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Honesty and Truth
This was the year for honesty for me. Being honest not only with how I portray myself, but also honest with myself. I’m in this weird place. Where I want to say so much, but I can’t for reasons I can’t even explain. Because of that I feel like I am not being honest. But sometimes truths take their time. Now is not the time to speak, but to listen. So I stand and I listen. For me, that is what this picture represents. Me caught in the wind, tangled up in emotions. But silent. I’m here to listen. I wrote this and I thought how…
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All You Can Do Is Try
I got my first photo submission rejection today! I know it seems like *maybe* I should be upset. And really I thought I probably would be. I mean when I got my first literary rejections IT HURT SO BAD. I drank so much wine. And cried a little. But today when I saw the email appear on my phone and I read it, no tears came. I was proud of myself. For trying. I was more nervous about submitting than I was getting the rejection email. Sometimes I think hitting send is harder than seeing the results. I told the hubs I think the hundreds (yes, hundreds) of literary rejections…
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Sometimes Putting Yourself Out There is Effing Scary
So I did some photos this year, that I haven’t posted on social media. I was really trying to put myself out there and submit to galleries/contests/calls for entry. I honestly think I was almost as terrified as when I first sent queries for my novel as I was submitting just three photos. Sometimes I don’t think I am an artist. It’s in my bio. I may call myself that, but I feel like a major imposter. To me artists are these artsy people who speak in metaphors – and for an author, I really suck at metaphors (or maybe I just think I suck at them. Idk.). Maybe my…
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Hello, it’s been awhile…
So it’s been awhile. I’m sorry about that. But the last half of 2018 was pretty scary for me. Pretty damn scary. This is a personal post, and things are about to get personal, so if you don’t like to read this kinda stuff, then I would probably skip this read. It all started on a late July afternoon. My husband, Cody, was out of town. I was catching up some editing. Had just got my hair done (my fav, blue and purple). I went to bed fairly early, tired from they busy day and work that morning. I awoke in the middle of the night in what I…
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Not Alone – A Conceptual Piece
I have had the itch to get back to conceptual work for some time. Recently, Brooke Shaden (photographer) posted a challenge on her blog called White Wall Challenge – “It is about taking that blank and boring wall and making it work for us.” The challenge pulled at me because I have always wanted to do a conceptual piece inspired by the short story, The Yellow Wallpaper. I had always been afraid to do it, because I consider myself a natural light photographer – and I haven’t done any conceptual pieces without natural light – and the image I had in mind for this had to be shot without natural…
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I have been doing these writing challenges with a close friend of mine. The other day, one of the questions was to pick a single word that describes your personality – and tell why you picked that word. A single word swirled around in my mind – DETERMINED. I think that describes me pretty well in all aspects of my life. Honestly, I don’t like being told I can’t accomplish something I want to because of my age, inexperience or sex – and that has always driven me. I want to learn – I want to grow. And whether it’s successfully moving out on my own when I was younger, befriending…
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Conceptual Photography – Behind the Scenes
On the first day of August 2015, I did something that I have been wanting to do for a few years. It was wonderful, painful, scary, a dream come true and tiring. But I loved every minute of it. It all started back in 2008 when I woke up from a nightmare and wrote it down. I was terrified as a crimson haired, crazy girl shouted at me in an alleyway before she cursed me and then kissed my cheek. Black lines moved in my veins, like worms moving through the dirt. I awoke, scratching at my arms and my heart pounding in my chest. Thankfully, Cody didn’t think anything…
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Fine Art/Conceptual Post: July – September
**This is a fine art/conceptual post. Please continue down to see portraits, family sessions and wedding related events!** As you folks know, one of my goals this year was to do a fine art session each month this year! I have kept the goal…but been a little behind on my posting! But with good reason, I promise! This year I had one big goal to FINISH my first novel in a trilogy series that I have planned. Thanks to a wonderful writers group and a loving husband (who cooked lots of dinners and cleaned the house while I hid away in my office), I have finished it. The past few…
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June – Fine Art/Conceptual Session – Temptation Part I
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May – Fine Art Session – ‘Childlike Wonder’
***This is a fine art/conceptual photography post. Please continue on for more on SPP portrait and wedding related event sessions.*** I apologize for the late posting of my May session, I got really sick earlier this month. I am behind on my editing and blogging. But here is the May conceptual piece I am entitling ‘Childlike Wonder’. My original May piece was suppose to be of my sister, but it fell through and I had to improvise. Needless to say, I was a little upset but my niece came up to me and asked in her adorable British accent if I could take a picture of her instead. She wanted…
