Arthur & Dexter | Pet Photography

Just days before Joel and I's wedding, I spent a lovely evening with an old friend, her husband, and her crazy puppy dogs. Morgan and I met in the 8th grade, back in Kingwood, Texas, and ended up being head editors together of our high school's yearbook our senior year! And I'll tell you what, for it's time, that yearbook kicked some major butt. After going through ACU's graphic design program, and what I know about photography now, that yearbook isn't looking so hot. I mean, our school's colors were 2 shades of blue, so of course the cover was blue. NOT. We thought it'd be brilliant to make it SEAFOAM GREEN. Ahhhhh. We will never live that one down. Oh yearbook. :)

Anyways, Morgan and Ethan had me over for dinner and lots of catching up. It'd been years since I'd seen her! It's such a great feeling to reconnect with friends you haven't seen for a while. I thoroughly enjoyed it, thanks again for having me over! 

I'll leave you with this. Meet Arthur and Dexter. These two are The Mooney's little pooches. Sweet little treasures. Dexter is the little black one, and Arthur is the brown and white one. 

above: love this one for some reason :) i can't pinpoint it. 

It was so good seeing you again Morgan! Let's do it again next time we're in Houston! :)

Lindsey & Eric | Sneak Peak!

Here's a little preview of yesterday's SMASHING session with Lindsey and Eric before I get back on the road! More to come, I promise :)

Brea & Gage | Siblings

Meet Brea and Gage. They are my soon-to-be niece and nephew! It's one of the greatest perks of getting married, getting to inherit his family too! I'm so excited about these little ones! Brea will be 3 years old in August and is going to be the flower girl at Joel and I's wedding. Gage is her new little brother and he's about 5 1/2 months right now. I finally got to meet the little cutie at graduation! Anyways, here are a few pics of them from that weekend! :)

i love his little side smile!!

(above: sweet little sleeper)

I love those pigtails!!

Jana & Justin | Abilene, TX Engagement

During finals week, I had the pleasure to take my roommate and her fiance's engagement pictures! The weather was a little cloudy, it had been for the past week, but we still had a great time! Jana and Justin are getting married this summer in belton, tx on August 1, 2009, and i'm one of her bridesmaids! yay! it's going to be such a beautiful wedding, i can't wait! You both have an amazing future ahead of you! I wish you both the very best in your upcoming marriage! :)

(above: this is my favorite type of weather! dark outside, then for just a minute the brightest sunshine peaks through the clouds! it makes for incredible lighting)

check out those freshly manicured toes!

(above: their wedding date! 8.01.09!)

thank you both so much for letting me take your photos! i hope you enjoy! :)

Finals Week | Personal

I love finals week. Let me back up a bit. I love finals week being an art major. Finals week for me has always consisted of lots of projects and maybe one written final for a class that's not in the art department. But it does require a lot of work outside of class before the final, just not studying! I can't remember the last time I really studied hard for a test. :) 

So needless to say, these photos are for my digital photography class final....or let me say, my "experimental photography" class. The name was actually changed to that after a class discussion yesterday. Yay Nil! Anyways, the assignment was extremely open to anything, so here's what I came up with. I basically wanted to capture tons of expressions from a single person and be able to see them all at once. I love how they turned out! I really think you can see the personality in each individual really come out in the photos! Let me know what you think!

above: Joel, my dear sweet fiance! Isn't he expressive?! Love you!

above: Kellie, my roommate and maid of honor. Love this girl :) She crazy. 

above: Tab, one of my bridesmaids and dear friends. She's a hoot, check out her winky face! haha, love you!

above: Jana, my roommate and another bridesmaid! Silly girl, I asked her to make an angry face at one point(3rd row, 3rd pic), and that's what she came up with. haha, she's just too sweet! love you! 

above: Justin, Jana's fiance and my film class pal. This guy's got some faces, check out the 3rd row, 2nd pic, it's my favorite. :)

Thanks to all of you who helped me out with this project! And all my other projects for that matter! You all are wonderful subjects, have you thought about modeling? ;)