January New Years Special!!

For all past clients who has placed an order, you can purchase a CD of your session for $150.00!! This is a great opportunity to get all your beautiful prints to cherish for a lifetime!! The deadline is January 10th, so don't wait!!

I am hoping to get my Christmas Decorations down by this weekend. I am ready to get organized!! I love all the decor that goes along with Christmas, but after awhile, I feel there is too much, everywhere I look.

After the 10th, I am going to start doing away with 2010 clients to free up some room. I use to save clients for a couple years, but found there wasn't much need to. This is where the deadline for the CD deal comes in. After January 10th, prints from 2010 won't be available anymore.

I am loving the snow!!! I honestly wish it would just snow another 5 inches and stay cold to keep the snow on the ground!!! I woke up this afternoon to rainy, soggy, brown and just wanted to go back to bed!! I'm not a fan of cold weather at all, but if it's gonna be cold, I'd just soon see snow!! I haven't made it outdoors to roam around and do any shoots, yet, but I am hoping to!!

Ordered a new laptop, so I am super excited to get it here and play with it!! I had a hard time coming up with the perfect laptop, with my photoshop programs, I needed something other than a basic laptop. I got an awesome deal with rebates, so I am glad I was patient and thankful for my relationships with other photographers who guided me the direction of this laptop!!!

The New Year resolutions may be a significant event for many people, but I won't bore you with the list of things I'd like to accomplish, instead I will share some humor I found online of resolutions that I can relate to!!

~Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average… which means, you have met your New Year's resolution.
~New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.
~Many people look forward to the New Year for a new start on old habits
~May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions!
~I will do less laundry and use more deodorant.
~I will try to figure out why I *really* need nine e-mail addresses.
~I will spend less than one hour a day on the Internet. This, of course, will be hard to estimate since I'm not a clock watcher.
~I will stop considering other people's feelings when they so obviously don't consider mine - if that unwashed fellow sits next to me again, I'll tell him he stinks!
~Coming up with new excuses for taking time off work, instead of using the same old excuses every time
~Paying more attention to the children, rather than the Internet
~Not considering others' feelings for once
~An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves

I wish everyone a Happy and safe New Year!!! See you in 2011!!!!

Good bye 2010!!

I hope everyone had a great Christmas!! We did, but ready for 2011!! Not that I wish time would pass any faster than it already does. =(

It has been a great, busy year! December hit me a little hard. I didn't expect to be as busy as I was and I'm not normally behind on anything, but December came fast. Working full time and doing pictures full time started to catch up with me at the worst time. I didn't have time set aside for shopping or Christmas decorating, so I did a lot of hustling and bustling in December =)...I'm all caught up now and ready for what the New Year has to bring.

I first want to thank all my customers for a great 2010!!!! Photography has never turned into a competitive hobby for me, even with the negative verbal competitiveness from a local photographer this past year. When you spend more time worrying about what other photographers are doing, how they are doing it, copying their art, spreading negativity about them and selling yourself to be something other than what you really are, you don't get to truly "Enjoy the moments" that go along with learning and growing with photography. With such an experience this year, It helped me to look back and truly appreciate all I have learned on my own with photography. My relationship grew with other local photographers and I was able to see clearly why it is that I do photography, it lets me be creative and have fun! Photographers come and go and everyday someone new is picking up a camera and wanting to learn, and that is what photography is all about.

This gentleman on a forum that I visit often says so much in his post below.... I have to copy & paste to share with everyone!!! LOVE IT!! Thanks Roman!!!

Somone who seemed to be frustrated about composition took my quote I used a certian way.....he thought it was eletiest. I was semi-inspired when I wrote my response, and after I was done, I thought I had summed up compostion quite well.

The quote in question is this one:

“Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.”

~Edward Weston
My response was as follows:

Not everyone is cut out to be somthing...and if they are not talented in one area, they should seek what they were put on this earth to do.

Now...that dosnt mean DONT PICK UP A CAMERA......everyone should enjoy shooting, just like I would enjoy fly fishing (even if I sucked at it).

But the other side of the equation is...if you dont have the natural aptitude for somthing. Sure, learn as much as you can about it, enjoy it.....have fun with it. The second it becomes frustrating because your natural aptitude gets in the way and you want to make pictures....or weld...or build sky scrapers...(add your favorite things in here) as good as the masters or even the fairly gifted in those areas.....is the second to stop complaining.

It is interesting to watch people struggle against their own nature, wanting what they are incapable of to happen to them.

I love to sing in the shower. I wouldnt try out for American Idol....I know better. Doesnt stop me from singing in the shower.....or for appreciating music (I LOVE music)

And the number one thing that makes ANYONE good at anything is not knowing the structure of a thing (it can help to a certian point) but TRUE PASSION (appreciation).

Remember that word passion....passonate people dont get frustrated....they get in the groove and through appreciation and a desire to understand and love what they are doing they succede.

All Edward was truly saying is.....knowledge of a thing can take you only so far....there has to be a place where you need to hand that knowledge over to the heart...

I guarantee you no master of composition ever checkd off a list of rules....they just know.

Love....Thats the only true rule of composition.

International Paper Christmas

Donna and Vicki do an awesome job of preparing for the International Paper Christmas employee party. They build this Christmas scene from scratch!! I am excited every year to see their new set up! They rotate every year from a kids setup to an adult setup and of course this year was a kids theme. It was a very cute setup and the kids enjoyed every minute of the activities provided!!

Santa!!!

I had many request for Santa Sessions, so this year I put my magic to work. It was kind of a last minute deal, but it turned out great!! I've done Imperial Bondwares Christmas session the last few years, and I have loved every minute of watching the kids with Santa! So I decided this year to go ahead and offer my own to the public.

A BIG THANK YOU to Buck Stop Archery for having me in their business to do my session and a BIG THANK YOU to everyone who came up to see Santa and a BIG THANK YOU to Santa for coming to visit us!!!

Dilley kids

Sara has brought her kids to me since they were very small, I have enjoyed watching these kids grow up!! We got lots of great shots and I got the chance to use my new backdrop in the studio!!

All smiles!!

This little one did wonderful!!! She was smiles the entire session, until we put her flat on her belly, but who likes laying on hard surfaces on their belly anyway!! =) She was sooooo cute and hope to see her when she is sitting up!!!

Mike

I'm trying to go back and post older senior sessions I've done, and if I forgot anyone who wanted their pictures public, I am sorry!!!

This is Mike, we did do him awhile back, but winter weather was starting to sneak up on us!! Mike did a great job and what a handsome young man!!