New Lens: Beautiful Berkeley Afternoon

Loving This! Camera Cake :D

Scrolling through photography websites I found this awesome cake. Please bake me one when you get a chance! ha ha:P 

Cake by: BethAnn, owner of Studio Cake; photo on the back of the cake/camera by: Apertura Photography

I found this posted on PetaPixel. Thanks! :)

I bet it was delicious too! Mmmmm... :)

Welcome Spring and Blood Oranges

Or, How Not To Write My Paper

Kind of an odd name for a fruit, no? Delicious nonetheless though. Mmmm (: 

Berkeley, Courtesy of a Daily Cal Adventure (:

Images from a month or so ago during Daily Cal training day. This is the result of plenty of training, photo style. Ha ha, just kidding. Well, if that's even a joke. Aiyyy. I need to go to bed. (: 

I kind of feel like saying that this whole adventure was photo editor Anne Marie Schuler's idea. It was, and it was very fun and very cool (see below for proof), but I also like the idea that next time she Googles herself, this will come up. (I say this because she messaged me the other day saying that another post I put her name in came up on her browser when she Googled herself... ha ha, oh dear. )

In other news, I discovered how to create new Actions on Photoshop so that I can "logo" and resize images for the blog all in one push of a button. Let me just say one word: REVOLUTIONARY. My life has been streamlined and I'm loving it. I plan on saving all the time and spending it on muuuuch better things. Expect more photos now because it will be just SO EASY to share. Seriously. (: 

When you first take photography they teach you that flowers are boring subjects. But something about flowers still makes my heart beat. And so I will continue to photograph them. 

Oh black and white. You are always striking. 

I don't know why they left their shoes here... but I like how it looks. Ha ha. (:

Leave comment love. It makes me feel... loved. ha ha. (:

A Cool Old Car in Berkeley Town

This cool old car was parked along the street in Berkeley the other week. Super awesome color. And the light was gorgeous; you know, one of those absolutely purr-fect mornings where not being outside would practically be a sin? Yeah, one of those. Feast your eyes. (:

Featured! Daily Cal Photo Blog

Image from the Daily Cal training session--Photo Editor Anne Marie Schuler let us all loose on campus with our cameras, looking for pretty things. It was pure lovely. (: 

This image was taken... somewhere on the Cal campus. Don't remember where exactly. But whatevs. It's pretty. (: 

See my photo online at the Daily Cal Photo blog. 

Image ©The Daily Californian.  ... Image, not screenshot. Of course. 

Wishlist: Ephanie Camera Bags

Ephanie camera bags are my new favorite thing. When I'm rich and famous and traipsing all over the world with my camera (please don't doubt!) I'm going to own all of them. They are beautiful. They are stylish. They are everything a girl could want in a camera bag. Sooo beautiful. 

This image of their three products is from a screen shot off the website. Go look. They're bee-yoo-ti-ful. Sigh. 

San Francisco Pillow Fight (and cute shoes...)

Nick and I spent Sunday in the city and, without planning to, ran into the huge pillow fight in the Embarcadero Plaza. There were easily thousands of people there, and once the clock struck 6pm they didn't stop fighting for more than an hour. What persistence! 

After the pillow fight started somebody let free a heart shaped balloon. It floated up above all of the pillow fighters and up up up above the bay. You can just make it out here. (:

As the intensity of the "fight" picked up, pillows started to break. The feathers spewed over the "fighters" and into the air; it almost looked like it was snowing!

This girl had on the cutest shoes and I couldn't resist pointing my lens at her toes. How weird is it that I snapped this spy pic? ... 

Anyways, Happy Valentine's Day and Happy February. <3  

ooo, Inspiration

One of my biggest inspirations as a photographer is this lovely lady pictured right here. Jessica Claire is a wedding and portrait photographer extraordinaire as well as one of the greatest artists of the camera working right now. Not only is she amazing with the camera at weddings, she rocks it on the street too (check out her art website here); as if that weren't enough, Jessica has one of the quirkiest, most intriguing, and most I-want-to-be-friends-with-you online personalities ever. I confess to checking her blog at least once a day for any possible updates. Shhhh...

This gorgeous images of Jessica shooting her first destination wedding (on location in Cabo!) was captured by her friend and second shooter Becker, whose images, clearly, are also top notch. 

I aim for this kind of dedication to an image. Ahhh-mazing.

In other news, I've been accepted as a staff photographer for The Daily Californian, the daily paper published on UC Berkeley's campus. I am oh so thrilled! You should check out their website, of course, but I also recommend a visit to the staff's photography blog. Hopefully you'll see one of my images up there sometime soon!

Photographers: Your New Favorite Accessory

Hey kids!

Meet the newest cool hip thing to have if you're a photographer, Funky Camera. I want to order ten but will somehow restrain myself. I'm thinking leopard print. Maybe some cute flowers. How to ever decide!?

Here are my four favorites. It was impossible to pick. Really. They're not my photos (they belong to Funky Camera) but I wanted to share oh so badly. Ah-mazing. Really. (:

I love the bright colors and funky flowers in this design. Is it too girly though? 

Or do I show some Cal spirit? Cal spirit and delicate flowers. I love the color scheme but maybe it doesn't pop enough like the last one...

Classy. Good for both fun and more professional events. Not sure it's my absolute favorite though... but still very nice.

Last but not least, this one is perhaps my favorite. Not sure how the faux fur would hold up to my special brand of abuse though. What happens when the faux fur gets dirty or wet? Hmm... such a dilemma.

Anyways, this is my new favorite accessory. Or will be when I finally get around to ordering. Just you wait. (:

P.S. I'm thinking the bright and beautiful flowers in the first strap. Thoughts? Suggestions?