gobblings

i have so much i want to say. to show.

but im late. im late.

i feel like that rabbit on alice in wonderland. i’m not actually late, but i feel like im always on the cusp…running behind the train of my work, juuuuust barely grabbed the last handle to hop on.

but i’m really enjoying it. that’s the good part about loving wholeheartedly what you do.

i just returned from the last week in arizona for a gawjuss wedding. i have 2.5 days til I leave again and time to snap to it. but i feel bad, my poor little blog is like crying, you never pay attention to me! so i said to myself, give that thing 5 minutes and show what you’ve been up to.

my days are looking like: trying to get up earlier. // trying to go to bed earlier. // not feeling bad for taking time to make food that is fresh, raw and incredible for my health. // possibly showering // booking flights // hella emails // taking vitamins (liquid b-12, get on it!) // watching the Truth Project with my guy // planning my sisters bachelorette party // juicing // and peeing a lot // editing like a boss // early am…talking 5 and 6am shoots // and dying to write a blog post about food, and changes and all I’m incorporating into my health+life (coming soon, i swear1!) // and spending HOURS upon hours prepping, writing, commenting on the design of my new RE-BRAND going down. //

these are very exciting times folks. now its back to work for me!

here’s a gobbling of images from some previous shoots to fill your eyeballs with. 

hope your week is going well. today is my monday and tomoro is my thursday.

by Andria

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MLK

i was riding down the light rail headed to the airport.

and i saw a chain link fence, and an entire shoot came to me.

feels real good to bring something outta my head and into life.

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hair and makeup by Ja. 

by Andria

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Callie & Jake

i dont know if i believe in fate, per say.

but some people. some experiences. make me think maybe just so.

like how a south african girl could be matched up so and intertwined with another, yet all the way with a oregon guy.

or how their lives and story thus far prepared themselves for each other in a very intimate and unique way. having gone through things that only they would know how to comfort and understand the other.

or how one could break his femur and be told he may not walk again, yet she is exactly the one who could understand how to get him back to health and be able to walk once more.

so i’m not sure about fate, but i do know there is a greater plan that we have nothing to do with.

 

when this plan comes into being and starts to work, i am amazed at these precious times i get to come in and here this story and feel just as a part of this story of fate.

callie and jake. she can only smile and speak good of him. and he fits her and loves her just the way she needs. 

to the mr. and mrs. 

the hallway from heaven. the beauty of having a wedding at a bed and breakfast.

i am blessed so much so when people like callie and jake find me. and weave me into their wedding story. that pick their dates around me, bring me south african magnets and sit down to speak encouragement to me at their own wedding receptions. my heart gets tied and images unquestionably impacted by these ties. i love those instances.

by Andria

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Featured on VSCO’s Journal

so i think it’s safe to say now, that i love all things that VSCO does.

they’ve achieved to represent a brand most could only think of, encourage artistic community and manage to continually stay ahead of the game with their products. my post-processing has been so positively impacted by using their products.

SO. Im very tip toppy honored that they would feature me on their journal.

 

take a sec to see the awesome feature and interview they posted today, featuring images from my trip to Asia.

see it HERE.

Interview on my ASIA trip.

made me blush reading the kind things they had to say. what a nice thing to see today.

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i do get a lot of emails asking about my processing and how i use VSCO, if you’d like to see/read more on that, head on up to the  “For Photographers”  link under the “About” tab.

by Andria

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team work

i get pretty involved and i aint afraid to show it. 

your schedule impacts your coverage incredibly. it just does. there’s no getting around it. 

so-so coverage and OMG coverage (i think) is completely impacted by your schedule.

i like it to be relaxed. give time to enjoy. let me think and create. let you enjoy it all. no rushing allowing. 

that much is for sure.

let me be involved. you’ll like the end result better.

i cant preach this enough.

by Andria

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