Stella Chroma- Cosmetic Product Photography

Had the opportunity to work with this amazing company who makes products that are big 5 free, cruelty free, paraben free and phthalate free. Stella Chroma makes awesome skin and nail care products and it was a pleasure to put together a shoot for some of their line.

I styled, modeled, and through some finagling of the self timer also photographed this shoot. Retouching for cosmetic photography is also super important. You want every image to convey a message and not get bogged down with tiny flaws that could have been fixed in post.

Florapothecarie - Small Business Collaboration

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A while back (when my hair was still blue), I was privileged to do this collaboration with small business Florapothecarie. They make 100% natural and vegan skin care products and even dry shampoo! I had a great time making some clean imagery for the brand and doing a little self-care while I was at it!

Sloth Encounter - Tiger World - Charlotte, NC

Yesterday with Lauren, Adam, and Adrienne I got to go meet a baby sloth at Tiger World! His name was Nacho and he was way softer then you would imagine a sloth would be. Adrienne and I came up with this for Lauren’s birthday present and I got to say, we totally benefited from it as well. Such a cool experience. We learned a ton of things, like how sloth saliva is actually toxic- so no sloth kisses for us- and that Nacho could actually rotate his ankles around so that he could climb down a tree without shimmying down butt first!

Lauren was totally enamored and was definitely not paying attention to our guide so I was trying to look like I was to make up for it. I think we retained like 25% of what she was saying because we were all so excited. Sorry!

Tiger World is using these encounters to help build Nacho a nice warm habitat which is really awesome. We found out that 4 out of 5 of the animals at Tiger World are rescued from all over the place. It was a very neat place to visit. Highly Recommend it!

The Birthday Girl

Sloths have little hidden ears under their fur! They almost look like human ears.

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Matthews Free Medical Clinic

On Monday, I had the pleasure of hanging out with some lovely people of Matthews Free Medical Clinic and taking photos of their annual golf tournament.  This year it was at Raintree Country Club and we had fun zooming between holes on our four-seater golf cart and greeting everyone.  We were also able to eat food from some of the sponsors, including Chik-fil-a and Papa Murphy's Pizza, and do beer tastings with some of the others!

Many different companies and people sponsored the event, and everyone had a fun time coming together to support the clinic. 

You could buy a skirt (donations going to the clinic) and wear it to be able to hit the ball from the women's starting point.  That's probably not the correct terminology at all, but we're going to go with it since I know next to nothing about golf. 

I didn't get to stay till the end of the tournament, but we had fun right up until I had to run off for my next appointment. They had a dinner after I left where the winners of the silent auction was announced.  

 On a different note, I'm so glad I wore sunscreen.