Natalie Beck Photography

Eagle Ridge's Prom was at the Grant Humphreys Mansion , such a beautiful place for such wonderful students!  I missed seeing them dance, as we were put away in a room upstairs, but I enjoyed seeing students wander in to rest and talk in the sitting room.  It is such an elegant place, I do love doing events there! Check out one of my first attempts at a stop motion film at the bottom - I obviously need to work on them more, but I am very excited!     

Oh my!  It has been such a long time since I posted anything!  I have been so busy with getting ready for April!  This month is going to be crazy busy!  So, I don't have much, but I do have this bit of meeself to share. I hate HATE jelly beans with all their sugary goodness and hydrogenbadness!  It's my tongue, it tastes 1 and it convinces my already weak brain that it would be a good idea to try a pink one.  Then the red one.  Maybe a yellow one. Most definitely a white one!  And because I've gone so stupidly far, 3 at a time... Then 4 or 5 (but really it's 6).  Then just another pink one until the bag is gone (except for the black yucky ones, those go in the trash.)  Just thought I'd share something at least!  

Perhaps you will remember Collin from a photo shoot I did a photo shoot for a band he used to be in - it was actually ages ago!  So possibly, you don't remember him.... Well, he is graduating from High School now, very cool!  Collin is quite the jovial kid, he could easily chat about whatever and not have all that teenage angst.  It was very nice!  He was very comfortable taking pictures, and it was such a breeze taking pictures with him! This bridge is so incredibly cool and a fabulous back drop!  I love the red and orange rebar/wire like sculpture/forest, it is very fun to photograph in.  And when I turned it black and white, I loved it even more!  It is less distracting to have all the color and it just leaves patterns.  Collin was such a good sport to walk around so much, go up and down the stairs and back up again and to sit on the dissolved salty stairs.  And he mostly had a smile too!...

I really love this alley, the light here is fabulous and what's better is the graffiti.  And it is fabulous that it changes over time - so fabulous because I don't like to do sessions in the same place over and over again.  I was really hoping to find another alley and not keep using this one, but some of the new graffiti was so over the top cool, I was so glad to be here again!   So Caleb is such a character!  He is very calm and subtle, so you have to really pay attention or you'll miss some of his humor.  It was funny, at one point we were taking pictures and either Caleb or his mom made this strange screaming sound and had I not had a hip and cool kid at home, I would have missed it.  But because I have such a child, I knew it was the goat from all those videos .  Other than the smells (some of which were so rank, I can't even imagine what they would be like in warmer weather, I would have passed out!) we had such...

      I realized I haven't posted much about Piper (our found Parvo puppy)!  We still have her and she is doing so well!  She has convinced us to continue feeding her, and now all the other dogs, wet food.  Something 3 other dogs and a few before them have been unsuccessful at.  She sleeps at such weird angles, I know she has no bones in her body!  And she makes the strangest noises!  Watch the video at the bottom and you will see!  She finds things we haven't seen awhile!  Money too, I thought she might be a piggy bank, but it turns out when you turn her upside down and shake her more money doesn't come out.  Kind of bummed after we spent so much to get her better.       Every morning, I go to get her out of my youngest room, with the 3 other dogs barking like mad behind me.  She usually looks up me, rolls over and tries to go back to sleep.  When I nudge her, looks at me, rol...

 Here are a few more images of Payton!  I am so excited to be doing images for High School Seniors so early in the year!  I can't wait to do more!