120/365 - Forever The Sickest Kids

Last day of the month! Woo! This month was probably one of my favorite series I've ever shot. Like I said on the first day of the month, I've been wanting to do this for the last two years but never felt prepared. I'll definitely continue this theme next year with a bigger production and more time to plan. There are still SOOOO many bands I wanted to bring to life but I want them to be planned out as much as possible.

Today I brought "Forever The Sickest Kids" to life and I couldn't have done it without Ayden (the main star), Marissa (for letting me photograph her cutest niece!), Cornelius (for letting me borrow his home!!), Oreo and Alfonso. I made all of them wake up extremely early (I was up since 5AM) and I love them so much for that. I had an all day assisting job that started at 8AM so I only had time to do it at extreme early hours of the morning. Thanks to everyone that helped out this month! My friends are at an awesome level that's way over 9000.

Next months series is STAR WARS. I'll be photographing as many characters I can get my hands on doing regular things like mowing the lawn, grocery shopping, among other awesome things that you'll have to wait to see! If you have any Star Wars costumes and want to be part of this, feel free to contact me! I'll be photographing you for free but you just have to work with my crazy schedule. Lets make cool pictures happen. I'm specifically looking for a legit looking Chewy costume or at least just the mask for one rad picture. Contact me via Facebook message or email me at anabeephoto@gmail.com.

If you've been keeping up with every picture, you don't know how much that means to me. I'm doing this for myself but I absolutely love how many of you get stoked or concerned because I upload a picture a but after 12am haha.

Ayden having way too much fun blinding people with the flash haha

119/365 - Of Monsters And Men

Today was a very long day for me as well as tomorrow. I'll be up at 5AM to shoot my very last image of the month that will conclude this project. I'll be adding more info on the new theme and highlights of this one. Tomorrow's will be up very late at night since I'll be assisting in a big photo shoot all day tomorrow starting at 8AM. WOO LONG HECTIC DAYS! I added a bit of how I'm feeling in this image, that's why I'm first rather than the wolf and among other things. Take it as you will. Goodnight!

118/365 - Killing The Messenger

117/365 - The Bled

I hung out with these two awesome people as well as Luis & a new friend at  Earth Fair today! It was a last minute awesome planning and decided to shoot a few of the Krawl Clothing items. We also kidnapped this girl with the most awesome hair and asked her to model in some Krawl. Marissa, Luke and I went back to my house and ate pizza, watched Coneheads, talked about life and I had them model for my daily picture. It was a very awesome "day off" for me.

116/365 - Sevendust

Today I went to my first ever off road race! My friend Troy grew up riding and living that life style as well as photographing races. I've known this guy for too damn long and I've always wanted to see what a race like this looked like. The day finally came! Him, his dad and I rode out to Ocotillo, California to see the "SCORE International Off-Road Racing" race. I had absolutely no idea what to expect so when we got there, there was over 20,000 people lined up on the side of the road to see this infamous race.




As soon as we parked and got out, the wind was very strong and there was sand all up in my eyes. I had forgotten my glasses so I suffered a good 6 hours with dirt in my eyes. I borrowed Troy''s prescription glasses but that only lasted about 5 minutes. THUG LIFE. I endured the pain. I shot a few pictures from the side at first and I loved how the people there were so into it! It was awesome seeing a lifestyle that is completely different from what you live.

These are my favorite chocolates everrrrrrrr!

I got them at a gas station out of SD because I can't seem to find anymore in my city. Probably cuz I ate them all :(

So I stocked up (one is not pictured because I ate it)

While we waited for more cars to pass by, Troy and I walked to this part of the railroad that was behind us so I could take my photo of the day. I set up my tripod and had my remote in hand and got shooting. When I got to the top of the dark brown part, the wind was even crazier and it almost blew me away. I should also mention that I'm scared of heights so that little big drop freaked me out, especially with the wind trying to make me fall.

Sweater from Krawl Clothing, yo!

On the way back, we saw that the race was going right next to a mini bridge so we shot some pictures there. Some got way too close which I thought was cool and I figured that I'd die doing something I love, taking pictures. Luckily, I did not die (hooray!) and I'm able to post this blog post now. Unless some of you believe I'm a ghost and can type in the after-life.

Random girl I met whose name I forgot! She borrowed her bfs camera for a bit. Cool people.

I know this is blurry but just to give you an idea how close some of these got. I shot all these pictures w/my 35mm 1.4.

Overall, I had a blast and like I said earlier, I loved experiencing the culture that my close friend Troy lives! 10/10 would go again.