Model Shoot with Ellie Lane

Meet Ellie Lane, my new favorite model. This girl photographs so well and is such a gem to work with!! View more of her modeling work here: Ellie Lane Imagery

Nina {part one} | Native American Inspired | Athens OH Photographer

This shoot came together so perfectly. I had been visualizing doing a Native American conceptual shoot in honor of the culture, there's just something 'right' about their beliefs, being one with the earth, and I wish more of us could be in tune with that line of thinking.

Anyway, I couldn't find a model in my area with the right look. But then I heard Serina was coming to our model shoot that weekend and that she had been wanting to do a similar themed shoot in honor of her heritage! She had even been working on a hand made deerskin outfit! So I went antique mall hunting a found a few things I could make some feather jewelry or accessories out of. By the time everyone showed up at my house to go out shooting, we found that the other model, Rachel, had brought with her a poncho and a bow and arrow! How perfect is that?

We started out at the Adena Indian Mounds in my neighborhood in order to feel truly inspired, though we were interrupted by a rude old woman telling us we needed permission from the Humane Society (what?!). I think we may have scared her with our crazy looking weapons and outfits! Haha Afterwards we just went exploring for areas to shoot and were pleasantly surprised to find a perfect location with sandstone rocks against a forest :)

I'm so happy with how this shoot literally just fell together with such minimal effort. We have a secret part two in the works in the next month or so and it's going to be incredible!

Misled Storybook Lullabies {Athens OH Photographer}

Another collaboration with my dear friend, and favorite model, Nicole Miller.

Not only is Nicci a fantastic model, but she's also a writer and has graciously sent me a few of her poetic words to add to this blog post :)

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Every seed that has grown profoundly into even the tallest of a tree is eventually broken apart by the lust of a lumberjack and his saw.



Some indescribable beauty, feet folded under and I'd give anything because I'd want to revel in things. In this manner, love, like a tattoo embodied; in front of a map city, slipping in and out of lanes at steady pace. We crisscross like punctured veins across town.



"I still talk to your shadows on cold nights, because they don't pause breath," he said. "They aren't mistakes made along traveling when the world seemed timeless."

"But you're no longer alive," she said, "and all my problems aren't redefined by misled storybook lullabies."



I am the stairs to the attic at which god exists quietly above your crashed party.
Wishful witness to watching eyes close slowly with the satisified smile of arduous adoration.

Rise from mysterious being, arrested heart. For soon we will meet and I, completely driven by the fashion for legacy cold, will outrun alongside even your exquiste exterior. Charming conversation always wanting when we are unable to love in vain no more.



Falling down from the pinnacle, she writes of hand squeezes and fingertips that knowledge a gentle cliched head-over-heels sense of movement.



Pan out and my fingers are poised. Rain is merely a cowardice stranger to the frail heart that talks backwards in dreams. Taking the chase, the colorless sky seems bruised in comparison to autumn leaves intertwined. Desensitized, to see is almost to believe. And so when the hour is quiet, I walk into walls. I walk against walls that feel as though the sky may cave.



All that is sentimental, all that is left unsaid is safe poetry for our cynicism.



Across town, they have risen before the sun. Silence has sung it's savior to sleep until daylight plays prey to the fever.



With just a gist of hope, I pray that perhaps the stars will finally line up.



One doesn't need the words of a traveling man when you're the words that everyone else sings along to.


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Beauty and a Barn {Athens OH Photographer}

Saturday was such an amazing day :)

Some of my photographer friends and I got together, rounded up a few models, and had a photo playdate at an old abandoned barn in Hilliard. It was so much fun and a much needed creative escape. I think it's important to keep things fresh and periodically step out of your "usual" routine to continually grow as an artist, and individual.

Models pictured: Casey, Lillie, and Bree.



















Thank you to the lovely models and my fantastic friends for such a beautiful day :)

August Updates - Athens Ohio Photographer & Indianapolis IN, Wedding, Babies, and Model Photography

August has definitely been a busy month! We spent the first weekend of the month in Indianapolis for my cousin Becky's wedding. I was not the paid photographer, but I did photograph bits and pieces, mostly for practice sake, as I've been considering getting my feet wet, so to speak, in this side of photography. Such a beautiful wedding that was!












The next day my aunt asked me to do a little mini shoot with her grandson Connor, and being a big lover of little babies, of course I was thrilled to do it! Last February Connor was my very first newborn I photographed, (which you can view here), born prematurely, his mother and I worked with cheesecloth and the photos turned out beautiful. Tragically, his mother passed away unexpectedly at the end of May. Here are a few recent images of him. Even after having three of my own, it still amazes me how fast they grow. It's heartbreaking he will never know his mother.








The very next weekend I was in Cincinnati for another wedding! The amazingly talented Nicole Dixon asked me to be a second-shooter for her, and I was completely honored at the opportunity. It was a gorgeous wedding and beautiful day and I'm so thankful to have had that experience with such a talented wedding photographer. You can view a sneak peek of her images from that day here.

My favorite model Nicci Miller and I met up for a little photo playdate. She has a million concepts in mind but we only had time to work with one that day. I'm not finished processing them all yet, but you can check my flickr site for updates.









The end of summer is near. This, in itself, makes me both super excited and totally anxious. School starts next week! Eeek! Where has the time gone?! Time to turn mommy mode into full throttle and photography mode down a notch, which means I'll only be scheduling sessions on weekends from now until next summer. Keep a look out for fall specials coming next month :)

Fall is near, so that makes me a happy girl :)

And I have lots of new projects in store for the winter months, so check back often for more info!

xoxo