senior portraits w/ kaity & thoughts regarding making and editing photos

thursday i had a shoot with a lovely lady, kaity parrott. her family came with her (always easier and fun) and little did she know, her boyfriend was coming at the end of the shoot to propose. so i got to capture that as well!

here's a few from the night...



















this following photo was inspired by a UO ad.











we ended the shoot on the beach but right before that i heard someone yell my name from the street.

brother and neighbor, jason!



before the shoot, i had some time to kill and this photo is the result. i miss taking landscape photos. i like trees. so does michael. he always wants me to take photos of trees. so here you go lovey!! ;)



the thought of "honest photography" chanced upon my mind the other day. it was brought up by someone i was talking to. i don't think any photography is honest reality through and through. photography is an art and what it conveys varies from artist to artist. what you see in my images is what i want you to see. it's not reality in every sense, but i think my goal is to convey reality in my own way. yea. i wrote on a piece of paper in january this year that i wanted to capture the good, the bad, the happy, the sad, the indifferent, the ecstatic, the wrinkles, the flaws, the lovely, the conventional "pretty" and unconventional pretty and everything in between. i think that's the goal of most photographers. not all, but most. which is neat. i also like seeing other photographers view of reality, especially if it's different than mine.