Photography
Last month I was lucky enough to photograph Rory and his team at Roar Salon for Tribeza. I had so much fun getting to know the talented, not to mention super stylish, folks at Roar.
Check out the January issue to see the rest of the photos.
Last weekend I photographed some festival style at Fun Fun Fun Fest for the Free People blog.
Check it out HERE
Quick iphone photos taken from our weekend trip out to Los Angeles.
Bill and I spent a year after we graduated Brooks living in downtown LA. It was one of the hardest years I've ever had and at the end of it I couldn't wait to leave. We went back to LA this past weekend for work and stayed a few days longer. I was surprised at how much I had missed it and how nostalgic it made me feel (of course I don't think about the bad times now.) I wish we could've stayed longer, there were still so many places we wanted to go to. But we got to see our friends and hit up our favorite places: Melrose Flea Market, The Getty, In-N-Out, and Griffith Park. It was a great trip but i'm happy to be back in Austin.
I spent this last weekend going through a bunch of my old negatives and prints from photo school. (I went HERE) This top photo is the first picture I EVER took of Bill. I dragged him out to the middle of this field – with a lot of dead branches apparently – with my 4x5 camera and took his portrait. We weren't really friends yet just acquaintances and all I remember is that we talked almost the whole time about hurricanes. (When we talked about it later that's all he remembers too) Looking back was fun but glad I never have to cut mattes ever again.
There's something really peaceful and fun about shooting flowers. Especially getting to work with Mary Kathryn of Loretta Flower. She's a really cool girl with a wild style of arranging flowers and a great eye for styling. I've gotten to help her out with a few Design*Sponge columns shot at Elizabeth Street Cafe and Hotel St. Cecilia. These are a few of the photos, check out the links for the full stories.
Wild love: Jonathan Adler & Simon Doonan
I had the wonderful opportunity to photograph one of my very best friends for Refinery29 when I was in my home town of Miami last month. Talia and I first met in chorus class in high school (I was a freshman, she was a senior) we hit it off from the first day and have been best friends ever since. She's an amazing artist and is one of the most stylish girls I know. You can see the sneak peek into her studio and home HERE.
Thursday night I shot the second annual Worst Tattoo in Austin Competition. There were so many awesomely bad tattoos, quite a few were totally unpublishable, the ones that were made it in a photo essay on CultureMap Austin. I learned some lessons that night: Never get a tattoo when you're drunk and never let a friend (no matter how good or how artistic) give you a tattoo.
