I recently bought a new long board and I'm in love with it. I enjoy cruising around. Today after class I spent some quality time with my younger sister. We went down to Anna maria and explored for a few and watched the sunset. Sometimes I like living in Florida because you cant get this anywhere.

Woodland Creature

Model Hannah Goldsmith

Makeup Ashley Lynn
Photographer & Stylist Stephanie Purcell

Downtown

I recently went downtown last weekend. We mostly just wondered around for about an hour. I gave him my camera to hold about half way through. Here are the results. I'm not going to say who took what. I will let you guess. By the way my life is still crazy.... but I will say I am finding more time for my camera.

The first two are instagram photos.

Ok, I have been getting anonymous messages on my tumblr over and over asking "Why I haven't been shooting anything like I used to?" I have been ignoring this question because I don't know the answer. I apologize but mostly I apologize to myself as weird as that sounds. Just recently I have been looking through my old photographs. Digital and film. I just miss picking up my camera and shooting like every two weeks. It came so naturally and it felt so satisfying. Now it's like once a month if that and I'm not even happy with the outcome most of the time. I look at them and I know they can be so much better, or maybe that is just me being very critical towards myself. I cant blame anyone but myself with this problem of mine. It's not that I don't want to photograph things and people anymore.. it's just my mind gets in these ruts all the time, and time is my worst enemy. Trust me I have ideas that run through my brain everyday but I cant put them physical down with my camera unless my mind is free. 50 percent of the time I am consumed with school and my part time job, which feels like full time. Mostly because of my stress level. I have no idea where I am going with this. It's just a ramble of thoughts and words. Couple of weeks ago during my photo history class I started getting emotional when my professor started talking about taking photographs with passion. Not just shooting because it is a "job" I knew exactly what he was talking about because I find myself doing that all the time lately. I couldn't help but get emotional about it. It's sad to me that my professor pushes me because clearly I'm not pushing myself enough and he notices. I mean its meaningful to me of course when someone believes in me don't get me wrong. If I could drop everything around me and just dedicate my life to photography trust me I would in a heart beat. I told myself I would finish school and save up for certain things in my life then start pursuing the lifestyle I want. It's really baby steps I have to take because I have so much in my life going on. Mostly mentally to be honest. I should really take all my frustration into photo making but like I said.. time is something I don't have anymore. If I want to do a shoot I really have to plan it out. A through Z it seems. The only thing I know is photos. This is the only thing I know that I want ever so badly. I want to live comfortably, while doing something I love. I don't want to become a slave working an 9 to 5 "job" everyday of my life...because what kind of life would that be? A sad and pathetic one. Some people are content with average. I'm defiantly not. I will get my shit together eventually.

No matter where I am in my photography, I will always photograph my sister. She was one of my very first subjects when I was just starting out. Every once in awhile I like to document her. She is growing up whether I like it or not. I want her to have photographs of every stage of her life. So she can one day look back at everything and use these for memories.
These photos were taking in our house, with natural indoor lighting. Did nothing to these but switched them to black and white. I wanted these to turn out natural, I let her do whatever she wanted without no direction.

Bailey Mosley

                                       We were losing light at this point, so we wrapped it up.