{ Summer Salebration! }

ETA - Sale has ended!

Find them here! There are 13 textures that give that “yesteryear” feel to your work! That’s two extra textures. They will be on sale this week only for 15.00! Just type in this code at check out Old Photos. Offer only good with the Old Photographs Set.

Also:
I have a facebook page if anyone is on facebook and would like to keep up with me. 

New textures will be ready within a month or two! If you are a member of the fan page you will receive an added discount. 

{ His First Real Home }

This little guy will be leaving his first home. This is where his first few years of life began. I know it will be bitter-sweet for his parents, but as a family they are on to another adventure.

He will more than likely not remember his first home. The first place he drifted off comfortably to sleep, where he learned how to sit up, crawl, take those first steps, and eventually run without care.

He will not remember the morning photography session we had when he was six months old his mom and I spent watching him smile, hold his stuffed animal, and lying around putting his toes in his mouth. And he will probably not remember his two year old session we had when he rode his trike, played with trucks, planes, and bubbles, and enjoyed the sweet goodness of a lollipop. No, he will not remember, but through these emotion filled images he will learn of this first place….called home.

I will be a little sad too as I do love watching my clients grow up. I will miss photographing this doe-eyed, happy little guy. I wonder what kind of young man he will grow to be…

{ Familia }

This sweet family is a part of my Christian family. He is in involved in Latin mission work and she is from Peru. We worship together and I have gotten to see them grow from two into three. You can just see and feel the love they have for their little boy. The joy and love they have for him makes you happy to just be around them. I was so pleased to capture their heart and soul through photography.

{ At Last }

A little behind the scene story about this session…

This session has been almost a year in the making. Mom first contacted me to have maternity pictures of her and her daughter. We had to reschedule though. Then we were to do newborn pictures with the new baby girl and her older sister. That didn’t come to be either. Time went by and we finally were able to have our session with big sister and little sister (who is not sitting up on her own). I think it was worth the wait!

Just a small sneak peek! Your proofs will be ready soon!

Have an inspired day!

{ Can You? }

Can you feel the warm, breeze while gazing at this image?

Can you feel a sense of peace and calm all around you?

Can you feel happiness while taking in this scene?

Can you feel the innocence?

Do you feel that all is right with the world when you stare at this newborn babe?

I do.

Have an inspired day!

{ His Stage }

We recently went on vacation to a state park and I took this opportunity to have a mini-shoot with my son, my muse. I have clients ask me if it’s hard to photograph him because they think it seems hard to photograph their own child/children (which I don’t find it hard…it may be a challenge with some, but I like a challenge.  After all, we as adults usually don’t like a camera stuck in our faces either.) I say, “Oh yes, he is a handful.” And then they say, “Well he sure makes it look like it’s not.” And I have to say…it’s because once I get him into the “playing” mode…it makes my job easier. It’s getting him into that playing mode now that he is older and aware of the camera that is the tough part. We do manage to get there most of the time and it is all worth it in the end.

For this shoot, I just let him pretend he was an actor on a stage. At the park they had a small amphitheater type place that looked like the front of a cabin and it had a door. There were old benches in front of the stage where the audience can sit. He just recently saw the play “Peter Pan” and really fell in love with it. So, he was all for that. We had such fun that day! And the reason we had fun is because I tapped into him and what he likes to do.

{ Old Photographs Fine Art Texture Set }

They are finally on sale. Find them here! There are 13 textures that give that “yesteryear” feel to your work! That’s two extra textures. They will run 22.00, but in honor of spring break they will be on sale this week only for 15.00! Just type in this code at check out Old Photos. Offer only good with the Old Photographs Set.

Also:

I have a facebook page if anyone is on facebook and would like to keep up with me.

ETA: THE TEXTURES ARE NO LONGER ON SALE!

{ Close-Ups }

I don’t share a lot of close-ups on my blog, but this session had so many good ones that I thought I would share a few. She definitely has a face that the camera loves!

Stay tuned….new textures are coming out soon!

Have an inspired day!

{ By The Lakeshore }

Yet again, a newborn at one with nature. There is nothing sweeter than a sleeping babe in the peaceful outdoors. Sorry I have been so neglectful to this blog, but there is after all only ONE of me.

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Have an inspired day!

{ Neglecting My Blog }

Sometimes you just have to neglect your blog to get other things done and one of the things I have been working on is some new textures.  They are really neat and worth the wait!  Don’t worry…I will be back soon!

Have an inspired St. Patty’s day!