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More pics from our little Christmas Vacation to the Bahamas about a week and a half ago...
Your World Is Our Studio. I have so much more to say about this... it has to do with a business long overdue for it's launch, but for now I simply want to post these images.
This weekend was an awesome reminder of WHY I do what I do. I LOVE love LOVE capturing people in their natural environments. In fact, I dug my studio lights out of the basement, dusted off the spider-webs, and priced them out for ebay this week.
There's something about being invited into a family's home and life... and capturing them in their own environments. No bright lights or drives to the studio. No hassle or packing everything up and bringing it along. No pretense of pretending to be natural and happy on sterile white backdrops. Just opening the door and being yourself.
I was honored when the Steffe family invited to make the first portrait of their 5-month-old darling baby girl. Here are a few of my favorites.
I've been having a rough week. Literally. We got off a cruise ship 4 days ago and I'm STILL rocking. With the holidays around the corner, and work to catch up on, I've had a rough time getting my feet planted firmly on the ground.
Every morning I wake up "Please God make the movement have stopped today!" and then I'm greeted with the swaying motion that is in my head that I've grown accustomed too. Throwing off my equilibrium, keeping my stomach tied up in knots, and distracting me from the tasks at hand.
So here's to another nights rest, and hopefully waking up in the morning without the motion!
We're back!!!
We got back last night after a long drive home from FL after our quick weekend cruise to the Bahamas. I've got more pics to share but here's one of our ship docked in Nassau around sunset. It was SOOOO rocky that I didn't make it to dinner on the last night and am STILL swaying even after being off the ship foe 24 hours!!
When will the rockin' stop?? 
Above: Picture straight out the camera (Canon 5D Mark II with 28mm f1.8 lens)
NO time for a detailed review, but here is a video or two of Mikey and I messing around with the fun video function. It's a WHOLE new world because it doesn't allow you to auto-focus while shooting video, so you have to balance holding the camera, changing settings, and focusing manually.
These are ALL handheld, straight from the camera (resized for web using iMovie), and have NO post-production edits. Pretty loud too.
We're down in FL now a stone's throw from Downtown Disney after a long long drive (also due in part to my detour to Tampa to pick up my new 5D Mark II!!) Yeah!
I may or may not be posting updates along the way but I will be turning off the email and not checking the office line except for emergencies. Vacation time!!
This trip is a surprise as Mikey's Christmas gift since one of our favorite things to do together is travel. I seem to have a hard time surprising him though. I still have a surprise or two up my sleeve (but he can probably guess since it's obvious now that we're in the Disney-area!!) We'll see...
I'm so excited for these two! Jessica and I met a few years ago when we both traveled to Brazil for a mission trip. We became quick friends, and she is one of what I call my "goofy" friends because when you get the two of us together, there's NO stopping the nonsense and giggles. I'll spare my blog readers endless recounts of our late-night (oh and during the day too) antics!
We actually did the first part of their engagement session about a month ago. They brought Michael, the handsome pup that is SUCH a doll... well, they call him "bear" also. I've gotten to know Michael pretty well on road-trips home and even seen him catch a football in his front paws!
The SECOND part of their session we went on a double date to No Mas Cantina this past weekend and shot some more urban pics around the area then went for dinner.
I've got a gazillion things to do before leaving town tomorrow AM, so I'll let the pictures do the talking:
As per the advice of my photography professor, it's best to title your work by the FIRST thing that comes to mind when you see it finished.
It was the very end of our family session and we were about to pull the drapes back so Marshall's little sister could nap... when he turned around to see his face mirrored in my 50 1.2. He stood mesmerized long enough for me to snap the one on the left. 
For those of you who are married or have been married...
What's your best advice for planning a wedding?
AND
Best advice for marriage??
Just curious ;)
I need to go to bed earlier. When I stay up late I do funny things like order beverages from France. I was wise though, even in my deliriousness, and checked the exchange rate first to be sure it was in my budget. LOL.
Anyways, anyone read French? 
I know I can look up the translation but those always do a lousy job and posting here is more fun.
My guess is that it's telling me they are confirming that my order will be shipped on December 5th. Am I right??
What's this for?? You will see... in about four months!!
Another of the 101 in 1001 days mini-goals accomplished!! This goal REALLY helped with my blog-slacking tendencies. I think this is one I'd like to continue with at least until I'm out of town for a month next year!
The blogging spree started in early September, with posts reporting clues about where we are getting married (in FOUR months as of today!!)
