Thursday, April 29, 2010

roommate-change-up

These little women are some of my personal favs. Which is fitting because they are my new roommates! I am moving into their adorable little house for the spring and summer. it's just two blocks south of my old house. soooo, mid-couch transport, we took a little detour...





you'll be seeing a whole lot more of them.

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

its the McAdams family...

bum bum bum bum snap snap...uhhhhhh


This is my roommate erin and her brothers, who had the best idea! Why not give mom some lovely pictures of her kiddos for mother's day?

i'll tell ya, families as pretty as this only come around once in a while.



















Sunday, April 25, 2010

ms. taylor

This lovely lady is graduating from high school and let me take her senior portraits. here's just a few. great, isn't she?!


























Saturday, April 24, 2010

a little collaboration never hurt anybody

Alright, so a post or two ago I gave a little glimpse of my brother and his fiance's engagement session, although I didn't show you most of my favorites because I didn't want to spoil the ones on the announcements before they came out. Since then, the announcements have been designed by my wonderfully talented sister, Whitney Gillis. Here's the finished product... (but picture it in a 5x5 trifold on pearl finished paper and then you are really seeing it in it full glory)...!


[inside, across all three panels]




[middle flap] [back] [front]




and accompanying save the date cards...

[front]



[back]



Call me biased, but I think she really does some great work. But don't just take my word for it, you should really check out her site Whitney Gillis Design. She has you covered for any occasion you can fathom! Birth announcements, Christmas cards, wedding announcements, save the date cards, party invitations, we've moved postcards, valentines day cards, bridal shower invitations... She custom makes your announcements for heavens sake. Give her site a look! I guarantee you will like what you see...plus, I heard that [enter the big news in your life here]... Why aren't you telling everybody

Friday, April 23, 2010

the best news!

This funny thing happened once. I got accepted into the photography program at BYU, and then I got accepted again.

let me explain.

I initially got accepted back in April or so of last year, and me along with the other 30 or so were informed that we were gonna be taking a trial run and after a year in the program, we would have to submit a portfolio and then they would cut the number who advanced in the program to 20.

So last week was the portfolio review and two days ago I found out that I survived the "freshman cut"(thank goodness...)




Here is just one the the pieces that I put in my portfolio. serious model props to malia, she was wondrous to work with.







I have been doing a whole lot of shooting lately, and a whole not of blogging, so stick around. I will probably be hitting you with a whole slew of them in no time!

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

easy on the eyes



...this one sure is.




A big ol' thanks to malia for being my model for a project I am working on. This was sort of shot after the fact...lovely isn't she?

Saturday, April 3, 2010

marriage on the horizon?



no, not mine.

there's people getting married everywhere you turn these days. most importantly, my brother. he finally did it! here are some of the highlights from the engagement sessssssh with his lovely fiance Sarah.
























Thursday, April 1, 2010