Ashley

My resolution to blog more is failing miserably. I’ve been taking some courses these past couple of weeks and still working full time so I barely have time to breathe let alone blog.  And when I DO get a minute I find myself running away to Vegas to unwind, just to make sure I don’t go crazy.

A good friend of mine got engaged a couple of months ago and I had the honor of shooting her engagement photos. It was my first engagement session and it was raining the whole day but during a 40 minute window when the rain wasn’t so bad I was able to snap some shots of them. Congratulations you two! Wish you the best! ❤ The first photo is probably my favorite one of the bunch. 🙂

Back to studying; I have an exam and a project due tomorrow. -_-

life through instagram.

Some snippets from my life on instagram. /as always, you can click on the photo to view larger 🙂

Happy new year of photography! Here’s to capturing more moments in 2012. 2011 photo recap post coming soon!

R3HAB

I’m in Arizona for the weekend, and time is flying by. Saw R3HAB last night, and tested out the camera on my 4s. This thing is amazing.

Feature

This photo was featured on Photo Argus under 16 Striking Examples of Portrait Photography. Thank you, PhotoArgus, for including my photo!

Welcome to the City of Sin

I’m sure I say this all the time but I really needed this vacation. Spent the four nights in company of good friends and great music and I couldn’t be happier! Here are some photos of some DJs that I got to see last weekend, all at Marquee in the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Excuse the blurry photographs – they were all taken with my phone and it doesn’t perform the best in low light situations.

Marquee @ the Cosmopolitan

Dash Berlin

Erick Morillo

Hardwell

Kaskade! By far my favorite set of the weekend 🙂

That’s my weekend in a nutshell.  Hope you all had a great weekend!

xo Sharon

What Happens in Vegas..

Just got back from Vegas, and I am so. incredibly. exhausted. But ohmygawd I had the time of my life.  Here’s a little preview of my weekend – I’ll post up the rest of the pictures later.  For now, I’m going to catch up on my RSS feeds, all the shows I missed the last 4 nights I was gone, and catch up on some zzzz!

 

 

Inspired.

Recently I discovered photographer Dylan Forsberg and fell in love with his work. Here are some photos from his blog that I particularly enjoyed..

I love his use of natural light. I also love how raw his images are. Nothing crazy fancy, it is what it is and I enjoy that. All of these photos make me wonder what they are thinking, and when that happens, to me, that photo becomes important. If you can take a photo has the ability to make someone stop and think for just one second, then you’ve created a photo with impact.

Saying farewell with a quick photobooth creation – I’m headed to Vegas for the next couple of days!  I was there 3 months ago; why does it feel like it’s been forever? Will be back with some pictures. Have a great weekend!

Mobile Diaries / 2 of 2

top to bottom, left to right. 

1. EDC Las Vegas / June 2011
2. A super dirty car, filled with trash / somewhere in the OC
3. Women’s bathroom sign / wish I could remember where
4. Self portrait / taken for my 365 project
5. Stickers on the street / Los Angeles
6. Simba / @ 2 months old. now he’s a giant beast.
7. View of downtown LA / taken while driving. probably not a good idea.

 

 

A Reminder

Saw this floating around facebook, saved it, and now can’t remember the source.  Live your dream and share your passion!

 

DIY: Braided Hex Nut Bracelet

I found this DIY on Honestly…WTF a couple of months back but never got off my ass to actually make one. A friend and I were bored one day and finally got around to making some! You can find a more detailed how-to on honestlywtf.. but here’s how mine turned out!

I bought the twine at walmart for about $3 and the hex nuts (they were actually labeled “Machine Screw Nuts”) were purchased at Home Depot for a box of 100 for about $3. I couldn’t find any brass colored ones at my local Home Depot so I picked up some spray paint in a brass metallic finish, also for $3. Split the costs with a friend so the materials ended up costing me about $5 total. 😀

Spray painted those suckers, braided them into the twine.

Aaaaaaand done!