Good Ol' Fashion Nightmare

Emily loves creepy things.  Scary things.  Weird things.  We decided to embrace this awesomeness through makeup.  She told me what colors she wanted on her face and I just drew and blended whatever popped into my head.  What I love most about Emily is that she's not afraid to be herself.  She takes whatever she sees in her mind (or in this case the mirror) and completely makes it come to life.  So, take a look at these creepy creatures and have a happy belated Halloween!

Om Nashi Me

I'd like you all the meet my little cousin Emily.  I've been living with her since I moved Florida and she has become more like a little sister to me than a cousin.  Emily is seven and is easily one of the most creative people I know.  She likes swimming, drawing, playing with bugs, and dinosaurs.  Her favorite color is pink and she will devour anything that has sugar in it.

When I came home from work yesterday, she was running around in her underwear and had  pieces of paper taped all over her body.  She was pretending that she was a grasshopper.  How could I possibly not pull out my camera?  For the rest of the afternoon I decided to follow her around and document everything she got into.  There's never a dull moment with her, that's for sure.  So take a look into Emily's world and stay posted for more exciting adventures.

It's Your Journey...

For our final assignment in advertising photography class we had to pair up with a graphic design student and another photography student and come up with some sort of campaign.  My team came up with the idea to do Adidas shoes.  We wanted 'It's Your Journey' as our slogan and we knew that we wanted a red, green, and blue shoe involved.  After many hours of tedious work, we finally got our vision to come to life.  Special thanks to Jamie Hiatt for being such an awesome graphic design partner as well as Sam Baucom for being an awesome photographer and helping these images look badass.  So check out our campaign and let me know that you think!  Oh!  And don't forget to check out the video I made for the campaign! :)

Photography by: Sam Baucom

Photography by:  Sam Baucom

Photography by: © Jessica Gruneisen

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“If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.”

Our latest assignment in our advertising class was to create an image that represented air.  We had to show "air" in a positive, green, environmentally way.  We also had to follow the quote “If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.”  I decided to shoot one of my swimmers running with bubbles. Special thanks to Natalie for being such a wonderful model!  Here's my shot, let me know what you think!

Stop Motion

I decided to post a little history about stop motion with nothing better than a stop motion video!  I found this cute and informational.  Hope you all enjoy!

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Wakeskate Sesh

I decided that I wanted to do a wakeskating self promo so this weekend I had my friends Dustin Miller and Nick Lockard model for me.  The session was a lot of fun and I can't wait to have another one!  Thanks guys!

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Layla

Some friends asked me to do a photo shoot of them and their new addition to the family, Layla.  I couldn't have asked for a better baby to photograph for the first time.  She's so sweet!