Weddings Bells!

I have gone to 4 friend’s weddings in the past 6 months, plus weddings I have photographed, my closet is full of bridesmaids dresses, I design wedding invitations, and therefore I sometimes find myself reading weddings blogs, researching weddings, reading about weddings, and so on. My life is full of weddings, and yet I still love weddings. I guess it is safe to say one day I will be fully prepared for my own big day. But I found this the other day on a blog and I absolutely love it. This is by far the coolest personal invitation I have ever seen.

Anyways, I just love it! If you want to check out the full invite and story, click here.

I just wanted to share my new cool find.

5th Quarter

Tomorrow at 7 I am officially done with my 5th Quarter. Really scary! I can’t believe I only have three more now. Things have been so crazy busy, but I promised myself I would post more work on here and especially since I need to desperately update my website. So here goes, new stuff!

Molly and Matt’s E-Session

To see my favorites so far, check them out here.

Some of my favorite images from the quarter.

Check out this cool shoot Rachel Anscher art directed for her Small Bites Magazine. I love this shot!

Some images from my great class with Michael West.

Here are some of my favorites from Zach’s Location Lighting Class. I had some great classes this quarter.

I really do have so many I could post, so I will try and post more over the break. But for now, those are my newest pieces. I am off to bed, I am lacking sleep this week and I have critique tomorrow.

Farewell

Sea Glass

Today I photographed some Sea Glass for my friend Jani’s book. I was honored she asked me since it is going in her final portfolio. Jani has been collecting all kinds of sea glass and other found objects from the shore since she was little and it came in handy for her project. I had so much fun this morning photographing all this interesting old glass.

This shoot made me want to go to the beach really bad.

I am so behind…

I really haven’t posted anything since Easter! Yikes!!! I am way behind and have lots of catching up to do. I guess I will start with why I am so behind on posting new updates.

1. I have a great internship this quarter and when I am not interning, I am going to class, shooting, or babysitting and trying to hang out with Matthew in between all that
2. I am shooting, shooting, shooting. I have been shooting so much I can’t keep up with editing and retouching.
3. I had my very first engagement session yesterday in Athens which was great. I will post more of that later.
4. I was in a wedding the day before my 26th Birthday
5. I am also in another wedding in August
6. I have been putting my design skills to use with creating invitations, koozies, logos, all kinds of stuff. Which is why I think I might start a small design business on the side. I have so much stuff that unless you go to the wedding to get the koozie or get the invite, all my pretty designs never see the light of day. Anyone have any ideas for a business name?
7. I have been able to travel a little for weddings recently. I went to Charleston with Matthew for a wedding and I got to go home for a few days to Knoxville.
8. I went on a hike with my dad and took some pretty cool nature pictures
9. I feel like I am starting to understand still life photography now
10. I am pretty excited to be finishing my 5th quarter at PC and starting my 6th one pretty soon

Fortunately I am pretty lucky and I get to babysit for some great families in Atlanta. I have always loved kids, and when I get the opportunity I try and capture a few shots here and there when I get the chance. Here are a few cute ones I have taken lately.

Audrey

Maggie and Charley Weeks

Julia’s Wedding weekend in Knoxville was a blast and full of fun events. Here is a photo of all of us girls from Julia’s Bridal Luncheon at Carson’s house.

Here are some of my favorite shots I got while I was in Charleston. These were taken with my cute little Canon Power shot camera.

Last but not least, if you want to check out the nature shots from my hike, click here. Any hike is worth it to me if I can get some cool photographs along the way.

I will try and post more later, but I at least wanted to post some new things. Later alligator!