Kate // Badass Beauties Project

A month or so ago I had a little idea for a photography project and just ran with it. In short, I wanted to provide women I know with a photo of themselves that they loved. That meant something to them and made them feel happy, beautiful, strong. So, I asked each one of them to choose a location that meant something to them and then we'd meet up there for a photoshoot.

Kate was my very first session. When she told me she was thinking about a corn field for her shoot, I was excited! When I lived in north central Iowa, I had to commute to work an hour and it was cornfields the entire way. I'd often pull over to snap a quick pic when the sun was just right. On the day of Kate's session it had snowed about a half hour earlier. We almost bailed, but decided to tough it out and I'm so glad we did! Really, it was Kate toughing it out. I had a coat and gloves on, haha!

I asked Kate about why she choose a cornfield for her session, she told me about how it made it feel closer and connected to her parents.

Both of my parents grew up in small farm towns and joke that they raised my brother and I as country kids in the city. Whenever we did get a chance to get out of the Chicagoland area it was always for some sort of special family event. We don’t have a huge extended family so my mom relished in the road trips and being able to see her precious cornfields. The cornfields started to mean more to me after my dad went into the hospital. I’ll spare you the details, but he had a long fight for 10 months in the hospital. Every weekend I would drive to Chicago and stay with him in the hospital. On the drive I would always try to notice what was different about the landscape. Since he wasn’t able to leave the hospital I would keep him updated on the new growth, the corn being knee-high by Fourth of July, or when harvest season started. Now that he’s been gone, but I still have those drives to Chicago and back, the cornfields have become one of the places that I feel him the most. And I’ll never forget the time he came with me to steal an ear of corn out of the field!

365 Recap #2

[day 7 :: january 15 :: droid incredible 2 :: pixlr express]

I'm not going to lie, it was a busy week.  This is one of those photos where I'm like shoot, it's 10 pm and I haven't done my daily photo yet.  Then my eye catches a glimpse of gold off to the side.  Oh, perfect!  I'll take a macro of the most adorable necklace in the whole world!  Haha!  In all seriousness though, I do love macros and I absolutely love this necklace. I wear it almost everyday. :P

[day 8 :: january 16 :: incredible 2 :: pixlr express]

This was long day number three of the week AND since I had a super productive and satisfying day I rewarded myself with a nice long soak.  There are lots of ugly/outdated things about the house we rent, but I just love those tiles!

[day 9 :: january 17 :: incredible 2 :: pixlr express]

What woman doesn't love getting her hair done?  I don't know, some probably.  Personally, it's one of my favorite ways to treat myself.  (Treat yo'self!  ...Parks & Rec anyone?)  I've been wanting some ombre hair for awhile and I finally got it.  It turned out so great!  Quite frankly this photo doesn't do it justice, oh well!

[day 10 :: january 18 :: incredible 2 :: pixlr express]

This was another one of those "oh shoot it's late and I need my picture" days.  Luckily I have a super cute dog for when I slack off. 

[day 11 :: january 19 :: incredible 2 :: pixlr express]

Brian and I had a great saturday and I have no clue why I didn't get a better picture from earlier in the day.  We headed to the nearest large town and saw a movie (Les Mis - it was fantastic!), ran some errands and ate some dinner.  Oh, and went on a search for a new couch, but no luck yet!  Then we made it home in time for the Wild season opener (finally!) and had some friend's over for some junk food and beer.  It was a blast. Oh...and did I mention the Wild won?  Yea, they won, no big.  :P

[day 12 :: january 20 :: icredible 2 :: pixlr express]

I literally took this about 15 minutes ago....on my phone!  Sometimes I'm impressed with the decent quality of phone pictures.  Sure it's not perfect, but still pretty awesome.  Brian thought it would look cool (his words) if we set all of our wine corks on the kitchen window sill.  I don't know if it looks cool or not, but for anyone who walks into our kitchen it looks like we are some major wino's. Ha!  (In our defense these have been collected over the past year!)

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In other, related, news I'm going to try to use my canon for my photos all next week.  Hopefully, I can stay dedicated and get it done.

Have a great Sunday!

-Kassie