Preview :: Bridal Shoot :: Atlanta Photog Meetups

Have you ever stopped and wondered how in the world did I start thinking about this? Then you retrace your thoughts back to square one and sit there shaking your head at how completely random your thought process is?

Sometimes events in your life can work in a similar vein. I can not even begin to tell you how I started reading half of the blogs that I do. One link led to another link that led to another is usually how it goes.

One such blog is that of Chris and Allie Bartelski of "the reason". One day I found myself on their blog viewing this post and I was in love so I commented on it to tell them so. To my surprise, I got a response from Allie that same day thanking me for checking them out.

Due to the amazingness of their photography that I admired, the inevitable internet stalking began, and I became Facebook friends with Allie as well. Then she let me know about this group they started on Facebook for the express purpose of local area photographers meeting up and talking and networking and all that good stuff. Awesome, awesome, awesome. I love meeting new photographers and picking their brains, as morbid as that expression is.

Sooooo, long story short, we had one such meeting this Tuesday up in Atlanta and it was arranged not only to meet new photographers but to have a kick butt "trash the dress" shoot. Needless to say it was {{say it with me now}} AWESOME!

Despite the freezing temperatures, the models were real troopers and we all had a blast. I haven't had the chance to work on too many but I wanted to get a few up kind of as a preview so I picked several.

This first picture is not really what I would consider my style as much but it stood out to me and I had to add it in the preview. I think it's Angela's piercing gaze.

Photographing Michelle made me realize all over again that I wish I had red hair and freckles. {{sigh}}

I have to say that this is definitely one of my favorites.

The lens flare was not always my friend on this photo shoot but in this case, I think I just might forgive it.

I really am endeavoring to get better about blogging so look out for some more posts coming soon. Until then. . .

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Our Snow Day :: Covington Georgia

I meant to have these images up before the end of the evening, but hey, better late than never.

When I found out that Liam was off for a snow day I was skeptical of the actuality of snow. We got to fall asleep for a nap together to the sight of snow and when Spencer got home from work he went in to wake up Liam and the next series of images are of Liam waking up and seeing that the snow had actually accumulated on the ground.

The excitement led to Spencer and Liam having a fun tickling and throwing session on the bed.

I love my boys.

This is what Spencer referred to as the bald spot in our yard.

As beautiful as the accumulation was at this point it got so much more beautiful.

Liam's first venture out into the snowy yard.

Liam wanted to make footprints.

Spencer got to take control of the camera for a bit and got some shots of me enjoying the snow.

And then we switched. Isn't it funny how adults turn into kids around snow?

Liam's pure excitement over the snow was very contagious and we all had a blast. Reminds me of the line from a Dave Matthew's song "I love you oh so well. Like a kid loves candy or fresh snow."

A few recent blog posts inspired me to look at my out of focus images before discarding them to see what I might be missing. In the case of the shot below, I am glad that I did.

Spencer was very proud of catching my "snow booger".

The next are just a series of images that either Spencer and I took that to me are just hauntingly beautiful. I honestly do not know if I would love snow as much if I was around it all the time, but I do. Watching it fall and transform the most ordinary things into something beautiful is completely mesmerizing to me.

Once we were inside and Liam was sitting at the kitchen table waiting to drink his hot chocolate, I noticed the snowflakes he and I had made hanging up and thought how cute it would be to capture our art imitating life. ;)

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The In-Laws :: Covington Georgia family photography

One universal truth about many photographers is that pictures of themselves is rare unless they so happen to have many local photographer friends. Even more rare are family portraits.

I grew up in a small four person family so when I got married and my husband’s family was quite large it took some getting used to on the rare occasion that we all get together. We take advantage of the time off around the Thanksgiving holidays to enjoy each other’s company and this year, I arranged for us to have some fun family pictures together using my tripod. We had a lot of fun and I got some shots that will be adorning my walls soon. I love to see how different people react when they are told to act silly. As soon as I step away from the group and get behind the camera, they get REALLY silly. We walked over to the nearby golf course to get some more sunny shots. This would be all of us encouraging Liam to do the robot. He was feeling sad that his aunts and uncles were leaving that day so it was actually struggle getting him to be silly. Liam and his Emily. I love how this next series turned out. Isn’t it nice to be so in love three sons and one grandson later and being married for so long. Love, love, LOVE these! The next three are really my favorite and one of these three is going to be the one going on my wall. contact me or view my online portfolio. . .