CHIEFS!!

I forgot to post this picture, a looong time ago, too...

First football game I've ever gone too, and quite possibly the last!!

Wedding Shots

Man, oh man!  I have really dropped the ball on this blogging thing lately!!  I've been pret-ty busy, but it's back to staying on top of things.  Here are a few of my favorite shots I took at a Colorado wedding (Cory and Bettina's) a few weeks ago:

It was a really beautiful wedding, and I'm so glad I got the chance to photograph it.  Woo!!  

Pet Portraits

My supervisor, Steve, helped me practice a set-up and session of pet portraits at Brookside Barkery.  We're teaming up to include customers in a Halloween Pet Costume Contest - they'll be able to get a portrait of their pet in a Halloween costume for ten dollars (donated to a charity), which will enter them into a contest to win a Barkery gift card.  I'll get some publicity out of if, as well as hourly pay.  Not the best pay for me, but it's a start!  Here are some photos from our Sunday session.  If you want to see more, you can look at the new Pets page on my website.

PVC-Stands!!

Ever since I learned about the opportunity to work on pet portraits at Brookside Barkery, I've been slowly accumulating all of the "professional" gear I need - lights, stands, backdrops, etc.  The biggest expense I was worried about was one of the less-needed, but still necessary, ones - C Stands.  These are the stands that are typically used to hold up backdrops, and sometimes lighting or other equipment.  They're surprisingly pricey, so keeping my tight budget and my old photography professors' advice in mind, I perused the internet for ideas.  I found a great site that showed how to make these stands out of PVC pipe - they may not be the strongest, but for about 30 dollars, some brainstorming with a couple Home Depot employees, and a little work with Brian's help, I was able to put together two of them.  

I still need to glue all of the joints together, and trim down a couple of the legs to make the stands more level, but I am so happy that they'll be strong enough to hold up a backdrop.  This was my first time working with PVC pipe, and I am in love.  I think I'll be using it to create my table display at the Bizarre Bazaar this year - wooo!

Bubbles

Sara came over a few Saturdays ago, and we had a great morning full of lots of bubbles.  Here are some of the pictures I got out of it....

Popcorn

It may seem like I'm not spending a lot of time on photography (judging by the amount of time between blog posts), but I've actually been pretty busy!  I'm learning that a lot of the freelance photography business deals with not even picking up the camera.  Since my last post, I've proposed to take pet portraits at the Brookside Barkery (where I wash dogs - Best Job Ever!!), worked on packaging prints for the Bizarre Bazaar, helped someone learn a little more in Photoshop, brainstormed plans for a kids' stop motion animation project I'm doing in a few months, and prepped for a couple weddings coming up.  And to think that I still have so much to do without my camera - agh!!!  


But I did have a chance the other morning to work on a food shot - trying to show corn on the cob SO ANGRY that some of his kernels are popping...  I think it kind of worked!

Rolling Along

After spending days wondering if the bird feeder I made would ever attract anything, Brian notified me that Something ate all of the peanut butter.  Soon after that, as we were eating lunch on our balcony, we noticed we had a friend watching us with its beady little eyes.  And after a little bit of patience and a lot of excitement, I got photographic evidence of this tiny guy...

He may not be able to fly, but I'd say it's a good start to a wonderful relationship!

I spent the later part of that day in Lawrence, where I spent time talking business with Elenor and taking photos of Shadow - which was a lot of fun, I never knew that dog was so great.  (Ben was a big help for the shoot.)

I've also opened up a shop on Etsy - you should check it out!!  Just follow this link -

http://www.etsy.com/shop/hallygrace2?ref=ss_profile