Kat Constandse : Bridal Session

Kat is Married! I had the honor of attending her reception last night, which was beautiful. Just last week I have the opportunity to take her Bridals, and I think they turned out GREAT! She is absolutely stunning, and a born model. So it was easy, and most of all FUN! Alexis Wood, and Brittany Carson came along so I had lots of help making her look super hot! Katherine and I took a Photography class at school together, so it was so nice of her to let me practice with her for such a special moment. Congratulations Kat and Andrew, I hope you like them! And I hope you enjoyed your honeymoon!

xoxo Martha Mae

p.s. This last shoe picture is my favorite. Alexis stopped us for the shot, and its perfect!! Thanks Alexis- You are the BEST!

p.p.s I swear the photos aren't as grey as they look on here. I honestly don't know what it is...but it might be time for a real website/ blog?!

12.22.2010

Can't have Christmas without Cookies.
While picking up the last ingredients, I picked up some Alberstons cookies because I'm super into instant gratification.

xoxo Martha Mae.

p.s. These are called Nutmeg Logs... so they are supposed to look all freaky like that. : )

12.21.2010

Miss Kayla Ann left me today. Not sure what I'm going to do here without her...but I guess I'll just have to figure things out. But I will have less cute dress up evenings downtown. So here is two photos from my last one with Kayla.

Funny

 and Cute.

xoxo Martha Mae.

12.20.2010

Downtown! With Alyssa, so we both brought our cameras. Drank some delicious Hot Chocolate, and talked. And had a Lovely evening. Thanks Alyssa!

Xoxo Martha Mae.

12.16.2010

Looking through old photos. And a little stressed and distraught that I can't find so many of them. I think I huge section of my life/ photos are missing. And I'm worried. Luckily I put practically EVERYTHING on Facebook. But my high quality images are probably gone, forever.

But since I have been digging... and yes this is literal because my photo files are a disaster. I just found pictures I have been looking for, for a little over... forever. And found them hiding in a little folder that also has photos of a church event. Who knew.
Here is a little something I found and thought was alright.

xoxo Martha Mae.

p.s. Did I mention I'm a sarcastic, drama queen? :)

NEW LOGO!

Okay so less new, more the first one ever! Designed by the Fabulous Gabriella Narvaez!
And I love, love, love it.  Take a look.

Yay for my name on my photographs! I love it.

xoxo Martha Mae!

12.14.2010

Tonight Kayla and I had a girl date. I started the day with the plan to go to institute, but slowly institute became movies in my favorite work out pants, and then Kayla convinced me (easily) to go downtown. And I'm oh so glad she did. We got completely lost..well not lost...just really not where we wanted to be. But we finally got the right cross streets and finally found it. We did some shopping (like always) and then got dinner at an adorable- high class- grocery store. I don't think it could ever replace my WINCO but winco doesn't have attractive people working there. This store FOR SURE did. :) We had a healthy and balanced meal of Cascade Ice, and mashed potatoes (1 lb) of them. haha And then we completed the meal with some Cinnamon Buns, Ben and Jerry's Ice cream. It was divine.
But the guy who rung us up- twice. Totally judged us. haha Its fine.

Look how happy we are. Isn't THAT what matters.

I can't really decide how I feel about that middle photo. I should have walked across the street to photograph that sweet bug properly...but it was a BIG street. :)

xoxo Martha Mae.

12.12.2010

MERRY CHRISTMAS FOLKS!

So just warning in the upcoming weeks, I'm just going to enjoy having friends and family around. I'll be shooting, but probably not post as much.

Took pictures at our Ward Christmas Party last night. Had a blast, but my absolute favorites are these screaming baby pictures (which were surprisingly only a few children).

Although I have only looked at a handful of them- this is my favorite so far.

xoxo Martha Mae.

12.11.2010

Okay Folks I'm changing the rules, I'm going to post a photo a day. But any photo I want. Not necessarily taken that day, and it might be from the same group as another day. Yes I'll still try to take and post one photo a day. But this is now affecting my sleep schedule which is not cool. So today's photo(s) is going to be from last Saturday. Because I'm just now getting around to looking at all the ones I took that day. And I did nothing impressive in the photography world today.
I am working hard at a. Learning more about my camera.
b. Learning and trying things on Photoshop
and c. shooting regularly.
And since I've done all these things. RESULTS!

 and here is my proof, that I am playing with photoshop.

xoxo Martha Mae.

12.10.2010

TWINS! :) 

Kayla got Zooey Deschanel bangs today. And she looks great!

Today's photo was chosen from 3 I took, before running out the door to our Great Harvest meeting. And was edited a little crazy, because I'm still excited about my actions- oh and the photo was horrible lighting. :)

xoxo Martha Mae.

