Captured, developed, and scanned by yours truly. I really can do it all, lol! No but seriously, this is the stuff that makes my soul sing. My everyday life is filled with photography and that’s all Little Alexis could have ever asked for. I’m literally living my childhood dream and I am just so damn grateful that I am able to do what I do. I have some new rolls of film coming in tomorrow and ugh I just can’t wait to spend the weekend taking photos. I am so happy :’)

I wake up every day so damn grateful to be alive. If I have any advice to anyone feeling stuck in a rut, let yourself have the breakdown so you can be cracked open. Because once you let it all crumble, you come to realize that if you could survive that then you most certainly can survive a bad day here and there. And I know some bad days last longer than we may like but perspective, at least we get the chance to live those days. We can’t enjoy a good morning stretch or get the chance to listen to our favorite music in traffic when we’re dead!

Today was a little more rough than others, mostly because I was just sleepy. But I powered through and I parented my own mind to get my shit together so that I wouldn’t let a little sleepiness ruin my day. The difficult thing that I seem to forget is that I have a mental illness that likes to take things from 0-100 in a snap, for no reason. But now that I am able to identify that intensity with the mental illness and not me, I am much nicer to myself and my emotions.

// I used a Canon AE-1 and Nikon 6006 for these photos //