Last October I got the chance to cover a Zombie 5k for work. It’s an obstacle course where zombie’s chase you down and try to steal your flags before you reach the finish line. There were zombies everywhere and contestants covered in mud trying to make it out alive. It was awesome. I suggest you all take part in it the next time it comes around which is next October in Darlington, which is about an hour north of Baltimore. It also happens to be in the county that I work in so maybe you will get your beautiful undead self in the paper!

Maryland is having such a strange winter, 30 degrees one day then nearly 60 degrees the next, it’s really beginning to drive me crazy. I was driving through Havre de Grace this morning looking for piles of melting snow, then I looked out over the water and saw nothing but fog… everywhere. I guess this is what we get when mother nature can’t make up her mind. It was pretty amazing.

So once again its basketball season at the paper. I will be spending hours upon hours sitting on the gym floor at local high schools waiting for the perfect action shot to come my way. Tonight I photographed Aberdeen High School. It was only my second game of the season but I don’t think I did too bad, lots of good action and then all of a sudden the stars aligned and this moment came into my sights… who wouldn’t be excited to get to see this in their camera!

Over the past week or so Maryland has been hit relentlessly with rain, rain, and more rain. I have been out in most of it taking photo’s for the paper and today was no exception. I went to the Conowingo Dam on the border of Harford and Cecil counties where they had opened 43 gates (which is a really big deal) and because of the dam opening gates, Port Deposit and Havre de Grace tend to flood. I went to Port Deposit today and saw what rain and flooding can do to a town so close to the water.

Last night I was shooting an assignment for Harford Magazine at a local haunted attraction, Legends of the Fog. Of course I had to get the characters to come and be scary for me and luckily three people came to help out.  Let me remind all of you that I hate, hate, hate scary things so I was hoping that no one was going to try and be funny and scare the living day lights out of me. Thankfully that did not happen! All the characters are creepy but something about a creepy clown is just wrong…

I just got back from a week’s vacation in Michigan and got the chance to hang with my mom and visit with a friend who moved back home from Baltimore. Elizabeth and I went to Kalamazoo for the day, listened to some amazing musicians, danced around a bit and jumped in Lake Michigan for a few hours. By the way…. it is the coldest water I have ever been in! Of course I had my camera with me and Elizabeth and I decided to have some fun. Elizabeth has so graciously offered to write a little blurb for the next post I put up to accompany her photos but until then here is one from the beach and there will be more to come.

School has taken up a ridiculous amount of my time in the last month and a half so I haven’t been able to take and post photos as regularly as I would like. So I decided to show a few photo’s from a project I did at UMBC with my friend Mike. Each person got to paint their own background and then Mike and/or I created the rest of the image according to whatever they painted right behind them. This was one of my favorite projects and I would love to do more. If anyone wants to mess around let me know!

A little history behind Lily’s dresses in her own words…

Black & Blue: I bought the polka dot dress at a thrift store in Boston when I was in high school. It’s hand made. It has pockets. I didn’t wear skirts or dresses til I turned 15 or so. That was my first. It was those pockets…

Pink Mermaid: When I bought that dress at Killer Trash in 2008, it had full length lace arms and a high lace turtleneck. Yikes. I Wore this dress, with Kanye shutter shades, on a boat party in the inner harbor in college. My friend’s shoe fell overboard.

Maria Dress: Toniiiiiggggght toooniiiiiiiggght. Twirling around encouraged. From Dreamland in Hampden.

Prom Dress: Iridescent. Worn to Gala event on 13th floor of Belvedere in 2006. Also from Killer Trash. Sadly, parts of me no longer fit in it well enough to wear in public.

Poison Ivy aka The Christmas Tree Dress. I changed into that dress on the side of the highway driving across New Hampshire to get to an ex’s house for Christmas Eve in 200(5?). The next morning, it had an unfortunate stain on it. I accidentally left it behind when the holidays were over. Ex’s mum very kindly took it to the cleaners for me, eager to get rid of the ‘toothpaste’ stain. From Cage Society in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Friday afternoon I went out with Lily to explore the city and have a little fun saying goodbye to a few dresses that she was giving away. And what better way to say goodbye to your clothes then to take a few photos with them. There are some great stories behind these epic dresses so check back soon to find out…

I finally feel that the warm weather has officially arrived in Maryland and not a moment to soon. I hate being cold and I hate having to work outside in the cold and snow and rain. For the past week or two it has been so nice that I can once again enjoy working outside and walking around. Yesterday I had to take a few pictures of an empty field and I was loving every moment of it.