BW ladies

and now here's some of my favorite women on campus. Any suggestions of what I should do with these 36 portraits?

BW bros

Black and White Portraits

I took a role of portraits before spring break. I'm trying to think of something creative to do with them, I have 36 so far. In the mean time, here are a few of my favorite men on campus: 

nothing is more important

truth.

abandoned pasadena

Abandoned buildings of Ambassador College in old town Pasadena.

more from Huntington Library and Gardens

garden of cacti

My mom and I ventured to the Huntington Library and Gardens this week and boy was it beautiful! If somebody had told me that the Desert Garden was going to be my favorite I would have laughed in their face. I have to say though, it was freaking tight. So many thorns to watch out for, but it was surprisingly beautiful. Check out some of my favorite plants:

spring break

get crunk.

dryScotland

I am very excited to announce the launch of my new photography blog/showcase dryScotland!

dryScotland will be updated daily with black and white pictures from my summer long adventure through the beautiful country of Scotland. For more information, visit the about page HERE.

I'm still working some last adjustments out so expect it to slightly change over the next few days. Any and all feedback is welcome!

Please feel free to like and share my pictures!

home in uncertain times

There are truly few things better than coming home to your own bed after a string of near sleepless nights. That was Tuesday night. My health has been steadily declining for over a week, making a good nights rest impossible. Even now that I'm home, sleep hasn't come easy. By back hasn't been this bad in a long time. I went to my doctor at USC hospital and he's starting me on some new medications and I've scheduled experimental procedure #13 for June.

I ask you friends for your prayers in these uncertain and painful days. Hopefully the rest of a slightly extended spring break will reset my mind, body and soul.

Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. 

-2 Corinthians 4:16-18

I really hate sunset pictures.

That being said, it's impossible to escape the beauty in Santa Barbara and the magnificent and stunning sunsets here. Wesley, Matt and I went down to Butterfly Beach saturday for a few hours and watched the sunset. Oddly enough (and annoyingly) the sun doesn't set over the ocean up here. Since it's a south facing beach, it feels like the sun is setting to the north since I've grown up with the sun always setting over the water. The whole south facing beach thing throws off my entire sense of direction - ocean does not equal west. Butterfly still faces south but it's the only place that gives you a good view to the west.

a santa barbara 'winter'

Santa Barbara in the winter, there's nothing like it. It's just as beautiful as every other time of the year, but with 50% less people! No tourists, no drunk UCSB kids coming down to our volleyball courts, just peace and beauty. Granted a few days it's a couple degrees colder than usual, but it's fairly rare that the temperature drops below 70 degrees.

Monday was one of those rare days that it was kind of cold. It drizzled a few times in the morning but wasn't below 55 degrees. I'm in a 'class' called Fitness by the Sea - basically we go down to the beach for an hour twice a week and I get credits for it (score!) - but apparently this was just too extreme of weather for us to exercise in. So instead, our class walked down to take cover in East Beach Grill and our awesome teacher bought us all tea and hot chocolate.

I freaking love Santa Barbara. I've not seen a lot of beautiful places around this wide world, but there's still something special and unique to this town. Other than the liberal hippies that populate a good percent of the inhabitants here, I love just about everything about SB!

happy birthday to my best friend

Happy Birthday Wesley!

first published photo

I got the exciting news that this picture was chosen as one of only a handful of photographs selected for Westmont's fine art publication: The Phoenix. I submitted five pictures for them to consider, this digital photo and four film. Ironically, this was my least favorite picture I submitted (mainly because it's digital) but I was convinced by some friends to submit it just in case. I am super excited and very honored to have been chosen out of the hundreds of pictures and paintings that were submitted.

The Phoenix will be distributed sometime next month and I can't wait to see it! 

a lazy day in Emerson

Emerson Hall - at the very very top of Westmont overlooking all of campus, Santa Barbara and the Pacific Ocean. We have by far the best view, but we're also far from everything on campus. It's just another slow day on top of our mountain: