just what the doctor ordered

After a really, really, long week this is just what my heart needed... a chance to say something its own way. This learning and growing experience with photography is unique for me in the sense that I have no mentor or teacher telling me what to do. A number of incredibly talented women have indirectly affected my learning with their work though, and one thing I hear from them is to shoot with your heart. I am still, and will most likely continue forever, trying to figure out what that is.

So this week I grabbed a beautiful, just returned from round two of living in Europe, friend and let me heart do the talking. These are what it said. It helped that I was in the mountains. There's something about those mountains, I can see everything clearly when I'm breathing the air that is wild.*

*bonus points if you know that song :)

katie

Round two of my dancer photo shoots, and practicing my magical light capturing skills, turned out to be so fun. I am in love with the golden light at this time of day in our little valley. Because Katie didn't need a set of posed shots for a portfolio I got a change to really focus on capturing movement and not positions. Oh that was so much fun for me to explore. Yes this is the modern dancer in me coming out... but movements, actually moving, speak so much more to me than a jump or a leap could ever dream of.

seneca

Though I practically grew up on stage and in leotards, I have very few pictures of me dancing. Its sad to think that I dont have many photos to show my children since that was such an integral part of my experience growing up. That being said, in addition to someday being a super talented portrait photographer I also want to, shall we say, specialize in taking photos of dancers. There honestly are not many utah photographers who take any dancer photos aside from team shots, which lets face it show none of the girls talents however difficult standing smiling may be. Plus it would be way fun.

This lovely girl is putting together a portfolio for auditions, so we had fun taking some action shots to put in said portfolio. She was kind enough to let me practice on her, which I will need lots more of in order to figure out the types of angles that make really cool dancer shots.

wedding weekend

14... The number of hours I spent at wedding functions these past two days. And what do you think I did in free time? Pictures of course. Miss Clare was kind enough to let me snap some shots of her outside the Logan temple. She is incredibly sweet and beautiful, just like the rest of her family, and we both love bells of ireland. Man, if I had a smile like hers I'd spend more time in front of the camera. :)