Happy Mothers Day!

My mom is a Cryptid to my photography, kind of like Bigfoot, or the Chupacabra. She's hard to capture not moving or running away from you. Now I know what you're thinking, "I can't believe Bailey is sitting there on Mothers Day comparing her mom to the Chupacabra." But I strictly mean that in photographic terms. She never considers herself to be camera ready, so she pretty much runs when she sees you coming, or she talks and gestures a lot, because well, she's a talker.

I captured these two images during my last Christmas visit. I told her I was testing light. I was, but I also managed to catch her right as she was about to leave the room. She saw me coming. So she, of course, throws her hands on her hips all disgruntled-like and gives me "the look" and starts talking. She tells a short story and then she made herself laugh, and I finally caught the second image, which I think captures many things that I think makes her so special. You may not see them when you look at it, but i'll elaborate a bit more.

I love this image because it depicts my all time favorite characteristic of my mother, and that is, her ability to find the humor in any given situation. I love that in her most stressful moments, she a can stop and laugh at the absurdity of it all. I love that she can tell a story and the end result is usually something funny or strangely poetic, in some whacked-out way. I love all the things that she will never stop looking at as imperfections. I've always thought she was beautiful and I always will.

If you are reading this and have a Mother that you love, leave a comment on what you think is her best characteristic.

In closing, sorry mom for posting photos of you that you probably wouldn't have approved of me showing anyone. haha! It was necessary for storytelling reasons, because I had to let people know how awesome you are. K thanks!

I love you, and Happy Mothers Day! 

The Art of Teaching

Olga Is graduating next month! She just happened to be looking for a photographer when she found my card in a local drink shop we both tend to frequent, called Fruitealicious. I go there every Monday, Wednesday, and occasionally Saturday after I work out. I was glad to see the cards I put out, did some good! It wasn't but a week and a half after I put them out, when Olga got in touch with me. The timing was perfect!

Olga is getting her degree in teaching. She will specifically be working with Elementary level students. I have a lot of respect for those who make great teachers. I personally don't have the patience, and I probably swear too much, so I'm glad that there are those willing to guide our creative young minds to success. Olga seems like just the right person for the job. She had tons of hilarious and fun stories from the children shes worked with in the past. It made for great photos and lots of laughs during our session.

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. You are the girl who'll decide where to go.”   -Dr. Seuss (except I changed "guy" to "girl" for obvious reasons)

She wore THE CUTEST shoes ever with her second outfit. I seriously had to take a photo.

Congratulations Olga! 

Thanks for the great session, and Best Wishes in your future endeavors!

-Bailey Nicole Photography

Spaceman on a FULL moon

So, last night was apparently the biggest full moon we'll like, ever see. EVER. I had decided I wanted to do some experimental photoshooting with some friends of mine, and I ended up not even taking any good photos of the supermoon. My mom said she'd even pay me for them. I am a terrible daughter. Sorry mom. It's only because I was super busy doing other photography related things! She'll forgive me. Thanks mom, you're the best! haha.

Anyways, I needed subjects, and who's gonna turn down a free photoshoot. My friends Chuck and Hollie were totally down. It was a win win. I've been studying uses of off camera lighting, and I was anxious to put this knowledge to use. I've worked with strobing in the past with my friend Alec, but this time, I had more of a grasp of certain things, thanks to watching some Zack Arias stuff and really taking time to let things sink in.

Chuck does game development and plays the bass, and Hollie is his girlfriend who does accounting. I guess it really is ironic that we chose to shoot on the giant moon night, seeing as His portfolio site can be found at  www.aspaceman.com He also happens to have a favorite shirt that has a monkey in a space helmet on it. It's posted below, but mostly covered by his bass.

I really do love the aspects of controlled lighting. It's like owning a tiny sun, except you can move it around and turn the power up or down.

Anyways, I'm only going to post a couple of favorites up, simply because I don't have a ton of time today, and also, because I have yet to actually even look at the rest. They will come in a more formal post, later down the line. For now though.....

Also, I just think my husband is one of the most handsome men I've ever known. Just putting that out there. :)

Brittany's Trash The Dress

Since I've been on somewhat of a 2 month editing spree that I've finally made it to the end of. (that's what happens when you book 4 shoots back to back) I wanted to take a little time to post a few from Brittany's TTD session. They are so MEGA!

I had racked my brain for the few days prior to the shoot thinking about what to do to actually trash this dress. Then the idea finally came to me the night before while laying in bed. I thought to myself, "well it's not everyday you see a red wedding dress, we should paint it white as a kind of statement of frustration with tradition" because in the end, this wedding was far from traditional, which made it that much greater. I was super glad when she gave me the okay on paint it at the end of the shoot. Until that time though, we wanted to just play with the dress as much as possible while dirtying it up in other ways. That painting would really be the finale.

Here are some shots from the day:

This next shot gave me chills when I took it. It's just gorgeous!!

After I came home from the shoot and Ryan asked me how it went, I just said "well, Brittany and I work REALLY well together" He knows that's my way of saying, it went great. We had a ton of fun that day and Brittany brought everything she had. This last shot is a fav of the day. 

Love this!

 -Bailey Nicole Photography

New Edits

Thought I'd share some new edits I've been working on. Here are a few more from the Brad and Erin shoot.