happy friday!

Austin and I woke up at 430 on Wednesday morning to go and see Comet Ison. We were all excited as we drove the 15 minutes, waited for another 30 minutes for nothing but clouds. Austin was less than thrilled. But, hey, it was a bonding experience, right? I ended up at the airport for one last attempt to see the comet, and only got a picture of a plane, which turned out pretty dang cool, if I say so myself.

Today was spent laying in bed, watching tv and doing a whole lot of nothing. I hate shopping on black Friday. Too many sales, too many people, and too many unhappy employees. 

Excited for the weekend! Check back in on Monday!

casual

Model: Austin Neal

Big things on this Monday morning. Hope this makes your day just a lit bit brighter! I absolutely love taking photos of my brother! He is such a good sport about it and obviously a natural. If you didn't notice we laugh a lot (all the time). Love those photos the best - it's not what was so funny as much as that we both found it funny (if that makes sense? it did in my head at least).

PS: I hit 20K page views over the weekend. Thank you all so much for following along and enjoying my pictures as much as I do. If you want photos, please please please contact me! I am building my portfolio and would love to take your picture. Thank you all again. It means so much, you have no idea.

XOXO

b&w

model: Austin Neal

This is the last teaser photo I promise! Full set next week (life is busy right now). So sorry for the delay!

as promised

model: Austin Neal

As I promised - drool worthy photo[s]. So...are you guys/gals drooling yet? 

The rest of the set should be coming soon! So stay posted. 

home sweet home

Sorry for not posting yesterday! I went home Tuesday evening to see my brother at his Senior Night Football Game (senior aka eighth grader on the middle school team). Unfortunately they lost, but Austin had a great pick, and two awesome tackles. I am so glad I was able to go see him play his last middle school game!

I have other awesome photos for you next week sometime. Everyone will be drooling I promise!

PS: these pictures are blurry because I had my 75-300 lens on with the lowest Fstop at 5.0 and no tripod. Therefore my shutter speed was lower than 1/25 most of the time resulting in blurriness. I strongly suggest a tripod - I'm saving up for a monopod (tripod with only one leg). You see these a lot at college football games. Anywho - that is my tip of the day!

Have a wonderful Thursday :)

thesis screening

I attended the thesis films screening yesterday! They were the finalized films I worked on set all those months ago. It was so awesome seeing how everything came together on the big screen.

 All the films were so awesome, and I cannot wait to (hopefully) be apart of the program. I am (re)applying this semester for August of 2014. Currently, I am putting all of my paperwork together :)

Dress: Express / Sandals: Carlos Santana

Necklace: Chloe + Isabel

My mom and brother attended the afternoon screening with me, and my dad attended the Gala with me the same evening.

Most of the films I volunteered in made it to the Gala and Job's film closed the Gala! It was so awesome. I wish I could share all of the films with you! To see some of the on set photos, click here, here, and here. 

I must say, it was also awesome seeing my name in the credits, even if it was only as an extra or volunteer.  You have to start somewhere. And I did! I was even listed as a boom operator in one film and still photographer in two other films!

Ahhhh, so exciting!

camp crystal lake

My brother went off to Camp Crystal Lake on Sunday. It kinda sucks that the last week I spend in Gainesville he will be gone :( But he loves going to camp every year and I know he will be having a blast! Cannot wait until I get to see my buddy on Friday.

XOXO Julia

familia

This is from like a couple weekends ago - when Lauren came to visit. She jokes that we will have a family photo every month of 2013. I think she is right! Haha, well at least we can pinpoint the exact changes in 2013 compared to every other year of our lives.

I am so sad that the summer is almost over and I will be back in Tallahassee away from my family, but I will have lots of pictures to look at :)

happy monday

^Sunrise picture

Stanley getting used to his new board

Dad

Walked four miles to get pictures of this bridge. They didn't turn out as well as I hoped. I should of gone closer to sunset.

We saw our very own pirate ship!

^model smirk.

^where did it go? lol

Ended the day searching for the lighthouse while nearly getting abducted. Sounds about right.

I had a pretty fantabulous weekend at Crescent! Hope everyones week is off to a happy start :) check back in tomorrow!

birthday celebrations

My beautiful mother celebrated her birthday today! I was sorry that I could not spend the whole day with her, but glad I got to see her this evening. We celebrated with Key Lime Pie and Carrot Cake.

Thanks momma for all you do! So happy to be able to call you my mom. Love you to the moon and back. Happy birthday!

^She was an expert at cutting her own cake

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So I had my 50mm lens on and was attempting to snap a photo of us. Obviously, my arms aren't as long as I thought (even though they are really long). After I changed lenses, I forgot to go back and take another. I thought this looked pretty cool, so I posted it.

Hope everyone has a blast on Independence day! I have an epic (hopefully) blog post for tomorrow :)