Alone Time

November 19, 2007 | Filed Under Wedding Photography, Weddings | 2 Comments

I have high hopes of having all of the photos from Mercedes & Tim’s wedding edited by Thanksgiving day — just wanted to post another one of my favorites while I’m working on them!

Back Online

November 19, 2007 | Filed Under Administrative | Leave a Comment

For a few weeks now, I’ve had a fairly minor outpatient surgery scheduled for November 14th. Only problem was, I was getting far worse while waiting on the surgery date, to the point that on the 12th I received a phone call from my doctor’s office that I was too anemic (with a hemoglobin level of 7.7 the previous Friday) to have surgery. On the 13th, while my husband drove me to my cardiologist’s office for what would have been my pre-op clearance appointment, I passed out in the car. This set off a whole series of events, leading to me being admitted to the hospital for blood transfusions, and a much more major surgery on the 16th.

It was a whirlwind week, and to be honest I don’t even remember half of it.

I’m home now, and life will slowly be returning to normal. I had only done minimal editing before going into the hospital from the weddings we had just shot, so I will be keeping myself occupied with those over the next few days and should have previews online soon! I think I am all caught up on emails, but if I missed something please let me know!

Mercedes & Tim’s Wedding - Coming Soon!

November 12, 2007 | Filed Under Wedding Photography | Leave a Comment

I’m going through the photos from the wedding of Mercedes & Tim that took place this past Saturday. Think of this photograph as a placeholder - lots more to come later today! I just love something about how she is looking at me here that I had to post it right away.

More later on, plus tales of the adventures of Christine & Elaine!

The New Ad!

November 8, 2007 | Filed Under Wedding Magazines, Wedding Photography | 3 Comments

While gone at the workshop last week, I got a call from Weddings in Houston magazine. I have an ad with them already, but it points at the Fresh Photography site. I had considered changing it but thought I had already missed the deadline when I thought of it. Turns out, I was wrong. From when she called, I had exactly 48 hours to get them a new ad.

By the way - I am *SO* not a graphic designer. And they needed it in CMYK format (not what I normally use), and had some pretty specific requirements. Fortunately, John Sanderson was there and willing to help me out.

Then I realized that I didn’t have all of my photos with me. My backups were at home.

I did have this one though, since I had just taken it earlier in the week. The man in the photograph is Jon Leidel, and he is a fabulous photographer in Asheville, North Carolina. Fortunately, he was attending the last day of the workshop with us and was sitting right in front of me. So I asked him if I could have permission to use their photo in the ad. Thankfully, he said yes. (I checked with Anna later at dinner that night, and she also agreed.)

Within 40 minutes, while listening to Amber Holritz talk at the same time, I put together a new ad. It isn’t perfect - I wish I had edited out the dappled sunlight on his sleeve- but it was FAST. Hopefully, it will get people’s attention and they will find their way to the website. I mean really, how could you resist that curl?

The new ad will run in the January issue of Weddings in Houston magazine! I’ll let you know as soon as it hits the store shelves!

Gannon, 8 Days Old

November 6, 2007 | Filed Under Lifestyle Photography, Newborn Photography | 2 Comments

Back on October 22nd, I flew to New York for my first “Destination Newborn” session to photograph Gannon. He was born a week earlier on October 15th. He was so wee and tiny at 7lbs, 3 ounces. So precious!

Yes, I flew to New York for a newborn session. Gannon’s father, Chris, has been friends with my husband since they were in high school. Back in May when I visited New York City, I made a point of having breakfast with Chris & Cari, his wife, and they commented on how they wished I lived up there so I could photograph their baby when he or she was born. I pointed out that flying me to New York was probably less expensive than a New York City photographer’s rates, and thanks to Kayla I would most likely have a place to stay in the city while I visited - so I was game! As soon as he was born, I booked my flight and 8 days later we spent the better part of the day together capturing some fantastic memories!

Hopefully, we can do it again in the coming months - and since we won’t be depending on timing it to his birth next time, I’ll be booking additional sessions while I am up there. Let me know if you want to get together the next time I’m up in the Big Apple!

I really like to try to get perspective photos - he was so tiny, so frail almost, it was amazing to see the size of his hands compared to his father’s.

After I took this, Chris informed me that he always sleeps with his hands up in the air like this. So cute!

With his father’s wedding ring.

The view from the rooftop of his first home. I went up there at the end of our session, just to get some city shots to wrap up the day. When I came down, I spotted this…

Chris’s brother, Scott, had sent over this really cool book that went through each letter of Gannon’s name and talked about what made his name special and why all the animals in the jungle were celebrating his birth. Chris was reading the book to Gannon & Cari as I walked in, and I had to capture these candid shots — it was the first of countless books that they will read together as a family. (Seriously. Made me cry a little bit.)

I think this last one is my favorite photo of the day, but it is hard to decide! I spotted this quote earlier today that sums up for me why I love and adore that last photo.

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new. - Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

Rebekah

November 5, 2007 | Filed Under Child Photography, Infant Photography | 5 Comments

I had a great time spending the morning with Rebekah and her parents at their house on October 12th. She had just finished eating when I arrived, and fell asleep shortly afterwards — resulting in lots of sleeping angel photos! She is just so beautiful, and such a sweet little girl!

I have known Rebekah’s grandmother for the past few years as she is also a knitter and is a member of the local knitting guild in addition to going to “Sit & Knit” at one of the local yarn shops. I’ve always known that she is a woman of amazing talent, but I had no idea how talented! Not only did she crochet the blanket that Rebekah is sleeping on in these photos, she also handmade and hand smocked the dress that she is wearing. It was just stunning, and I’m so glad we captured the heirloom in these photographs!