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Week 11 / No Flash

{ Model Shoot }

This is my friend, Cat. (She has three children. Some things in life are just not fair.... Ü )

She volunteered her beauty for a recent One Photo Source meetup as a model. We had a blast. It was fun meeting the other photographers that I 'know' online, and Cat did great!

These are some of my favorite shots of her:

Hi, my name is...

We were just playing around with some new vintage block props that we found! (Hmmm, new vintage??)

Can you tell that one child was more excited about it than the other?

{spring is springing...}

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Springtime is the land awakening.

The March winds are the morning yawn. . .

~Quoted by Lewis Grizzard in Kathy Sue Loudermilk, I Love You

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Think Green Thoughts....

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

May the road rise to meet you,

May the wind be always at your back,

May the sun shine warm upon your face,

The rains fall soft upon your fields and,

Until we meet again,

May God hold you in the palm of His hand.

~Irish Blessing

Rockin' Out!

I just changed the homepage music over on the ole' website. ( ---> HERE ) I do this from time to time...don't be alarmed!

The artist's name is Will Fournier, and I dig his sound, and his message. Thanks Will!

Go check him out: www.willfournier.com

Drop me a line to lmk what you think!

Friend and Partner in Crime....

This is Megan, of Trees and Bees Photography. She is a dear friend of mine; and very, very soon we are entering in a business venture together. (More about that later--promise!)

We are both part of a fabulous new blog (see previous post!), and needed some headshots done. We both had fun 'shooting' one another, and I thought I would share some of my favorites that I took of her.





a couple for fun...the first one must be what we look like most of the time to one another! Ü





And although I am myself camera shy, I thought I would share a couple that she took of me:



b&w version:

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Heartbroken.

I'm not sure who is more--my son or me.

Last night, his favorite toy in the whole world, along with a couple of other things, were stolen. The toy that he took to church, the library, the grocery store--THAT toy. He loved it so much--he even inscribed his name in red crayon on it. This is quite special, as he only recently learned how to write his whole name. (Just yesterday I was cleaning and I picked it up and ran my fingers over his name, and a warmth filled my heart. I had decided that it would be something we put in a box to treasure forever, long after he outgrew it...)

I am even more saddened because last night his innocent, care free world turned into something a bit darker. It's now a place where he has tasted that there are people in this world that do bad things, and that those things can hurt him deeply.

I wish I could keep his world untarnished forever, keep it a place where people only love him and no one can hurt or harm him. So, this is a lesson for me too, I suppose. That the only way he can deal with life's bumps and bruises is to actually have and experience those bumps and bruises.

Anyway, here is the only picture ( suprisingly! ) that I have of him with his little wooden dagger.

Oh, and guess what he had to say about all of this--after the tears.

"Maybe he (talking about whoever stole it) just needed to be Robin Hood."

the apple doesn't fall far from the tree...

Beauty, that is.

So, remember back in January when I was doing some boudoir shoots geared towards Valentines Day? (No? Oh alright, look HERE. Ü ) Well, the lady that you saw in that post loved her pictures--and so did her MOM! That's right, her mom scheduled a boudoir shoot with me shortly thereafter.

This is what I can show you here. This is a family friendly site you know! For the rest...well I'm thinking about starting up a separate blog for all of my boudoir sessions.

Anyway--thank you Mrs. S--you were absolutely fabulous!



If you are interested in seeing more photos like these, or are interested in a boudoir session, contact me!

Saturday Morning

This is what we woke up to last Saturday morning. Just when you think that winter is almost over--WHAM! We got about four inches overnight. The kids were soooo excited to get out in it. It was quite windy, still snowing, and bitter, bitter cold! (esp. when you just run out to get a "few shots" without socks or gloves!!) Do you think that stopped them?

















Hope you all had a nice (and warm) weekend!