My Rockstar Seniors

A few months back I had the pleasure of meeting two extraordinary senior girls. I had done photos for a friend of Jamie's and she contacted me at the beginning of summer asking about senior sessions. It was months before I heard back from her regarding the session. So back in July when summer was in full swing we met up in the center of San Marco to do photos, just so happened it was raining off and on that day. These two girls sat with me in starbucks in San Marco and told me they didn't mind getting wet and they still wanted to do photos if I was alright with it. I immediately fell in love with these girls they are so beautiful and so full of life, we had a great time skipping up and down the sidewalks of San Marco in the rain, got photos with some very dark gloomy clouds overhead, the session and the photos were bar none my favs thus far. You can see the first session my my MySpace Page. Since their first session was cut short by the bad weather we agreed to reschedule the remainder of the shoot for another day. School started back for the girls and they both work so it's taken this long to get the second half of the shoot done. FINALLY we coordinated our schedules and completed their senior session. These girls are amazing, and beautiful and are simply a joy to photograph.

Jillian & Austin In Love

Months ago when I started my business I never thought that I would have clients that do business with me many times a year. You may remember Cilla from a previous post. It was her second shoot with me. Same story with Jillian. Her first shoot was to help me out. I had just gotten studio lights and backdrops and honestly had no subjects to test them out on. So, in the lovely world of myspace I sent out a message to all my friends asking for help. Jillian replied. We ended up having a pretty fun time at my house set up in my massive livingroom doing test photos. They came out so good that she has since referred many clients to me and booked a session for herself and long time boyfriend Austin. We went to the lovely downtown Amelia Island where I seem to be doing a lot of work these days (very happy to be working up there, more an observation, Hubby is worried that I'll want to move soon)

We walked all over the beautiful historic downtown area and took some shots of Jillian and her Love. There were about 50 or so that I found as favs, I've only posted 5 here to save space. You can see the rest of them on my MySpace Page :)

Wilson & Gracie

My Step Mom, Stacy Cruikshank is the owner of Bark Avenue Pet Boutique in Amelia Island, FL. Her shop is located in the spa and shops of the Amelia Island Plantation. It's an awesome little store with tons of fun stuff for your pets. The spokes models for Bark Avenue are my little brother and little sister Wilson and Gracie. Having a family member with a photography business is of great benefit, now Stacy can have seasonal photos of her models to put up on her website year round. :)

I had a couples shoot in Down Town Amelia yesterday and called Stacy a few days before telling her that if she wanted to do a quick shoot of the dogs in their Halloween costumes that I'll stop by the house before my shoot and grab a few shots. Wilson is going to be a little devil brandishing horns and all. Fittingly little Gracie is a white winged Angel!

Here is their photo that's up on the Bark Ave site now!! Aren't they adorable!!!!!!



Don't you just love their little costumes!!!! BTW you don't have to live in or near Amelia to visit Bark Avenue. The website is fully functional and Stacy ships to anywhere in the United States so be sure to check out the site!!!!!

October 26th 2007 Stacy is hosting a Halloween Parade, all the dogs will be dressed up in their costumes and will parade around the spa and shops. I'll be there taking photos for the store and possibly have a booth set up for those who want personal photos! Visit the site for more details, come on out and join us!!!!