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I’m so proud!

November 13, 2008 – 11:41 pm

Last night I was working away and listening to the KCCI 10:00 news.    I knew that a couple of my senior girls were playing in the Iowa state volleyball playoffs.  My ears perked up when they were talking about Johnston and their win.  I could see the blond braids of my senior Kari then they mention her name.  I smiled.  The next game they were talking about the Ankeny team and then started talking about my senior Elizabeth.  I smiled again.  How could I have two girls names mentioned in one segment?  Think of how many girls played at the tournament.  I was just so excited for both of them.  Two very nice girls, two very smart girls and two excellent volleyball players!

 Way to go Kari and Elizabeth.  I hope you meet each other in the finals but I’ll  plug my ears so I don’t know who wins. 

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Baseball buddies

November 3, 2008 – 11:40 pm

I am shooting, proofing, working on orders like crazy.  I decided to take a quick break and go back and find a favorite today.  

This is not excellent photography but still one of my favorite images.  I was photographing three friends and this just happened, meaning no direction from me! (For those of you who have seen the mud shot from 2005, this was taken a few minutes before that, when they were clean.)

These images are in a book in my studio and if someone is looking at the book and laughing, I always know what page they are on.    Look at the first picture for a minute before you look at the second and see if you see it.

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Tab and the boys

October 25, 2008 – 11:05 pm

I love to go back and blog some of my favorite older pictures.  I have lots of stories to tell   ;  )

I have this image in my studio and get asked about it often.    Simple story.  Tab wanted some volleyball pictures.  We found a volleyball court but it was occupied.  With a camera in my hands I can be bold (no laughing out there) and I just asked if I could take some pics with the guys in the backgroud.  What you can’t see are all the girls on the sidelines that I said couldn’t be in the picture.  What you can’t smell was the effects of a hot afternoon of volleyball and the refreshments to keep them going.  Poor tab had to grin and smell it!   Thanks guys whoever you are, you are so very famous! 

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Why I love seniors….

October 7, 2008 – 12:52 am

This will be the first of several posts on why I love my seniors……

 1.  Talks on the couch

I love my living room furniture.  It is big, comfortable and squishy.  My Emily picked it out for me at Store for Homes in Newton - big plug for some of my favorite people!   I saw a picture and said sure.  I’m easy.   What I easily agreed to was a place.  A place where many a conversation would evolve.  A place where legs would criss cross in comfortable fashion emptying one’s soul to me.  The art of photographing someone can be very special as can be the friendships that result.    I treasure them all.

2.  Talks at the front door

What didn’t get talked through on the couch moves to the front door.  The door Bret and I found out in the back shed when we moved into our house 16 years ago.  The door covered with many layers of white paint that we scraped and scraped with knives to get the chips out of the egg crate design.     I have stood by that door for hours finishing up any last bit of talk.

 3.  Hugs on the front porch

 There is nothing better than making someone feel beautiful.   I’m a hugger and love it when someone gives me the big squeeze in response to the pictures and the friendships we have created. 

More reasons to come……

I’ll start posting 2009 seniors soon but for now a quick one….

Miss C, who along with her momma, made sure I took time out with my boys and to go to the fair, who have checked on my over and over to make sure I was ok, and while going through their own pain,  just plain loved me up. 

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‘Miss’ Lydia

August 26, 2008 – 12:05 am

Miss is such a perfect word for how I’m feeling.  I kinda go along my way and try to forget about it all, get over it.  Then something wacks me on the head and it all comes back.  Don’t get me wrong, I’ll take all the wacks, my heart treasures them.

 I miss what Maytag was to Newton.  I miss all of our friends who needed to move to find comparable work.  I miss the kids in my boys’ classes.  I miss the impact it had on every single thing - work, friends, church, camping - every thing.   (But, I don’t miss the stress and worry about when it was going to leave.)  Things are so very much looking up but my heart still hurts and got a big wack on the head last week.

Lydia came from Michigan to have me photograph her senior portraits.  I am so touched that they still wanted me!   I enjoyed every single minute reconnecting with Lydia and her parents, friends from both work and church!    I’ve watched Lydia since she was a baby and to get to see her turn into this beautiful young woman was such a joy.

Lydia, thanks for picking me.  You are beautiful on the inside and out!

(I’ll post more of her session when I start posting senior sessions!) 

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