The past few months have included posts about
- cake DIY trials,
- Launching a new business
- "A Dollar Worth of Laughs"
- Lots of controversial posts
- Bridal Showers to host
- Planning our own wedding, then un-planning it, and re-planning it (always getting married, just road-bumps in the day-of plans)
- Interesting Adventures
- Some weddings and funerals
- Seeing my photography in a book you can buy at Borders
- The lens I am now obsessed with and could never live without
- Running out of Gasoline and not being able to get it for FOUR days!
- Teaching three fabulous Boot Camps that I'm about to blog more pics of this weekend,
- Lots more nonsense, pictures, work stuff, travel stuff, and personal stuff
I'm realizing now, as I go through the archives, that I still have SO much to post that I haven't yet. Namely, lots of my 101 in 1001 that have been accomplished but not posted about. Non-slacker and slacker at the same time I am!
So here's to THREE months+ of continuous blogging and hopefully another three more at least... we'll see ;)
I have this problem.
- First of all, I'm NOT a morning person, nor do I like breakfast foods.
- Second, I work from a home office most of the time when I'm not traveling all over the place.
- Third, I have roommates and friends that offer to pick me up some food when they're driving to Wendy's or Chic Fil A or the yummy taco place down the street.
- Also, I'm engaged to a wonderful guy that much prefers eating out because he too works from home (his own home).
All of these excuses pale though in comparison to the fact that SOMETIMES (okay, most of the time) I just get too wrapped up in work and whatever task is at hand to remember to eat. This has been going on for years now. My old assistant Audrey would remind me daily and tell me to go take a break. I think I need her back!
What happens is I forget to eat then someone will offer to pick something up for me which is usually not on my list of "must-eat-healthy-foods." OR I get so busy that I ignore my hunger pains until my stomach starts screaming it's profanities at me and threatening to make me feel weak. It's usually around 3PM when I remember and I'm running out the door and grabbing fast food or something else equally unhealthy on the run. I HAVE plenty of food at hand, it's just not convenient.
None of this bodes well when you're trying to "get healthy" and on "Operation: Wedding Dress." Somehow not eating until 3PM is worse than eating a huge breakfast or snacking all day. I could buy the pre-packaged Lean Cuisines or other TV frozen-dinner variety, but they're darn expensive, most taste like rubber, and they leave you feeling hungry still afterwards. Yuck.
My solution?? Go back to my college-habits. In college, I would pick a day every few weeks and have a cooking-marathon. I'd get the kitchen all dirty making four to five different meals at a time, then packaging them to go into the freezer in individual pre-packaged portions. Each week, I'd pull out a few meals of different varieties and move them to the fridge and that is what I ate for lunch or dinner and supplemented with fresh fruits, veggies, and other meals throughout the week. I didn't forget to eat when I had those.
So yesterday I picked up the groceries, hauled an ungodly amount of food into the house, and cooked up a storm from 9PM to 2AM. I have enough meals to last me a month now and there are still more to package! 
So far I have:
Two oriental dishes
One sweet/sour Caribbean-inspired dish
One chicken-mushroom savory dish
One Mexican dish, and
One Italian dish
I still have a few more to whip up in the next few days plus all that left-over turkey to make into meals so we'll actually eat it. Each "dish" makes 4-6 individual meals and Mikey is going to be a lucky-recipient of some of these because I just don't have enough room (plus he needs to remember to eat too!)
So there it is... homemade Lean Cuisines!! Much tastier and more affordable though! Convenience and home-cooking all wrapped into one.
We will see how this helps out my pocketbook, waistline, and health overall...
The polls were quiet today. I expected a wait and found none at all. I got the vibe that the poll workers were really bored.
This Sunday after church we stopped by Jason's Deli next to the "disco Kroger" for lunch and low and behold... there was Saxby Chambliss having lunch with his wife. Just going through the salad bar like the rest of us do.
I have to admit I wrote him a letter earlier this year and told him it would be difficult for me to vote for him if he voted for the bail-out plan (he did, and I'm still not keen on it!). I also admit that I went out and did what we told him on Sunday we'd be doing... voting for him.
They just announced his win and I'm thankful that a Republican is taking one of the final Senate seats... ensuring that there WILL be SOME form of checks and balances in this government!
Chambliss’ double-digit victory dashed Democrats’ dreams of securing a filibuster-proof, 60-vote “super majority” in the Senate
After three days of research on the net and making a new home in the travel section of Barnes and Nobles, we MAY have a rough itinerary...
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