12.8.2010

Feet.
They are pretty much always freaky.
But me and Kayla both had the same thought tonight, so I decided to just do it.
The photo of the day is of my feet.
I even did that photoshop thing I hate and brought back the color in just my nails- Grosses thing I have ever seen. So I'm not posting that.
Here are my feet- its alright if you judge them.

xoxo Martha Mae.

p.s. Just put on a fresh coat of paint for all of you!!

12.7.2010

I love it when Laura ask's me to babysit. The Blattner Boys are the BEST! Tonight we had a blast, and then I realized it was bed time, and I so I tried to calm them down, but I myself couldn't stop laughing. So we just continued the party while we brushed teeth and read the scratch and sniff Christmas Book. Then I just turned off the light hoping they were tired enough. ehh....that worked for like 2 minutes. haha
Adian proceeded to come down stairs saying he was hunger and that he needed a granola bar. I said that will only make you more hyper. And he said, "It wont make me more hunger, you said hyper when you meant hunger." And I said, "Nope I really mean hyper." And Aidan asked me what that meant and I really just wanted to walk into the bathroom and show him his reflection. But I didn't. :)

Modeling 101. 

(the last one is called the "arm pit" shot)

 Warning this one is called the: "Melt your heart" face...or something to that effect :) 

and it's all an act. but really how can you not get sucked right in. I do... every. time.

But do not fret. I also got the real Aidan. This is his "mid sentence" face. (he thought it was funny too)

And the always cool, Eli.

and one more...because I can.

xoxo Martha Mae.

12.6.2010

Messy.

We just added this handy dandy table to my room. Since there is NOTHING else in it. However now I just have a spot to set, EVERYTHING. So my room is a mess. And I have little motivation to clean it. So I decided having it posted for the whole world to see, might be embarrassing  enough to make me clean it.

In other news, Sara Bareilles, still great! :)

xoxo Martha Mae.

p.s. Just ignore that twilight book that is on the table...thats probably my sisters. :)

12.5.2010

I have been learning. Reading my manual every night. And I re-learned how to quickly use my burst mode. So I had Julene hold down the button and I quickly made this video. Kind of fun.
I also got to open a Christmas Present early. It was a flash diffuser, and its super fun! Can't wait to really try it out at the ward Christmas Party this weekend. I hate Flash photography...but this makes it a LOT better.

xoxo Martha Mae.

p.s. I know this is super dorky...its fine. I also didn't get a Candy Cane just for this...I just happen to be eating them at all times.

12.4.2010

So tired.

Thanks Kayla, Shellyne, and Julene!

You guys are the best.

xoxo martha mae.

12.3.2010

Didn't take a photo today. Well I did, take several. This morning in the 5 minutes I had before work. But I got nothing. So instead I'm going to post two photos I just found on the internet. :)

Tonight I watched two of my favorite things. Harry Potter & WIZARDS!

So be jealous. haha Tonight was fun.
Also don't be to disappointed, I should have lots of fun ones for tomorrow!

xoxo Martha Mae.

12.2.2010

Had a creative day yesterday. Kayla, Julene and I painted canvas's. It was wonderful fun. Although now I can't decide if I like it or not. It still needs lots of work.
But it feels good to just create.

xoxo Martha Mae.

12.1.2010

REMEMBER THIS DAY!
Today I found out that I'm going to the one, the only Jasmine Star's workshop. This January I will be joining Jasmine and 19 other people for a day of photography! This has been something I have wanted to do for a long time now. And it was just some distant goal, but then I just went for it. And now I'm going. So now I have to push myself. Extra hard. So I'm going to need everyone's support. And all the practice I can get.
I already know that I'm going to be the youngest and least experienced there. So now I need to make that gap smaller!
I was going to do my photo of the day of my face when I saw the email, personally from Jasmine. But that would be a recreation, and I feel like thats kind of lame. haha So my photo of the day is of decorating the Christmas Tree. I love decorating the TREE!

 xoxo

Martha Mae.

p.s. Blogger always makes my photos look greener. Julene's hand isn't really that green in the photo. So sorry, I do what I can.

p.p.s Happy Holidays Folks!

11.30.2010

Rainy Day.

xoxo martha mae.

11.29.2010

This is part of my daily life. It defines my life when I'm home, regardless of how sad that may be. But Great Harvest is one of my favorite places in Oregon. I work with my friends, and now family. Its been a consistent part of my life and I love it that way. I know the customers, the product, and the owners. What could be better.

So my photo of the day was taken there. And this one (even though it is kind of weird) has the colors of the store. The photo is of the mess made by rolling out our delicious sugar cookies. And I love the color of our kneading table, especially with flour sprinkled all over it.

xoxo

Martha Mae.