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Sydney Brickel Photographer

Creating photos of the moments in between, in hopes of making you feel seen & known. ✨

08/30/2025

If you’re not this weekend & live around Darmstadt what are you doing? 🫧✨ one of the best ways to celebrate the end of summer 🌞

08/22/2025

4 Augusts ago since I packed 3 yellow suitcases and decided I’d learn German. WHAT?! I really did that.

The journey of arrival and the stories along the way changed me 🫶🏼

08/07/2025

Film from the last 6 months ✨ moments in between:
buongiorno and bis später.
Italian Wine & western wildflowers.
Oklahoma sunrise and Swiss Sonnenuntergang.

07/19/2025

“I lovvvve the way the light floods into my apartment in the morning. I’ve been feeling more myself than maybe ever before? and maybe life is different than I’d imagined it to be… but I feel like I’m more me and I find joy in that.”

Crack of dawn session just for you, James. 🌞 If I were to originate my identification with earth tones, in particular yellow, I think it just might be meeting you at the ripe age of 18.

10ish years later, some things never change. 🌻

05/28/2025

Wildflower bookends.

Celebrating one year since Demian decided he still wanted to spend the rest of his life with me after experiencing texas small town Syd🤠

Excerpt from a poem I wrote last night:
“From the long days in the sun to staying up passed our bedtime
To dreaming of the day we’d share this place
He gave me my great grandmas ring in my favorite spot
It doesn’t look like much
But
I’ve been a lot of places and there’s no place like the endless sky of Oklahoma
You see for miles
And forget why you need to see any further

05/03/2025

A story of girlhood.

A Mesta Park Day Dream.

In the neighborhood where we used to dream of the lives we have now. Where we’d walk around and name the houses personality traits.

Tears stained that living room carpet from laughing and love and war in your early twenties

Late nights — sleepovers — no dates

Do you miss it?
Sisterhood.
Not in the sense that’s it lost.

But do you miss when that was all we had?

Trying on each others clothes — an outfit to impress no one except for each other and the grandma in the thrift store.

Sleeping in. Coffee. Lazy Saturday.

Would we have believed it? That love DID find us.

We dreamed of this and it’s better than we could’ve imagined. To be in love with our best friend. To grow. To change. To also stay the same.

But do you miss it?
I’d go back for a day in the arms of our sisterhood.

Knowing we’d find them someday.
But resting to know that in those days we were enough.

P.S.
We love our boys!!!!! But we wouldn’t be who we are without the girlies who loved us first 🫶🏼🫶🏼

04/15/2025

What started out as a photo swap became an exchange of joy.

“sigh It’s a long story.”

“I first did yoga just for the stretching—and to calm my mind. One day—I was a fashion designer, and that industry is really stressful. I tried to focus on yoga, to find myself in another place, in another way of thinking, and… well? Do you know that feeling when you find something that fills you up, and you’re not overwhelmed? I don’t know when I actually ‘started.’ Maybe it was always in me. When I move my body, it’s like… uhh, I find myself. I find my expression—my creative expression. And now I’ve opened my studio—one year and something ago—and yeah.”

I told her how much I’ve felt at home in the studio since I arrived.
She smiled and said, “That is my purpose.”

I’ve been so curious about joy lately. What brings me joy? What brings other people joy? And how can we not lose sight of the joy that still exists all around us?
So, that was one of the questions I asked Irene— to think about what brings her joy as we began taking portraits.

We paused for a moment.
 And she said, I think this moment in time—here, with you. I took a deep breath and smiled, feeling the slight tingle at the corner of my eyes, like tears might well up if they wanted to.
She continued to talk about how her dream when opening this studio was that there would be no borders. That anyone could come and feel welcome. “And you are here.”

Later, she posted on her story—you can see the reflection included here in this post:
“It was so beautiful and exciting to see my studio take the path of borderless inclusiveness. My dream was to create a place that said ‘Welcome’ to people from all over the world. Now I understand that this place is real.”

Borderless inclusiveness
— un’inclusiva senza confini —

this dream, brings me joy.

What brings you joy?

03/28/2025

I’ve been driving past Busy Corner for years now and have been dreaming about 60s ish styled shoot 💄💋

Thanks for making this little creative dream come to life ❣️

Any seniors wanna shake up Senior pics?? I’m your girl ✨ my books for 2026 seniors are now open!

03/05/2025

The story of this day has a lot to do with the sisterhood, brotherhood, forever friends, parental love, generational love, and the love that finds you when you’d just about given up.

Here’s an excerpt of my maid of honor speech for my first baby sisters wedding day:

“The men that have come into our lives knew and should know— as also said in Louisa May Alcotts Little women — that we could never love anyone as we love our sisters.

And that will always be true.

But the truth is also — no one can love her Manuel, like you do.

So a toast to the groom !
To the Bride!
From your sisters
Who are always by your side.” 🥂

📸Associate Photographer: (honestly basically the lead — THANK YOU)

💒🗓️ Wedding planner / MVP - .co

02/26/2025

Do we ever fully find ourselves? Or do we just feel less lost?

— writer and author of Found.

So proud of you KJ. Thank you for reminding me to continue to find beauty in the journey of finding myself lost — and in that being found.

Want to read the full story?? Sign up for my storyletter ✨

02/11/2025

“Now more than ever it’s important share my culture. People are scared of what they don’t understand.“

Anistacia Mia Aragon has been dancing since she was 2, the dance she’s dancing here is called: Ballet Folklorico.

She majors in Justice, Political Philosophy, and Law, and is running for Miss New Mexico to share her passion and her culture with the world.

Anistacia hopes to become an immigration lawyer and dreams of then one day founding a nonprofit that helps bridge immigrant communities together in the U.S.

“I chose Miss New Mexico America first of all because of the opportunities it brings, just by competing I get scholarships to help me pay for school which is amazing. I also want to be the first indo-fijian Miss America New Mexico, as well as help bring awareness to Su***de and destigmatize mental health talk.”

If you’d like to donate to her campaign reach out at her Instagram 🫶🏼mia

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