As usual, I am behind on blog posts. And editing pictures. And uploading to Facebook. Finals got the best of me - my sincerest apologies for the brief hiatus. Last month, my sister and I finally picked a date to do her senior pictures. My friend Ali came along as my assistant (and let me [...]
I always surprise people when I ask them to fake laugh. It's not something everyone looks good doing, but I try it anyway if I haven't gotten a ton of emotion out of the person yet (and because attempting to fake laugh almost always results in real laughs). I didn't have to tell Tyler to [...]
January, February, and March have been slow photography-wise. Super slow. As in I have done maybe two shoots and they were either for a school project or just playing around with friends. This has probably been a blessing because I have had a tough semester with a huge course load, and I've needed to focus [...]
A little iPhoneography from my spring break trip in California.
“To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place … I’ve found it has little to do with things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.”
I've decided that above all else, I prefer to photograph people. I like capturing emotion. There is not much emotion in a brick wall or a river. There is emotion in a laughing child, a mother looking at her newborn, a bride surrounded by her bridesmaids. So last week, when I had to do a [...]
Ashley and I went to Goodwill a few days ago to look at stuff for our apartment, and on the way home, I commented on how the lighting outside would be perfect for picture-taking. We both have been super bored for the past couple weeks of break, so we decided to hike through the woods [...]
Last January, I met the Blanding twins for the first time - at the top of McAfee's Knob, where they were doing a photoshoot with a green couch they had carried all the way up the mountain. This year, we decided to reunite with each other and the green couch, but instead of McAfee's, we [...]
Over Thanksgiving break, I got this image in my head that I just had to try (no idea where it came from). Bright colors. Fun outfits. Balloons. An alleyway. So I gathered up two of my favorite girls to work with and we headed downtown for a few hours of creative shooting. We climbed to [...]
I was so excited when Katie asked me to do her senior pictures a few months ago, but I had to hold in that excitement because she wanted to wait until fall to do the shoot. Now I'm glad I was patient - fall offers some beautiful golden light and an array of colors, and [...]
