...down on the farm

This past Sunday, I had a wonderful opportunity to take pictures of a really cute couple. They wanted pictures at their family's pasture...and WOW, what a great backdrop. Thanks K & M for a really fun day!

This is a pose I'd seen before, and figured I'd give it a shot!

...Going to the chapel - Part 2

Processing these wedding photos is taking longer than I had intended. Addyson's birthday party was this past weekend and consumed most of my time last week. But never fear - I'm working diligently to finish all editing so the happy couple can enjoy all their pictures!

The happy couple:


The bride's flowers were gorgeous!




The flower girl


The Groom


What a lucky guy - surrounded by pretty girls!


...to be continued....next up - booty shaking!

....Going to the chapel

This past Saturday I had the great honor of taking pictures to document the wedding day of dear friends. This post will be part one of many. I am in the processing stage and I have a couple hundred to sort through. After shooting this wedding, I've come to the realization that wedding shoots make me WAY too nervous. Here are a couple of shots of the gorgeous bride as she was preparing to walk down the aisle...




I wish I would have thought to wear these at my wedding!

Family...

I recently added a new lens to my arsenal and couldn't be happier. It's a 50mm f/1.8 and I love it. This past Sunday I had a family shoot and I was so pleased with the way the pictures turned out. It also helps to have that awesome late afternoon sun...

Trick or Treat.....Meow!

This year Addyson really got to enjoy Halloween and actually kept her costume on for longer than 5 minutes. I actually had to pry it off of her...she enjoyed being a Pretty Kitty. I haven't had time to process this shots and therefore they're pretty snap-shotty... LOL

She loved the hot pink boa trim...


She had fun on the big girl swing at a friend's house...she couldn't keep her kitty ears on though:





She had so much fun swinging like this - but I was freaking out because I thought she would fall backwards...poor girl is a little clutz...she gets that from her daddy! :)

Got Jeep....Will Crawl....

Wow, it's been a while since my last post and so many things have happened...so I'm going to try feverishly to get back up to date. Rewind back to the weekend of October 26th, Brad and I took a trip with the Cypress Offroad (COR) jeep club to do a little rock climbing at Katemcy Rocks in Katemcy, TX.

We've been members of COR for 4 years now and the outings are always fun, but they include primitive camping. Now, I don't mind the camping so much, but I hate cooking and cleaning in a primitive manner....and the lack of indoor plumbing doesn't really blow my skirt up either. But, I was a good wife and allowed this trip to happen (on our ANNIVERSARY, I might add) and we had a great time. The part of Texas that we traveled through was something I'd never seen before and it was absolutely gorgeous. Being stuck in Cypress all my life, I never would have known that other parts of the state had hills, cactus and what....low humidity? What's that? Katemcy Rocks was by far the most awesome place we'd been to for wheeling...just take a look:

On the way to the first trail

This is why I like to take pictures from the OUTSIDE of the jeep!

Brad's brother Brian has been working on his rock crawling buggy for a year now and finally got to take it out to play...

Look at the buggy flex

Our own little Texas Stonehenge

This trip allowed me a great backdrop to try out different things with my camera...check out my sunflare!

It's not the Aggie bonfire, but it sure looks neat...

Oh yeah, and I wonder if Brian is still there holding up that rock??!?!

...more infant session....

I just finished editing all the pictures from the infant session. I'm getting better with Photoshop, but still feel like I have so much to learn. I was pretty pleased at the post processing result on these photos. Hopefully the proud parents are even more pleased :)

This was using a black/white layer and the eraser feature to expose the color layer beneath


This is the vignette feature that I just found earlier this week....


This is straight out of the camera, it could have been post processed, but I liked it the way it was


This is one of my favorites - I used the vignette and the black/white layer