All Green, Alien-Inspired Creative Shoot at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah

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This shoot was just for fun. No expectations, no clients, no reason other than wanting to get creative with some friends. I flew to Salt Lake City to meet Cara, Blake and Marci. Cara is a visionary and I owe it all to her for dreaming up this shoot. All green, alien inspired, funky, odd and a mohawk. It was freezing but beautiful and we had a great time hanging with the models and getting creative. Shout out to Tenesha and Julia for the hair and makeup too - such talented women.

All photos here are Marcella Laine Photography

Other Photographers: Cara Mia and Blake Hogge

Makeup: Julia Vinha

Hair: Tenesha Luckett

Styling: Lindsey True Dunlap

Creative Head Piece and Floral Body Art

Nicole reached out to me via instagram dm’s with some kind words and offering to model if I ever needed someone. I love the connections that I’ve made on instagram and I was so happy she reached out. That next week, a friend in the wedding industry reached out and told me she’d be in colorado and wanted to do something fun. So I asked Nicole to model and we set up a white sheet in my old dirty garage and got creative. I walked through the wholesaler looking for small intricate flowers with lots of detail to create these pieces. Whipped them up that morning and had a makeshift photo shoot that afternoon.

Photographer: Jessika Christine Photo

Model: Nicole

edgy parking lot shoot

My mom has always been a huge vegetable gardener but when I started this business she decided to have a go at flower farming, which apparently is a lot harder. This spontaneous parking lot shoot was created after driving back from my parent’s house with a bucket of flowers. I had this idea that I wanted to create monochromatic flower designs to be displayed in a way that was unexpected. Not a wedding shoot, not a couples shoot, not a light & happy flower shoot. But an edgy, breaking boundaries, for no particular reason flower shoot. Two badass women covered in flowers in a parking lot. And yes, there are cigarettes involved. Why? Because its unexpected. Because women can smoke a cig once in a blue moon if they want and because flowers can be rebellious and dangerous as well. Let yourself feel whatever you feel when you look at these. Art is about breaking boundaries and evoking emotion, and yes, any emotion is good.

body art studio shoot

This shoot was something I had dreamed about doing for a long time after being inspired by Passion Flower Sue and all of her incredible creations. I am so drawn to the detail work of body art and how endlessly creative it can be. Amanda Dang worked her makeup magic and Marcella Laine took all the photos. My goal for this shoot was to highlight Black women through art & creativity. It’s hard to put into words the energy and empowerment that was felt in this studio during this shoot. Women encouraging women, embracing sexuality, and just so much fucking beauty.

Photography: Marcella Laine Photography

Makeup: Amanda Dang

Models: Mikala, Lanee, Parris, Jessica