Phillip :: Central Oregon Seniors

It's been a busy week and in my book busy (usually) is a good thing. For this reason - among others things like living in a place without humidity - it's been a good week. With five senior sessions and a wedding under my belt I'm taking advantage of today's holiday by doing no labor at all.  You know, in honor of Labor Day. I will, however, leave you with the images from Phillip's shoot last week. If I were being honest, I'd tell you that senior boy sessions make me nervous, way nervous. I can't help but think it's the lingering effect of the fact that when I was in high school boys were a foreign species that I didn't understand (or have the nerve to talk to). This was especially the case with the cool boys - boys who were totally handsome and wildly good at sports. It's ironic, then, that all the senior boys I'm shooting this week are totally handsome and talented. Maybe God is giving me a second chance at talking...to the cool boys.

On that note, here is Phillip. And you guessed it, he's totally cool!

Happy Labor Day,

Michelle

CreativeLIVE + Jasmine Star Workshop :: Photography

I really did think this post was going to be about the CreativeLIVE + Jasmine Star Wedding Workshop I'm attending this week via the internet. I had this clever* idea to take a picture of my workspace and write about the unconventional day to day work of a photographer. This was before I opened up the file of my workspace and realized that the list making, organization crazed, calculus loving left side of my brain had just been annihilated by the right brained four year old within me who was drawing on her mother's white walls with a red Sharpie marker. My desk was a disaster. The worst part of this discovery was that, truth be told, when I took the picture I actually believed my workspace was tidy. Wait, whaaa?!

So, Internet World, consider yourself lucky that even after discovering the right side of my brain has had a little too much power lately, I'm still sharing this painfully revealing photo with you. That's LOVE.

For what it's worth, I just decided that a busy desk means a busy worker.

Have a splendid night,

Michelle

*My 'clever' ideas are rarely ever clever. I know this.

Details & Clauses :: Photography

I'm considering including a warning clause in my contract. It would read something like this;

"Warning: I'm madly obsessed with details. I'll go to great lengths to capture in film the many months of planning and decision making you put into your wedding day. This means that at times I may look strange as I drool over luscious bouquets of pale pink peonies or the polka dot bow ties of your groomsmen. Drooling, oooing, and squealing are completely normal side effects of such a disease.

Consider yourself warned."

Happy Monday,

Michelle