Puzzle Pieces

Last night I fell back in love with my photography. It goes in waves, in tides, in seasons with my urge to snap a little piece of life. I also came to the realization, that now with this fictitious business license, now is the time to get off the the ground. We all have goals in this here world, and mine is to illustrate stories by linking photographs in a puzzle like manor and having that of an illustrious beginning to end. Capturing the moment on camera simply lasts forever and caters to us humans need for nostalgia, to remind us just how beautiful life really is. Time for me to develop my thesis and put up a website, and one day soon I'm going to be doing what I truly want to do. Wedding/engagement/portrait/commercial photography in a manor that flows as elegantly as the rivers to the sea.

The photo above is one from many many years ago (2006 to be precise), my father gave me one of his old Cannon digital cameras and it was then that I fell in love with photography.

Happy Friday!
Beach House-Take Care

Just Breathe

Hello weekend, how do you do? I'm a happy lady with the way the stars are aligning and my two days off will bring! My brothers fiance is having a bachelorette party this weekend at a super swank resort in San Diego that should be chicktastic and loads of fun, I'll be taking lots of pictures with my new camera. Tonight I'm attending a 3rd grade reunion with kids that are all grown up from likely the coolest elementary school ever, Sugar Hill. Imagine having a dragon as your mascot... And the swing set their was incredible, far taller than other schools.

Here's a song that should be apart of everyone's playlist for nighttime drives by Telepopmusik. Its made for cityscape freeways as the world around you blurs in motion and the lyrics induce you by saying "Just Breathe", an act that so many of us forget to do when caught up in life. Listen, love, live my lovelies...

Telepopmusik- Breathe

Oh I Wish

I can't believe I haven't listened to these guys till this year! Girls debut "Album" is quickly becoming my go to, with its upbeat-cutesy-guitartastic-uberly indie foot tapping gem. This song is a swell way to hump jump your week, enjoy!

Girls-Lust for Life

My Kind's Your Kind

Sweet strings and acoustic love, this song got me through the day. Here's an ever so lovely version of "Maps" by the Y.Y.Y.'s.

YeahYeahYeah's- Maps (click divshare to DL)

Make it a Double

It's really quite the lovely day outside, lows in the 70's, blue skies, a bit of breeze to get you through your day.... But really, all I want to do today is buy myself a bottle of this stuff right above. I could go for Knobb or Woodford even! Being a girl blows, especially when you get all emo pre-perioding and want nothing to do with your final week of school. I also might be suffering from post-graduation syndrome, loathing in what I'll be when I grow up and the I don't wanna stop being a student, cause really it's the best excuse in the world. If everything goes as "planned", the 19 units I've overloaded myself with, will all be mine and the school system can go fuck itself for the $347 I owe in their unexpected fee hikes. Higher tuition with less class time and poor treatment to my beloved teachers? No thank you.

Back to the alcohol, this lovely bottle pairs perfect with a few ice cubes and a splash of coke. If only I had a fireplace, with crackling ambers to sit next to on a cold Friday night... There's something magical about good bourbon whiskey, that warms your heart and makes you forget about mythical souls. In regards to them existing or simply being a pigment of one's imagination, I'll let that be the philosophical doper that we get into over a drink or two...

Go Easy On Me

I'm a Kings of Convenience girl, and more times than others I turn to them for simplicity in life. Strum me into a rainy or sunshine filled day, and swoon me with your sweet vocals. Norwegian boys sure know how to woo and ahhh their listeners, I bet if I burned one of their cds for my dad, he'd listen to it while he works on his sail boat in the harbor. Thanks to these guys, I'll always have a fascination and never ending love for build ups, gold in the air of summer, move fast with parallel lines, know that failure is the best way to learn, and rather dance with you, than that douche bag across the room. Their new album is airy, breezy, and sweet as per usual, here's some of my faves of the new album Declaration of Dependence.

Kings of Convenience- Mrs. Cold


Kings of Convenience- Renegade

Washed Out

The Wah Wah's to gloomtastic days, those type of days that I wish nothing but to curl up in the oh so comfortable fetus position and drown myself in the covers and music.  I'm really, really sick of being on this roller coaster of emotion in life with too much school and not enough me time.  Apparently I only have 5 more weeks of this educational overload and then I'm done!  Being done with school is most likely the scariest thing to grace my presence in my whole life, because the months following it, I, Leiann Marie will really have to figure out my shit and just what I want to do with all this knowledge.  All I really want to do upon this milestone is work for a few months, pay off some debt, save some moola, and hop on a plane or make myself a ballon like the one above, and fly away to a far off place that will inspire me to fall back in love with photography, as of recent I've been in a downward spiral and lack there of motivation.  Girl needs a vacation pronto, and some me time wouldn't be so bad either... However, "This is life and every things alright."

Washed Out-New Theory