Trash the Dress. Downtown Greensboro, NC

The following session is one I've been wanting to do for a long time. I kept putting it off because I thought "it's more of a personal project, I have too much work to do!" but I finally just did it and you know what? I feel so much better. I feel inspired. I feel like I needed this shoot just to push myself a little further in my art. I know that there are a lot of people that don't like trash the dress sessions. To be honest, I will probably never do it with my dress. But I think this session is incredibly beautiful...

Hair and makeup was done by the incredibly talented Carla White. She is seriously amazing at what she does and I love working with her. My beautiful model is none other than my sister, Alaina. I love working with her, too.



The dress started out with long, lacy, beaded sleeves so we trimmed it up a little before we started shooting.











Then I gave Alaina some scissors.

















I'm pretty sure this is my favorite from the shoot. The golden sunset light was just perfect and I think the dress looks even better after we cut it!









We were hopping in the elevator to go down and I just had to shoot a little bit here.































Check out the amazing storm clouds that rolled in as we were headed to the car. Drama!

Matti : Trash The Dress

My first Trash The Dress shoot and it was killer!
Matti and I walked around downtown Greensboro for the shoot and found lots of awesome backdrops. Plus, Matti brought a huge bag of props to use so we had fun mixing it up.

Check it out!













Matti has such pretty green eyes.













We spotted this wall covered in ivy and these turned out to be some of my favorite shots.