Hi, my name is Liana Lehman. Thanks for visiting my personal photo news blog that we fondly refer to as 'liana's bananas' thanks to my childhood nickname and tendency to post about crazy, fun happenings.

I'm extremely blessed to be doing what God has called me to do - helping others achieve the impossible and experience the beauty about them always!

I hope to share my adventures through this blog -- including my more recent 101 in 1001 challenge!

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This is a place for me to post all the latest happenings in my world - whether it be recent images from destination weddings and lifestyle portrait shoots, something silly that's going on, and even some personal stuff.

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Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Eclectic House

We are in the middle of a Boot Camp here in Seattle and are staying at
this neat eclectic house overlooking lake Washington.

Monday, January 28, 2008

Seattle

Made it to Seattle!

Saturday, January 26, 2008

Opening Night

Thanks to the wonderul E (eric laurits), Shy, Sarah,Crystal and I got
to see a great play tonight called Plainsong here in Denver. He was
here for his Masters and took most of the actor headshots that hang on
this wall. Thanks E! It was opening night. There was a seeing eye
dog a few seats over from us who added his bark in to the tune of a
bark sound on the set! LOL!

Friday, January 25, 2008

Leaving Vail

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Seven in Vail

Yesterday was quite the adventure, doing some volunteer work in the morning, taking pictures all over Denver and meeting some amazing people.
Then we headed up to Vail where we'll be for a few days - relaxing, bonding, attempting to heat up the hot tub so we can bear sitting in it, cooking, eating, dreaming, brainstorming, and goal-setting.

Today I woke up early with the snow bolder on the roof of our house in Vail reflecting bright sunlight into my room.

Crystal was already up, making a special "life-changing" breakfast of hot, sticky cinnamon buns. Mmmmmmm. Jasmine had to leave early, so we headed to the Lionshead Village in Vail, for lunch and some exploring. I got an amazing pair of Uggs after an unsuccessful hunt weeks earlier in Atlanta. Finally, warm feet!

Special thanks to Shyla for putting this picture collage together :) Here we are: Crystal Goss, Jenna Walker, Me, Amy Nave, Jasmine, Sarah Barlow, and Shyla

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Vail is Beautiful!!

View from our cabin

Monday, January 21, 2008

Made it to Denver!!!

WOW. What a week!

I'm happy to report that I've safely made it to Denver, Colorado after 25 hours of (unexpected) driving in the past 72 hours.... and 9 hours of speaking (on my feet) at PPA of Nebraska yesterday :)

Our route covered:

Georgia
Tennessee
Kentucky (yeah, saw Elizabethtown and the National Quilt Museum!)
Illinois
Missouri
Kansas
Iowa (I lived there for 4 months in a round house when I was 4 :) )
Nebraska


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I have to thank my dear Shyla for coming on this insane adventure with me because I'm not sure I'd have made it to Nebraska on time or in any condition to speak to an audience of other photographers all day if it weren't for her!!!


The people at Nebraska PPA were so sweet and welcoming! I think I must have been babbling and not making sense at the end due to my lack of sleep but they stuck with me and we had lots of fun talking about changes we'll be making to our businesses in 2008.

Afterwards, we joined Shane and Erin Melenbacker for a quiet, healthy dinner (ohh so nice!) before hitting the sack at EIGHT PM. I think that's officially the earliest I've gone to bed in a long time!

Shyla, Me, Erin, and Shane in Grand Island, Nebraska last night

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Today it was rise and shine early thanks to twelve hours catch-up-sleep, then off to Denver, Colorado. A group of us will be doing some volunteer photography work for Volunteers of America then heading to Vail for an R&R biz retreat for the rest of the week. I'm hoping I get in some time to catch up on the blog but I'm not sure what the internet will be like up there so I'll likely be answering emails when I'm back to Denver on the weekend (Sara will be keeping up with emails too so no worries!)

Sunday, January 20, 2008

Snowed in: not quite! 18 hr drive cross country!

Shyla and I did the unimaginable today: drove across America from Atl
to Nebraska thanks to snow closing down all flights out of Atlanta and
the south. Craziness!

Friday, January 18, 2008

I'm Back !!!

70 and Sunny to SNOW!!!!????

What an unexpected surprise to return to!

After cruising the Caribbean for a week, we arrived home late Sunday night and I was up early Monday for a photo shoot and for a whirlwind day of meeting, errands, and preparation.

Tuesday - Thursday was 24/7 Photo Biz Boot Camp stuff and today has been preparing to leave town again.

Needless to say, my blogging has been postponed.... and I'm running out the door again now.... so more to come ASAP....

The Beach en Mexico!

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Sunday, January 6, 2008

We Made It On Board!

On our way to GrandCaymen, Honduras, Belize, and Mexico!

GONE ON VACATION THIS WEEK!

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I've been looking forward to posting a lot of New Years fun stuff and tons from the holidays, but instead I've been doing what I usually do before I leave on a big trip out of the country: dealing with technology demons! It never fails I tell you! Anyhow, I've decided to let others work it out for me and will be posting all the fun stuff upon return.

I'll be OUT OF THE COUNTRY this week (Jan 6-13), cruising around the Caribbean, with little to NO access to email, phone, or internet.
Stay tuned for pics and reviews of the adventure ... :)

ATTN CLIENTS: Sara will be responding to emails and taking calls in the office while I am out. Email is finally up and running again so please resend anything that did not go thru and Sara will be happy to help:)

Friday, January 4, 2008

Email, Websites DOWN

ATTENTION clients, friends, etc...

My email and websites have been down since sometime this afternoon. This means that anything you've sent me or the design team since then has not gone through and it may need to be re-sent.

Please direct communications to info at photobizbootcamp.com as this is still working. Our hosting company is working to remedy this problem ASAP.

Thank you for your patience with this and stay tuned for updates on the blog! :)

 

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