Ashley Madsen Photography

I hope no one gets offended by this post; it is not my intention, but this shoot turned adventure is just a little too funny not to share.  This is part 2 of THIS shoot.

I found these orange groves that had this tall grass growing everywhere and was so pretty and thought it would be perfect for this shoot.  So I meet my girlfriend Sunny and her cute baby at the location in a neighborhood next to the groves to get all our stuff together and go find our spot.  There was this nice man watching us get ready and as we’re about to walk into the groves this is how the conversation goes:

man: “so uh… what are you guys doing?”
S: “Oh we’re just going to go take some pictures in the orange groves”
man: “Ok, we’ll you girls be careful”
S: “Why is it thorny in there?”
man: “No, there’s a bunch of people living in there”

Sunny and I looked at each other like, WHAT?!?  Not to mention that we looked like we were moving in there as well!  She’s carrying a baby and a diaper bag, while I have 2 suitcases, and a full garbage bag full of props flung over my shoulder.  So we decide to go in anyway and to just keep our eyes open.  The way the man was talking, it wasn’t the most safe place to be, plus we are both tiny girls who don’t look very intimidating.  Sunny is just over 5 ft and as we’re walking I look at her and she has a can of mace out at the ready and tells me, “don’t worry, I’m not afraid to use this stuff”.  I was laughing so hard, but with every noise we heard we would look at each other to make sure it was us making the noise.  Anyway, we were walking towards the grassy spot and then randomly come across an open area with about 10 air mattresses, clothes lines hung up everywhere, and ice chests on the ground.  So we decided to forget the grassy spot and the cool pictures it would give us and go back to the muddy part with weeds and be a little more safe.  Maybe this was a “you had to be there” things… but there were some funny memories made.

Even with mud and weeds I LOVE these pictures we got.  This sweet baby is the easiest to take pictures of.  So smiley!  A little singing and getting her momma to do some crazy dance moves and you’ve got smiles galore.