I feel like I’m approaching being fully caught up. I wonder if I just jinxed myself and a meteor will hit my house this time tomorrow… Surely my clients would be understanding if I got hit by a meteor, right?… Right?!

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“Wahoooooo!!!”, said the Slough family. Thanks Heidi for letting me tag along!

Day 302/365

Evelyn & Yuly

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The Moyes family. Again, thanks Heidi for letting me tag along

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This is what it looks like when I wind up to my first frame on either of my new film cameras (the Holga and the Diana F+). I’m REALLY excited about showing you these! I’m going to be scanning and posting images from my film rolls soon. “Soon” as in soon after I check with NASA to make sure I’m not really getting hit by a meteor. (iPhone photo)

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Beads… (iPhone photo)

Day 306/365

Ok I have to talk about my personal favorite shots of Jennifer Klekas.

First off, Jen is a beautiful and immensely talented actress. I’ve seen her perform and she’s just stunning.

She dabbled in modeling when she was younger, apparently deciding she wasn’t any good at it. I know I know, “but look how beautiful she is!!!!”. Well, yes. But believe it or not, beauty isn’t everything in modeling. How you move has a lot to do with it. You shoot enough models and you start to get a feel for how models move just by looking at their portfolio, which is filled with STILL pictures. Don’t ask me how, you just develop a feel for who’s got it and who doesn’t.

Jen was kind of rusty but more than anything lacked some of the confidence she needed to move the way I knew she could. We still managed.

Anyway, the reason I wanna talk about Jen is because I got something that I’m really proud of.

And there it is:

In the one on the left, her hair is a bit of a mess, she looks uncomfortable in her own pristine environment, her expression looks stunned. She looks out of her element. This is before the guests arrive.

In the other, she’s poised, in control, clean as a whistle, confident; she could get you to buy her a villa in the south of France if she felt like it. This is the only face you ever see when you’re around her.

Visually, the contrast is relatively subtle. But the contrast in the mood of each image is so stark, they’re unmistakably different.

So woohoo!! I’m excited to have pulled that off

And here’s the rest that I loved:

Day 307/365

The mountain range across from my house, for the bazillionth time (iPhone photo)

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Trinity

A tender mother-daughter moment… Awww…

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Don’t tell ME to slow down!!! (iPhone photo)