living, learning, and loving (almost) every minute of it
When you meet Jessica & Taylor together, it just makes sense. They’re so personable, funny, & sweet together that it wasn’t hard to get amazing photos of these two at their engagement shoot! I couldn’t stop smiling while I was editing this set, and I’m so excited to share it with you all!
They’re getting maaaaaaarried SO SOON! Sending all the love + good vibes their way for their special day.
A free weekend {with no work days, gasp!} is made for pure laziness. Hence the late post & slightly boring snaps.
I am v grateful for grandparents who helped to weed the garden while they were visiting last week. These front yard flowers appreciated it as well!!
I am also vvv grateful to have couple friend groups to hang out and play board games with. Yay friends!
Lately I’ve been wanting to share my photos from some of my photo shoots, and I think I’m going to start making blog posts where I highlight a few of my favorite shots!
Well, let’s be honest – more than a few. I’m one of the most indecisive people ever!!
My good friend Dina, whose little one I had been doing monthly milestone photos with, wanted to get her friend Rochel the gift of newborn photos. This was mama’s sixth baby {amazing woman!}. Dina, being the sweetest person ever, wanted her to have something to memorialize this fleeting moment of tiny baby-ness, so she asked me if I’d like to help out. Of course I said yes!
This was only my second newborn shoot, and I’m not a pro at handling babies, so I was really excited {and nervous!} about the challenge. I don’t have a studio or really very many props – someday I’d like to invest a little more so that things don’t feel so DIY/thrown together. Someday! Dina is great at planning, and together we were able to pull together something wonderful.
I’m an amateur photographer right now, but more of my friends lately have been asking me to take photos for them – which I’m LOVING!
For a while I’ve felt that my camera bag is missing something, but I couldn’t figure it out. There are about a million + one options of cameras and lenses out there, and for someone who barely knows how to shoot in manual mode, the choices can be a little overwhelming. Continue reading “Why you need to rent camera gear before you buy”
Oh hello there.
It has been a busy week!! How busy, you may ask? Well, all of these things happened in the past week:
So yeah, just a little busy.
I’m looking forward to starting my new job next week and hopefully finding a good routine to settle into. One of my favorite Christmas presents that I received was an Ink & Volt planner – I have loved planners for as long as I can remember – and I’m excited to use it in the new year. I have a gut feeling that 2017 will be a year full of change and growth and exploration. I think it’ll be a year of being busy and I just can’t wait.
So yes, it’s not really summer anymore, but it’s still hot and the leaves are still on the trees so I’m gonna do one last summer snaps post!
KITTENS. THIS POST INCLUDES KITTENS. YOU’RE WELCOME.
So many books, so little time!
Today I went to a clearance sale for the Half-Price Books store. They had so many books that they held it in Wright State’s big arena! It was a pretty good sale – but it took me a few hours to find good quality books I was interested in. They were $2 each, which is awesome. Some of them are for a project for book club, so I’ve read a few of them. Check out my haul!
#weirdattemptsatpoetry
Days off include indulgence:
sitting on the dining room bench
cats in my view
– curled up and snoring –
on the table I have
smashed avocado toast
with crunchy salty flakes.
Coffee from a trip to Canada
– no apologies for the cream and sugar –
ripe plums sliced for snacking
phone playing witty podcasts.
All the while,
lists on my mind –
things to do
things to do
— THINGS TO DO —
But for now –
sweet indulgence.
