My Latest Thing
I’m willing to admit that I have an addictive personality.
For a while it was cinnamon rolls from the local bakery. I had to go get one every single day. Then I started to get embarrassed when they knew my name and what I was coming in for, which apparently was enough of a reality check to make me get help for my problem. Help just meant switching to something else. Lately it has been the chicken salad sandwich from another local shop. Now they even recognize my phone number there when I call ahead my order. While some people might find that pleasing, I personally find it mortifying. I’m the chicken salad girl.
It doesn’t just stop with food, people! More often than not I find myself becoming addicted to a certain tv show. I’ll use it as in incentive for wrapping up my work day, or I’ll use it as an emotional pacifier when I’m feeling blue. And most importantly I’ll lay on the couch at midnight and watch it to help me calm down enough to go to sleep. Taping re-runs of a series on the DVR gets me into trouble because then I can watch the show every day. In the past I’ve even purchased entire seasons of shows which poses my next problem…I can’t control the impulse to watch the next episode, and the next one, and the next one. It’s a serious crack in my will power. After every episode I’ll say, “okay but just one more and then I’m done.” Before I know it I’ve polished off a box set.
This past week I’ve had tremendous trouble winding down to go to sleep at night. It’s like I’d rather wander aimlessly around the house like a zombie until 4am with blurry eyes shoving crackers in my mouth than surrender and allow my bed to steal my precious time (this coming from a self professed sleep-aholic). While previous show addictions have included Friends, Sex and the City, The OC, Battlestar Gallactica, and America’s Next Top Model, there is only one man now with the magic touch who can calm my spirits and draw me closer to the Land of Nod. His name, (insert dramatic pause) is Cesar Millan. That’s right, I shamefully admit that I have a thing for the Dog Whisperer. Maybe it’s his accent, the smile so white it looks like a mouth guard, or the way he can allegedly solve any problem. But every night I curl up on the couch and have a hearty dose of Cesar. I’m convinced that if he would hug me like he does all the clients he works with at the end of the show, that all my problems would disappear, just like theirs. Maybe he could start a new break-out series called The Photographer Whisperer. He could calm us all down, make us stop working so late at night and get our blog stalking under control. (Can I claim this series pitch as intellectual property?)
I wanted to blog this senior session. It’s one of my favorites from the year….
Comments
Okay Amy, I’m glad I’m not the only one up to all hours of the night editing! 4am is not unusual for me!!! The madness must stop!!! But like the TV shows, it’s “oh, just one more photo!” Then, “okay, I just have to do this one too before I go to bed!” and so on…. I think it’s a sickness really sometimes! HA! Just wanted to say B E A utiful shots of this senior and you did an amazing job on Jasmine’s! You are quite talented! I’ll bet she’s excited to have your work! I would be!!! Kelly
I have never left a comment on your blog before, but you’ve been in my reader for several weeks now. First off- I love you photography. Second, I am a little freaked out. When I was reading your post, it described me EXACTLY!! All of it. It’s good to know I’m not to only one!
your work is pretty badass!! :]
I have a thing for the Dog Whisperer, too, so much that I married his look alike. I’m not exaggerating when I say my husband is a dead-ringer for him … it even fools my 7yo nephew! If only I could send you a photo of him so you can see for yourself; heck, we’re going to submit a video application for help with our 7yo dog!
well, this sort of fits for today.
a friend actually answered my question with a “well, the one piece of advice i have for you would be: don’t get too attached.”
O_o doesn’t sit well with me. not becoming drunk with love for things. focussing on them, adoring them, giving to them, living for them. so on and so forth. it’s an interesting concept for me to not find something to adore. or someone.
i guess the idea of the converse is even more terrifying: numbness, dullness, mediocrity, passionless. forget that!
you keep ordering that chicken salad with pride, girl!
your cesar comment made me smile. i think there SHOULD be a photographer whisperer. brilliant.
and now i just realized how funny “cesar” and “salad” look in my comment so closely typed together. haha!
amy that first shot is just a knockout fashion spread! you really have a knack for urban style photography.
btw.. at least you have shows you are loyal to. when i had a remote in my hand and going thru a bored moment i obsessively surfed for the sake of surfing never really stopping anywhere or absorbing anything.
I have exactly the same problem. I get addicted to things on a daily basis and I have a loooot of nicknames: the cookie dough guy from my local food store, the almond chocolate croissant dude from the bakery next door, the salmon skin roll man from the sushi restaurant right across the street (and yes if you were addicted to Friends, this should ring a bell).
I also tend to watch an entire dvd box of a particular tv series in one sitting… Last time was when I got the heroes box set season 1 AND 2 … OMG
OMG I too have a serious thing for the Dog Whisperer. Not in THAT way, but how DOES he get the dogs and their people under control each and every time in a neat 30 minute episode? I think he should be a consultant for many of the world’s problems. Oh yeah, and Amazing images of a gorgeous girl. And I loved loved the images of Jasmine, too.
