July 9, 2009
July is already booked and I’m starting to book August already as well so I thought I’d go ahead and post my fall schedule.
I will be offering the mini sessions for Holiday cards again this year – details to be posted soon.
One new change for the fall is that all photo sessions must be prepaid within one week of booking to hold your date. You can pay by check or credit/debit card – just let me know your preference.
July 7, 2009
Hi or should I say Guten Tag!
We are back from Germany and home for a couple of weeks before we head off again to visit my family in Indiana. Well I say visit but it’s really to celebrate my dad’s 60th birthday… Yay!
Just a quick heads up that believe it or not… it’s almost time to start thinking about booking your fall photo sessions if you want photos for Christmas/Holiday cards.
I will put up a calendar in Aug. as to what days I have available. My kids will be in sports this fall so I will be limiting session and only shooting two weekends per month (I also have to leave some room for rainouts etc).
Also… I will be introducing some new “Collections” that I have been working on and a few product updates so stayed tuned!
In the meantime, here are a few photos from our recent journey to Germany:
This is the castle we stayed a night in!
Cochem Germany
The mosel valley
Ernst by waterway
Ok – this last photo I must explain… our waitress asked us if we would like “matches”. I told her no … I’m good thanks. She said “they are free, it is matches festival tonight” so I thought, then said… “sure”………what the heck, I can use some “matches”……needless to say… I did not expect this to arrive in front of me. In Germany, matches=sardines. I’m sure I have misspelled this but I swear she said “matches”
June 9, 2009
Just a quick note to let you all know that I will be in Germany from Thursday the 11th of June returning late on the evening of the 16th. I will respond to any emails, phone calls etc when I return. Here is a little peek at one of the places we will be staying…..it’s a REAL Castle!
Be prepared to be overwhelmed by posts and pictures of Germany when I return…. whoot whoot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
June 9, 2009
I am so excited to share with you that I just sold a beautiful collection of 4 photos from a series I did while visiting my parents in Indiana. The wonderful lady who purchased them is having them framed in these unique old barn wood frames that are simply beautiful! I can’t wait to see them hanging on her wall! Deborah is just moving here and is a fantastic Interior Designer (I mean she chose some of my stuff so of course she HAS TO BE AWESOME!). Here home is to be included in the Charlotte Home show this fall! I can’t wait to see the collage on her walls. I promise to go take a picture of them once they are hung and post it back here, but for now… .here are the photos she chose.
June 8, 2009
I talk to many moms who say they don’t want to do maternity photos of their second pregnancy because they didn’t do it with their first baby and what I say is:
Your second child will never have all the “first’s” that your first child had so go ahead and let yourself do something “special” for this baby because it never seems to fail – you are busier with two kids so you don’t have as many photos of your second born, you don’t get that baby book done (or at least not with the same amount of detail) and the list goes on and on ESPECIALLY if you have two kids of the same sex…
So there you have it 
Go get those maternity photos done because each pregnancy if a gift to be cherished!
Thanks Chaeli for letting me take your photos on this second journey into motherhood! You look BEAUTIFUL and I have no idea how you are going to choose what photos to print because I love them all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
June 2, 2009
Ok – yes the song really goes “Jessie’s girl” but in this case Jessie is the girl and not any girl at that…. but my kick butt babysitter! I am so happy that I have met and gotten to know Jessie. She is so warm, fun, and plain old cheerful! My kids ADORE her and beg me to go out to dinner so Jessie can come over!
Jessie is set to get married here in July to her wonderful fiance Dave. Dave you did a FANTASTIC job with this photo session. I know for guys…doing a photo session is comparable to being poked in the eye with a hot stick…. but you didn’t even complain when I asked you to take off your shoes…..whoot whoot! Give it up for …… Jessie and Dave! I hope you guys have a wonderful destination wedding and I can’t wait to hear all about it!
May 25, 2009
I was lucky enough to take a nice walk with my family on the greenway today and thought I’d share a picture…. gotta love turtles!
May 20, 2009
I get asked all the time how I got started photographing kids and Kelly W is the answer
Many of you may know that I have been a hobbyist photographer since I was in high school and I LOVE to photograph scenic areas, travel, flowers, still life etc….. but a couple of years back after I took some photographs at our MOMS CLUB fire station tour and after seeing a shot I did of a mutual friends son… Kelly asked me about taking pictures of her kids. I was so nervous that I was going to totally flub them up.. but they are some of my all time favorite shot to date! Thanks Kelly for motivating me to try a new area of photography and for displaying your beautiful photographs all through your house!
My first EVER photo session:
And the W family now:
May 7, 2009
What can I say other than this little boy was a complete angel! I know he gave his momma a run for her money just before they arrived but what would motherhood be without that diaper explosion just before you leave the house… in your brand new outfit…. that you got just for pictures! One day mom – you really will laugh about that… maybe just not yet!
Check out this sweet little angel
May 4, 2009
Some people just have such a great energy about them that makes you just happy to be near them. I just fell in love with the Korvink family. Do you know what I mean when I say that you could just “feel the love”? They are such a wonderful and fun family and I can truly feel the love they have for their sweet sweet baby girl!
Oh and I am TOTALLY serious about doing another session with them and her husbands VW Van! They said it’s blue like Filmore in the movie CARS! I can’t wait!
