{Wednesday Wallace #14}

OK, so I'm really sorry I am behind on my Wednesday posts. It's because I am running around like a chicken with my head cut off! I have had just 2 weeks to edit 2 weddings and and e-session while trying to prepare and pack for my month long journey in Ethiopia. I leave in T-minus 5 days. I couldn't resist sharing this photo of the fabulous bridal party before I blog them (hopefully before I leave)! Ciao for now.

{Wednesday Wallace #13}

I LOVE to take photographs of urban landscapes, although this photo looks more like an urban portrait to me. I love that I can always see something beautiful in something old, rundown or just something that some people might think is ugly. If you search with your eye you can see the beauty in anything. It's all in your perspective.

{Wednesday Wallace #12}

I pretty much love everything you can do with a camera so therefore I have a love for many types of photography. Of course I absolutely love to shoot weddings and children. There is something great about working with kids and capturing someone's wedding day is so rewarding in itself. I have recently just starting getting into more documentary work as well. This photo was taken down in Mexico when I was down there building houses. With doing as much travel as I do I come across the most amazing people. I often get to meet them and hear their stories and connect with them on some level. These boys were playing soccer down there and having so much fun and then their soccer ball got kicked into a stream and they could'y reach it. It was kinda sad but I got this great series of shots from them and this one is my favorite.

{Wednesday Wallace #11}

So I can't believe how fast time flies by! I feel like just yesterday I was in high school playing soccer, taking a few pics and only thinking about how nervous I was for Senior Prom. Now the stresses of life and excitements of life seem much bigger and weigh much heavier on me. Sometimes I think I hate to be turning another year older and then sometimes I think wow I am so young. I have the whole world at my fingertips. Right now I am excited to spend my birthday with all my dear friends having brunch and then cruising on the bay in a duffy boat with good tunes blaring! I think 26 is going to be a great year! My business is now booming and I am thrilled to be able to spend my days working with genuine people and capturing moments that will soon be over and fly by with time as well.

{Wednesday Wallace #10}

It is no lie when I say I truly am addicted to scrabble! I love scrabble. My sister and I always play it over Christmas (it takes a forcing to get her to play, but it happens). I play scrabble on facebook and Words With Friends iphone app. I invite you to challenge me! My name for words with friends is katejourney.

{Wednesday Wallace #9}

My all time favorite number is (drumroll please).... 33! I love the number 33. It has been my partner in crime throughout my soccer career, my Vegas career (yes I said Vegas!) and somehow it just always pops up everywhere. In fact I am doing this fact about me because 33 just keeps popping for the last week and a half. It's always on the clock, my scrabble score and even on the elliptical machine! I think it's a sign it time for a girls trip to Vegas :) 33 was my Dad's old football number so naturally I picked it for my soccer number when I was just in Jr. High and it has stuck with me ever since!!

{Wednesday Wallace #8}

My all time favorite verse is Philippians 4:13 "For I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." This verse has been a reminder of all the trials and tribulations that I have faced and been able to conquer with Jesus by my side.

{Wednesday Wallace #7}

Oh, wow once again i am late on my post :( Yikes I need to kick it in to gear.

Well today I am going to share with you that I have quite the wandering soul. I love to see new things, try new things and learn new things. I love change. I love to evolve. I have ADD which many of you already know. I like to think my ADD plays a part in keeping me excited and on the edge of my seat (literally) and ready to experience new things at any time! Being this way lead my desire to travel and start seeing the world when I was just 16 years old. At 16 I joined a US soccer team and traveled to Denmark and Sweden to play a little ball and share my love for Jesus Christ. That was when I caught the travel bug. Learning about new cultures in school was great but being in one and eating new foods, doing new dances and speaking with people who speak another language taught me more than a text book ever could have. After that trip I promised myself the traveling wouldn't stop there, and it didn't. In college I lived in Australia for a semester and it was one of the best 6 months of my life. From there I traveled to NewZealand and Fiji. Shortly after that I spent sometime in Mexico, the Bahamas and Ireland. My love to travel it chomping at the bit because I haven't taken a trip out of the country in the past 2 years. The next 2 trips on the itinerary are Croatia and Greece hopefully followed by Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. But I am most excited to share with you that I will be traveling to ETHIOPIA this summer to spend 3 weeks working at an orphanage. I am truly ecstatic for this trip and I am blessed to be going on it. I will surly update you with blogs, photos and many stories when I get back in Aug!

{Wednesday Wallace #6}

As some of you may already know, I have been a Summer Camp Counselor for the Orange YMCA resident week camp for over 7 years now. Camp is a special place to me. It's somewhere I can collect my thoughts for the year, recharge my batteries, re prioritize what is important in my life and somewhere that I can make an impact on kids that need camp as well. I hope you all have somewhere like camp. Peace and love to all my HAPPY CAMPERS! See ya all in August!

(Wednesday Wallace #5}

I love love love San Francisco! I just went last weekend and I go a few times a year and everytime I am there I want to move there. Maybe when I become a rich and famous photog beyond Orange County I will have a second apartment in SF :) Until then I will just visit in aww.

{Wednesday Wallace #4}

I love photography as you may have guessed by now. I started taking photos my junior year of high school with my Dad's old Canon AE-1 and I fell in love with angles, compositions and the creative freedom that came with a camera. I then decided to forgo any typical areas of study in college and I pursued a degree in Fine Art at the University of Arizona. And the rest was history...

{Wednesday Wallace #3}

So sorry I know I am a day late! Yesterday was a busy day out of the house filled with about a million errands and a fabulous lunch with a good friend and an overdue coffee date as well. So since it really doesn't rain much here in Southern Cali I wasn't prepared for the heaps of rain that we were having. So naturally I thought... YAY an excuse to by winter clothes and pretend I live on the east coast for about 10 days out of our winter. So I got myself a pair of these bad boys. I love them. Check em out http://usa.hunter-boot.com They have been great to wear on shoots out in the fields and at the beach too. Oh and they are a size 5, I have tiny feet just like my grandmother.

{Wednesday Wallace #2}

Another thing about me you may not know is I LOVE MY HOLGA camera. So I'm not gonna lie, I was kinda bummed when I saw Urban Outfitters was selling holga cameras. Don't get me wrong I lovvvvvve Urban! I have been a dedicated shopper since, well before I had a driver's license (long ago)! But, they have become this over priced trendy fad now and that kinda takes the fun out of it for me. But, I bought my first holga when I was 21 in my first college photo class. Needless to say I have been using it ever since. It is so simple, so unpredictable and that is why I love it (and I have always been a fan of square format). Anyways, my old holga finally broke, and when I say broke I mean the duck tape that has been holding it together finally gave way and I purchased a 2nd holga. I got a white one this time to switch things up. If you are in the mood for a holga please don;t spend $80!!! Go to www.bhphotovideo.com and get one that its if the same great quality for about $30!!!! I even linked you to a really cool purple one :) Anyways that is all the Wallace sharing for today! Many more photo jobs to be blogged next week. Everyone have a delightful weekend.

{Wednesday Wallace #1}

So I mentioned that every Wednesday I would post a new fact about yours truly so that all you readers can get to know me a little bit better. We will call these posts "Wednesday Wallace". So for today, since it is St. Patty's I feel it best to share with you all about my heritage. My middle name is Wallace and my last name is actually Journigan. Wallace is Scottish and Journigan is French. I am about 50% Irish! 25% Scottish! and about 25% French! with a pinch of some Dutch in there too. Somehow I tan amazingly well and I am not sure where that comes from. Everyone have an amazing St. Patty's filled with Irish love! xo Kate