Toe Shoe Tuesday - Katelyn

if i was to guess -and i'm generally good at guessing- katelyn is probably about my height, if not SUPER close. therefore, adding another member to the super cool, super legit tall ballerina club. i met her for the first time at the start of our shoot, and she was SO much fun to work with. i've shot down on vernon street before, but having a ballerina is a totally different experience than shooting there with a bride. was it any less fun? no way! i just love the funky colors of this area, and how well the vintage-esque architecture contrasted with katelyn's simple dance ensemble. and i totally love how the date on the marquee has not been changed in months.
fun fact: we totally jerry-rigged her skirt. THAT was half the battle in itself to get it to look right on a taller ballerina. good thing us ballerinas can be crafty with bobby pins!

Valentine's Day Contest 2011 - WINNER

well, valentine's day has come and gone, and i hope everyone had a wonderful one! i spent mine teaching four little cuties at their weekly dance lesson (i'm gonna miss them next week when i'm at WPPI!) and was even lucky enough to get a stem of carnations and a hershey's kiss as a treat :) Well, of course i can be all talk about MY valentine's day, but we have a contest that has to be won. It was a small turn out, but i would say that is pretty swell for the first one! without further adieu our winner (randomized so wonderfully by random.org) is:
congratulations to monica & james! and thank you so much to both of the other entries. a little something special will be showing up in your email inboxes as well! and on this note, i can't WAIT to bring you all the excitement for the HUGE march of dimes raffle contest that is going to be put together. it will be worth the anticipation :)

"let's do 52" - wk6

i wanted to try my hand at a macro lens this weekend with the wedding reception we had to shoot, but didn't have the time (or thought process) to go out and rent one in order to do so. luckily, i am fortunate enough to go to a university that stashes nikon products for students to check out. once i got to dan "the man" this past tuesday, i found that the lens was already checked out! just my luck, right? well, he did have these lens attachments for me to try out, and so i said, "why not." of course, i put off figuring how to best use them until SATURDAY... aka the day we had to leave. so i plopped one of my random rings down in the window on my mom's insulator collection, and shot away. i think they worked fairly decently, so i packed them in my backpack of camera gear, and off we went. once the reception got going, and i borrowed the rings from the bride and groom, did i use the attachments... not. at. all. but i'm happy with the results! just you wait and see when i get some peeks posted :)

Friday Feet - Feb 11, 2011

apparently this week we all decided to spend some time outdoors. well, with the exception of amy, who had a little friend come in to her feet picture that SHOULD have stayed outside. gah. i need to stop looking at it now. it gives me the CREEPS! happy friday, everybody :)
amy - "There I was, just mining my own business, when suddenly, out of the corner of my eye, I saw that I was being ATTACKED by a GIANT spider! Just kidding. He was scooting around in the school building where I do all my "waiting for class to start" waiting, and he stopped right in the middle of the floor. So I took a picture of us hanging out together. I did not squish him, but I did move to a different spot. I saw him later that day again, alive and well. I named him Will, in honor of the building he lives in."

emily - "big feet, little feet. shoe-d feet, painted feet. her last morning before she turned three was spent with me, buzz lightyear, mushu, and princess movies. oh, and her crying little brother that was probably in my left arm at this point. overall, a pretty good morning, and a kick off to a very busy saturday."jenny -"this week we have railroad feet. because really what better way to spend a beautiful sunny week?"

kasey - "During our yard work, I discovered a happy little Lady Bug chillin' on a leaf, so I took a break to snap a shot. Papa came over to see what was stealing my attention, so I have a rare shot of his feet with mine. :3 Happy Friday."

Toe Shoe Tuesdays

thats right! with the excitement of my senior portfolio building this semester, i figured it would be best to feature one of the edits from the week here on the blog. excitement is interchangable with the word "stress," right? the images shown week to week may or may not be used as the "final" in the project, but they were selected as a favorite of mine (and given the honor of being posted under this cheesy blog title). so without further aideu, here is the first one!megan and i shot in old sacramento this past sunday and had a great time wandering around and finding cool locations to shoot. From just the one block that we wandered around, there were SO many different location opportunities to shoot at. we found this awesome spot in a back alley sort of area facing this massive grassy area. we even got lucky enough to shoot inside the candy store :)
fun fact: this same spot is where megan's sister took her senior portraits. she climbed on top of her car, and on to that little ledge up top as her sister drove her car away to get the shot. oh the things we daring people do ;)

"let's do 52" - wk5

let's make a toast to two year olds. okay, let me rephrase that. let's make toast FOR a two year old... on her last day before turning three. today was a crazy day of early mornings (yes, i consider 8:30 to be early on a saturday), crying babies, work meetings, and winterguard performances. in the middle of the little kidlet watching madness, i started to make myself some breakfast (aka, toast). the little shadow followed me in to the kitchen, and after much chatter about the magnets on the fridge, and the sun catchers in the window, she decided she wanted a piece of toast of her own. fast forward to now. past the trips outside on the deck and back in. past the watching of disney movies, and ultimate buzz lightyear dancing in spanish mode. even further past the work meeting, and the winter guard & winter percussion performances... i. am. exhausted. and tomorrow brings more life. photographing in old sac for my senior portfolio (yay!) but also writing a research paper for said senior portfolio (nay!)

Friday Feet - Feb 4, 2011

wow, its february already? oh, and forewarning, you'll probably hear that the next 10 months at least... it amazes me how time flies sometimes! anyways, we're back to our footsie antics, and have quite the variety this week! with three of us back in school, we're trying to shake off the weekly "here i am at school... melting my brains away" feet... because really, that can be the feeling sometimes. so here is what we came up with this week!
amy - "Procrastinating before I have to leave to take Luke some non-skunky clothes. Turbo is procrastinating with me! She wasn't too sure about having feet so close to her princess face though. I got quite the glare before she gave me this look of 'Pet me?'"
emily - "these are my running around town, making myself official before a meeting with a client in the evening. that's right, everyone. i have officially filed for my business license, and my fictitious name statement was sent out in the mail the day after!"
jenny - "the feet played lava monster this week for the first time in ten years"
kasey - "Went to pick up the Spousal unit from work and thought 'Well Crap, its Feetsie Day.' So here are my rather happy feet in the car. Its a messy floor, thank the snow."