Lakeside Shoot

Its Friday. YES. Its been so long since I posted some photos I've taken! Which is due to my lack of time to take photos these past few weeks. I have been so busy with school and everything else. But I finally decided to take some pictures this wonderful President's Day weekend (which was amazing, let me tell you). I decided to venture over to Utah Lake with my good friends and members of the squadrant (members of the coolest friend group around), Brooke and Kaleb. We found a small gravel shore that was super great look off onto the lake and the sunset.

Okay so a little side note, I have been trying to get more involved with my photography so I am now helping promote a clothing line called Stay Wear Clothing. They have some of the coolest shirts and hats for not too expensive! I suggest you head right on over to their website and check out what they have for you! If you are interested in purchasing some of their apparel send me a quick email and ill give you a promo code that can get you 25% off!

Anyways, I took one of the hats I got from them to take pictures of to promote. The sun was setting so we had the great reflection of light on the water. We had the beautiful lake and mountains in the background and had some awesome lighting. I finally am getting used to manual so I'm starting to get some better photos! Overall, the weekend was really great! My friends and I had a campfire one night and woke up to see the sunrise another morning and had breakfast! Shoutout to the squad because they are the realest.

Hopefully, you all can enjoy the photos above! If you click on the images they show up better. Ill try to take some more soon so their isn't as much as a gap between posts. Feel free to let me know what you think. Have a great weekend!

P.s. come back in the next week because i'll be posting about some of the cool things I'm started to get involved in. So that should be fun.

Wait, I Don't Want to Grow Up

Okay everyone, brace yourselves. This could get a little bumpy. I've never really just written about anything other than a shoot on this blog so I don't really know how this is going to turn out. But hey, whatever (right back at you mel).

So yesterday just so happened to be my 17th birthday. It was such a great day and I wanna thank everyone who made it rock and wished me a happy birthday. It really made me smile throughout the whole day! Seventeen is such a weird age. It's right in between two of the greatest ages, so its just kind of there. Don't get me wrong, I am in no hurry to turn 18. I'd rather stay a youthful child for another ten years, but unfortunately thats not how it works.

Everything is kind of just hitting me now. Like honestly, it feels like I'm getting hit with a pile of bricks. Where has my life gone? Seventeen year already gone? What. It doesn't even seem possible that I could have been alive for this long. All I can think of now is the future. ACT scores, college, my mission, finances, its unreal. To put this in perspective, I have been driving 25 mph in residential areas for the last 16 years. And as of this year, I am now driving 90 mph on the autobahn. I want to slow down.

Lately, I've just been trying to make sure that I make myself slow down and appreciate every moment I have to make the best of it. I'm trying to make everyday count and make this last year and a half of high school really memorable. Because if I don't make it meaningful now, I know I will regret it in the future.

But thats really whats been racing through my crazy teenager mind lately. Just a little personal shoutout to all of the high school students out there. You all know what I mean when I say "its all going too fast". We got this though guys. If any high school students, recent graduates, parents or anyone else, have any thoughts on the transition from childhood to adulthood, please please please comment, email, or message me. I would love to share any advice you wiser individuals have for us confused and hormonal teens (contact information is at the top left of the blog, right under the "home" tab).

Hope you all have a great rest of this week. You all rock my world. Thanks for reading and being such amazing people.

Cool Happenings in the City

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Well hello everybody, its been a long time hasn't it? I have been so busy these last couple weeks with the end of the term and just working on a lot of new things. Today I set some new projects into motion, so over the course of these next few weeks I will be sharing those things with you! I hope everyone is doing well and is having a great year so far! I know I am.

Okay, so after weeks of no photography, I finally got to go up to Salt Lake City with my best friend Melia and one of my close friends Ani. A little intro to these two: Melia has been one of my closest friends since junior high and basically we are brown siblings know as the BrownSibs. She probably the most artsy, fashionable person ever. I've known Ani since elementary school and she is just rad. Anyways, we decided last minute that we were going to take a rad adventure up to the city on our day off from school, and work on some cool photos. As you can see above, Melia was our model (and a dang good one in fact), and Ani and I were behind the cameras. We really had no idea where we were going, but ended up finding a really cool, run down, urban backlot behind some old brick buildings. The walls were stained yellow and we experimented on a fire escape behind an office building. It was a very small space but had so much diversity and was really fun to work with.

After lingering that sketchy area, we decided to make our way up to the capitol building for some sunset photos. If you have never been up close and personal to the capitol, I would definitely recommend it. The backdrop of the sunset sky/pearly white of the capitol made for some pretty amazing photos. Overall, it was just a really beautiful location inside and outside of the building.

Feel free to leave comments on your opinion, check out my other social medias, or send me an email just to say hi. If your interested in going and taking pictures, definitely email me. I've had a lot of people comment on my pictures and say they want to but its hard to keep track of who wants to. So email is the way to go! Also, I am going to try to start posting once a week with just a though or a little update on whats happening in my life! Hope you guys have a great weekend. Thanks for stopping on by!