My photos featured on Dallas Wedding Planner!

it's been 7 months since I packed up my life & my dog and moved from Orange County to Dallas, TX. I wanted to show you something I am pretty excited about. Over Thanksgiving weekend I was asked to photograph a 4 day Pakistani wedding celebration here in Dallas. Some of my photos from this wedding were featured on the biggest Dallas wedding blog today....take a look and please leave a comment on the blog or on their Facebook page if you feel like it. If you know of anyone getting married I would love to take their pictures (even outside of Texas). You can view more of my portfolio HERE

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<3 you all! Thanks for the continued love & support on my crazy adventures.
Steph

** A big thank you to the photographers who worked with me that weekend Jadrien Esquivel & Jill Broussard. Couldn't have done it without them**

Steph's Wishlist.

Hi. I will be 28 soon...well in May and I thought I would make a simple wishlist for my bday & Christmas because I always forget when people ask what I want. (click images)

1. My good friend Michelle is ridiculous amounts of creative. I think we should all support her work. Take a gander. These coasters need to be in my apt.



2. I had the pleasure of working with Sean Woolsey at Hurley in Orange County, CA. He is a hilarious human being and one of the most creative individuals I have ever met. Do yourself a favour and look at the things he builds with his bare hands. I would like this lamp.



3. The holga attachment for my camera. Sure it's cheating but I would kick myself if I didn't try it.



4. Cause I just sipped my coffee & it's colder than a witches tit in a brass bra:(



5. So I can sing even louder in the shower.

My tribute to Folger's Coffee.

I have known the words to every single one of these commercials since i was a wee child....when my addiction to coffee began. They always did have the best commercials. I mean Randy Travis?! Doesn't get any better. Foldgers and black coffee will always remind me of Dad. I remember the first sip I had and also him letting me drive his truck on his lap down our street...yep with a thermos of coffee in the cup holder. Take a look...sing a long:

Cotton candy.

"Yeah, my brain is a crazy festival....it's either annoying to people and they want to leave or eventually they will figure it out and it can be fun for them. So you can tell me now if you want out of the carnival or I can give you some cotton candy and show you around!" -me

Leave unsaid unspoken.

Too late, two choices.

To stay or to leave.

Mine was so easy to uncover,

He already left with the other.

So I learned to listen through silence.

Okay folks, let me confront something here that a lot of us do when our hearts feel a bit of aching inside. I think it is interesting but I have caught myself doing the same obvious thing. When something happens in a situation and we can't find ways to express it...we show it in small pieces on social media sites. This just seems silly, doesn't it? We act like we're being sly...or some of us are so obvious it's almost entertaining. Why the heck do we do this? Is it some kind of secret that we hope the other will decode? I choose to write about this because it has come up A LOT in different areas of my life recently. So this post is a giant bowl of mixed feelings about similar situations.

I know why we do it. MEMORIES. We cling on to the idea...the idea that things were great. The "what ifs?" The..."don't you understand what could have beens?!" We beat ourselves up about it until it leaks out in funny ways for all to see. Don't let things from your past interfere with the here and now...hold onto it like that last tight hug. cause when you cast it away...sometimes it's gone for good and you're left, once again, holding onto the "what if's and ideas" instead of the one thing you really desire. Why do you think we do it? I want to hear from those who sit back & laugh at it too...cause I used to be one of you:)

i've spent years writing on this blog, talking in code. For what reason? So people think I don't feel things...that I don't deal. Cause really, i don't deal correctly. I internalize...I act like nothing can phase me. I am trying a different approach now. SLLLLOOOOW process. Take a listen to this song...her voice is powerful and she says "we're peeing puddles of love"...which is awesome.

Honeymoon.

i LOVE this commercial. Well done Subaru...love your work.

From a book I'm reading...

"Someone once said that you'll be the same person five years from now as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read. The idea is that you won't grow as a person unless you bring new (and hopefully positive) influence into your life. The alternative is to do what most people do - NOTHING. They rarely or never make new friends, seek out mentors, or build into the lives of others. They rarely or never read meaningful and enriching books and articles."

After reading this I want to challenge myself to do a few things:

1. read for fiteen minute every night before bed.

2. read at least one biography a year.

3. at the beginning of each year, choose a topic of interest and spend the next 12 months learning all i can about it.

4. read one book a MONTH. (one of them being "How to Win Friends & Influence People" by Dale Carnegie)

let's see if i can stick to it.

Annnnd now....a pic I took of my sister yesterday.

If only for a minute.

I seriously cannot get enough of this....my fave is between 1:35-2:30. WATCH IT LOVE IT Thanks Danielle.



"take yourself out dancing to a club where no one knows you. stand on the outside of the floor until the lights convince you more and more and the music shows you. Dance like nobody's watching cause they're probably not. The way bodies move genuinely to beats is afterall gorgeous and affecting. Dance until you're sweating and beads of perspiration remind you of life's best things...down your back like a brook of blessings."

"go to the woods alone and the trees and squirrels will watch for you. go to an unfamiliar city...there are always statues to talk to. Give strangers a shared existence if only for a minute. Might have never happened had you not been there by yourself."

i live in Texas now.

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In the photos: Bri & Ronnie/Arica & Nate.