Bear Lake

I am preparing for one of many trips to Bear Lake, Utah, but this year not with my family, but my new husband's family. It's been a couple years since I've been and as I've been looking through some old film I realize so much of my film is from this place. I love it. I love staying at brother-in-law's family farm; hearing the cows, waking up to the sun, taking walks to the cemetery and down along the fields, and spending all day at the beach. I love this place and I love this film.
Here are some random photos from my all time favorite Kodak Tri-x film. I used to shoot with this film exclusively.

Rediscovered film from Alaska

I love resdiscovering old film! It's like Christmas, or like reliving the day you got said film the first time in the mail that felt like Christmas. 

I know these aren't particularly noteworthy but they are from when I went to Alaska. and look how young Syd is. And I love when my holga camera gives me these unexpected results that are nothing I ever tried to achieve, but I love them anyway. (see bottom photo)

Portfolio

I am going to unabashedly brag, not because I think I am especially worthy of bragging or anything, but because I have been working my tush off for the last two weeks on grad school applications. And I'm a tiny bit proud of myself.

A part of the applications is an art portfolio. I decided this would be a good time to share some recent photos mingled with some of my art from recent art classes, and old photos from my photo program at the University of Utah, in the form of my portfolio.
(I mostly want to show off my recent photos but yer gettin' it all!)

I am in serious need of some TLC. I'm thinking sleep and.... I can't think of anything else... hahahah!
what does one do to relax these days? I'm taking suggestions.

So without further ado, I present my portfolio:

2011 International Conference on Food Styling and Photography 1.4

I can't believe it's taken me so long to post these. I actually kinda forgot about them.... :(These are the only film photos I took the whole time. And I really love film. :)
These photos are from when I ventured out of my sad dorm room and did a little site seeing.

If you want to see more photos from the conference and maybe even some actual FOOD photos see:
Conference on Food Styling and Photography 1.1
Conference on Food Styling and Photography 1.2
Conference on Food Styling and Photography 1.3

2011 International Conference on Food Styling and Photography 1.3

I was going to post these by day..... but honestly it was so stinkin' long ago I can't even remember when everything happened. Let's call this day three. I don't think I took my camera on day two.

Who would go to a food styling and photography conference planning on not eating....? Yours truly!
Because I spent all the money I had just getting to the conference, I had originally planned on not spending any money on food while in Boston. I had decided that I was going to find the closest grocery store and stock up on fruit and granola bars. It was apparent the first night how silly and foolish of an idea that was.  Instead I ate my little heart out and loved every minute of it!

The conference held a super expensive dinner the third night and, honestly, it sounded kinda snarky. So I didn't sign up for the fancy 5 course dinner where, as advertised, I would get to rub elbows with the best photographers and stylists in the industry. Instead a few of us had our own fancy dinners at Dick's Last Resort, and Legal Sea Foods. Here we are enjoying our better-than-five-course dinner at Legal Sea Foods.

I have to give a shout out to Noah Whitenoff of NuStyling, a food stylist in Montreal, and Elizabeth Tichenor of Elizabeth Tichenor Photography, based in California. I loved hanging out with these insanely talented people.

The best part of going to a food styling and photography conference is being able to take pictures of my food and every other thing in sight without the dirty looks and annoyed comments. They love and accept me the way I am... sniff sniff. tear.

2011 International Conference on Food Styling and Photography 1.2

Part 2 of Day 1
More photos from day one (workshop with superstar stylists and photographers). They had to in some way include cheese in the shoot.

 

  

 You'd think after photographing cheese all day the idea of eating it would make you sick....

Nope! We wined and dined. Well everyone else wined and dined. I just ate cheese. Lots of glorious cheese!