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.

Clash of the Classes Contest

For NWCs big "Clash of the Classes" (to be said in a booming announcer voice of course), I was procured to take pictures for the sophomore class. It was my assignment to take a landscape and humorous picture. So, Friday morning I went out while the light was still clean and yellowish to take some landscape pictures. While on assignment, I found this sign that said "slow children playing." Thus a genius idea was born. Why not have that sign in the forefront of a picture of college kids playing around dressed in professional, office type clothing, we are here, after all, striking a balance between adult and child. I got some of my wonderful theater friends to help me out with taking the pictures and I think we got some pretty good stuff (of course birdy wanted to help out too, he adds so much color to all my shots!). Here's the best from both shoots and a video I made of the compilation of the humor shots.

My favorite tree.

For this shot I accidently set the focus wrong, but I liked the effect after all.

I got a perfect sunbeam of yellow light shining on this flower and it was majestic.

Hehe! I like little grasshoppers when they're cute like this!

The start of our journey into "The Little Rascals: Our Gang, All Grown Up"

I love being a kid.

Yeah, we're the slow kids.

cliffs and street fairs

So, for our one year anniversary (dating) Chance and I celebrated by going to the cliffs with a grocery bag packed full of candles, chocolate, plastic wine glasses, and sparkling grape juice. We explored the cliffs all day and then enjoyed the sunset with our amenities. It was so fun. Next year we're going to top it by adding real wine glasses and real wine (since we'll be 21). Oh and no creepy man threatening to call the cops cause we had some candles and went over the fence. Note, it's not cool to threaten someone when they're already complying with your demands. Yesterday we went to 500 days of summer and then hit up locals night in huntington. The movie was very good and super artsy, the bacon wrapped hot dogs we ate were super tasty. All in all a great day. So here's some pics from the two days. I hope you all are doing well!

Favorite things from the cliffs:

I love sunset pictures and flowers.

Hermit Crabs!

interesting artifacts

little dandilions that dare to stand out

water rushing through rock crevices

big crabs

finding little flowers you've never seen before

surprising my boy with his favorite ugly doll

biting the bullet

taking a torpedo to the face

Here's the pics from last night. The sunset was so majestic, it made me feel so small and priveledged to see and capture with my little pink cybershot. No matter what, always go back to nature for inspiration. It's always more majestic than anything made by man.

I started reading a book called "Learning to Think Creatively" and so, as an ode to my
new teacher, I took this shot from the perspective of the worm.

I wish that we had cool looking mailboxes like this back home. It would make
sending snail mail so much more fun!