Finally finished the new picture for the 52 Week Project! For this picture, I wanted to build my own miniature bridge. And I did. But it took me so long to do it because I’ve been having a hard time dealing with things. In my head. I haven’t been doing so well but I’m trying…
Fear can be the most crippling thing sometimes. It stops us from going after our dreams and it definitely makes our day-to-day lives so much harder. I’ve mentioned before that I get anxious sometimes about new relationships; always worried that I would end up being too annoying and driving people away. But I always convinced…
I was reading Brooke Shaden’s blog yesterday and I realized something – with everything that’s happened the past few days (the bad stuff), I didn’t break down because I am SO grateful. She wrote an inspiring blog post on gratitude and it helped me feel better about a lot of things. I’ve been having a difficult…
“You’ll need coffee shops and sunsets and road trips. Airplanes and passports and new songs and old songs, but people more than anything else. You will need other people and you will need to be that other person to someone else, a living, breathing screaming invitation to believe better things” – Jamie Tworkowski (Founder of…
During Slidefest, I was asked why photography is my therapy. I don’t remember how I answered that because I was really nervous. But I know I didn’t elaborate, so I’d like to do that now. Photography is my therapy because creating something out of nothing makes me feel exhilarated. It’s a feeling I crave. I…
Sometimes it’s easy for me to dwell on the bad things that happen, and let good moments pass me by. In an attempt to be more aware of the good things that happen while they’re happening, I keep telling myself “remember this. Remember this. Remember this.” and I take a mental image of everything around…
We always need the reminder. Things get too hectic. I keep wanting to write a new blog post but I haven’t had the time to sit down properly and organize my thoughts. So much has been going on. But I’ll start with the most important thing – my hard drive, the one containing all my…
Title is from one of my favorite songs, Stubborn Love by The Lumineers. I did it! The underwater shoot. If you haven’t read my previous post, last week’s theme was underwater. I had mixed feelings about it because I did two underwater shoots and they didn’t go so well. When I did the second one, I…
I did my very first underwater shoot yesterday. *pause for dramatic effect* It was SO much fun! I didn’t have anything planned, just wanted to test it, so I got my sister in a dress and got into the swimming pool and I think we were there for about two hours or an hour and…
There are a lot of things that once I start thinking about, I can’t stop. One thought leads to another and I find myself in a dark place again. I often wonder, how much of myself should I be sharing with people? Do I only blog about new work, and anything photography-related? Or can I tell…
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