DAL Photos and Interviews - A Party at the Park vol.1

This past Saturday I held the first ever Dandy As Lions Photos & Interviews - A Party at the Park.

It was pretty successful, and those that attended all told me they had a ton of fun!

Here are a few little silly pictures from that!

That's me with my elementary school friend, Nicole!

We were reunited when I moved back to Waco in high school and we found ourselves in the same history class!

Like I said, I found it to be a success!

Fun was had by all, and I'm excited for the next one after finals in May!

Love.

Model: Rush Alan

A few weeks ago, I shot my friend Cody's 21st birthday. Remember? I said I'd post about it but have yet to do that...sorry...Anyway, when I was there I met a guy named Rush. He asked if I was on Model Mayhem to which I responded "Yes! You should look me up!"

So, we got in contact and I asked if he'd be interested in doing a grunge inspired session.

He said he would love to and I got super excite

d about it!

I had something totally different in mind for the shoot, because I was basing it on what I was imagining him wearing something different. I was able to quickly ch

ange what I was going to shoot, and we got some REALLY great shots (if I may say so myself)! 

I wanted a kind of editorial, "following the band around" kind of thing.

That's really something I'd LOVE to do - follow a band

 arou

nd. A la Autumn de Wilde! I absolutely positively love her!

Anyway, here are a few photos! Away we go:

^^I absolutely love this one! He's really on the phone, too haha!

Well, there are a few photos for your viewing pleasure! I hope you like them!

Adrienne - Trash the Dress

Adrienne and Royce were my first wedding that I ever shot on my own!

This couple is so sweet, kind, fun, everything! They are people that I definitely not only want to work with again, but want to be friends with! Thank you Adrienne and Royce for letting me take part in your wedding and for just being all around great people!

These photos are from my Trash the Dress session with Adrienne!

^^^^This is one of my personal favourites from the entire day! I love the colours and how the green pops!

Another one of my absolute faves of the day! That little mural painting was such a good find!

Thanks again, Adrienne and Royce!

I know you two will be so very happy together!

New Web Card!

There it is! 

I made this little thing today on Adobe Illustrator! I'm actually pretty proud.

I was working on an actual new print card, but I think this is fine for just a little web card!

What do you think?

Anyway, just made a Facebook invite for Dandy As Lions First Ever Photos and Interviews - A Party At the Park event happening this next Saturday (28 March) and Wednesday the 8th of April!

I hope it has a great turn out! I'll probably do another one in Waco, too! Woohoo!

Well, I don't have a shoot today, but I do need to finish editing my latest Trash the Dress photos (and will post them here, of course!) and I'll be working with a really great model next Sunday (29 March)! His name is Rush Alan and we met at a party and quickly found one another on Model Mayhem!

Spring Break is over...only about seven more weeks until Summer holiday! (Too bad I'll have to take Summer courses, too...oh well!)

Have a great Sunday, everyone!

Photos and an Interview - A Party at the Park!

Hey everyone! Check it out --

I read Lou O'Bedlam's blog and he's always coming up with great ideas to get people involved in socializing events and giving people great, cool photos out of those events!

This idea is directly inspired by Mr. O'Bedlam's inspiring idea!

What: Dandy As Lions's First Ever Photos and an Interview - A Party at the Park!!! (Spring Edition)

Date: Saturday 28 March 2009 and again on Wednesday 8 April 2009 (also known as - the day after my 21st birthday!!)

Time: 6:30-7:45pm

Where: Zilker Park, Austin, TX

The Deal: Getting together and lining up, getting a few (2-4) little fun snaps taken of your mug, get a few questions asked and answered, hang out and socialize! Bring friends, foods, drinks (non-alcoholic...I think there are laws against that), subjects of discussion, etc! I'll email you the edited photos with my logo on them, and you can plaster those bad boys all over the interwebs if you'd like! These photos are free, too! This is just a nice excuse for a bunch of people to come together, socialize and relax, and get some fun photos!

Email me at Dandy.As.Lions@gmail.com to let me know if you'll be there! I really would love to see you there!

BACKING THAT THANG UP!

Hi everyone.

I wanted to do a blog that I now find EXTREMELY important.

Everyone knows that backing up files in a minim

um of two different ways is important...but some still don't do it for whatever reason.

My reason was not having an external hard drive.

Boy was that a bad thing.

Here's my learning experience that has now a

nd forever changed my life.

You all remember Brianne and Karl's (yeah, I'd been spelling it incorrectly) wedding last week.

