Something slightly different...

I'm in the throes of the week before finals, trying to finalize my summer plans, scheduling photoshoots, editing past ones, trying to remain part of my family, keep up with friends near and far, and finish out our youth ministry year, but I've managed to find a few days to do things with aforementioned friends. For instance, last saturday a group of 8 of us went to the beach spur of the moment. (The benefits of living within an hour and a half of the California beach, I guess) I took along my camera, and while we were there the idea was broached to make a short movie for the youth group's annual "Movie Night." Every year the students and staff collaborate on multiple small projects to make a number of short films that everyone gets together and watches. So, being that we had a group of awesome people at the beach, we made an awesome movie, meant to be a cross between silent films and childrens books of the "Fun with Dick and Jane" variety. (Not the movie...the kids books.)

So watch, and i hope you enjoy!

Also, I've been getting lots of hits from different countries and I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to know where you are coming from and who you are! :)

Person Goes To The Beach from Savannah Shealy on Vimeo.

Malcolm: Senior

It was a wonderfully overcast day. I had 2 hours in which to get to our shoot location and get done and drop Malcolm off at home before I jetted off to practice for Good Friday. Our location was 20 minutes away, but somehow we made it work. 

Malcolm is an amazing pianist and he wanted to take pictures with a piano (understandably) but as we were shooting around Napa and keeping an eye out we were having a hard time finding any hotels or churches that had one or that weren't having some sort of choir practice. But the last thing we were going to try was the Napa River Inn. We went in and spoke to a very nice Irish man and he said that they didn't have a piano in the hotel, but he got us into the Jazz club next door where they were setting up for their night and let us take some pictures in there. 

Malcolm was very excited. (Ok, so was I) It's amazing where people will let you shoot if you just ask them. ;)

Mark, Terah, and their family

Terah and I go way back. Like WAY WAY WAY back. As in, my dad knew her family when he was a young single Air Force 2nd Lieutenant and would go over to their house when she and her sister were little. And then when he got out of the Air Force and moved from Guam to LA with his own family when it was just him, my mom, and me, we lived with their family for a while. I allegedly ate a roly-poly at their house, though I'm glad to say I don't actually remember this. ;)

Over the years our families stayed in touch, and after my family moved away from LA, we heard the news that Terah and Mark were getting married! Not TOO long after that I moved to LA to go to college, and they had just had their first baby girl. 

That's the first time I got to hold her. :) 

Now a few years later, they have another little girl and a baby boy on the way! This time it was their turn to come up and visit us and we went down to San Francisco to do a shoot.

Love you guys!

(the hilarious thing about this image was that the girls decided that it would be way more fun to hold onto mommy and daddy's legs than play behind me, so I just told Mark and Terah not to worry about what was going on at their feet and just look at each other)