Monthly Archives: October 2008

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Sweet little girls!

I’ve been asked when I was going to blog again….   :  )

Meet Aiden and Addie.  Wombmates like some twins like to be called.    Mommy and I have been talking about this session for months and finally, no sickness and no hospitals, just sweet squishy babies.     I have been reading their Carepage for some time and it was such as sweet pleasure to have them all to myself for a few hours.

Thinking back to when my boys were little, they spent much of the time in my arms.  It is where they felt best and of course where I felt best.  Many times they would have their chest to mine and looking backwards.    I could never see how they looked but I could certainly feel it.  With that thought, I love to photograph babies looking over their parents’ shoulders.   You are right, I can’t see their parents’ faces but I can feel their comfort and see that this is a place where they belong.  Soon, Aiden and Addie will be racing around but for now, they are comfortable, exactly where they should be.

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The girls were born at 30 weeks each weighing 3+ pounds.  Addie has been fighting health concerns having I think 5 surgeries her parents said.  She is a fighter and the prognosis is great!  

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Addie’s hands move constantly.  She seems to like them and my camera did too!

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Aiden - Don’t you just love boy names for girls!   I photographed a Devyn, Charlie and a Kiegan all girls.  Love that!

Aiden found her tongue in the last few days.  She loved showing it to me!

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Looking back at their early pictures in the hospital, I know what a miracle they are!  Tonya - We did it!!!!!

Today’s the day!

Treasure hunter Mel Fisher started each new day by announcing Today’s the day.   For 16 years Mel searched for the Spanish shipwreck Atocha near Key West.   

As I was traveling to my session today I was thinking about that.  In the craziness of life it is just easy to get tired.  But, what if each day before I shoot I think the same way as Mel.   Today’s the day that I touch someone’s heart with my photography.  Today’s the day that I shoot for my soul and be so honored by the client that trusts my soul.  Today’s the day that I find that image that knocks my socks off.  Today’s the day that I preserved something so beautiful for someone that they can’t imagine their life without it.  Today’s the day I help make someone feel beautiful who has never felt that way before. Today could be that day.  I just have to make sure of it.

And because I can’t just blog without a pic or two…….

I loved the antenae in this image.  I think it is God inviting us all to church or to Him.  Maybe the message is for me.

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I watched this guy in a fish market for some time.  (If you look carefully on the left sideof the image you can see the old fashioned scale).  Beautiful natural light came streaming down from the ceiling, his hat sheltering his weathered face.  I wondered about him.  I wondered about his cigarette holder.  I totally loved that and couldn’t keep my lens to myself.  Not sure if he saw my interest or that of my little guy who can be seen looking at him too.

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After 16 years and about 4000  Today’s the day proclamations, Mel Fisher was successful.  He found the treasure of the shipwreck of the century, the Atocha.

Today is the day!

Bridal part 2

I love the days of the old fashioned bridal portrait.  These are a more casual version of that and I have several others that I adore that will be in my studio.   Since I’m not a wedding photographer, it is great fun for me to photograph a bride in a non stressful situation!

I posted one from this bridal session this summer but she wasn’t married yet and I didn’t want anyone to see her dress.   Fresh home from the honeymoon, it is safe now.

Our weather wasn’t perfect with a storm quickly approaching but since Miss B was from North Carolina, we just needed to shoot!  She was a trooper exposing her gown to the elements!

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Mild winter says the wooly bear!

 I found this on the internet 

“As folklore goes – you need to look at the black hairs at each end of this tiny creature. Legend has it that the more black hairs a wooly bear has, the worse off the winter. If the caterpillar has more orange, then the winter will mild.”

Don’t hold me to it, but I’m seeing a lot of orange!!!!

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She caught my ‘eye’

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I was doing extended family portraits and struggling.  It wasn’t as if I didn’t want to photograph the whole group, I really did.   The problem was that my heart,  my eye and my lens kept looking for Mari.    She is one of the most tendar hearted children I’ve seen in a long time. 

 I was all the way across the park and need to go back and get something, I mentioned it.  Mari happily skipped all the way to get it, maybe being helpful, maybe looking for approval from this new person who seemed so interested in her.   When her pants got sappy, tears flowed worried she would ruin the pics.  When she didn’t get photographed just with her mommy, her heart was crushed.  I saw so many things in the sweet girl the day I photographed the big group.  I just couldn’t help being totally drawn to her. 

I love her in both bw and color.  Blue eyes and dark hair always suck me in.

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Bless you Mari and your sweet little heart!