Who Sleeps?

I typically spend my evenings wide awake. I'm not sure how I ever got into this pattern of going to bed at 3a.m. and waking up at 9a.m., but it doesn't seem to really effect me during the day so I guess I'm alright - for now.

During the evenings I'm typically editing. Though I haven't had any shoots this week to edit, I did a little "back-tracking" while nostalgically flipping through last autumns wonderful vacation to Halibuton, ON. I've kept this week pretty shoot free as I have a prop-filled shoot tomorrow with my beautiful friend Erika, an entire day full of gorgeous ladies on Sunday for my boudoir marathon, and a "moody forest" theme with a vintage flare shoot scheduled for early next week. I'll be up to my eyeballs in editing! Maybe I'll make friends with 4a.m. haha.

Back to my edit from last night.

We stayed in the most amazing cabin. We had a stone staircase down to this cute little dock and what was (unfortunately) a dried up river. It worked in my favour in the end, as all the grasses were easily accessible and relatively dry.

This photo taken by my wonderful boyfriend and photographer Cale Best

This is the set up for the photo I'm about to post. I shoot with a Nikon D300s, and I had my wide angle on my camera, shooting at 16mm. That pretty little lady next to me is Chelsea - the BEST golden lab I've ever met ever! She was so adorable and always seemed to get so dirty. She loves mud. And me. She would not leave my side the whole time I was down there. Can you see her tennis ball? What a cutie.

SO this was the original shot...

...and this is what I did.

I used these textures that I found on Flickr, editing them each into their own layer. You can find more self portraits on my facebook page!