up from below

I don't think I've ever done a strictly candid collection...until this one of course. And on top of never having a candid shoot, I had also never shot with a lot of wind until this. Our Grammy's house, in Winthrop, is by the ocean and is always windy no matter what. Like all my shoots with Mikaela and Birgitta, this one was not planned, it was simply done on the spot. This was the first time I'd ever let them completely run around and do whatever they felt like doing. Even my Dad jumped into a couple of the shots.

yellow hair

First off, Happy Easter! Despite recieving an HD camcorder for Christmas, this is actually the first film that I've used it for. I have this thing about gifts; I never use them (for anything worth uploading) right away, it takes me a while to get into the groove of using that object and then I'll use it for a project. I really do appreciate cinematography and I've been dabbling in it since summer. I would really love to do more films like this one, combining two of my favorite things - imagery and music.

lift your head to the air

Its been a few months since I've photographed Mikaela so when she and her Mom came over on Friday I decided to sneak in some candids. This was taken yesterday morning; I hadn't even gotten out of bed yet. She was just poking around in my room while I was snapping away. I know my posts have been pretty sporadic lately, but things have been pretty busy. I did make a trip to Saver's today and got some...interesting stuff so I'll try to make some time to document that before I leave for Rome on Friday!

snow day

Snow day today! It is too glorious for words and it couldn't come at a better time! I've been up to my forehead in work that was all due yesterday so having a snow day today was the perfect way to get some downtime. I know that you all know by now that "downtime" is code for obsessive photography the crap out of anything around me. So today it was the magnificent blizzard outside my window. I actually woke up this morning, opened my window, stuck my camera outside, and took pictures from my second-floor window! Then I decided that there were plenty of things to shoot on the ground too so I went outside. Let's just saw that my black, midlength UGGs had become white, thigh-high boots within a few minutes. I was beginning to get worried about Cammy getting too wet so I came inside; my lense was beginning to fog up anyway.

Also before braving the cold snowy day to get these photographs, I did I bit of much-needed video-editing. This video features Mikaela & Birgitta on a crisp fall day just after Thanksgiving. I love how long it takes me to edit my video projects. We also took a bunch of photographs which I have posted about before.

Adam's Ale Muse

Happy Boxing Day to all those inhabitants of countries where the day after Christmas is an actual holiday! I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas. I spent the beginnings of my Christmas vacation up in North Conway with the cousins. I got to leave school early on Wednesday so that we could drive up North to go skiing with the cousins.

Hem hem, now back to my subject; I'm sure you're wondering where these were shot and the answer is in the pool at the North Conway Grand Hotel! I had finished swimming and I was just dangling my feet over the side of the pool, watching Mikaela and Birgitta swim. That's when I noticed how amazing the image of Mikaela looked submerged under the water. So I actually ran all the way back to our room (by "ran" I mean took the elevator all the way up to the fourth floor) to grab Cammy just so I could take some photographs of Mikaela in the water and I'm glad I did because these look so different from my usual shots!

I always get a little sad the day after Christmas. Its the kind of sad when you don't know what to do with yourself now that the fun of the Christmas season is over. But I'm hoping to cheer myself up a little bit by searching for the perfect pair of Jeffrey Campbell platforms (within my Christmas money price range) and cooing at everything Agnes from Despicable Me does.

the last of the fall

(Mikaela wears: Dalia Collection faux fur vest, Free People lace slip, Jeffrey Campbell for Free People studded oxfords, and Cynthia Rowley hat. Birgitta wears: Gap Kids sweater, Free People lace slip, Scala hat, and Bass oxfords.)

This shoot was kind of my goodbye to the crisp autumn days and HELLO to those cold winter nights. I'm pretty sure that this is the last shoot that I will be able to do this fall with all the work I have to do before Christmas break. Fall always goes by way to fast for me, but I do love the winter - it's when my favorite holiday occurs! CHRISTMAS! I can't believe how quickly its coming up - only 15 days way! I can't wait for it. I finally got my license last weekend so there will be plenty of shoots in places other than my yard to come.

You are fading

(Mikaela: Delias t-shirt, Birgitta: Victoria's Secret Pink t-shirt)

I should really start uploading these in order. I swear! Once I get all of my work up to date I will begin uploading cronologically.

This is a pretty simple shoot; not planned at all. The Cousins just showed up very late in the afternoon and I just threw white t-shirts from my own wardrobe at them and told them go outside and pose for me. I noticed that I didn't have any shots with the two of them so I decided to actually do some sisterly photographs.

The first and last shots are probably my favorites. The first took a very long time to position just the way I wanted it; they just didn't understand what I wanted them to do and everytime I would tell them to move into place they would bonk heads, which was pretty comical. The last - to me - is almost haunting. Neither of them knew that I was taking the picture and I think they saw something move behind them and Mikaela just turned so fast right when I snapped the pictures. I'm usually OCD when it comes to blury photos, but I did not mind this one because it almost looks deliberate.