I got a new fish eye lens for Christmas this year.
Here’s some results for Christmas morning, visiting my Dad’s side of the family, and other randoms.
(p.s. if you only know my family…haha)

I haven’t updated this in forever.
Olive is no longer a little girl, but has grown into a young lady.
She turned one back on August.
Here are some more recent pictures of her I’ve taken.

peak-a-boo.

hi.

pound it.

gingerbread girl.

peeking.

charleston for the week in november.
the hotel & walking around the battery.

adam’s christmas presents…

gervais street bridge.

columbia skyline.

olive was famous for christmas time.
she got to be the face of my christmas card.
she’s my precious girl.

my precious new puppy, Olive.

on the way home.

burger.

posing.

huh?

hi there.

halloween!

(2 months old.)

baseball!
i went and took pictures to go with the basketball picture for adam.
i liked a lot of the outcomes.
so here you go…

bases loaded.

dugout.

at bat.

take me out to the ballgame.

batting practice.

root root root for the home team.

the visitors.

foul ball.

three strikes you’re out.
 

& color…

who’s on first.

big league.

the past few sundays we’ve taken sniper to the pond.
he loves it. and i love taking pictures.

sniper.

sit.

i got it.

good boy.

he can fly.

for christmas adam told me he wanted one thing…
a black and white photo of a basketball goal.
he told me he could always remember playing basketball until he could barely see anymore.
so that’s what i did.
he LOVED it.
and said it was perfect.
it’s exactly what he remembered growing up.

playing til the sun goes down.

i’m happy with my final outcome of my portfolio.
i ended up having 12 ink jet prints.
i eliminated a few that i didn’t think quite fit so well.
it’s done for now. but think i might still work on it in the future.
here’s my artist statement and pictures i chose… 

After living in a smaller town my whole life, moving downtown to the “big city” was a slight change in lifestyle. These photographs show the real city and not just the nice and beautiful things associated with city life. When people first think of a city, the one thing that comes to mind is the bustling, busy life and tall buildings looming over people. Instead, I chose to show the everyday things that are overlooked or not noticed. 

While living in Lexington, I grew up with my family on two acres of land with a huge pond in our backyard. Even though I would visit downtown for different occasions, it was not very well known to me. While spending 22 years in this “country” town, I finally moved to the city. Traffic, crowds, and bigger buildings were a few things out of the ordinary and different to me. Of course, these were the first things I noticed, but I also noticed that Columbia had a lot of things that didn’t make it so beautiful. I started noticing the things that didn’t make it so beautiful and perfect as a city, but the things that make it unique and more interesting. I like seeing things as they really are and what makes them their own. These photographs show Columbia through my eyes and what I think makes it unique. It may not show the nicer parts of this city, but it shows things that make this city one of a kind.