film

I know we are all crazy for changing leaves at the moment and Lana Del Rey decided to entertain the thought that sadness has something to do with Summertime, but let us go back to brighter days.  Let us never forget that there is nothing quite as magical as a little sun on your back and a little sand in your crack.  Forget the pumpkins and crisp air for just one moment and remember what it's like to watch fireworks on a warm night.  Put down that pumpkin cupcake and remember that bikini bod that is ever so slowly slipping away each day we inch closer to Christmas.  Remember flowers, flipflops, and watermelon.  That's just what I did today when I picked up an old roll of film.  There was summertime, in all its glory.  Lucky for me, its practically always summer in California!

I remembered taking photos on the beach, since that was only in May or June, but the rest of the roll was a bunch of random photos from two Summers ago that I do not remember taking.  It' always so fun to leave a roll in your camera for a while.  All of these photos were taken with an old 35mm Minolta that Connie (an employee of my dad who I LOVE) gave me years back.  I whip it out about twice a year ha!  There were a few more photos at the beginning of the roll, but they were all blurry :( Alsooo..... the internal light meter is broken.  Luckily I'm pretty good at guessing!

me

Call me selfish, but lately I am desiring to do more of what I want (emphasis on the "I").  I want to go on a run.  I want to bake brownies after my run and eat them.... a lot of them.  I want to sit on the couch and pinterest.  I want to go to Disneyland.  I want to sit outside my front door waiting for the neighbors cat to come out so I can snuggle it (and stop pretending like I hate cats like I used to do for social reasons).  I want to go to the beach and fall asleep UNDER a towel because it's cold.  I want to go on a lot of dates.  I also want to eat peanut butter and chocolate for breakfast lunch and dinner and weigh 100 pounds... but we will just file that and the dates thing under the, "it's never going to happen", category.... unless of course I stop petting cats, which may result in a date or two....

or maybe the problem is something completely different...

 Unfortunately, the peanut butter situation is what it is.

What I am getting at here is this... another thing I have been wanting to do is more photography for MYSELF.  I wanted to do something fun.  Something that required a little more pre processing brain power, something CRAZY (but seriously, not really).  My friend Brady and I got together one day and discussed potentially collaborating our creative brains together for something.  Basically, everything that could have gone wrong happened with this photoshoot.  We were forced out of our planned location and found refuge in this little patch of bushes with an amazing tree.  Our props floated away (remember those green balloons if you follow my instagram @whitneykofford)  While we definitely had a plan, non of it worked and I ended up photographing on the fly.  So, here is something a little fun we did one sunny Sunday afternoon in the middle of Los Angeles.  I hope you're still with me!!

And just so you all know... I'm not totally that ugly all the time...

creativity

Tonight my brain is spinning, spinning, spinning, with what I think is creativity. I'm not sure. But I think that's what they would call this. It's 2:30 in the morning and all I can think about is lighting, and  spaces, and colors and depth of field, and fonts, and lens distortion, and clothing, and subjects, and recipes and blah blah blah blah blah!!! Make it stooooopppp! So I come to you from the long hiatus to share with you my thoughts for this late night. And although I am longing for the soothing clicking of the keys from my MacBook keyboard under my fingers, tonight my iPhone will just have to do. Here are some decently creative iPhone photos I scrounged up from this year. Enjoy!

lets just say "oh. my. GOSH." and move on

Is it possible to be TOO cute?  This next series of photos will clearly answer that question.  Yes, yes it is.

I am literally obsessed with this park.  It is such a beautiful park and never busy.  Such a great place to get away from all the hustle and bustle in the city.  We actually have space to run here!!

 ^^^^^^^ Wish I had more pictures of Elle and Stella!  Stella is the sweetest dog!^^^^^^^^^^

 ^^^^^^^^^^ She looks really happy right here when in reality she was begging for me to go and pick her up.  She had asked to take her shoes off in the sand and then realized she didn't like all the sticks on the ground.  I am such a great nanny, "Hold on Elle.  Stand there in pain while I fumble to get my camera back out because you look so cute standing there."^^^^^^^

^^^^^^^  BABE.  BABE. BABE.  Sometimes I can't even fathom how a human can be so cute... but if you met her parents you would understand ;)^^^^^^