Down to the trees

A few weekends ago I helped the ever-so-awesome Snixie second shoot a wedding for our friends. Snixie never ceases to amaze me and I think the best part of the day was getting to watch her work. She’s got that bubbly charm that makes people at ease while they’re photos are taken. She’s also pretty passionate about whatever she does, especially her bible teaching. I’m guessing teaching experience helps her stay organized and on task because her order pretty much puts me to shame. She’s got the full wedding preview up here- she marked mine with little **’s when you hover (isn’t that sweet?). It’s her older work, but her engagement session with Colin and Rachel remains one of my all time favorite/inspiring shoots.

 

The great thing about second shooting was the ability to be a fly on the wall without the stress of running the sucker. I’ll admit, I’m truly human, in that it took a bit of getting used to stepping back and letting someone else take the lead. However, it’s a treat to be able to watch another artist at work.

The guy in the picture below- equally awesome. He did the video for the day and happens to be an awesome graphic designer…and he has the coolest name I’ve ever heard of- RAINWATER!? No really, it’s his actual last name.

The bride and groom, we went to college with, and they NAILED the relaxed/fun wedding. The entire day was full of people laughing and goofing off, preparing the artsy details and just generally surrounding the two with a lot of love. Kudos to people who understand what a wedding should be about!

          

oh and luminaries- one of the hardest things to photograph ever. I don’t think I was ready for those.

whip yur hairs

  

Home for Lunch

Coming home for lunch is one of my favorite things to do…just a quick break to eat in a quiet house and enjoy the company of my plants. Yes there, I said it, I enjoy the company of my plants. (Of course Juneau does often discover meal times and stares at me through the window).  A short while ago my sweet mother gifted me with a Panini maker and I use it All. the. time. Panini sounds fancy, but really it’s just “sandwich enhancer”. I will do anything for a little melty cheese. My go to is to slap leftovers in my bread but today we had all kinds of yummy things so I went all out.

 

My window plant’s names are ArdenVale, WorryWort, Eustace, and Tiny Thym.

Family Photos and the ever so useful bribe.

We got together for a quick frolic in the park to nab some family photos for the new year. Charley and I’s turned out great:

I did everything on the self timer running back and forth kind of like we did for my sibling’s photos back in the day.

My adorable niece was just into everything. I mean, she was in the park for crying out loud! there were pinecones to find and leaves to explore. Who on earth could keep still? Every time we’d take a picture she’d run to me to see what I was doing at the camera…so we created a trading game of gumballs (the on the ground kind). She’d run to me, I’d supply the gumball, she’d hand it to Christine, Christine would grab her for .2 seconds, I’d run in the shot, by then she’d have wriggled free again. Repeat cycle. She’s completely adorable, love her to bits.

Usually she greets me with a “sah!”

but today she insisted that my name was “doggie!”

 

   

ERp. . .

 

I wanted to take a surreal photo…kind of like the wonderful work of Joel Robison. Alas, I found  nothing more inventive to do but to lie on the ground. Five layers of sweaters failed to convince me of a cool character to play. I was just stiff, padded and full of christmas foods…jumping and running proved more difficult than I would have liked and still failed to lend my imagination something ominous, lovely or inspiring.

No, this was just some strange girl hanging out in the woods, quickly reminded that dirt and pine straw is wet after rain. Even after committing to balancing the camera on a pinecone and two stones on the ground left me unsure of where to go.Then it hit me.

The photo lacked cats. Giant cats. It’s like Alice in WonderCatLand.  The bad photoshopping adds much eh?

Then I continued to realize even more. This photo needed laser beams…even more than it needed the cats.Too bad I don’t know how to make those either.

CHRISTMAS