Senior Pictures: James Earliwine

Well, I did my first official shoot for senior pictures yesterday. It was for a good friend, James. I learned a few lessons from this too. If you've only been to the client's house once, and it was 2-3 years ago, driven there by another friend, in the dark....ASK FOR DIRECTIONS AHEAD OF TIME! 

Despite my nervousness about my first shoot, it went very well. I am very proud of my results, and wish every client behaved as well as he did. Especially when he came up with his own ideas and made fun of me for humming and having too much fun :)

 Sunshineee :D

Ohhh that face!! :) 

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:D one of my favorites  

Stock trailer was his idea, and I'm glad he  thought of it :D

 <3 this one

  

 

James, you have no idea how much fun this was :)

This morning on my way to school...

Every morning when I leave my dad's house to go to school, I pass a farm called "Painted Acres". This is just one of the various times I've stopped my car for a shot I just couldn't miss :)

 

As you may have read on the page dedicated to my interests, I am a sucker for animals. I was raised around cattle, horses, cats, chickens, as well as donkeys. But out of all these lovely creatures, no beast has captured my heart quite as well as dogs. One in particular, Zoe, is the most precious and intelligent canine I have ever had the pleasure of owning. Let me tell you her story.

 

One day, after school, my dad came home and told me to go down to the truck and close my eyes. I did so, and when he told me to open them, I saw a frightened, yellow mutt in the bed of his truck. We got her out and walked her around for a while.

 That night, we brought her in the house where she slept next to my bed for her first night :). Dad told me how she had been hanging around the trucking business where he works, and that she seemed friendly and in need of a home. She was young and full of energy, so we assumed someone couldn't handle her vivacious spunk. We could see where someone had had a collar on her, and removed it. 

 Sadly, she was most likely driven somewhere and dropped off. She is half boxer and half pit bull, and has never bitten nor harmed anyone. She loves children and lies down to let them play with her. She detests violence, and even play fighting is prohibited in her presence. She loves riding in the car with me or daddy, and she knows we are leaving once we pick up our keys. She is the greatest friend I could ask for, and will forever be an unforgettable member of the family. 

 

Well, this morning we had a great example of just how dynamic and untrustworthy Ohio weather can be. This morning there was a thick fog that lasted until about noon. With this in mind, I knew there had to be dew still out on the grass. That kind of circumstance calls for a major macro day.

"Pour upon them the continual dew of thy blessing."-Book of Common Prayer.

"O Love,O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew".-Tennyson

"Out-worn heart, in a time out-worn, Come clear of the nets of wrong and right; Laugh, heart, again in the grey twilight, Sigh, heart, again in the dew of the morn."-W.B. Yeats.

"The foot less prompt to meet the morning dew, The heart less bounding at emotion new, And hope, once crushed, less quick to spring again."-Matthew Arnold.

"I am a mushroom On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then.-John Ford.

"She found me roots of relish sweet, And honey wild, and manna dew; And sure in language strange she said, 'I love thee true.'"-John Keats.