Adam and Breanne

It was so much fun shooting this wedding. Adam is silly and makes my job easy, Breanne was so sweet and calm. I got to see so many people I know and have not seen in a long time.

I think it turned out well.... check it out for yourself

Some one is glad that I am home!

Don

This is my friend Don, we were both born in Willows Ca. Anyway I wanted to take a picture of him with his tattoo. It is a tattoo in memory of his nephew Steven who was lost tragically at a very young age. I thought it was important to capture it for him. It means a lot to him. Here is to you Don, it is a wonderful gesture to your nephew.

This weekend

Well I am almost recovered from my 10 months at Hallmark. Just kidding, it was intense, I miss Mass. I arrived in Northern California just in time to see and breath all the terrible smoke. It is clearing now, thank goodness.

I found a drop and pop sort of job to get money coming, will start soon. But I have tried to continue shooting, even if just for my portfolio. These are some shots I took this weekend. It was great fun. My sister came over and did the makeup. We made a day of it.

I miss all my 2008s - hope you are all well!!

I also miss calibrated screens.

Thanks

Back to being able to take pictures of the what I love most....

Wow it has been almost a month since graduation! What a month it has been. I got sicker than a dog and slept for 3 weeks. I slept because I was so drained from the last year. Hallmark is tuff for many reasons. We all know about the academic reasons, but the tougher part for me was to keep some kind of life going, with no money no job and tons of bills. I was taken care of while at Hallmark, by the outside, with out that help I would not have made it.

So I am feeling refreshed and ready to go. I made a crash landing and am now ready to try and get going again.

So thanks to all, your love makes me want to be strong and successful, to let you know I do not take for granted one minute what was done for me, what was given to me.

Mark

This is a video from my graduation at Hallmark. It is of a great friend and fellow photographer, Mark.

Mark thank you for this...it gets more inspiring everyday. I am so honored to have been able to be in the same class with you. Thanks Buddy!

Home...and it is smokey!

The valley is full of smoke. It is crazy I have never seen it like this before, and I have been here since 1980. Here is a shot from Capay see the smoke?



One of my babies

My babies baby...and my little A playing the air drums while Daddy plays the guitar.

Kind of tired

We are in Chicago tonight, Melrose Park. I am kind of tired. We made good time today and drove a little over 600 miles. I am tired and ready for bed. I drove on the Chicago Skyway. That was kind of crazy but fun. I dont think Mom thought is was much fun ha ha...if not for Daniel (oh me and Mom call the GPS Daniel) we would have been lost.

Well I am off to bed because I cant think of much more to say...nite xxoo

Road Trip

We are in Newark NY tonight. Mom and I went site seeing today. We had fun. I am very tired, and looking forward to getting home.

The GPS has been a great help. Mom and I decided we needed the voice to be male though. So we changed it to Daniel a mans voice with an English accent. Daniel very kindly tells us how to get places, and we say thanks so much Daniel. Ha ha it is very funny.

Tomorrow we will get to Chicago. Cant wait to really get out on the road and start heading home. Below are a few pictures from today.

Joseph's Smiths house

Out side out hotel window...nice light

My Mommy is so cute

Frog Killer!

Me kicking Rich's butt in arm wrestling, I just cheated a little....not to much.

My Mom and I worked so hard today getting everything into my little car. We got up early, and filled it up just in time to miss the rain.

Then we went and delivered some pictures to people I owed. It was nice I got to show my Mom around a bit.

Then we went back to the house and worked more on cleaning and boxing for the UPS. We didn't get out of greenfield until about 6:30.

Norm got me a GPS for graduation, and because he was afraid I would get lost on the way home hee hee. But It was a big help. We stopped in a town called Palmyra. Mom wanted to do some site seeing there. It is kind of off the beaten path, we had to make like 8 turns...in the dark and in the rain. It would have been really hard if we didnt have the GPS. So THANKS Norm!


Oh you are probably wondering about the frog killer title. On one of the dark back roads I saw a bunch of leaves...or what I thought was leaves. But then I noticed one on them jumping! There were literately hundreds maybe thousands of frogs on the road. And I could not help but run over some....there was no way to avoid them...I feel bad. :-( I hope they died fast!

So tired...going to sleep now!

New personal work

Sisters

I have decided to work on some personal work. I really want to try to capture the essence of people. These are my first two photos in my new endeavor. Two girls, sisters, one 5 one 7. They look older than they are, they are so cute. I tried to capture their love for each other.

Motorcycle

I was scared to ride a motorcycle. But it turned out to be fun! Shhh don't tell my Mom I was riding on a motorcycle. Hey did you know the helmet law is a state thing, not a federal thing? CT has no helmet law...but you notice...I still have one on cause I am a cautious girl.

School

Yale

Off to school this morning. Today is the last day of reviews and we will get more instruction as to what will happen next week.

It is so green and pretty here in Greenfield. I don't know if I am ready for the dry yellow grass and intense heat of home yet. Or the fires! But I cant wait to see my family and friends.

Well off I go!

Ok...I am back

Glass shot from my final portfolio.

Wow I like disappeared off the face of the earth for a while. My final portfolio was accepted at school! That is cool, now I get to graduate on the 20th. I am heading home soon and cant wait. If anyone is interested in booking a session make sure to contact me soon because they are going to fill up fast ;-)

I have a new web site if you don't know about it check it out www.530photo.com I am going to be updating it soon with a price list.

My first post Hallmark wedding is booked, Adam and Breanne! August 9th. I cant wait to be able to capture their beautiful day. I will be sure to share them with you all as soon as possible.

I hear Northern California is on fire. It is a crazy thing, I hope everyone is ok.

I will be posting again on a regular basis so please keep checking back.

Boston

Lowkey

Working during spring break...

Spoons...

I have been working hard here at school...we are shooting some personal submissions where we get to pick what we shoot....for a change. Here are my spoons I shot the other day.

Pears

It has been a while since I posted anything. Sorry guys! Here are some pairs I photographed. I shot them for my personal submissions at school...I dont know if I will use them...but they are pretty!

Snow

3 hours later not to bad

Wow, it is snowing!

I went to a workshop today put on by the Powers of Gainsville FL I really learned a lot of good stuff. Thanks Stewart and Susan for in wonderful sharing of your knowledge.

Now it is snowing! It is so pretty. Just think I will probably not ever see this kind of snow again after I go home. I will miss it.

Don't get me wrong, I am looking forward to coming home big time. I miss everyone so much!

The Poweres

Today I am going to a workshop put on by the Powers
I am really looking forward to it. They will be talking about wedding lighting and posing.

Nana

Some pictures that were fun to take

This was for an assignment. It was fun :-)