Some pictures from our recent road trip down the Oregon and California coasts on the latest phase of our slow-motion move to our eventual new home.

-Kelly

Anyone who knows me well knows my best friend is and always will be Tiffany (right). She, her sister Karalyne, Paul and I headed to Idlewild Park in Reno where we played when we were little for a sister photoshoot. 

(Paul took the last one of the three of us together)

Tiffany and I met in 7th grade and I could not imagine a more supportive, loyal, intelligent, talented, caring, hilarious best friend in the world. She is the best and sticks by my side through everything. I am so grateful for Tiffany. I've known Karalyne since she was little and she is such a down-to-earth, smart, sweet, funny person. Tiffany and Karalyne have Cherokee heritage and both have really amazing bone structure, and take after their beautiful mom (and former model), Kelli. When the three of us get together we're basically in the throes of constant laughter. 

I'm so glad to be back near these two and get to spend more time with them. 

Kelly

We were gone for over 40 days traveling for photo and video shoots in Texas, London, Brighton, Berlin and Australia. It was a whirlwind tour and we had so much fun exploring and meeting new people all over. 

Our trip started with a journey to Waco, Texas for a shoot that got postponed, leaving us with a fun day shooting and another for exploring beautiful Austin, Texas. Most of the Tina Fey audiobook and many meats were consumed. Thanks Dan and Haddie for the BBQ!

We left from Texas for London, where we stayed in and around the city for about 3 weeks to shoot Confab London, a promo for ClearLeft in nearby Brighton and UX London. We met so many nice AirBNB hosts, friendly people on the street and people from the events. One of our best days of the trip was just walking around London all day with no plans or maps. We stayed all over the city in different places, getting different perspectives of the place. Brighton was one of our favorite destinations--a mini San Francisco with some old-world boardwalk charm and some really cool street art. We loved every minute there. 

After London we left for Germany to shoot UX Intensive in Berlin. Berlin was amazing--we understood almost nothing anyone said, wrote or did, but the food (specifically giant cheese-covered pretzels and pastries of all forms) and weather were more than we could ask for. In London we started the European Tour with snow (which was beyond pretty), and in Berlin we had beautiful spring blue skies and 70-plus weather. We did more of our non-planning walking around there and discovered some great gelato, beautiful buildings, excellent graffitti and a sad and inspring history. Sadly, a part on my camera malfunctioned and my whole roll of film from Germany was exposed and ruined. So just imagine it. (Or Instagram works too: @paulsearle and @kellysearle).

From Germany we flew back to Portland for a shoot for one day, and left again the next day for Melbourne, Australia. To say we had jet lag is an understatement--we were essentially vampires, but it was so fun. Australia is pure paradise. The people are so nice it warms your heart beyond belief, the food is expensive but great, and the scenery and weather surpass your wildest dreams. We shot some documentary things for a new project (more on that soon) with Execute, which lead us into the bush and some really cool neighborhoods in the city. Our last day we went to Brighton Beach and basked in the sun by the multi-colored beach shacks. It was pure escape. We loved Australia. 

Now we are back (sort of)! Our year of travel is off with a bang! We are currently in the throes of more travel (Boston, San Diego and Minneapolis to name a few) and are enjoying ourselves while catching up on some rest in Reno, Nevada with my parents as we make a slow-motion move to the Bay Area, which will be our new home soon!

We had so much fun. Thanks so much to everyone we worked with and met along the way and all our friends and family who have supported us in our crazy lifestyle--we couldn't do it without you. 

Kelly

Last week, Kelly and I got to work on a shoot with Jacob Hinmon for a new company called Switchboard. It rained a lot.

Thanks to all the cast and crew that made producing this a pleasure.

Last weekend I met up with Pippa, Carmen and Katy for a spring fashion shoot at our house. We've been wanting to do a mod shoot for a while and with all the 60's sillouettes at Fashion Week, it seemed like perfect timing!

We wanted to get pretty stylized and "weird" with this shoot, and I think we accomplished that goal! Katy did an awesome job on the makeup--perfectly executed. And Pippa and Carmen are just the cat's pajamas, in my opinion; they just dove right into the weirdness and I think their expressions are so cool. 

A special thanks goes out to Jordan (craft services, AKA emergency macaroni and cheese), Eder for entertaining us during the shoot and Paul for bringing us pizza. (Yes, pizza and macaroni in one day).

Makeup: Katy Steele
Models: Carmen Miller and Pippa Callanan
Photography, hair, wardrobe styling: Kelly Searle

More photos from the shoot here.

Thanks you guys--you're the best!
Kelly 

The Jackalope Saints had us create these short videos promoting their upcoming show where they'll be recording audience noise to include in their upcoming album.

I took photos for Yamasa Corporation's manufacturing and distributing center in Salem, Oregon for their website and marketing campaigns. The company was founded in 1645 and is one of the leading soy sauce manufacturers in the world (in tandem with the Choshi, Japan branch, their founding establishment). What I loved about this shoot was how into history, process and tradition the company was, and how they've incorporated modern technology to hold onto the same essential recipe they began with.

We went behind the scenes and evesdropped on their processes, which were super interesting. We saw the whole production and how everything was prepared. Making soy sauce takes months including the fermentation phase. It's really an art form and we felt so honored to get to see behind the scenes and witness one of the oldest companies in the world do what they're experts at. 

Thanks so much Kristian and the Yamasa team for everything,
Kelly

Updates soon when their new US website launches!