take two || Colorado senior portraits
Because she’s impatient.
Because she asked nicely.
Because I’ll get double overtime coffee refills if I post these today…
…here is take two of Elise’s senior portraits!
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take one || Colorado senior portraits
There comes a time in every photographer’s life, when she will ask her younger sister — a sister who is on the verge of her senior year of high school — to precariously sit herself on a rusted half of an old wagon wheel and pose in such a manner that suggests a carefree, though excited, air of readiness for the future.
Or, you know, because it looks cool.
Elise somehow managed to speed up time and we find ourselves already facing her senior year of high school. I’m pretty sure we’re supposed to have about 12 more years to go before this mile marker. However, she is altogether convinced it is high time to sally forth into her post-high school years and is taking the rest of us along with her. Whether we like it or not.
Here is a small sampling of what we came up with on our first outing to photograph some senior portraits yesterday evening. Yes, “first outing.” One of the perks of being the younger sister to a photographer is getting as many do-overs as you like on such portrait sessions, until you get them just as you want them. One of the perks of being the photographer for such a gal in this scenario is that she pays me in coffee.
More to come!
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june 18, 2011 || one year anniversary
I asked him recently, “When was the first time we discussed starting a wedding photography business?” It may sound silly, but neither of us could precisely remember the answer to that question. For such a life-changing decision, neither of us could recall the exact time we decided we could do this.
This past Monday — June 18 — marked the one-year anniversary of our wedding photography business. On June 18, 2011, Dan and I photographed Seth and Brigid’s wedding. Since then, in just one short year, we have grown so much as a photography team.
We have challenged each other. We have succeeded. We have stumbled. We have navigated the treacherous trenches of small business tax filings. We have traveled to different time zones. We have photographed in ideal conditions and sloppy ones. We have danced. We have eaten hurried meals in a spare reception hall corner. We have downed a lot of coffee (oh wait…that was just me). We have improvised. We have planned.
We have found our fit.
Though we may never know when we decided that this idea could be a reality, we have since discovered that this is right and good.
And that’s the thing about perfect fits: they become so much a part of you, it’s like they were always there.
Thank you for an incredible year, Dan. I’m so excited for many more to come.
(Photo of Dan taken in New York City on our one-year business anniversary.)
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to do, et al || destination planning
It’s been full-on prep mode around here the past 48 hours.
Dan and I are heading east for our first out-of-state wedding this season. There have been lists, piles, coffee, charging of batteries, clearing of memory cards and a raising of this question: how in the world do I have so much black clothes? Seriously, look at my to-be-packed piles up there. Overwhelmingly black.
I should construct some sort of sign to wear around my neck whenever I go shopping that reads, “Do not, under any circumstances, let me leave this store with any variety of black clothing.”That wouldn’t be weird. At. All.
We’re taking a few extra days to just relax out east, so expect some updates of the travel variety. I – and my black clothes – will be back!
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Bailey doesn’t understand… || Weekend roundup
Have you ever been in that situation where someone is trying to explain a new concept or idea or federal tax brackets to you, and as you listen and try to understand, you cock your head to one side, narrow your eyes, and vow to just hire a professional to prepare your taxes next year?
Well, it is a documented fact that nobody expresses this tilted head, confused look better than puppies. You can always tell when a puppy is trying to understand something new and exciting and different. Even if they are total goofballs and rather prone to tumbling onto their heads rather than release that ever-present fiend — their tail — once it’s been defeated, you can watch their little puppy expressions and imagine their little puppy brains working through the confusion.
When I was at my mother’s house this weekend, I snapped many a photo of the Bailey dog in action. This behavior can’t be helped, he’s just too cute to not photograph. A number of them I uploaded to Facebook with one-line captions to the effect of “Bailey doesn’t understand the proper use of a bath tub” (as shown above), or “Bailey doesn’t understand water hoses.” An observant friend of mine commented on one such photo that she was enjoying the “Bailey doesn’t understand” series. And thus, I have a new photographic life goal.
Bailey doesn’t understand…
…water hoses (though he loves the water)
…Yahtzee
…why he isn’t a 10-pound lap dog
…goats.
Well, he might understand goats, but I daresay this goat didn’t understand me. The goat does however give another example of the head-cocked-to-one-side-in-confusion expression. Nicely done, Goat, way to be a team player.
I feel this new Bailey photo series could become something of a habit. Or a children’s book. Or maybe both.
How was your weekend?