i want this to be a kind-of diary

i've started writing down little things that inspire me in my notebook that says "picture this" on the cover so maybe i will turn them into a photo shoot. i'm sitting at my kitchen table in ryan's hoodie and plaid undies just thinking about winter and cold weather and fall when everything is happy! i want to get married in the fall so our wedding will be alive when everything is dying.

i took this picture of alexis last summer, in june. probably right around this time last year. i saw her at school and asked to take her picture one day, and we met up and did a shoot. she's in college now, and i'm glad i got to photograph her when i did!

model is amelia gandara. no one liked these photos but me and that's okay. i'm trying right now to remember summer as it was last year, because it was so good. but last summer was a summer of learning and discovery and this summer is a summer of doing, acting on my discoveries and opening new doors for myself, leaving some old ones half open too. i shot all color film last summer, probably about 50 rolls of it throughout the ~3 months off school. i learned then that i wanted to make my image, if i ever got an image (hah) with film. this summer i'm doing that but with black and white film. (i'll shoot color in the winter when the green isn't so overwhelming)

i was skypeing with ryan last night, and i showed him the final 12 photos of my last shoot for lost freedom magazine, and usually ryan dislikes some of the photos that i choose for my final photos because well, people have different opinions and i love how he's always so honest. but he liked every one of them! and i like them even more than he does. i'll be able to post the shoot soon, and i hope you like the photos as much as we do.

this is a photo of my dear mother, aka my biggest fan. she found an old necklace of mine and started wearing it every day which i think is so cute. she's also wearing one of my shirts in this photo. haha oh mom. i love you so.

i have some exciting things coming up in july, so i will keep you posted with those! i hope everyone has a great day, and if you read all of this rambling i am proud of you!
~franey :)

anna in the park

thank you to acorn apparel for styling this shoot, thank you to anna roeder for modeling and providing the flowers/headpieces. her blog is fantastic so you should go look at it

xo, franey

favorite picture (ever)

i had to make a book for my photo class at school and i decided to make it about ryan and me since i hadn't done a school project on him in a while. i need to scan in all the negatives from our two shoots together but here's my favorite picture from the book, and my favorite picture i've ever taken

 

i printed this photo in the darkroom and i love it almost as much as i love ryan :)

~franey, xoxo

heather as a party

model is heather pittman
styling by abbie tyler

 

xoxo, franey <3

olivia at the waterfront

i was bored and inspired yesterday so i called olivia and we shot downtown at the waterfront during dusk.

i hope you like them!
<3, franey

i also had a shoot at yew dell

yew dell gardens is a beautiful botanical garden with a castle in crestwood, ky. you know how for every shoot you usually get 1 or 2 great photos? here are my 2 great photos from when i shot with megan martin at yew dell two saturdays ago.

  thank you to my friend jhana for letting me use her prom dress, and to acorn apparel and general eccentric for the styling for the horizontal picture. ~franey :)

disappointments make for happy times, sometimes

i had a lot of exciting things happening for my photography back in april/early may, but i felt like they all fell through when some disappointing things happened for my photos. i've spent a lot of nights questioning if i should continue taking photos or not, but i am in fact going to have shoots and take photos for now. i have a shoot with heather pittman tomorrow, and then next saturday i have a shoot with ivory. it's stressful planning all these shoots and trying to execute them well, but shit happens and photos don't turn out, or i don't like them, but i am concentrating now on just being a little more free with my photos. and i'm going to keep up with this blog too. i like this blog. i'm also going to get a moleskine where i'm going to print out small versions of my photos in the darkroom and paste them in there, along with writing some things. right now i have a print binder of 8x10 photos i've either gotten printed online, or printed myself in the darkroom. i'm also going to chicago in mid-july to do some photo things and see my family, so if you're up there we should definitely meet up. i need to collect my thoughts better and that way is going to be through photographing them. though it's so disappointing when i have a sub-par shoot when i should be getting better with every shoot. i just feel so sorry. but that's okay, because i will have a good shoot tomorrow. here are some photos i'm proud of right now:
  thank you to all the models who are in these photos. i'm really on a black and white kick right now, but i'll have some color photos for you tonight. :) ~franey