Buh-LING

Now that Amy dropped the Sanders and became a Mrs., I can show these bridal portraits to the world- taken in Little Rock, Arkansas last week.
Have a gander at that bling...



Ever since I've known Amy, which has been around 25 years, I've known her to be a lover of twizzlers and other candies, always keeping them stashed away somewhere but ready and willing to share them. Even right as we were walking out the door at 7am to shoot, she was munching on a twizzler, so I grabbed a bag and we incorporated them into these shots.

These were taken under the Broadway Bridge in North Little Rock.



This from the "ethereal goddess" series..



If you have a photoblog leave me a comment with a link! I can't get enough of these things!

Oh Yeah...

So there's this guy...




His name is Joshua.
He won my heart with an ice cold root beer...




And with this incredible painting of my dog!!



He's in Peru right now and I miss him somethin fierce and terrible.. One more week to go though!
Just a quick little update into my personal life as these things only happen every few years.

Also, my cousin Amy is getting hitched 6 days so I'll be in Little Rock most of the week.. expect photos soon from that tiny adventure...

Tiny Adventure No. 294

For any of you not familiar with Sigur Ros, get a life and click on that link before you continue.

That being said, to further preface this entry, it was only a few days ago when my friend Daniel offered to me a ticket to see Sigur Ros play at the Uptown Theater in Kansas City on Thursday, June 12. I, being in love with their music, and never having seen them play live, and also having nothing to do on Thursday, of course decided that I should go.

I didn't realize how far away Kansas City actually is, because I never was good at geography, and I also didn't think about the time constraints upon us. Not that I regret going, and not that their performance didn't make it worthwhile, but driving over night two nights in a row with minimal sleep with five people crammed into a compact car does tend to make things miserable. I am still out of it mentally even though I slept for fifteen hours last night. However... the show was the best performance I've seen in my entire life.. I wasn't allowed to bring my camera in. The point and shoot cameras were allowed in, so you can click here to see other people's pictures. These are some photos from sitting in line for 4.5 hours, and it is good that we got there that early!


This is the last shot I got before security shut me down.


The kind Red Bull people were giving away their drinks for free- they even had sugar free ones! Here Philip and Ryan enjoy the Red Bull generosity.


Playing Cards with new friends..




This is Julie! We became friends while waiting in line. After the show, Julie invited our group back to her apartment to take showers and freshen up before our journey back home! She also made for us some delicious coffee which probably saved our lives...


So that is all, very sorry about having no pictures of the actual performance, but I think it was a good thing for me at least.. when you love taking pictures it takes away from being able to absorb in the actual moment, and I am so glad I was able to do that. Hope everyone's having a good weekend and don't forget to hug your pops tomorrow!

Every Diner

Has this poster framed on the wall, I've noticed.
You know, the one that has James Dean, Marilyn Monroe and other classic dead megastars hanging out at a bar around a pool table. And it says
Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Sadly there is a Green Day song by the same name- try very hard to not sing it to yourself in your head.
Pretty much impossible.
Just make yourself move on though and think to yourself
How odd it is for this picture to be hanging in every sketch diner across America.
And now that you think about this
Next time you go into a Greasy Spoon
And you see this picture
You'll know that I am right. And you will probably blog about it.

Ben Trimble / The Hermitage Diner / Nashville

What's the Deal with Texans and the One Star?

Asked my brother.
The answer being: Texas is the Lone Star State.
My cousin Amy thought it was awesome that Mitch asked.
I thought it was a pretty good question but also it was a good answer.

So some of the things we did in Texas were pretty normal I guess for the Lone-Star State.
We went cotton picking, we played with tumbleweeds, we saw coyotes, no big deal. Just your average Lone-Star Day.




Trying to find not-harvested cotton.


My beauty of a sister, and what is left of a tumbleweed.



This is what our clothes are made out of.
From a brown plant that grows out of the ground and grows white fuzzy stuff in tiny pods. And someone decided to clean it off and make clothing with the pod fluff.
Wow. I didn't clean off the dirt though. I like the earth on it.

So that's a brief summary of our Texan adventures, the rest really aren't as entertaining or picturesque although it was so good to be with family! Love your families everyone.

Your Hand in Mine

My friends John and Wendy just returned from a weekend in Atlanta to see Explosions in the Sky... oh so lucky! So generous of them to bring me back a cd and t-shirt... I WIN! Anyway, I happen to love these two little love doves so much. Today since the weather was glorious we took some photos in my backyard. It works out better if you happen to be listening to Explosions in the Sky while you're looking at these, but if you're not able to, well, your loss.

On A Day Like This, Who Thinks of Sunscreen?

Not me, unfortunately. But good things came out of yesterday's trip to Centennial Park for the Couchsurfers Potluck. (Potlucks are funny by the way. Everyone brought chips.) And then exclusive members of Ixteen retired to the grass where I took a lot of pictures of Hannah.