Ever Grateful

God is good... you know that... God is soooo very good!!! I've never had a public forum before where I can shout it out.. but this is my shout out! GOD IS GOOD!!!!

I have some of the best clients a girl could ask for!!! And I'm just blessed beyond measure.... and I just wanted to share that with you!

My Most Favoritest Photography Subject!

I grew up with a lot of older cousins. Me being the first great grandchild of my family meant that all my great aunts children wanted to play with me. Now that I've grown up the same cousins that so lovingly taught me what wedgies were and found all my ticklish spots, the ones that thought it was just sooo cute to make me scream, have now had children. I grew up very close to my cousin Billy who a few years back got married, and two years ago had, pretty much the cutest little girl ever! She has bar none become my favorite photography subject. I went to visit my great aunt this week and had my camera with me from doing a photo shoot and I decided to take it in with me just cause. Well my darling little Sydney happens to love the camera, her mother takes a lot of photos of her so she is very well acquainted with how cameras work these days. As soon as she had seen the camera she started to pose, and I'd snap a photo. She'd then run over to me put her head beside mine and look at the photo we just created, she'd laugh and look at me. Then I would ask her if she wanted to take another and she'd run over to where she was and pose again. This went on for a good 15mins solid!!!!! I think she might just be my protege :D

Here are some shots of Miss. Syd and her things...

God's Watching Over Me

Yesterday I had a group of ladies scheduled to take some Valentines Day photos for their husbands, or future husbands. I've been excited about this since I first decided to run the special. I got a great group of girls thanks to my November bride Heather that decided to tell all the "knotties" about the session. For those of you who don't know, theknot.com provides a message board for brides. Within this message board there are local forums as well as national forums, and the people that post on the forums are called "knotties"

Heather informed all the "knotties" of my special for Valentines Day and a group of great gals contacted me and scheduled their day. A makeup artist friend of mine also joined in on the fun for the day and did the ladies makeup. So, this was a pretty good little event for me. Up until the night before nothing major had gone wrong to foil any plans, and lets face it something always goes wrong when I'm excited about something.

Low and behold the night before the shoot an assistant (another photographer) told me that her husband had surprised her and her son with tickets to the Circus and she was not going to be able to make it. Typically this would not be an issue but she had the STUDIO LIGHTS. I'm primarily an on location photographer so I have very little when it comes to a studio set up. I have back drop stand, some minor lights and a good flash that's about it! My photographer friend offered me many solutions to the issue at hand and the only feasible one seemed to be building diffusion panels, and using some really strong lights.

Saturday morning, Wes and I frantically ran around Jacksonville getting PVC pipe and material to build these panels. By the time we got to JoAnne's we were both already tired and ready for the day to be over. It was around 11AM, my photo shoot was to start at 3PM. I went inside JoAnne's fabrics and asked where I could find my material and told the lady I needed 6 yards, but by the looks of it there wasn't six yards to be had. The woman went on with measuring out the material first there was a one yard remnant, and my heart just sunk! Then she began pulling the material one yard at a time... We got to 4 yards and she was still turning out more material... I couldn't believe my luck there was exactly 6 yards of material after that remnant!!!!! I looked at my husband and said to him God is watching over my project today!!!

Praise Him!