Can You Still Feel The Butterflies?

Nothing like a midnight snack to start
Fast Sunday off with a boom..

BOOM.
Have a great Sunday.

What are you looking forward to this week?
What are you just loving about life right about now?

[Jimmy Eat World]

Bess freens

That, my friends, is my future DSLR camera bag.
Yes, you heard me: CAMERA bag.

[Insert fist-punch here] for no more "throw thousand-dollar-camera-alongside-hundreds-of-dollars-lenses-in-purse-and-go!".
[Insert fist-punch here] for no more nappy velcro bags of obese and boring nastiness.

Isn't it beautiful?
Wah. I can stop gawking in its red majesty.
Sanguine.

LOVE IT.

I also love that they will be available starting February, and my birthday
is available starting March 23 =]

Site here.

Also. New addition to the camdamera family:
She needs a name.
Help me pick one.
Ideas, por favor.
Merci, beaucoup.

(Yes, i did just speak Spanish/French/and primarily English in one parablog*)

*like paragraph. just..cooler.

Christmas 1: Giveaway

I wanted to do some cool, yet rather cliche, 12 days of Christmas post.

But I missed my mark, and it's already TWO TURTLE DOVES!

So, let's back-track just a bit.
Pretend it's December 13th.

On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me:
A partridge in a pear tree.



Okay - my turn.
On the first day of Christmas Natalie is giving to you:
A photoshoot giveaway.

I've never done a blog giveaway before.
I've seen it done. Seems pretty cool.
Figured I'd jump on the caroling-cart and conform to the masses.
Rather Karl Marx of me.

Here's the deal:
Post to enter.
If you're a follower of my blog, that's two entries.
Post about it on YOUR blog..and yep. You guessed it: thrice is a charm. 3 entries.

**post one comment for each of the things - so the number-randomizer-majig can work its magic**

Winner will be picked on the 5th day of Christmas. RING RING RING RING RING.
(that's supposed to be 5 golden rings..*insert pity laugh here*)

So yeah. Winner gets a one-hour, all-inclusive, luxury, VIP treatment, prices paid session..with ME. Except the only true thing about the above statement was the part about "60 minutes" and "free".

So, blog world, don't let me down.

(Post 2 will come tonight..once I figure out what in the hoodlum I'm going to do for my friends: turtle dove uno and turtle dove dos)

Rainy day aftermath is always something I love, as a photographer. However, this time it wasn't the lighting or atmosphere that inspired me to whip out the dandy cam-dam-era. It was, however, my five year-old sister's greaaat fashion sense.

She's gonna be a knock out.

:)






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Sprinkles

It's DECEMBER how CRAZY is that?!?!?!?

Pure crazy. Times the factorial of {2,3,4,5...}

PS the photographed piece of heaven would certainly be my red velvet cupcake from Sprinkles, meant to be indulged by miss Busy Bee and myself..but apparently work was too important -_-

JK love you.

ASUseless--strikes again

Tempe is good for two things:
1) Urban Outfitters--thus, making me broke-in-the-wallet.
2) Cookiez--this newly-discovered addition to my list of amazing. And a future addition to my list of broke-in-the-wallet. They make homemade cookies, and turn them into ice cream sandwiches. You pick your favorite cookie and ice cream flavor. It's divine. If anyone's interested in trying it let me know..I will tag along. So you, uh, don't get lost..and stuff..yeah..























































Tempe is also good for picture-taking.
Probably just because my poor camera was giving me the silent treatment for not "expanding my creative horizons". Yes, I just quoted my camera. Yes, I am THAT lame. Long story short: I brought it with me, knowing I needed to be photographically active, again. Alas, my skills are rusty. But there you have it..some new pictures.

I felt like being nappy today. I woke up, looked at the clock, it read "5:49", I thought to myself "eff that", and fell back asleep. Then I woke up many hours later, looked in the mirror at my bedhead, thought to myself "eff that", threw on a headband/v-neck, and was off to be educationized. Because the word "educated" would have been too cliche. o.O

Motherland!

Yes. I went to the motherland for the Woodstock of Mormonism.

And it was amazing.

19th row, no big deal.

Veronica wanted some play time :]]

MOTHERLANNNND

I don't know what I was mad about..

Christine, do you?

Veronica loves Sarah

Just messing around last night.
Nothing super special came out of it.
But it was still fun.
I'm not a fan of flash/artificial lighting; which is why I prefer
to shoot outdoors with natural light.
Blah.
Manipulation, at its best.

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So things got a little fun..

and THAT'S how it's done, folks.

Tempted Town Lake

That's right..I told you that this blog was going

down the tubes and transforming into a Canon t1i bloggage place.
Haha.

So let us commence:

Tempe town lake+nighttime+long shutter speed+self-made tripod=

You like??

Okay. Here is the game. You give me an emotion/situation/random object. And I find a way to combine it all in a picture.

Ready, set, GO!

Meet Veronica

She is here!!

Oh, glorious day! Ahhh I am soo ready to use this thing to pieces.

If anyone wants anything done, let me know.

We can work out prices.

<3

Some stuff I shot before I lost my mind staring at her (aka Veronica..aka my Canon t1i):

Stay tuned for BUNCHES more. :]]

I have a slight itch to say this will probably be turning into

a photo-document blog tehe.