Being Authentic

I had been wanting to shoot a photo like this and one day I had my camera and Callah was laying down on the floor with one of our cats and smiled. I shot the moment. And ta-da, I have my dream photo.

For this one I had Callah pose.

Being authentic. 

 I think all aspiring photographers struggle with being authentic

 We look at other photographers' blogs, websites, Pinterest, and try to shoot photos like theirs. We think I want to shoot photos like hers or I wish I could shoot photos like his. And we even try.

 I know this because I have struggled with it and have read about another photographer that has.

 I have decided only shoot authentic photos.

Photos that are my own style. Photos that came from my heart. Not someone Else's.

 I am not saying there is something wrong with looking at some one's work and being inspired by it. I'm saying look at some one's work and think of how authentic it is and want be authentic and discover what your true style is.

 Find your style and keep it. Don't change it to look like someone Else's.

 Definition of Authentic: 

not false or copied; genuine; real: an authentic antique.

This is why my blog title is -Simply Me.

What is your style?

I think mine is real. What do you think?
Is it unique?
Is it me?
Please tell me :)
You should ask yourself questions like that too. :)

Real Quick

I'm sorry I don't have time to write much, but I hope you enjoy the photos for now.

My kitty. The Best kitty in the WORLD.

Self portrait

Sarah//Portraits

I wanted to post this photo shoot I did with Sarah so you can see a touch of what my portrait style is. I like to go real natural with my portrait photography. I dislike very processed gritty photos. I prefer outdoor portraits than studio portraits, although studio portraits can be very cool. 

What is your portrait photography style? I'd love to hear or see if you leave a link to your photography blog! :)

Friends

I had a lot of fun with our friends yesterday and got some cute photos. Sarah came up with the frame idea. :)

When we got home I got on the computer real quick and then helped with dinner, then cleaned up and got on the computer again to edit these photos.

What's up? Nothin really

Sarah is getting her braces off today. Yay! And then us kids and mom are going to our best friends' house. Yay! lol. I think we're gonna have a good day.

By the way the coffee photos are just random photos I shot. They have nothing to do with this post. lol

Lake Lanier

Lake Lanier is about five minutes away from our house. Today I asked mom to take me over there to do photography on the lake. She agreed to do it so around five o'clock we left for the lake. Callah came to and I let her shoot some photos to. I was very nice to be able to photograph something worth photographing. Normally I just have to hunt for something interesting around the house. We found several fish dead, on the shore and in the water. I wander what happened. They were pretty big fish.

Well, hope you enjoy the photos! I was happy how they turned out. :)

Have you ever...

 

 Have you ever sat wishing you could travel somewhere, get out of home, go see new places? Well I

 have been lately and now I am starting to feel like a cat sitting at a window wishing he/she could 

 go outside. Or reaching for a bird but hit the clear glass window. I actually feel bad for the cats, but 

 I know it's not safe for them because they haven't ever been outside, they could get lost or eaten by  coyotes. And it's the same for me. I'm not old enough to travel on my own, but even if I was, it's a cruel world we live in and it wouldn't be safe to go alone. But I can't wait till the day I can travel places and photograph God's beautiful creation.

The Nineteenth of April [ A Birthday ]

Today is a special day. It is Callah's 12th birthday. This morning me and Callah rearranged our room and later dad got home and mom took Callah out. Meanwhile, Sarah, Daniel and I were making cards for her and dad was cooking. Callah and mom just got back with new shoes for Callah and her birthday movie, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol. It is our family's tradition to have a watch a movie that the birthday person picked. I just finished making the cake and stuck it in the oven. Mom, dad and Daniel are outside on the deck grilling the burgers, Sarah and AJ are still working on something for Callah.

Here is a few photos from the day

Self portrait

Night post

I want to write a better post right now. Not just short sentence and captions for the photos. But what do I write? I don't want to bore you to death with my day...Think. Think. Think...I could write a post about one of the animals; nah, I don't feel like doing that right now...Okay, I guess the only option is...to bore you with my day.

here is how it started-I woke up with a start and looked at my digital clock. 7:51 AM. I hopped out of bed. I had to get ready go to the barn. I started to straighten my unruly hair from going to bed with it wet. I observed it was still raining outside. A little while later mom walked in me and my sister's room and told us "You can go back to bed. They canceled." I was relieved. I walked down stairs and made me a bowl of cereal and sat at the table with the computer. Okay you are probably thoroughly bored. I'm just going to fast forward to somewhere around 6:00 pm and dad came home from work then he took me to the store with him...And then...We ate dinner. lol.

Now it is 9:16 pm and I got get off the computer.

Here's some photos from the day

Another double exposure of me

WebCam photo of me

TRAVELER magazine that came today. It's so cool.

Words

The magazine cover I edited.

The eighteenth of April [ Another rainy day ]

Double exposure

These are two photos I shot of me using the webcam and overlapped them. 

It's the morning of the eighteenth of April now and it is still raining. My sister's birthday is tomorrow she is turning twelve.

Most people would say "I cant believe it!" when their child or sister, whoever, is turning 12 or 13 and so on. But I can believe my sister, Callah, is turning twelve, because she has been much more mature than most girls her age(not to mention that she is taller than a lot of girls her age or older).

She is a wonderful sister. She and I have always trusted each other and we tell each almost everything(I don't tell her what her birthday present is going to be. lol). 

Callah and I

 

The seventeenth of April [ A rainy day ]

Have you ever just not known what to do and end with your camera shooting random photos. Well, that's what happened to me. I guess it's good for photojournalism.

The photos above of my sister on the computer turned out to be cool photos. There is some kind of quality to them that I cant very well explain but maybe you understand what I'm taking about. Maybe it's just the reality of the photo or the way she is sitting hunched over with her chin resting on her hand and her leg propped up with her other foot underneath. I don't know. What do you think?