Hippy

Ive been wanting to do a hippy shoot for along time now.

Well I finally did it. 

Here is what I came up with. 

I did this black and white like this to alot of them, 

thought it looked really vintage.
PS, she is 19 and that is only a cig, 

we thought it looked really cool.

And she actually does smoke. 

Another Cig one, 

again I thought it fit the theme really well. 

This one was actually taken two days before.

As you can see her hair is different. 

Had to do one with my most awesome bike. 

Janis Joplin, is that you?

She just looks so groovy!!

This one really looks like Joplin

Couldn't decide if I like the color or the BW better,

so I decided both. 

Another Janis look

She is deffinatly my favorite person to photograph.

Shes been a friend for a long time 

and we just have so much fun doing these shoots.

Love the hair in this one 

And thats the end of the hippy shoot.

Hope you enjoyed. 

I know we had a blast.

*Note*

The fringe Jacket was my moms, the shirt is mine, the feather hair peice is mine

as well as the glasses and most awesome vintage canon camera. 

=)

Vintage Cameras

For the past 3 weeks counting this week, 

I have been attending TCC for photography Level 3 

and Detachable Flash Class.

Hopefully by next year I will be fully certified,

and to get there I had to take these classes. 

In photography level 3 were going to be doing a photo essay.

I picked vintage cameras with books as my theme. 

Here is what I have come up with so far. 

More to come soon! 

3 Down 9 more to go by next week!

Couple More I took yesterday.

5 Down 7 to go!

Photo Challenge: Black

My I <3 Faces Submission

Theme: Black

Black Mask

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All National Geographic Like

So for those of you who don't know, I HATE GRASSHOPPERS.

And these are from a little while back but there pretty awesome.

This is the photos and footage I got of a turtle eating a grasshopper...

that Shane hand fed him.

=)

Enjoy

*caution: although awesome, these are graphic.

Eww that grasshopper looks so gross.

But I love the detail my lens got,

As well as the colors on the turtle.

Eww look at the guts from that nasty grasshopper.

That turtle was happy. 

And look at how awesome my 100MM did!!!

Defiantly my favorite lens. 

This turtle is from a different day, but same activity.

Love the eye on this little guy, sooooo cool!!

Same turtle from above.

Im working on getting the video up, thats whats really national geographic.

Or Nova or Nature....one of those up close nature shows.

Fist Senior Session of the Year

Saturday I got together with a friend of mine to do some senior photos.

These are the first photos I have gotten to do with my Canon 7D.

So she understood she would be a guinea pig.

I think they turned out alright, what do you think?

Gotta have at least one "extreme" close up.

And her eyes are just amazing! 

We went to some huge tubes and there was some pre graffiti. 

Thought it made for a neat background.

Love the colorful background.

This one was candid but turned out really nice.

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And thats it for this session. 

Cant wait to do another one with her, she did so good! 

First Time for Everything.

I have never shot a gun...

until this weekend. 

Well I take that back I have shot a bb gun, but come on.

Well we have been talking about moving to Tulsa and all I hear on the news is 

so and so got shot or so and so got robbed. 

And frankly I'm a little scared.

So, my buddy has quite a few guns and I got to shoot a real gun. 

Not just one gun a few guns. 

Yea, I shot 13 different guns in one day. 

I was always afraid of a gun.

And I should have been, there heavy and powerful. 

SCARY

But if you just do it and you ever need to defend yourself or your loved ones you can. 

So after I faced my fears...

I felt like a badass.

As did Shane, although he's shot a gun before. 

Let me also state, we did not shoot ANY ANIMALS.

I am a vegetarian and do not believe in hunting. 

And by the end of the day...

Our arms paid for it. 

Shanes arm on top, mine on bottom.

Well thats my experience with guns.

And here is just a cool photo I got while we were out there. 

= )

Hendrix

Our newest member of the family.

His name is Hendrix and he was given to us by our friend Dan.

Dan found him in the Ghetto were he works.

No he's not a hooker, he works at a liquor distribution factory.

This kitty was super skinny and super sweet, and still is.

He likes to climb on our shoulders and just purr all day. 

Curious little guy, he would barely let me get a good pic of him. 

Redo: I Heart Faces Challenge: People's Choice

I didn't read the rules very well and submitted a photo from the winter. That is not my entry, this photo is. 

Sorry for the inconvenience, here is my photo. 

"Wild Child"

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I Heart Faces Challenge: Peoples Choice.

My entry for I Heart Faces Challenge: People's Choice. 

"Wild Child"

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This is a redo. I didn't read the rules very well about the "from the summer part"
This is my actual entry not the photo with the snow flake.
Sorry for the inconvenience. 

Straight up Awesome!

So Shane and I have been talking about getting bikes since the summer, but bikes are kinda pricey and were kinda lazy. I don't know if it was the weather or the trying on jeans that don't fit, but today we finally did it. We bought bikes.

Awesome Bikes!

I was inspired by my moms old bike and I wanted to fix it up and ride it but today I just had to ride.

I still plan to fix up my moms old bike and ride it too when Im old and give this one to my future daughter, but we'll pass that bridge when we come to it. 

This is my moms bike, well my bike now. 

The tiers are flat and the chain is super rusted. Not much needs to be done to fix it up and I can't wait to finish.

 But until I buy the new tires and what not I will be riding the bike I have now, or I might sell my white bike, we will just have to see.

OHHH Also on top of the bikes today...I started my photography website!!!

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Go check out what is the starting of my photography business!!!

=)

Sunkissed

I've been looking at these photoshop actions by MCP Photoshop Actions, for quite a while now. 

Pondering for a few months if I want to spend the money or not, and well...

I am soooo glad I did. 

So far my favorite action is called sunkissed and these are a few examples of what that looks like.

 

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I'll be trying this effect on some other photos, but it looks really good on close ups.

=)