Pressing Flowers

Since it's a rainy day outside I decided to bring the outdoors indoors and started the journey of pressing flowers. I pressed a couple a few weeks ago and was so happy to rediscover them in their new forms this morning. So pretty and delicate. So this time I grabbed all I could carry in one hand before the rain started up again. Since they were a little wet already I pressed them in between newspaper to help extract the water. Tomorrow I'll press them between wax paper and let the weight of Nylon and Jane Austen work their magic. I'm so excited to see how they turn out!

xoxox

Summer Stroll

Model: Madeline Wilkinson

I've been having a lot of fun editing photos and making collages. And ironically, at the same time it's helping me avoid doing my school work. How appropriate! My crazy three-class summer is coming to a close next Tuesday (heck yeah!). Funny story though: the next day I'm starting another mini semester. But it's only one class this time! And if I do it, then I'll be a two-year graduate this December- a whole semester early! I'm all about some finishing school early. And I'll always have my favorite coffee shop to keep me sane until then. Cheers to cheap coffee and free wifi!

xoxox

New Beginnings

Model: Madeline Wilkinson

I've decided to start shooting again! With a few notable changes: my photography is now Haley Smith Photography for a few reasons.

- One: I want people to recognize me for my work. I've realized that it's confusing for someone who's stumbling across my work when they have to fish through information just to find my name.
- Two: Before it seemed to others that Third Sun Photography consisted of more than one photographer, thus adding confusion, and thus my work not getting identified as my work!
- And Three: It's a new start! I've been in need of one and I also have had some ideas brewing about Third Sun being its own entity entirely.

For now my blog is still going to be titled Third Sun. I'll be featuring all of my shoots as well as other posts incorporating the rest of my life. Besides my blog I also have a Flickr and a new Facebook Page:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/haysmiffphotos/
https://www.facebook.com/haleysmithphotos

That being said please go Like my new Facebook page! 

Love you all!

xoxox

Ancora Qui

  Digging through old photos is so much fun. I found this gem of Lilly Hawfield earlier and couldn't resist posting it. What a hot little sea kitten.

  Life update: I'm in summer school right now and it's causing the strangest mix of emotions; morbid, productive, relieving, terrible. I just really don't know how I feel about it. On the surface I'm like, "Yes! 20 days, 9 credit hours, let's do this!" and then I think about it longer and my Biology class is five hours long and I still have homework for it... I think it's something I would recommend but with fair warning.

  As for art, my passions have been creeping up to a boil in my heart. I want to draw, paint, sing, tear apart, build up, rip, glue, photograph, repeat. I want to see the country and perpetually have flowers in my hair. That's what I really want to do.

  Despite college, I have had such a liberating summer so far; honestly. I've grown to know the sun and the sea more than I ever have before. I left my job I've had for the past three summers because it made me feel oppressed and miserable and tired. I don't have a job at all right now because I'm at school most of the week. But I've still had bills to pay! At first I was scared to quit my job, but I knew it just wasn't where I needed to be. Since I quit, all of this money has been coming to me in random, unexpected ways! It's always just enough too. How awesome is that? I've totally let go of stressing over money and have instead been trusting the big guy to take care of me. What a freeing experience.

  On top of that I've been wanting to join the Bikram Hot Yoga studio in town for forever but I obviously haven't had the money. What do you know? The studio has a Karma Krew, where you clean the studio one night a week in exchange for unlimited free yoga! My first class is tonight.

I can't believe how actively my life has been growing and changing and becoming more like what I've always hoped it to be. I'm a blessed soul indeed.

“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have 

my senses put in tune once more.” – John Burroughs 

xoxox