The 365 Model

My friend Lauren is an aspiring photographer. Now, when I say "aspiring", I don't mean that she's your typical teenage girl with a DSLR that takes a lot of pictures of flowers. Not at all. Lauren is incredibly gifted and has all sorts of impressive and intimidating photography equipment. I only call her an aspiring photographer because she hopes to, one day, have her own, professional photography business. 

Recently, she's been doing this 365 thing where she takes a picture a day for a year. This point of this exercise is to improve both your photography and photoshop skills. 

Apparently I am her favorite model because I'll do whatever she wants without much complaining/questioning. 

Here are a few examples:

So anyway, I posed for today's picture, and as I was leaving her house her mom was all, "You should model for real; you're really pretty." 

Obviously, I was incredibly flattered. And there are times I think it'd be really fun to be a model, but then I really think about it and I decide against it. The main reason being I'm afraid that if I got into a job that depended on my body, I would develop unhealthy eating habits and that wouldn't be good. Plus, most models don't wear glasses, but I really prefer how I look with them, as opposed to contacts. 

Anyway, you should totally check out Lauren's other 365 pictures because they're all really rad. Like this one that she took of herself yesterday.