Lets go on an adventure

Here are some more pictures of the river we like to go exploring at! It's such a fun and beautiful mini road trip! And it's so close by! I love it because I feel like I am far out on an adventure but you don't have to drive forever just to get there. It's seriously like 30 minutes away. I am all for crazy spontateous adventures. I like being away from the world and all that darn technology once and a while ( Except my camera sort of..) But doesn't everyone just need a break from twitter and all the social media? Stalking other peoples lives is sure exhausting huh? ;). At least for me hah! It really is important to just slow down for a moment and gain some perspective and really if you are a nerd like I am do some yoga or meditate! Haha it is quite relaxing! I once heard someone say you can't see your reflection in running water, only in still water. So SLOW DOWN, relax and when something is bugging you just be like water repellant and let all the stress drip off you and go somewhere peaceful. So what I am trying to say is..go on a spontaneous road trip or even a park a mile away. Get away for a little while. Its relaxing. 

And if you're cool like me you may cross paths with wild horses..NBD

xoxo - Ashley

Sunset & Martinelli's

So for all of you who don't know I take half of my high school classes online...and let me tell you.. IT'S HECK at some points during the learning. I get crazy stressed and even ditch school for days to do online because really to me I go to school for my electives and easy classes so it's not that important ( Haha sorry for the bad example)...The hard classes are at home. And to make it worse, even if you have an A+ in the class but you fail the final.. YOU FAIL THE ENTIRE COURSE. HaH so not funny. Anyways so after weeks of being antisocial and falling off the face of the earth while finishing this semester of online I finally finished the semester, took he final.. and PASSED! So to celebrate the best friends and I took a day trip to the river this weekend and celebrated with a sunset picnic with all types of fancy food like chocolate strawberries, french bread, Martinelli's oh and of course Joe Joe's! It was quite the picnic ( Don't judge..we like to dream we are in Paris half the time.. Not this desert.) So here are some pictures of this weekend and my lovely ladies! Enjoy :)

p.s We had a little too much fun taking pictures if you hadn't noticed...It was just too dang beautiful not to get some headshots! I love these gorgeous girls.

So...The day has come that I have finally set up a blog! Yay! I have been asked repeatedly to start one for my photography so I decided I might as well give it a try so no judging..I'm not quite sure what I am doing. But, to start off I will tell you a little about myself and what I imagine my blog will be like. 

I am no crazy professional photographer. Lets get that straight now. Hah. But I have been very passionate about it for my entire life from seeing my aunt Laurel who is a professional photographer. But, I am just learning and hopefully someday WILL be a photographer, blogger or whatever. And don't take that the wrong way..If you want me to take your photos I would love to! Im just no professional. I love taking photos for people because it captures the happiest moments that we get to keep forever. But I do not believe in taking my camera to EVERY SINGLE PLACE and never putting it down. Sometimes it's better to just enjoy the moment than to stress about getting the perfect photo... sound familiar? ( If you haven't seen the secret life of walter mitty...GO NOW) I loved the scene where the photographer had a perfect shot of a snow lepard but decided to not take it and just enjoy it and soak it all in. We all need that once in a while. My biggest pet peeve is when you can tell that some bloggers or friends post an insanely good photo of them every day and it looks like they are having so much fun...but were they really having fun or just posing for a stinkin photo.. ( We all do it don't worry) Anyways, I want my blog to show my photography yes, but I also want to post about fashion, life, family, church etc etc. So I can't really put my blog into one catagorie. I kind of have a bipolar personality...There isn't just one catagorie of interest. I hope to inspire people but most of all I just have fun with it. I finally decided to make a blog because I am TERRIBLE at writing in a journal..  I want to write about life on my blog so that I can keep a record of my life so that I can look back on it and show my family..So you could say a different type of a journal. Except the good personal stuff will be left out..sorry ;). Last thing...You may be wondering why I named the blog Elegant Klutz.. Well lets just say if you met me you would understand. I have had that nickname since I was in gymnastics and dance when I was little.. I am piggeon toed so I use to stumble a lot ..USE TO..and yes I walk funny..but people think it's funny that I am a graceful dancer so I guess I am elegant..but a klutz. I am still wondering how I pulled off being a dancer.. I was having such a hard time naming my blog because, like I said, it isn't about one particular thing... And my name ( Ashley Springer) Doesn't really fit well with anything I have realized.. I decided that photography will be a big part of the blog but there is not good name with my photography..I have tried EVERYTHING.. Ashley Springer Photography..that just does not flow you know what I mean? I like my name but it has a weird sound hah. (So the photography part is nameless..You can just ask me to take photos..I will work on a name). So I just said what the heck might as well embrace it and call it Elegant Klutz..besides the name is suppose to describe you and have some meaning to it. So there ya go! Enjoy the blog!

xoxo

Ashley