we hit the target

Lawl witty titles. My friend Aly and I have this tradition. We like to go on photo adventures. But not just any photo adventures. We attack random shopping venues and take photos while posing with random items. I'm not even quite sure how it came about, but we have a list of stores to attack (with Costco being the final boss right before I go to college).







We've hit a couple other stores. The first one was Fred Meyer and the second one was Walmart. Then it was Target's turn, and boy were they in for a treat.









I found the coolest ironman mask and wore it around the store, and that little boy waved at me when he saw me! D'aaaaww! I think I scared some employees with it though ... or they thought I was incredibly weird (which they would be correct).










Then afterwards she kindly modeled for my 365 photo!

keep the change, Oliver James

day 159

color version (click on the photo):



This is Carson! He so kindly agreed to model for a photo. Today was his birthday as well, so a celebration at Red Robin was in store, as well as jumping around on trampolines until unknown hours of the night (because the sun makes people think it's a lot earlier than it actually is).

Tomorrow I'm going camping for the weekend, so I'll have to update my 365 photos when I return, but I will have some fun posts scheduled while I'm gone!

So have a super awesome weekend, everyone!

We'll all float on, alright

red dress: mom's closet // polka dot dress: handmade by my grandmother // bag: gift



Being a person who loves to stuff everything in her pockets, when I got this bag as a graduation present, I was excited to try it out. Knowing I was actually going to go into public, and it's so hot out, I wanted to match my bag, something that I have never done before in my life. It's an extra challenge being all matchy matchy with your accessories, but since I just have this one brightly colored bag, I'm mostly just excited to try something new.




I wore this when I met with my clients (woah, don't I sound so professional?) at coffee to discuss wedding things. Matt, my friend Jacob, and I are the wedding photographers for our friends' wedding and as the day quickly approaches, we're getting more excited and apprehensive. If you follow me on tumblr, you know I've been freaking out just a little bit about the wedding, as it is my first one, but after this meeting, I'm not too worried anymore. It's such an exciting opportunity and because they're confident the photos will be amazing, I'm confident they'll be amazing. So be warned, in two weeks, this blog is going to turn into a wedding blog.




Because it was such a sunny day, my nail polish turned bright pink (it changes color based on the amount of UV rays in the atmosphere). I even started sweating a bit taking these photos--in sixty one degree weather too. Yeah, Alaska makes you tough, except I'm going to be a big baby when I charge headlong into ninety degree weather when I go to college.





Let's hope this awesome weather continues! I'm meeting with people the rest of this week for photoshoots, and I have a special shoot planned for next Saturday. Life is looking good!

How's your summer going?

where we begin

day 158

Just click on the photo. Just. Do. It.

This is the inspiration for this photo:



That photo was day 57 of my first 365 project (in 2010). It's crazy to see just how much I've grown ... This is super cliche to say, but if you had told me then what I am be doing now, I would have thought you were crazy. And I'm always improving and it's a weird concept to think that a person is never done growing; there's always something to learn and always something to improve on. But I digress.

I was going to post other photos from today, but I just couldn't wait to get this 365 photo up! This is the first of many model photos, as I've been recruiting like crazy. For those of you that have been reading my blog for a while, you know how frustrated I've been with not having anyone else to shoot, so I've been busy busy on facebook the past couple of days getting people to volunteer to model for me. I already have seven more people scheduled, and also seven kids in one day! (We'll see how that photo works out, hah!) I'm super excited for this because not only does it give me a lot of practice editing-wise, but I'm learning a ton about directing other people and not being timid about things.

I'll (hopefully--I make no promises) have more photos from today up, as Aly and I went on an adventure to Target (this photo was actually taken in the parking lot), and I got to go on a date with Matt! Tomorrow will be pretty busy as well though. I'm taking more pictures in the morning and then in the evening I'm off to a birthday party. I really love being able to go out places and hang out with people. I would say this is turning into a fabulous summer.