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I have to say that shooting this senior session makes me feel sorta OLD!! Kids grow up toooo fast!! But that's all I'm gonna say about that! This is a quick sneak peek for you tonight - it was SOOOO fun to hang with all y'all again!
(sorry to all those who might have received a double post on this one!)
Stay tuned in the next few weeks for some "MOMENT-ous" announcements!
Another beautiful Celebrating Adoption client enjoyed the fabulous weather here this afternoon. Little Miss C - you make me smile! She just makes me feel peaceful and I had such a great time with her today! Here are a few sneak peeks for mom and dad! I have some funny faces from you, but I am just a sucker for a serious look!
We did a session this evening specifically to get some images for a pendant for mom as well as some school pictures. We survived thousands of mosquitos. Well, ok, it sure seemed like thousands. I do have a collection of new bites. The mosquitoes are the worst they've ever been here and they do literally swarm you. Ok, enough of scaring off the clients! Anyway, for today's preview, this is not the image I intended to show, nor is it one that I really even meant to be part of the session. Knowing you were going to be looking for jewelry, I meant to show the best option for the tall pendant. BUT, I couldn't resist this image instead! Maybe I'll show the pendant when it's done and ordered! You're beautiful, Miss K!
I met up with a fellow photographer the other day and took a wander around the Notre Dame campus. It was a beautiful Saturday morning and since there was no home game and it was before noon...there were hardly any students in sight! It truly is a lovely campus. But when I was processing the images from the morning, I was feeling a bit moody. So, here's an unconventional take on Notre Dame photography...
Little girl, you were just the sweetest thing today! And she shares the middle name "Arlene" with my mom, so she's sure to grow up to be an amazing woman! This was my first light-haired blue-eyed CA session, and wow, what eyes! I love how mom and dad interacted with their daughter and I included a more artsy one below as well. Enjoy your preview...
...if you watch the Southern Gospel circuit! Ok, maybe hearing more of him is more accurate. We went out this afternoon to get some promo shots done as he's working on landing a permanent spot in a gospel quartet. And it's a good thing he's laid back, patient and has a good sense of humor, because I put him through a lot to get these images. And I PROMISE to replace your sunglasses!! And get my flash to stay put. Really.
It was so fun to see you guys a couple of times this past week! This is one of the first babies I photographed - what feels like soo long ago! Hard to believe that he's grown so big! Here are a few from his 18 month photography session this morning and I threw in a vintagey looking one from the beach last week too! Now...mom...when are you going to let me take YOU out?!
There's a blog game of tag traveling around some online photographer communities...and I just got tagged. Thanks for the tag, Ms. Samaha! Jenifer is an awesome photographer in AZ and the founder of an organization dear to my heart, Celebrating Adoption.
The good news is you get to find out 8 random things about me. Things you probably wouldn't ask your photographer. Whether those things are of any value to you is yet to be determined! The bad news is, I have to come up with 8 witty, interested tidbits about a somewat run-of-the-mill subject. I feel very uninteresting tonight, with the start of a raging head cold and bad allergies. I couldn't even remember my debit PIN number at the drugstore today. I had to charge my Reese Cups, tissue paper and hand lotion. 8 things? Sheesh. Well, here goes...
1. I am formally, publicly admitting to listening to children's radio...when there are no children in the car. Yes, it's true. I love Kenny Curtis and the Animal Farm on XMKids Channel 116. The music is generally upbeat and happy. It makes me laugh. I have a long commute several times a week and I need all the laughs I can get, don't you? Actually, I have pretty eclectic music habits...right this minute I have a borrowed Shakira CD in and am lovin it. My iPod is a treasured companion and it holds the likes of Eagle Eye Cherry, Kansas, Eagles, Kenny Chesney, Lynard Skynard, Keb' Mo, John Hiatt, Lemonheads, Barenaked Ladies, Chris Tomlin, Paul Simon, a zillion (well, almost) movie soundtracks, some different world music (especially African), some cajun, some zydeco. Ok. Too much information? This is getting boring?
2. I had a photography class in college a million years ago in which I had such a traumatizing assignment for a fairly shy coed that I swore off portraiture for almost 20 years. Thanks to my friend John Lee for bringing me back! Check out his tunes!
3. Wow. That was only 2? Are you sure? My favorite kinds of ice cream are Lemon Custard, Blackstrap Molassas, Edy's Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough and Starbucks Java Chip. But when I was a child at a friend's birthday party, I politely refused ice cream saying, "No thank you, but may I have another piece of cake please?"
4. If I'm trying to concentrate on work of any kind and having trouble, I need to turn the music off. But if I'm driving on snowy, bad road conditions, I need to play the radio REALLY, REALLY LOUDLY to help me concentrate.
5. I check email about a thousand times a day.
6. Someday I will be a published novelist. Someday.
7. I love rain, I LOVE storms and I have been known to chase tornados (please don't mention fact this to my husband or parents should you happen to meet them). My stepsons when we first met a long time ago added this to the "Gosh, dad, she's a bit weird" list when they couldn't figure out why I went OUTside when it started raining or storming and the rest of the world comes INside.
8. Wow, the last one! Are you ready? I have no idea what to say to cap this list off....hmmmm....I loooove color. I love Black and White images. But I have a visceral reaction to color. I live in an area with a large Amish population and so lots of quilters and wonderful quilts. That means we have several excellent fabric stores that cater to quilters. One local store in particular in Shipshewana is my favorite...Lolly's...and I can go in there and just soak in the color. I could stand there for hours looking at all the colors. I could come home with a lot of fabric I don't need for projects I'll never finish because I was seduced by color. Well, I probably should say I HAVE come home that way once or twice. I have the same reaction in front of the paint chip shelves in Lowe's. I repainted my office 4 times...because the color wasn't quite the right shade of deep, rich blue. I loooooove painting the first swath of color on a white wall. OK, I'm guessing you get the point!
Well, that wasn't probably the most interesting 8 things, but hey, that's all you get tonight. In honor of #8 and my love for color and my mention of deep, rich blue...here's an image for you. Not great lighting, but emotion wins out over technical perfection in my book. Tonight it does anyway!
Just for my brother, Scott! Love ya! This barn is on a route that I travel several times a week and for some reason I've always been drawn to it. Maybe because the setting sun lights up the star in the evenings, I'm not sure. There are two barns that I really enjoy on this route and this is one...
