Honors Project- "Pillow Fight"

Meet Kaia and Jaron. They got to help me out on, what is in my opinion, the most fun rule breaking shoot of my entire project. Plus I could think of no better models than a brother and sister to participate in this pillow fight shoot!

For the rest of the shoot I give a big Thank you to their parents, who allowed me to rip open one of the feather pillows (and we limited it to only one). Now I figured there were a ton of feathers stuffed into one of those pillows, but I was still blown away at just how many was a ton!!!

Dana (their mom) later told me she was still cleaning up feathers a week later!!!! Well thanks Dana so much for letting me make such a mess in your house!!!!!!!!!!!

Honors Project- Zoey

Now we're up to shoot number 4. Meet Zoey, she started with one cookie and then had some more and some more . . .

Honors Project- Kennedy

Shoot number 3 for my honors project, brought me to meet Kennedy. Her rule breaking was: Jumping on the bed!!!!!!!

Honors Project- Gannon

Shoot number 2 for my honors project was my cousin, Gannon. He's an interesting character to say the least. You never know what he's going to say or do. Oh and did I mention that he has a Mohawk right now! haha not that it's not completely obvious to see by the photo below. Gannon got to break the rules by: well I guess just by his attire :) but also by jumping and riding through mud puddles!

Oh and these photos I give credit to my aunt. She had the great idea to spike up their dog's, Marco's, hair! So cute. I know you're smiling right now! :)

SPLASH!!!! This brings us to the end of another great shoot that helped my honors project to keep rolling right along.

Honors Project- Kiersten

Being in my final semester at UCM, I was required to complete an honors project. Now there really weren't any specifics on the project. I just had to come up with and idea of what I wanted to do, get it approved, find a faculty mentor, and get to work. Since I don't work with kids as often as seniors or weddings/couples, I thought it would be fun to incorporate kids into the project and yet put a spin on traditional children's portraits.

With that idea in mind I set myself upon the task of creating a photo book of children, "Breaking the Rules." I thought it would be a fun way to get more photojournalistic images of children doing something that they would actually enjoy doing. So I started the project off with my niece, Kiersten. The rule she was breaking was: playing with mom's things.

Isn't she beautiful! Not a bad makeup job considering she did it herself!

I love this little girl, and I love how her personality shines through in these images! This shoot was a great way to start off my project. I hope you enjoy!!!!!!!!!