My First Photo Shoot

My big sister is pretty amazing. She just plain is. I am lucky to call her sister, and I love her for all her quirkiness and crazy big dreams. Well, some of her dreams are coming into fruition and I offered to use my growing photog skills to help her along her path. So she flew me out to San Diego this past weekend and thus began my whirlwind weekend of shutter-happy me.

Saturday morning my sister, CEO of You! Got Challenged! and her president, Aly set up a beach Crossfit session with some eager volunteers to participate in a photography (me) and videography (another young guy, Matt) session to be used in their business venture, You! Got Challenged. The whole family came along and we assembled on Moonlight Beach in Encinitas, CA for the next 2 hours of workouts, encouragement, and lots of gorgeous San Diego weather.

Simulated box jumps. That is my sister, Chrisanna Northrup on the far right.

The lovely woman in the green tank is Glory. She totally blew me away. Aly, in the pink, motioned me to come over to photograph "this." And before I could ask what I needed to prep for I heard Aly say to Glory, "are you ready?" And before I knew it Glory was lifting Aly above her head, then squatting! I was barely able to take pictures in my excitement. It was nuts!

It was a great group of women, along with my sister and her family: her husband Mark, and their three kids even participated. It will be exciting for me as a budding photographer to see how my pictures get used to promote and teach fitness through You! Got Challenged! Stay tuned!