Sometimes I feel like a bee...

These past few weeks have been so busy with school and shooting that I haven't had hardly any time to put pictures up! Therefore, I'm fixing the problem with this massive post. In the past few weeks I gotten to take pictures of so much. There's April, a girl I've babysat since she was about 5, and she is so beautiful in her new point shoes. I've also finalized my portfolio that I'll be sending out to various art schools. I went to visit my friend Elayna and had a ball at this little coffee shop and taking our "senior pictures" again. Finally, I was blessed with the opportunity to take pictures of my neighbor and her boyfriend. They brought along his best friend and it was just a blast. Enjoy!

April goes up on her tippy toes.

She's just a gorgeous girl. I can't believe how grown up she is!

Take it all back- from a line of a poem I did a series on.
Of course I had to take back Birdy!

Shoes hanging showing how we define femininity today.

Travel, the third installment of my series.

I got a little creative with the cream left in my almond chai latte.

Elayna and I explore the classic senior shot- train+leaning+
looking at the camera+perfect smile=awesome.

the best coffee shop in Sioux Falls hands down is Queen City Coffee.
If you live there or are just passing through, go there ASAP.

The boys livening up the shoot by looking like modern day Tarzan's in their tree.

We found this little bridge and started shooting when I noticed how
perfect the background was. Like a little rural haven!

Found places to shoot are the best. I'm still amazed at how well this shot turned out.

The Leaf

The other day I made a photo story as part of a new photography project that I want to start working on. Since it's super cutesy and kinda silly, I thought that I would share it. :) Enjoy.

Once upon a time, there was a leaf. But it wasn't a normal leaf, it was a little different. When I found it on a tree, I though, "this doesn't belong here!" So I set out to discover where it really did belong.

So, I tried to put it on other trees, but it didn't match the berry tree.

It looked too lonely on the tree with no leaves.

The leaf looked not right on a trunk. I'm not sure why, but I know that the leaf did not belong there. By now, I'm sure that it was getting lonely, so I tried other places for it to belong to.

But, it definitely was not part of a pine tree.

The flowers and the leaf were not meant to be either.

Well, the push pin and the pumpkin matched, but the leaf still
didn't look comfortable.

So, I made the leaf its own tree!

THE END!

Halloween NWC Style

I know this is a little late, but since the school paper didn't run the story, I thought that I'd include this picture in my blog. As "good Christians" we do not celebrate Halloween at NWC but rather we celebrate the Reformation and Martin Luther tacking the 95 thesis to the church doors in Germany. To represent this I designed a picture in which Martin Luther smashed a jack-o-lantern in order to symbolize our rebellion against Halloween. Enjoy.