seriously though.  i have been inspired lately in a way that words can not describe.  if you are an artist, you all know what it’s like to get in a funk artistically, it sucks….and it sucks real bad.  i was in one for the longest time it seemed this past year, nothing i did was really loved by me.  and if it’s not loved by me…..blah!!!  i know not all people are in this business for the same reasons as me, but loving what i do, i think, is extremely important.  anyway….i’m not in that blah funk anymore….yeah yeah!!!

i am in a completely new amazing place.  one that i truly don’t think i have ever really been in, both in life and in my work.  it’s like a inspirational creative natural high that just has taken over and i can’t get enough of it.  the most amazing thing about it all, is it isn’t only inspiration from others, it’s also from myself.  who knew one could actually inspire themselves?!!!!  hello, can you say amazing!  please don’t take that in a “oh damn, wow is this person arrogant”, it’s not like that at all.  it’s from the heart, it is what is inside of me, it’s what i feel.  it is those feeling that are coming from some of the work i’ve done lately, or even just an idea of something i want to do that is driving everything in my right now.  i am not caring what anyone else thinks, i am not worrying that my style might be changing (ummm yep, that is kinda happening….i think…or maybe it’s just growing?  i don’t know really, whatever it is i am ok with it though), i am not trying to really be like anyone else (although there are definitely lots of awesome amazing people out there who’s work, or words have inspired me in other ways as well).  i truly feel like i am just being me.

i blogged a little while ago…here, i’ll link to it…wherever you go, go with all your heart…these few words have meant so much to me lately.
feel what you are doing, enjoy what you are doing, LOVE what you are doing.  follow those feelings and don’t worry about anyone else but you.  i guarantee that not only will it maybe change how you feel about your own work and artistic style, but damn will it feel good!!!

i’m not going to re-read what i just wrote too much, so if it’s kind of all over the place, that’s how my thoughts have kind of been lately too lol.  i’m not sure if i got out everything i wanted to say, or if this will even be helpful to anyone or not, but part of my inspiration today was partially due to a few pictures i snapped with my iphone of my kids that i all of a sudden felt tremendously inspired by….which in turn gave me the urge to blog.  (i know, i know, i have been a horrible blogger lately!)  going back even further, before snapping the iphone pictures was my kids themselves.  they have inspired me like no other lately and that is why you are seeing them so much on my blog.  i have lots of other stuff i need to blog as well, and i will get to it, i promise, but my life has just felt so amazing lately and a lot of those feelings are because of them.  this is even more amazing because i haven’t really photographed them nearly as often as i should over the last….hmmm, well way too long.  yesterday daegen allowed me (after much persuasion…i tried not to bribe, really i did haha) to convince him to cut his hair.  he did want a hair cut, but he didn’t really know if he wanted the hair cut i wanted him to have.  so…anyway, he loved his new cut and with that came the urge to go clothes shopping. hello new daegen!  today he was shopping on jcrew pointing out all the things he wanted hahaha.  love it!

i’m totally going off track now.  today’s inspiration…my kids, my work, (my iphone haha), following my heart.
the stemming of the feelings for this blog post.
♥♥

the only thing else i have left to say is “i want to shoot my kids!”  :)

xoxo
alicia

In the parking lot beside I saw this cute little van.  If I had clients with me, I would have wanted to shoot them in this!!! lol

I came around the last corner before you leave town and couldn’t resist the light.

Well now look at this! I could totally handle shooting in this falling apart, weird round thing.  No idea what it is, or what it was used for, but I like it!!  And right across the highway, sweet TREES (I think I’ve talked about my attraction to weird trees…along with the fact that I like them to be leaveless and colorless!)
Are you kidding me?!  These 2 amazing places right across from one another!  I will definitely be convincing some awesome people to let me photograph them here!

So here I am, in the middle of no where, full of excitement….when I realize I have to go pee…..really quite badly!  yikes!  Luckily for me….a few kilometers down the road was a turn off….with an outhouse!!!  YES hahaha  It even had a sky light AND a california palm tree air freshner! lol

Ok, feeling much better now….and then I saw SNOW.  Blah!  At least the forest fire danger is at low right now.

And then….dead end.    I guess I’m wouldn’t be going to the final destination after all (maybe that will hit the blog another time)
Time to drive back….
As I get back to Okotoks, a 30 second rainfall decided decorate my windshield.

The End.

Ok, kind of the end.  The end of my story for today.  All the images above were taken with my phone (gosh how I love <3 that little thing (addiction!)).  BUT today I did take my real camera with me as well……..

Some 5D love for ya!…

2.5 hours later I drove the same route again to pick Kiella up from Kindergarten and by then the sun had come out and everything looked so different!!!  So yes, I took more…….all through the car windows! hahaha

mission:
1.buy ShakeItPhoto app
2. take as many images as u r old of random s#*t throughout TODAY
3. blog tonight

simple, simple!!! AND the best part, my day turned out awesome! it was exactly what i needed to turn around the blah!