Favorites from 2019 and Updates
So, uh… first off I’d just like to say that I had no idea it had been over a year since I’d last posted here. Whoops. I’m finishing up my graduate degree right now, and for the last year and a half it’s been incredibly difficult to keep up with literally anything. I feel driven, though, and am determined to to return to producing content this year. Be on the lookout for music, photos, videos, collaborations, and possibly even live streams! Hopefully I can keep the promises I’ve made to myself while I work on transitioning into a professional role in the “real world”.
Now that that’s out of the way, let’s move on to the real intention behind this post: some of my favorite moments from shoots in 2019.
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First up is this shot from early 2019 of Danielle Mull as Princess Bubblegum from Adventure Time. This was my first cosplay shoot and I really couldn’t be happier with how these turned out. The lighting, the location, and the model’s work on the costume all came together for some seriously regal finished photos! Danielle and I have worked together several times now (as we’ve been dating for a little over a year and cosplay boyfriends are really just personal photographers), and I think this is still one of my top pictures from any shoot we’ve done together!
In May of 2019, I was lucky enough to get to take a trip to Japan with my program through the graduate school at Appalachian State. Over the course of ten days, we visited Tokyo, Osaka, Okayama, Hiroshima, and Kyoto. We saw various shrines (my favorite of which was Fushimi Inari), ate plenty of local food, bought yukata, and sang karaoke. We met with business owners, exchanged gifts, met locals, and I can not wait to go back one day. This photo was taken in the Korakuen gardens at Okayama Castle. The site was absolutely breathtaking, and photos cannot do architecture of this magnitude justice.
My friend Ashlyn was kind enough to join me for a shoot in late August around the town of Boone, NC. I hadn’t shot seriously in months, and was starting to feel a desperate need for some sort of creative outlet. I reached out to her because I knew she had some experience with modeling, and she absolutely knocked it out of the park. I was standing around trying to figure out what to do when this fence, and she decided that the best option was to just… climb it. I snapped some pictures from the other side, then moved around for this one and almost blinded myself because the sun was not where I expected it to be. This was the only picture from that angle I bothered to take, and regardless of the potential damage to my retinas, it’s one of my favorites from 2019.
From here, I’m simply going to add a few more images in to show my other favorites from the year. The photos above were some of the most memorable, but that doesn’t mean I don’t like my other work from 2019. It’s true, I didn’t shoot as regularly as I would’ve wanted, and I’m planning to remedy that in 2020. For now, enjoy these shots and be on the lookout for updates!