I think the scene makes the photographs. Very cool stuff.
I have some addictions too….when I used to work at Applebees while in college I would think it was so sad that my regulars were coming in everyday and ordering almost the same thing all of the time….
However,I am now the Large Caramel Latte & Chocolate Chip Cookies girl at my local McCafe and it really does feel good!
A life without attachment to something that feels good is not worth living….and that is why I stop by your blog too…I am addicted to your images and your silly stories and I just cannot get enough of them! This senior session rocks!!
We just came into modern times yeaterday with the delivery of our DVR so I think I am going to have some issues. Some of them being…”did you see that!” and backing up to show my wife something that she clearly doesnt care about. Or how about setting it up to record every episode of Devine Design and Pimp My Ride?
I watched the first season of ‘24′ in about three tense, sleepless days, so I feel you.
I know what you mean about Cesar… LOVE HIM!!! I’m always telling my dog she needs to get a ‘yob’
Ok, so I have been lurking for a while, and I just have to say I love your style!! You are freakin awesome, and I just recently found out you were in the GR area (I live in Holland). Anyway, great work girl!
I love this series of photo’s. I just can’t believe that she’s a senior…I live in a small, rural area and don’t remember girls looking like that in high school!
OMG! I too have a thing for Cesar Millan. I love his accent. I love that he uses the words “rehabilitation” and “calm-submissive” with everyone one of his clients. I love how he can solve every problem and turn any dog into a good dog. I want to fold him up & tuck him in my pocket. Hehe…
By the way, I love your photos. They are beautiful. That 4th one is my fave!
Amy I like the Photographer Whisperer idea and beautiful Senior Photos!
Okay, no wonder this is your favorite senior session! It is AMAZZZINGGG! Not only is she gorgeous but the images are great! I love your fashion flare to your pictures! And your editing … so is her skin that perfect or did you do some editing to make her face look so smooth?
Oh and I love reading your posts, they make me giggle!
LOVED the post. LOVE the pictures. You make me laugh
One word: Stunning!
Have been following your blog for quite awhile now and I LOVE your work. But I had to finally leave a comment to thank you for letting me know that I’m not the only one! The best is to DVR a re-run that’s on 5 days a week starting from the pilot episode! Right now, it’s Gilmore Girls for me (love it!), and I watch late at night to relax or first thing with coffee to wake up. But I have also done, The OC, Sex and the City, Dawson’s Creek, The Dog Whisperer, and I can highly recommend Veronica Mars! Thanks for sharing!
Thank goodness I’m not the only one!! I get addicted to TV shows too…. (and the dumb ones at that). My husband tells my I have a serious illness. Anything HGTV, or ANTM too. As far as food addictions… right now it’s the fruit and nut blend from Target. I have a huge container by my computer and I literally eat it all day.
Love the senior shots…. but she couldn’t possibly be a senior??? She looks like she’s straight off the runway in NY.
a fellow blog stalker here…i had to comment on this one because i have that addictive personality too! definitely with food (um, linda’s fudge cake from cheesecake factory if you’re into chocolate) and i can never just watch one episode of show if i have a choice.
i’ll have to check out the dog whisperer. maybe he can whisper me to sleep on those late, late nights.
Amy you rocked this senior session and so did your model !! I am in LOVE with the processing - these photos, like all your others, are just incredible
Gorgeous as always….:)
I laughed when I read your post! I too, had a Dog Whisperer addiction! (I’m recovered now) My husband couldn’t understand why I wanted to watch. I don’t even have a dog. I love how Cesar makes those bad little doggies good, all by the end of the show!
Awesome senior session!
I’m just curious whether the model’s leg was photoshopped and moved in the third picture? It looks like it’s just floating off to the right and there’s something slightly unnatural about it.
And now I just noticed that it’s the exact same leg as the first photo…interesting!
Hey Guys. Thanks for all the great comments! The models leg was not photoshopped and moved. I’m not THAT good at photoshop yet. =)
But as I look closer at the photo I can see why one might think that…
I absolutely love your photography and you always put a smile on my face! I do completely feel for you and your addictive personality. Right now my Starbucks lady already has my drink made and ready for me to pay by the time I walk in!! I sometimes come in from a different way unnoticed just so I don’t look like the crazy Starbucks lady to everyone else!!
OMG this girl is a senior! She looks so grown up! Georgeous!
Love em!
Hi! I found you via Jasmine Star (she was my wedding photographer). I live in OC, CA, and work in Newport. Down the street is a lovely bakery with huge cupcakes. The day I walked in and the lady said “oh you’re here again? Red velvet with cream cheese frosting?” I realized I had a problem.
You are so talented! And I laughed and sent my friend the post where your husband “Rickrolled” your Halloween! 