sunshine chasers

day 172




My plans for a 365 photo didn't work out (hopefully next week it will come to fruition), so Matt came to my rescue and offered to step in front of the camera even though he doesn't particularly like it. Thanks babe! We chased the sun around for a bit and snapped a couple of photos. It was a beautiful, relaxing day.

p.s. I've also been thinking about changing the design of this blog, make it a bit more streamlined and bright and summery. Do you guys have any suggestions?

wedding, wedding, wedding

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In honor of my very first wedding shoot, I thought I'd post some photos of other people's weddings. Being the hopeless romantic that I am, I could spend hours looking through lookbooks of weddings, dresses, cakes, rings, anything. Though that may be a bad thing with my overactive imagination, it's perfect to learn the right way to shoot a wedding. Pay attention to lighting, don't be afraid to take close up shots, and look for creative angles. Even though these photos may not be my exact style, they all have things I can pull inspiration and lessons from.

On a completely unrelated note, I got a pinterest the other day and have no idea how to use it. My username is impulsings if you want to follow along.

impossible possibilities

day 171

Now I remember why I don't like crazy edits. This was ridiculously hard and I still don't like the way it turned out, but I'm glad I stuck through and got a complete image produced.

This is based off of my painting that I did my junior year in AP Art. It was part of a series entitled "Impossible Possibilities." I think painting them in real life instead of on photoshop is much much easier.



As for what I did today, it was off to babysitting again. My kids and I played outside for nearly the entire time, riding bikes, drawing with sidewalk chalk, playing basketball, jumping on the trampoline, even having a water balloon fight! It was probably the most fun thing I've done all summer. And the weather is hot enough to do fun water activities (yeah, I seriously do comment about the weather every. single. post.). Then it was off to a quick photoshoot with Marquel (the bride-to-be this Saturday!!) and then I got to watch a movie with Matt! He, his brother, his friend, and I all watched The Tree of Life. It reminded me a lot of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Definitely a movie I need to watch a couple more times to process everything that happened.

Oh and one more thing, I finally know who my roommate is in college! Her name is Annette and I'm so excited to be going through a brand new chapter of life with her. I can't wait to introduce you guys to her!

Anyways, I hope you have a great day!

the sky was crying and I stood and watched

day 170










Today was another bright and sunny day, filled with weddings and evening showers and rainbows and even a hail shower (that never happens in Alaska). I went outside at 10:30pm to take these photos after sitting on the couch for way too long. I got soaking wet from the rain and probably acquired a ton of mosquito bites (and possibly a cold) but it smelled so nice outside I guess I don't mind.