This is Happiness
Weddings are tough for me to blog. How do I narrow down roughly 2000 images into something I can share with everyone? What do you show? Have I said this before? I'm sure that I have said this before. ha.
So, for this wedding...I decided to just try and show you how the day felt to me. More than a little bit emotional with a dash of quirkiness and a giant belly laugh. I decided that is the perfect combination to describe 'happiness'. This bride had a couple of moment of nervousness, but, mostly, she radiated. She glowed. Especially during the ceremony. And, the groom, who was very concerned that things were perfect for her, would periodically look up at the crowd and beam. So...happiness. This is happiness.
Flowers by Blue Hydrangea(just saying...cause they did a gorgeous job).
5 Minute Project: Nerf Guns and Halo
Today is my day on the 5 Minute Project blog. Here is one of the images(please click through to the project blog to see the rest).
This project which started out as a whim for me has really grown into something I'm super proud and excited to be a part of. If you love documentary photography, you should really check it out because the people I'm participating with are awesome. And, cause I know you are going to ask--Jack's shirt is from Skreened.com. And, now that you are super curious to see the whole shirt, you really outta run over to the 5 Minute Project Blog and see it.
~ Dana
Imperfect Perfection
I love photographing kids in their rooms. Anyone who has been following me for some time knows this. I have quite a collection of these sorts of photographs now, but I wanted to share this one for a couple of reasons. First--seriously, she is holding a rainbow loom organizer. If you have a child this age, I guarantee you have multiple rainbow loom kits, elastics, bracelets, etc littering your home. 2013/2014 school year will be remembered as the year of the rainbow loom. Second, I love how imperfect her room is. There is this thought that, when you are having family photographs done in your home, you need to make every room kind of...well...perfect. But, in reality NO ONE LIVES THIS WAY. This room is how this kid keeps it. It is her space. Imperfect perfection. Lastly...I have this soft spot in my heart right now for kids this age. Probably because I have two kids in this sort of age bracket myself...but I just adore this in between phase. This caught between being a child and being a teen. This mixture of cool t-shirt and kid slippers. This sort of thing just tugs at my heart. Soon, this little girl will be too concerned with perfect appearance(it really is inevitable in teenage girls). I love that in this moment she is still just her in-between self.
Not a perfect portrait, but imperfectly perfect to me.
~ Dana
