Kelsey | Covington Imagery | Senior Photography

The beautiful Kelsey rocking some vintage glam & a lovely bohemian look.

Kaysey | a Senior Story | Covington Imagery

Kaysey brought her grandmothers dress and we had one of the largest balloons that I have ever seen on our super fun shoot down in Texas.  I loved how she combined her cowboy boots with the beautiful dress.  YES!

Natalia | Headshots | Covington Imagery

The lovely Natalia came over on a beautifully windy afternoon to update her headshots.  We braved the winds for a few shots and then headed indoors to create some more beauty/studio type of shots.  Variety is the key to a great portfolio when bringing images to a new agent or casting directors.  I feel it is important to always get different looks from a headshot session.
The only look we didn’t have time to capture was a Wonder Woman shot!   Natalia looks is a Lynda Carter Ringer!  Am I right??  Stunning.

Emilie + Andy | a NYC Love Story | Covington Imagery

A beautiful time spent with beautiful people.  I love creating images of people in love.  Emilie & Andy came to NYC to start hunting for an apartment.  They had recently gotten married and were making the move from Richmond, VA up to NYC.  Andy is a badass drummer that I have enjoyed getting to see perform in bands like Sambiosis & The Upper East Side Big Band.  He is also a killer ping pong player.  
It was wonderful to get to meet Emilie as she is as sweet and awesome as she looks.  They are beautiful folks and it was a pleasure to create some images of their new life together in New York City.

a Brooklyn Sunset

I love my Brooklyn home.  I love the weather that surrounds my LA home and the crickets and frog outside my VA home but wow, how I love the sunsets outside of my Brooklyn home.  They just blow me away.  This sunset happened upon me suddenly.  I was inside working and all of a sudden the whole room was flooded with this gorgeous orange light.  I shot the below image through the window looking out.  Grateful for this view.

 

The Evolution of an Idea |a Hershey Syrup Story | Covington Imagery

I believe in challenging myself.  Sometimes a little bit too much.  I tend to take on too many projects and work around the clock because I love what I call ‘work.’  I love creating and trying out new things with my camera.  So I enrolled in an online class called project 52  with Don Giannatti.  I enrolled in the paid Pro workshop and set about it faithfully…for the first 12 weeks.  I’ll admit publicly that I have fallen off the horse due to all the things that get in the way of doing a fun extra project.   ha ha.    But I am still plugging along, in my own Taurus way, on the assignments.

The project for this particular week was ‘red balloons.’  We could do anything we wanted as long as it had red balloons as a feature in the image.   I had just gotten off a red eye flight from California when I realized the assignment was due that evening.  I actually had not even had time with my work schedule to check what the assignment was.   I read the part about red balloons and immediately went and combed the area for red balloons.  There were none in any of the drug stores that were within walking distance of where I was staying.   hmmmm.    I was also tired and feeling a bit lazy while also needing to unpack so I grabbed some pipe cleaners at one of the stores and created the first image.

Um.  No.  Even though I was tired, I couldn’t turn in something like that.  No.  I’ll admit to being somewhat of a perfectionist and the above photo was sloppy work based on sloppy inspiration.  It was lame.   And I had been on top of my assignments every week for the journey and wasn’t going to submit subpar work.  (oh back in those glory days of being current with my homework, ha ha)

Hmmm.  What else did I have handy but more importantly what was my vision.  Red Balloons.  I looked at the above photo on the back of my camera and envisioned it with a girl dangling off.  But how to create the vision and make it engaging and interesting and with what I had and in a time crunch.  Hmmm.  Just at that moment, there was a knock at my door and the incredible artist Zlata Kolomoyskaya  stopped by to do a quick sketch of my hands for a project she is working on.  She saw all my materials laid out and asked what I was doing.  We brainstormed for a few minutes and then ran to the corner deli.  There we found the tools to make a worthy image.  Cherries and Hershey Syrup.  I wanted fresh cherries but there were none to be found so we settled for the kind in the syrup.

I described to her what I wanted the girl to look like and in about 6 minutes drew exactly what I wanted with Hershey Syrup with a piece of spaghetti!!  Zlata is so incredibly talented it blows me away.

Zlata doing her thing.

The Homework Assignment

Presley | a Senior Story | Covington Imagery

I love how Presley matched her braces!  Every opportunity to accessorize!!

Elyse | a Beauty Portrait Story | Covington Imagery

Makeup by Sarah Wood and I love spending a day creating a Beauty Story with incredible women.  Our afternoon with Elyse was no exception.  The laughter and awesome energy, not to mention the smiles and gasps of delight are the reasons we love what we get to do.  Showing women how beautiful they are is something that I am grateful to be a part of.

Taylor | a Senior Story | Covington Imagery

Taylor!  Oh, Taylor, you made this shoot so much fun.  Giggles, glitter and gorgeous, can’t ask for a better day.