We went on a mini-vacation.

I just have to share a snapshot from our mini-vacation to the Smokey Mountains. We had a wonderful time, and I had lots of fun playing with my kids and visiting really fun places.

Christmas in July Special!

The kids have chosen to spend some extra time with their grandparents, so I've unexpectedly gotten 3 weekday days open for appointments. So, I thought I would run a special. I know it seems EARLY, but I'm planning my Christmas ads, designing Christmas cards, designing "Happy New Year" cards (for those of us who never make it addressing those cards until AFTER Christmas), and all around just trying to figure out exactly what I am doing for the holiday season regarding the photos. The only "sets" I will not have available will be the nativity set and the Christmas tree (unless you want to put up your own tree). But the Santa hats, the wreath, the ornaments will all be available. OR we can do an outdoor session for your family. I'm toying with a few other ideas as well.

So, anyone who books during July for a Christmas/Holiday/New Year session, will get their cards 25% off the current rates. If you can not make July, but you book an appointment during the month of July specifically for those Holiday portraits, you will get 10% off the current rates for your cards no matter when the appointment falls! So, if you know you want a Christmas photo of your kids, and you book it by July 31st, you can get 10% off the cards...even if the date of the session is in October!

Look for my ad in TN Valley Kids Directory!

My ad was submitted under the wire of a deadline for the July edition of the Tennessee Valley Kids Directory. Phew! It was a whirlwind of design, edits, and polishing up.


Isn't she a doll? This little 1 year old was one of my recent sessions, and I had so much fun with her at the Botanical Gardens. She's a trooper, and after 1.5 hours of photos she was STILL smiling.

I hope you all had a wonderful Father's Day!

I hope that all of you had a wonderful Father's Day! Especially those who are celebrating it for the first time as a Dad.

I have had the priviledge of having a session with this one family, young couple "newly" married to me (I'm celebrating 10 years of marriage this year), and the Dad was so obviously "IN LOVE" with his newborn daughter. Just precious.


What I found even more endearing is that the little girl clearly loves her Daddy. She calmed right down when he held her, and when he laid her down on his chest.

So what did you all do for Father's Day? We took the boys to see Disney/Pixar's Cars and then took my husband out for dinner. I will say that we thoroughly enjoyed Cars, and my oldest is still talking about tractor tipping.

Whirlwind

I've had a fun past 2.5 weeks! Not only have I gotten to deliver portraits to various clients (and see their looks of joy when they finally see that print in person), but I have had so much fun photographing lots of little girls and one boy for the portrait side of business.

When I get a chance I want to share with you all some of these images. All of these kids are precious! One family was a pair of siblings, and the Mom told me she wanted one of them together. Now, I may not show it, but I sweat bullets inside when any parent wants a beautiful photo of the siblings. I honestly can not control how this will go. I can typically get any child to smile naturally for me, but getting 2 (or sometimes more) to smile or even look naturally AND look at me at the same time is hard. I am never 100% positive that I have gotten the shot until I download the session to my computer. Imagine my surprise when I opened this session and found not one, but multiple shots of these children where they were both looking at me and smiling!

Contest entry

I have entered a contest, such a scary step, and I'm not sure I put in the right dimensions. I could NOT find any information at all on sizing for the submission.

Here is my "Something 'Blu' " submission, however, I am now over-analyzing this submission as did it mean literally something blue? Meaning 1 thing blue? As you can tell this has a lot of blue.

Why a blog on a photography site?

It really is not a simple question to answer. I like to talk, and I want my clients to know some about me. I also like to share my favorite images from sessions, sometimes those images might be outtakes and sometimes they are reflections of how I see my client or that client's child.

I will also use the blog to easily update clients on openings that become available, or of specials that are announced before a newsletter comes out.

But mostly, I want it to be where you can share with me.