for this past week's photo -
so excited in fact, that I couldn't stop at just one. Therefore, there will be a follow-up blog post with more enchanting photos from this shoot :)

My lovely model Kassidy picked this week's song :)

Lyrics: "Cage on the Ground" by Flyfeaf

Crazier - Eklutna

      "Friendship is so weird... you just pick a human you've met
  and you're like "Yup, I like this one." And you just do stuff with them."

 I'm pretty sure this quote describes our friendship.  I took Ali's senior photos last fall, and decided I liked her.  Luckily for me the feeling was mutual! She's headed off on a new adventure to Hawaii THIS. WEEK. Last week, we decided that we needed to get together and have some shooting fun before we left! So we did.
Starting with an early-ish morning breakfast at Jitters, we drove out to Eklutna enveloped in fog. Which disappeared by the time we got there :( but it was still a beautiful rainy morning.
  She was commanded to pick a song to set the mood.  The choice?
 "Crazier" by Taylor Swift.  Which, if you're into that stuff, would be good background music for going through these photos.   

All photos of me are taken by Ali :)

 

 

 

 

Then we were walking back towards the car for the next outfit change and I heard "OH I wanna go in the water! Let's go in the water!"
We went in the water.

<3