Families

I took this picture of my cousin, Katie, and her family at the end of last semester. The girls would not sit still but I think this turned out way better than it would have had they been sitting still. Haha. Such sweet hearts.

Photo Lab Fun

On the last day of the winter semester, the girls I work with and I got together to clean the lab... Since we are all photo majors, it was only natural that we had a small photo shoot.

Its only the first week and I wish Melissa and Kristen were still here. But... I will be done in just 3 more months!!

all of us (me, tori, melissa, kristen, and esther)

Environmental Portraits

These are some environmental portraits I took for my documentary photography class

Melissa and I just walked into these places, told them we were working on a project, and asked if I could take a few pictures. It is always funny to me how some people react in front of a camera. Some people are super comfortable and others tend to be like Chandler, from Friends, here no matter how many times they have their picture taken they can't just be themselves. Other people really hate having their picture taken. Its just kind of fun to see all the different reactions as we go to places and just start asking people if we can take a photo.

Anyways... Here are some from 2 shoots. The first ones are from a flower shop and the others are at a dry cleaner, both located right here is sweet sweet Rexburg, Id

8x10 View Camera

I took these for a project in my History of Photography class. One of my favorite photographers, Richard Avedon, did a series of images all taken on a white seamless background. They are awesome! I thought I would try it... NOT as easy as he makes it look... all my backgrounds look a little gray... I think we got the problem figured out though and so I'm going to be trying again really soon!!

Thank you models!!

8x10 Negatives from view camera digitally scanned

rachel

james

chelsey

carly

kyle

josh

Jack

I built this set in our empty bedroom and continued shooting for BFA...

Anne&Calvin

Here is just a sneak preview at the engagement shoot from Saturday...

Valentine's.Day

Valentine's Day this year fell on a three day weekend. Seeing as I really had no reason to stay in Rexburg, Cousin's Farewell was that Sunday, and Ashley Costley was home from her mission, Utah seemed to be the best option. We drove down Friday and came back Monday.

Here are just a few pictures from the trip...

Salt Lake Temple

Valentine's Day. Chelsea had a party.

From the Conference Center roof

Temple Square

Chelsea and Rachel... (the girls I drove down with)

I got to see Alyssa (alias Sister Lamprecht)

The boys. Left to Right: Spencer, Drew, Emerson, and Kyle

Me and Cathrine (alias Cousin) after the breakfast

Left to Right: Cousin, me, Costley, and Miriam. It was like a freshman/ sophomore year reunion for me.

Overall... great trip. It is always just good to get away from this small town and to be with good friends.