perpetual.

this has become one of my favorite places to be. in a state of perpetual bliss merely from the sound of music.

I don't want to be all narcissistic or anything...but I'm pretty sure this is one of my favorite pictures of me ever. hehe.

xoxo, 

Ruthanne

country girl + senior portraits.

driving iphone pic + snapseed basic editing

 if you haven't figured it out yet, I consider myself a 'country girl'....not because I'm from the south, because obviously I'm not...but because it's not too far from the truth. I may have grown up in the mountains, but what you see above is just 20 minutes from my house. and man is it gorgeous. 

we have dirt roads. lakes. rivers. cows. ranches. cowboy boots. jeans and plaid. we're a true western town, if you ask me...heck. we were a railroad city back in the day. anyway.

I'm getting my senior portraits done here (a little further down the road, but it looks the same) and I need some ideas for outfits. I want to do one classic vintage outfit, jeans and my cowgirl boots + some blouse, and then one more. ideas? if you feel so inclined...tweet me a polyvore or pinterest link...I need all the help I can get.

iphone photography: part one [my favorite apps]

snapseed 

cost: $4.99

best use: general editing. I use it to spruce up average photos...with just a few swipes they go from blah to omg. I kid you not. I use this app more than any other photo editing one on my phone - so worth the five bucks. here's an example:

squaready

cost: free

use: "mounting" photos before uploading them to instagram. I love to use it for mounting a picture and adding text with the next app...

phonto

cost: free

use: for adding text to any photo! it's great. adjust size, color, font, position, thickness of font, etc.

frametastic

cost: free

use: creating framed multi-image images, like the one below.

fx photostudio

cost: $0.99

use: fantastic filters. the picture I posted in this post used the sonoma filter, which is my favorite. other great ones are atlantic beach, socorro, and sanibel. it also is a pretty good basic editor if you don't want to "splurge" on snapseed (though I highly recommend it)

photosynth

cost: free

uses: this is by far the best, and I mean the best panorama app around. it's not your average panoramic app though. instead of just scanning the area, you stand super still in one spot, and take multiple pictures that it stitches together for you. these images have been taken with photosynth.

this one I used the "auto crop" option - it crops it perfectly for you. this one hasn't been edited at all.

this picture is from alaska, and again, I uesd auto crop. This one has been edited with snapseed, though.

this one gives you a better idea of what the app does - this is a picture that hasn't been auto cropped. so you can see where I stopped taking pictures to stitch together. the one thing you have to be careful about is over exposing some of the pictures, because while the photo matches up, the colors wont, as you see on the left side of this one. 

ps express

cost: free

use: truly the most basic of the basic editors I've shown you so far. free and easy.

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just as promised, here is the first installment of my iphone photography series. I will have more up later this week - some actual in-depth stuff on how I specifically edit my photos. 

I'm off to get the ole' wisdom teeth out now - have a lovely day! :)