Life.

I keep meaning to update more but I have been lacking the time and motivation, in all honesty. My free-lance work has slowed down so I don't have much to tell, but this is due to my full-time assistant job at a commercial studio in southeastern Mass. I promise a more descriptive post to come, because I do love the blog. I owe you guys some eye-candy of what I've done this summer anyway. I just need some time to re-energize my thoughts, you know?

I must say though, every time I log onto the blog I see updates from all my friends at Hallmark and I am so proud that everyone has so much to show off. You should all be excited and proud, whoever happens to ready this along the way. :]

Talk soon,

-JY.

Hello!

Everyone, I am still alive! Lots of exciting things have been happening, update soon!

Greetings!

It's been a while since I've had a chance to update this. I don't know how my days slip away from me but I am always so busy! I was on vacation in the Dominican Republic last week, I will get my favorites from that trip up here soon! Dane came to visit me for almost a week and we did lots of shooting. Here is one of my new favorite pictures of him.

Time to go put together a portfolio book that I just bought, then going to visit a studio this afternoon!

Stay tuned :)

Sundays are for resting..

Hey all! I just had a very busy yet successful weekend. Friday night's wedding party was a lot of fun and I had so many requests for my business card from guests, so exciting! After a couple hours of sleep that night, I drove out to CT to assist a wedding. It was quite possibly one of the hottest, most perfect days of summer so far, and the bride and groom were AWESOME. The bride was adorable, with a full sleeve of tattoos, and the groom was the iconic J. Crew club member, and such a sweet guy. 

I had some time to kill before friday night's event, so I did some shooting down at the boardwalk. Here's an ideal kids moment at the beach I'd like to share:

Goodbye Franklin County! Hello Phase 5!

After being home in RI for a few days, Tuesday I took a one-night trip back to Turners Falls, MA to load up another carload of things. My house was borderline empty and I don't think I had ever felt so lonely in my life the night that night I stayed there. Wednesday evening before I left town, I hopped over to Greenfield to go to Poet's Seat Tower one last time. For those of you who don't know, it's just a big look out spot on a mountain overlooking the Green Valley. It was one of the first places I visited when I moved to go to Hallmark, as I'm sure many of you fellow classmates did. I took in all the scenery and dwelled on how life-changing the past 10 months were for me perfectly. In 10 months I think I have felt every emotion humanly possible. It is so hard to leave so many people and things behind that have grown to mean the world to me, and I will always feel an emptiness for the experiences I had there. My heart is in a million different places now, and I don't see that changing for a while.

On a completely different lighter note, I have my first job as a graduate tonight! In about an hour I will leave to drive out towards a beach near Boston to shoot a wedding party. It ends around midnight and I'll drive back to Rhode Island, get a few hours of sleep, then head out again to assist a Hallmark Grad of 10 years ago (Katie Malone Smith) with a wedding out in New Haven, CT. I'm so excited to finally be working! The full-time job-hunt is still very much underway though. Can't wait to tell you how this weekend went!