JJ + Chelsea Part 2

JJ and Chelsea, childhood sweethearts, are getting ready to tie the knot this summer.
I wanted to re-due their engagement photos because of the weather and lighting we encountered last time.
First let me say that I love having a couple to practice photography on whenever I can.
Second, I loved shooting downtown! Downtown holds so many weird, yet amazing backgrounds and buildings.

After finding a parking spot...we began to roam around Portland's waterfront, snapping away at any opportunity. Unfortunately, the Rose Festival was going on this weekend, so a lot of other people were roaming around Portland too! But I think we managed to avoid the crowds.

JJ is currently in the blazing hot state of Florida training in the Marines. He flew back for Memorial Day weekend.

Thankfully, I know my way around the waterfront pretty well, so we found some pretty neat places. We ventured into a hotel at one point, and considered sitting Chelsea on the grand piano for a pic, but reconsidered at the thought of getting thrown out by our coat tails.

Ah! An escelator not moving? AWESOME!
The escelator actually produced some of my favorite pictures from this shoot!

They both have the same color eyes, isn't that neat?

You two are amazing, the bomb, the beez kneez!
I wish you all happiness one can wish!
May the Lord bless you in the life you are preparing to spend with each other,
I'm so excited to see his plan for your lives.
<3>

xoxo,
Bria

JJ + Chelsea

Ah, I'm so excited about these pictures! I need to sit down and finish editing them before I post the rest. For now, here is a preview of a shoot I did with JJ and Chelsea. Kind of like 2nd engagement photos, to make up for the freezing cold weather in our 1st shoot.

CIAO

The Back of Yo Head is Redikulus

Back to my little sis here...we are waiting to see if we can get into see Taylor Swift's concert tonight.
*crosses fingers*

I think I can safely say it will be one of the best concerts ever!
Enjoy some pics I took of Bek while we were downtown the other day.
Cheers.

Grant and Giselli

I spent the morning taking pictures of Grant and Giselli, and with the help of my beautiful 85mm lens, I think we got a TON of good pictures!
Be prepared to see more.
I just wanted to upload some here, because facebook's picture quality is so bad!

Isn't she a darling?

Happy Friday!

Beautiful Just Runs in the Family

My gorgeous sister, posing for me after we drove to p-town to pick up a beautiful 85mm 1.4 lens that...

I'm in love with.

:)

Photographers Itch

I was recently asked to take some "children"(for lack of a better word) pictures , so I've been practicing on who else but my little sisters!


Its been pretty nice the last couple of days, and my photographers itch kicked in. AKA-I've been dying to use my camera!
Fortunately for me, Mary is always available for pictures! Maybe not so fortunate for her....but does she really have a choice?

At least she is obliging, right? I'll spare the pouty faced pictures for now. The sight of daddy coming home from work brought out a smile, yay for me!
Whatever works right? haha. :)

Happy Tuesday!

My Prayer

These last few weeks have been a struggle for me. Mostly silly things that tend to rack my brain all at once....for example:

school bills
exhaustion
food allergies
lack of contentment
confusion as to where the Lord is leading me


and as I was thinking and complaining to myself with all these insignificant problems and I realized that my focus was entirely on
myself.

So last week, I made this my prayer. That I would keep my focus off myself, off my "problems", and on the Lord. Where it should be.
To quote David, "The LORD is my light and my salvation—
whom shall I fear?
The LORD is the stronghold of my life—
of whom shall I be afraid?

God in my Living-Be my Everything

God in my living
There in my breathing
God in my waking

God in my sleeping
God in my resting
There in my working
God in my thinking
God in my speaking

Be my everything
Be my everything
Be my everything
Be my everything

God in my hoping
There in my dreaming
God in my wathcing
God in my waiting
God in my laughing
There in my weeping
God in my hurting
God in my healing

Christ in me
Christ in me
Christ in me the hope of glory
You are everything

Christ in me
Christ in me
Christ in me the hope of glory
Be my everything

You are everything
Jesus, Everything

Because every post is better with a picture :)

Beautiful off and On the Court

Ah so I'm finally posting. My blog has been acting up...Its actually driving me insane! Hopefully, it will start behaving again, soon!
Anyways....I enjoyed assistant coaching for my old volleyball team this year. I came to know and love each one of these ladies, and hope to possibly help out again here and there in the future. :) You are all so special to me!

On the court.....and off the court.

To describe these two in one word....

Craziness.

These girls make me so proud. We had a few struggles this year...and every one of them stepped up. ah, you guys are awesome.

aw! This picture makes me smile. You guys are awesome, I loved seeing you two work together this year!
(The shortest and tallest player on the team)

We took so many pictures! They are all so lovely :)

Squishing everyone in a photo :)

My girls! You are so beautiful. Ah, I had SUCH an amazing time with all of you last season, I will miss you guys a lot! Especially, Kris and B! May God bless you in whatever direction he leads you; you have been a blessing to me, and to all the girls. I love you!
xoxoxo