I am Thankful

I've read a lot of posts today that have left me smiling and feeling so grateful for so many things (Thanks Ashton, Betty, and Marta for your thoughtful posts). I am not crazy about sharing my personal life on my blog, but today I am so happy, I can't help but tell everyone about it! Thanksgiving is two short days away, and I, like everyone else, am thinking about everything I have been blessed with. 

I am grateful for a family who loves me. I am so grateful for this boy in my life. I am grateful for a healthy body, and for the swine flu vaccine I got today.I am grateful for good friends. I am grateful for being almost done with school, and for the excitement of a life beyond BYU! I am grateful to live in such a beautiful place. I am grateful for the fact that I thought I slept through class today, then found out it was a Friday schedule. I am grateful for working furnaces (well, I think I will be. I wouldn't know yet). I am grateful for pancakes and Family Guy (preferably together, but separate is good too). I am grateful that it still hasn't really snowed yet. I am grateful for Reed's iPhone. I am grateful that my sister will be home from India before I know it. I am grateful for g-chat so I can talk to her in the meantime. I am grateful for Nordstrom's customer service that made my Frye boots shiny and new, free of charge. I am grateful for hot tubs. I am grateful that I have three weeks left of my Statistics class. I am grateful for the upcoming Holiday season, and getting to spend time with family and friends. 

... I don't even have a photo for you today, and you better believe I'll be relaxing until I am FULL of turkey and pie on Thursday night! But I'll be back on Friday with tons of photos for you, starting with some more interiors from my numerous religious architecture shoots, followed by some shots for an ad campaign I am working on in my advertising class, and hopefully even some more images from my BFA project!

Happy Thanksgiving!

{Museum of Natural History}

I shot this forever ago and forgot to post it. This is one of the best places EVER, the museum of natural history at the University of Utah. My aunt Terry took me here when I was really little and bought me a Pop-Up book about Dinosaurs, which I still have and read surprisingly often. 

I keep having an image size problem, so click to make this bigger

{Temple Har Shalom Interior #1}

{Preview: Temple Har Shalom}

{Family}

Don't forget to click to make this bigger, as always:

{CDT}

I grew up dancing with this amazing group, Children's Dance Theater. Now my youngest sister Sophie is carrying on the tradition. Here are some photos I took of their Spring Concert back in March. I lost the drive they were on and just found it! My life is getting more and more organized every day, go me! Anyway, here is a day in the life of a dancer during concert week.

{Speaking of Grandpas ...}

{Grandpa's Party}

I try to keep my blog photo-oriented, and spare you all the personal stuff that I know you don't want to read. But my grandpa's 95th birthday party was too big of a milestone for me to not post the photos here. 

I feel so so lucky that my great grandparents are such a big part of my life. I mean, how many 21 year olds get to watch their great grandpa blow out the candles on his cake at his 95th birthday party?! I feel so blessed to have such a wonderful family. I love you, grandpa Dick!

{Another Panorama}

This is what you would see if you were in the MoTab. Again, not perfect.

{Conference Center}

Here is a panorama I shot at the Conference Center last week. It's tiny, I know. Click to see it a little bigger!


It's not perfect yet but I wanted to get it up to show you!

{Sneak Peak: BFA Project!}

Here is a test shot from my first shoot for my BFA project. Get excited, it will be complete at the beginning of February!

{Ashton Rodgers, John Taylor, Wilford Woodruff}

 This is from a photo shoot we did at the LDS Conference Center in Salt Lake City last week. You might see the picture Ashton is taking here (no guarantees, though ... but you WILL see something awesome either way). 

{Portfolio}

If you read my blog regularly, you've seen all of this. If not, here is everything noteworthy that you've missed!

{Commercial Work}








{Editorial Work}










{Fine Art Work}

{Grandpa Dick}

This is my great grandpa Dick. I took these pictures last April, but I just found them and decided to post them. My grandpa is turning 95 next month!!!

{Latest}

I saw my aunt Marta this weekend and she told me I need to update my blog. I guess she is right! This is for you, Marta! Not that awesome, but this is the latest for my architecture class.


***On a personal note, a bunch of my stress was lifted today when I found out I no longer have to take PE classes to graduate. Thanks, BYU, for making my life easier, and for letting me stay fat and lazy. If all that means nothing to you, hear this: Cate will now graduate in April instead of June, and will not be getting the six pack she was planning on for next summer. Can't win 'em all, right?***

{Crazy Sophie}

Yesterday I went home to take some headshots of my brother and some of his friends for a project I am working on for the BYU Ad Lab (more on that soon). I set up a makeshift studio in my garage. These were the very first test shots before I put the background up, but I couldn't resist posting them. Sophie is always such a good helper when I am taking photos, and always makes me laugh even when I am totally stressed when things aren't working out! Thanks Soph!

{Last Call}

Don't forget! Tomorrow is the last day to purchase prints from my trip to India to benefit Rising Star Outreach. Cheap prints ... good cause ... what are you waiting for?!

{More Kelci}

Here is another of Kelci. I promised more forever ago ... sorry, I have been so busy!

{Bo}

On Saturday I got to have a play date with my cousin and her dogs! I got some pretty cute shots ... I haven't gone through them all yet but here is a preview!


(This is Bo)

{Happy Birthday Lucy!!!}

Today my beautiful sister Lucy turns 19! She couldn't be happier that she gets to spend her magic birthday in her favorite place on earth, India.

Lucy told us that all she wants for her Birthday is for people to sponsor a child at Rising Star Outreach, the organization where she works in India. Sponsoring a child is relatively inexpensive but kind of a big commitment. So I thought I would try to make it easier for people to help out. For the next two weeks, all proceeds from any print you buy from the "India" section of my instaproofs site will go directly to RSO to sponsor a child. And remember, all of RSO's administration costs are paid through a fund generated exclusively by donations from the RSO Board of Directors, so the money you spend on these prints will affect the children directly. If you didn't see my original post about RSO, click here to read more. If you did, you know what to do!





Here are just a few of the images you have already seen that are now available to purchase! Visit my instaproofs site and select the "RSO Benefit Print Sale" section, or contact me at cate.t.williams@gmail.com about purchasing a print! Happy birthday Lucy!!!

P.S. Please note that these prints are at a special low price! I want everyone to be able to have one, and I want everyone to have the opportunity to help! Thanks everyone!