I had a TON of photos, and had finally finished editing them at around 1 on Thursday night and was about to export them - making the edits complete. Out of nowhere, my computer decides to freeze and the screen decides to go black. 

"WHAT?!" I thought to myself while my bod

y went numb and an overwhelming feeling of dread and nausea flooded my body. I immediately took it to a repair center the next day and paid a nice chunk of change to get them to only try to recover everything...guess what...not everything was recovered.

 I had lost all but one "getting ready" shot, and  almost every ceremony shot...thank GOD I had one of her getting ready, one of her grandfath

er walking her down the aisle, and the big kiss.

I had every image from the reception, and all of the formals, too...but no ceremony...well very little, at least.

I had no back ups.

I was crying all night and thought that my career as a wedding photographer was over well before it had even begun to fully blossom! 

In short, everything actually worked out just dandily; the couple loved all of the photos that I did manage to salvage, and "didn't even miss the ceremony shots!"

I'm extremely blessed and thankful to all forces that were working for me today! 

It was a lesson learned that I DESPERATELY need to get an external hard drive, as well as maybe go ahead and purchase space on like a 

carbon kind of site for storage.

I wanted to share this with everyone, because I don't want anyone to feel that numbing, nauseating panic that I felt. 

BACK UP! :D

Good night!

Birthdays!

Today is my boyfriend's birthday!

It's also the 21st birthday of a good friend of mine!

I'm taking a few pictures of James (my boyfriend) for me, and tonight I'm taking photos at Cody's (the friend) party!

My beau stayed the night with me last night,

so this morning I woke up and went to go get donuts

 after waking him with "(gasp) IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY!!!"

I just love birthdays!

So, I got half a dozen donuts. 2 chocolate with sprinkles; 2 jam filled (apple and raspberry); 2 glazed. 

I also got him a chocolate milk, because I gave it u

p for Lent (aka - torture)...I also got sugar in my eye...

After we had breakfast, he went home and I told him I'd meet him at his place later - I had to work on his little gift.

I made him a list called "22 Things I Love About You!" (hint: he turned 22 today. There are loads more things that I could come up with, but thought 22 would be good)

The list included things such as "Thank you for letting me still watch crappy t.v. like Degrassi and Top Model...At least I've stopped watching shows that have anything to do with Brett Michaels!" and "I love that your pupils grow when you look at and see me. I just love it."

and the number one thing that I love about James is that HE LOVES ME [too]! :D

More pictures this week!!!

Love.

Carl + Brianne more!

Here are a few more photos from Carl and Beezie's wedding!

Like I said, this wedding was so great and fun to shoot! 

The above photos is of Breezie (the bride, obviously) and her grandfather walking to the chapel.

Throwing the bouquet.

See? I told you they love having fun!

The kiss.

Congratulations to Carl and Brianne! I know that your life together will be blessed and beautiful! Thank you so much for including me in your very special day!

Carl + Brianne (Breezie) Wedding

This is just a sneak peek of the wedding that I shot today!

This couple and their family is SO fun and funny! They just wanted to have fun in the posed photos, and I'm all about that!! Such a nice couple and family!

The ceremony was beautiful in an outdoor chapel on a quasi-cliff! More like a huge hill, but quasi-cliff sounds more daring! The reception was at a great italian restaurant/vineyard! Beautiful. Beautiful. Beautiful!! But I already said that it was beautiful! haha I had never been to the part of town where these locations are, so I'm SO happy that I now have more places that I can go for future photo sessions!

Anyway, this is one of my favourite photos from the getting ready portion of the day!

More to come, I'm sure!

As far as more weddings go, I am two weddings away from my personal 2009 starting off goal! Can you believe it?! I'm sure happy about that. I'm quickly getting to my goal and hopefully surpassing it! By the end of next week (or this week, I guess), I will meet with at least one more bride! I also have a Trash the Dress session with one of my previous weddings! I'm also photographing an event (my friend's 21st birthday at a big club!) on Friday the 13th! Busy bee, I tell ya -- but I'm loving it!

After this week, it's my Spring Break and I'm looking forward to that!

Thanks for everything.

Giving One More Try

I now have more weddings and photo sessions.

I also have a new camera.

Get ready. I promise this will be kept up.

I love this man. This is one of the first few photos I ever took with my new (refurbished) Canon EOS 5D!! I'm so in love with this camera!

Be sure to check back in! It's going to be a great and busy year for me: portrait sessions, weddings galore, all of it! Speaking of which: I have some photos from a wedding on the 21st of February, and will have some by next week from a wedding I'm photographing on Sunday the 8th of March!

Whew! This is going to be great!