Yesterday, Bash, Please hosted an amazing event called The Cream here in Los Angeles. I was SO EXCITED to go to this event, and I kinda overdid it on the amount of cameras I brought. But, since it fell on the 9th, I thought it would make a great 10 on 10 post. Some of the best wedding blogs and vendors showcased their brands and talents, and I enjoyed eating, dancing, drinking, and chatting with all the brilliant and talented people that attended. I will definitely be returning next year!
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You guys, this past month has been so busy. My head might explode, but in a good way (is that possible?). This week alone, I have both a wedding AND another engagement shoot to post, so prepare yourself for some Valentine’s Day eye candy.
Speaking of Valentine’s Day, this Friday is my anniversary with my boyfriend, Anthony. We have been together 4 years now. We’ve shared so many adventures together, some really amazing memories, parties, vacations, and nights out, as well as weathered extremely difficult times like losses of friends and family and jobs. But we have survived both the good and bad together, which has helped so much. Some days I honestly don’t know what I’d do without him (probably be living in my mom’s basement, crying myself to sleep every night to a bottle of wine and Tori Amos).
So in celebration of my wonderful boyf, this month’s 10 on 10 features our recent trip to Joshua Tree National Park in California and Sedona, AZ.
Happy anniversary, Anthony. I’m so grateful to have you in my life, a constant force of love, support, and encouragement. You’re my very best friend.
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This month’s post had a theme of “resolutions and reflections.” When I think back on 2013, a few words come to mind: personal growth, creativity, ambition, and change.
As most people head into a new year, I think we can all agree that no matter what the resolution, the general idea around setting one is to try and better yourself from the year before. The only way we can do that is to learn from the mistakes we made, and try and improve upon what we did right.
For this month’s 10-on-10, I have collected some my favorite photos I took in 2013, some of which have not been featured on my website yet.
Happy New Year, everyone. I’m looking forward to 2014.
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We are halfway there, folks. It’s month 6 of our 10 on 10 collaboration and I’m super excited to share this one because I haven’t stopped thinking about this trip since I left. Also, I have 12 photos because I cannot make decisions.
Thanks to my super awesome boyf and his equally awesome company, BRKLY, I got to tag along to the opening weekend of the Napa Valley Film Festival. We had VIP all-access passes, saw approximately zero movies, went to what felt like 100 wine tastings, and easily ate 7 pounds cheese. We stayed in a guest house on a gorgeous vineyard where we stayed up until all hours of the day and night playing hide and seek in the grapevines and eating fresh fruit plucked right off the branches.
Oh yeah, and I met a MINI HORSE which was definitely a highlight of the trip if not a highlight of my entire life (follow me on Instagram for visual proof).
Yeah, it was horrible and I never want to go back, ever. JUST KIDDING, Y’ALL, IT WAS MEGA GOOD TIMEZ.
Happy upcoming holidays, everyone! I hope they are as magical as mini horses and Napa Valley.
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One of my favorite classes in college was my Medium Format class I took my sophomore year. There was only one assignment: take photos of whatever you want with a Holga camera. This was the class where I really got into the groove of developing my own film and learning darkroom techniques.
You really have to use your imagination when shooting on a $20 camera made of plastic. Light leaks, natural blur, and color shifts occur. And since everything is manual, it’s also easy to make double exposures either by choice or accident.
I sold my Holga when I graduated. Although I was still in love with this toy camera and it’s ability to take perfectly imperfect images, I really had no clue when I would be in a darkroom again. And the cost of processing 120 film is extraordinarily expensive, so I felt like it would be put to better use in someone else’s hands.
Fast forward to 2012, when I had really decided to fully pursue photography. I started craving a Holga again. I found one on Amazon for $18 (don’t buy a $60 one from Urban Outfitters– it’s a rip off). I ordered some film along with and and decided to start shooting with it as a supplement to my focus on digital photography.
I finished several rolls of film over the course of the past year. I took my Holga with me when the situation was special, but taking my 5d along wouldn’t have been the best choice. I developed all the film in one go this week, and I was pleasantly surprised with the outcome. Here are some of my favorites– a trip to Six Flags, camping, a horseback ride in Hawaii, and a dear friend’s wedding. And the best part was, everything was scanned and digitized so I never had to step foot in a dark room!
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Well it’s already the 10th again, and I seriously feel like I was slacking this month on personal photos. This month there was a theme for this particular 10-on-10: Fall. Now, I don’t know about where you live, but here in LA, Fall pretty much looks the same as every other day of the year. Yesterday was actually the first time I felt a chill in the air and put on a sweater, and I was all YES I WILL GO OUT AND SHOOT A FALL THEME 10-ON-10! but then I didn’t because rain. And also because my dog is warm and she was laying in my lap most of the day.
So here are some photos from one thing I did in the Fall, which has nothing to do with Fall other than the fact that it was September when this happened. (Fall activities still count as Fall-theme, right?)
Here are some of the grungy photos I took from a small concert I went to last month featuring one of my favorite bands, Shellshag.
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I can’t believe it has already been a month since the first 10 on 10 post! So much has happened since: I drove up the coast, turned 27, photographed a wedding, went to a family reunion, helped on some fun photo shoots with Oh Joy!, did a juice cleanse, and even made time to see The Conjuring.
The 10 on 10 post for this month is from my family reunion. My grandparents celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary last month (top that!), so we all got together in Florida to celebrate. Since I live on the opposite coast from my entire family, I don’t get to see them too often. It was so nice to have everyone together, especially in a sunny place where my plate was never empty and the Pina Coladas never ran dry (did I mention the cleanse?).
You get a bonus picture in this 10 on 10 because I like to break the rules. I break rules like I break… dance. I’m also bad at making decisions. And I don’t breakdance.
(I should also mention my Grandma’s name is Rita. That’s why my Grandpa is holding a cocktail napkin with booze on it near her face.)
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A few weeks ago, Courtney over at Courtney Z Photography in Portland asked me to participate in a collaborative project she started called 10 on 10. The whole idea is that 10 photographers from across the country post 10 personal photos on the 10th of every month for the next year. I’m so happy to be a part of this project and meet all these talented people!
Today marks the first post of the project, and I’m all about the 4th of July! Anthony and I hosted a BBQ extravaganza at our house, which included water balloons, super soakers, Americana, a lot of things that made loud popping noises, and a lot of hot dogs and hamburgers.
It was so great to see so many of our friends who made treks from near and far (aka Santa Monica… Oh, and one came all the way from Atlanta NBD).
We have so much leftover food, it’s ridiculous. You know what we don’t have leftovers of, though? Sparklers.
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