The essence of today's family is when you have members coming and going and schedules and school and sports and parents always on top of it all. I've had the honor of shooting this family multiple times now and it's cool to see them growing and changing and branching out while always staying close. Just like families should.
I have a love/hate (mostly hate/hate) relationship with the word "epic." It used to be good. Great, even. EPIC, even. Until a bazillion wedding photographers started describing their latest wedding as epic. Each more EPIC than the last. Then it caught on in mainstream conversation. Sort of like "awesome" in the 80's. Only way more annoying. So recently, my friend asked me to design a birthday invite for her 6-year-old daughter's birthday. Inspired by the rainbow cake, she wanted a rainbow-themed inivite. An EPIC RAINBOW BIRTHDAY! The invite came out super cool, in all the rainbow candy-colored goodness of any 6-year-old's dreams.
Today though, I wanted a grown-up version. No rainbow-brite colors, no perfect placement. A tribute to bad press jobs and low-budget color everywhere. I ended up with this (below) and am really loving it! It's available in my Society6 shop and just makes me super happy. EPIC-LY happy.
I just thought this was such a pretty photo. I made blackberry pancakes the other morning. So, so good! Love the fruits available in abundance during the summer. Makes everything special.
Just retuned from a quick little trip to Couer d'Alene, ID where we also visited Silverwood amusement park for the day. Had a great time, rode the After Shock rollercoaster, from which I barely survived. I am a roller coaster enthusiast. Never met one I didn't love and ride again. But this one...wow. You know when they have to delay your loading to clean 1) blood, then 2) bile, off the ride that it's a doozy. Suffice it to say that was my first, and last, ride on the After Shock. It was a quick trip, but we did get to drive a bit down Lake Coeur d'Alene right at sunset. So beautiful, I want to visit again and just sit by the water for a long time.
This just makes me smile. If I had a trailer, I wouldn't have one of those posters where you fill in the states you've visited. I'd have a little mobile design trailer and fill in the letters I'd drawn. Which makes me laugh too, because I'm pretty sure over the course of my 43 years I have actually drawn all the letters, not just some of them as illustrated here. This is up in both my Society6 shop and at SmugMug. The tee version is below:
