Skies are crying...

skies are crying, 

i am watching,

catching teardrops in my hand.

Listen.

Kiddos.

 Christina is one of my best friends and my lovely co-worker and I love her and her children dearly, so I jumped on the chance to use her children in my portfolio. Her kids are so adorable and have such big and expressive personalities. I think that really shows in their photos!

I hope you get a smile out of some of these! (:

Katie:Senior 2012

A few weeks ago Katie and I approached each other about photographing some senior photos for her. She's absolutely gorgeous and such a sweetheart so of course I was SO excited about this. We had a lot of fun and and she rocked it in front of the camera, despite the freezing temperatures, (and me making her wear a dress.) (;

Here are some of my favorites from the session!

Check out her gorgeous eyeballs!

 A special thanks to my little brother for being my assistant for the day. (:

Serenity.

everything happens for a reason, i know.

what those reasons are, i don't.

i'm happy not knowing.

it keeps me guessing. 

Sometimes....I bake.

I really enjoy baking actually. It's relaxing and something that I think is really fun. Yesterday I got the urge to make some cupcakes, and we just happened to have the cutest cupcake wrappers and flags. So naturally, like any good photographer I had to photograph them. (:

Enjoy!

Friends.

I had the wonderful pleasure of shooting two of my gorgeous friends yesterday. Despite below freezing temperatures and not being able to feel our fingers and toes by the time we were finished, we had a wonderful shoot and got some gorgeous shots...and some tea afterwards to help us warm up! (;

It's kind of difficult to keep them serious sometimes. (;

Surprise...almost.

Let me just start this out by saying that I knew this was too good to be true.

Okay, so about a month or so ago my friend, Forest, told me that he wanted to surprise my best friend and his girlfriend, Sarah, with one of his beloved 4x5 film cameras for her birthday. Forest lives in Montana and Sarah is currently here in Alaska so he needed my help. He told me he had this vision of the camera being set up in this open, snow-filled field. He said he wanted her to walk into the field and see nothing but the 4x5. So for the past few weeks I've been in the process of planning this surprise. I figured out where I was going to set up and convinced her to "hang-out" with me today. Now all that was left was to get the camera and get it executed. Once the mailman finally showed at 6pm last night, the plan was ready to go. I went to the field, got set-up, called Sarah to give her directions, called Forest to let him know that the plan was underway, and then it was time to wait for Sarah's arrival. A few minutes later, I received a phone call from a lost Sarah. (Apparently, I'm bad at giving directions.) Half-way through giving her new directions...my phone died. I was panicking because she couldn't find me and I had no way of contacting her.  After waiting for a few minutes, I decided to pack up real fast, drive back to my house and call her. I gave her the directions to the "right" field and tried to beat her back to the field so I could set-up again before she pulled up...but, she pulled in right behind me so, I just gave it to her.
Ugh.
I was soooooo close to pulling this off completely smooth. Oh well, I suppose it made it even more memorable.

It looked so wonderful, when it was all set-up.

We decided to re-create the "surprise" anyways! (: