Lindsie and Garrett were married back in June and I still think of there wedding. Maybe it's because I just finished there huuuggee wedding album and maybe because I had a grand 'ol time with them and there family. To celebrate the album being finished, I decided to share a very large post of their wedding images. Enjoy!
This weekend Ben and I celebrated with Lindsay and Byron as they got married. We had the photobooth set up and it couldn't have gone any better. Their guests were wild and crazy and absolute sweet hearts.A few sneak peeks for your little eyes...
I love it that Byron and Lindsay really got in to the groove with the photobooth
cool shoes!
Everyone threw popcorn as they left the building
I received a Facebook message the other day from Lexi who is a client, but also someone I'd like to call a friend.
"Just wanted to tell you that I made you a little something for doing such a great job on Ezra's pics! It's a little late, I have been meaning to do it for a while...time has flown by!
But anyways I would love to bring it by sometime when you will be home :)"
And this is her sweet gift she made me. I will wear this with pride I tell you. I love it so much. I love it that Benson's name is on it and I feel like he is close by me even when he is not.Thank you Lexi for thinking of me and for being so thoughtful. You are so crafty and creative. And I will cherish this necklace forever. I mean it- for-evvvv-ur.
On Sunday, August 16, 2009 Ben and I celebrated 7 years of marriage :) One of our traditions we like to do is watch our wedding video. Its so awesome to look back at our wedding SEVEN years ago (hard to believe) and be reminded of what great blessings we've had in our lives together. Its also a great reminder of how a wife and husband should be towards one another. Our minister (good 'ol Russ Murphy) said the wife should be an encourager and the husband a protector and provider. I know Ben has been both a protector and provider for me and our son. He is a hard worker and a still makes time for us and always has and I know always will. I hope that I have been a good encourager to Ben. I know for year numero 8 I am making that my goal as a wife; to be an encourager and give affirmation every day in some way or another. Recently Ben was telling me that he is thankful for me being his wife, but I also want to say thank you Ben for being my husband. Not only is he the BEST husband, but he is also the BEST dad to our son. As we watched the wedding video Benson was in the living room with us and we never even thought that one day we would be sharing this with our baby boy. Life is so special and sweet and I just can't praise God enough. (giving God a big MUAH right now)
This was one of our first dates. We were very new at dating, but were officially boyfriend and girlfriend at this point :) We had just been to a LeeAnn Womack concert that sadly got rained out. Our friend Jay Reed took this picture for us, and it is one of my very very very favorite pictures of ALL times of me and Benny.
Inspiration comes in many colors. You just have to look for them...
Two words: Fabu-lous! Christina was gorgeous tonight with her ever so lovely wedding dress on. I can't wait for Jeff to see her in it on their wedding day. His knees will be uh shaken and might give out when he gets a look at his beautiful bride.
We are having a garage sale this Saturday, Aug 15th from 8-11 am. We are selling furniture, camping stuff, vacuum, heavy duty carpet cleaner, lawn tools, ginormous dinning table, filing cabinet and lots more. Oh and almost all of the clothes are going to be 25 cents each. Come by and check it out and say hi!
We hope to see you :)
Tonight I met up with some friends for dinner at Stellas in Lubbock and then on to shooting each other. It was the first time for me to meet Shari and Memoree and they were a delight to be around. I have hungered to be with some photog girlfriends and take pictures of each other and I was very excited when Lauren Z invited me to go with them.I had so much fun and wish we could do this every week! Thanks girls!
The beautiful Lauren Zaffos who is almost 7 months preggers.
Fabulous Memoree
Silly Lauren
Lovely Shari
And one of me Lauren C took
This weekend Aleisha and Chris got married, and here are two of my favorite images...Stunning couple aren't they!
I'm blog stalker of the month on my friend Lauren Clark's blog :) If ya want to know some random things about me then go check it out!
A little sneak peek from my bridal session last night...
I am working on Lindsie and Garrett's album and came across this image. I love it for the story it tells. The sweet granddaughter doing grandma's hair while mom/daughter looks on with a big smile on her face. Everything about this image is sweet and something I know they will cherish forever. I love it when an image speaks to me, and this one does exactly that.
I was looking through the wedding images from Amanda and Richards wedding last weekend and fell in love with this one right after I took it. I knew I loved it then, and I still love it now. It is my new favorite image.
Hey there wedding clients. I have updated my products page with the albums I carry. Simply go to the menue bar above, scroll your mouse over links, then click on products. The French Album comes with Wedding One
The Soho Album comes with Wedding Two
The Parents album is an add on. Think Christmas presents!
Have a lovely Wednesday.
Check Lindsie and Garrett out on the Wedding Chicks site. This is an awesome site full of resources for brides. Go check it out!
Thanks for leaving comments on my last post about what you want to see more of on my blog. A couple of you were curious with what gear I use and so I would like to share with you.
I will introduce one piece of gear at a time, starting with Canon's 50mm F1.2
Why do I love this lens? Simple. It has a large maximum aperture of f/1.2 providing outstanding speed for shooting in low light conditions, and you don't even need to use a flash. The large aperture also provides fine control over depth of field. It's so awesome. The glass in the lens is spectacularly crisp too.
before after
Technical info: ISO 200, 1/400 @ f4.0
Even though I love shooting at f1.2, I don't do it all the time because I like to change it up. I originally had these settings when we were playing ring around the rosey and they were moving in a circle. I have it at f4.0 so I can make sure they are in focus for the most part. And the same answer goes for why I have it at 1/400 speed. Gotta have fast speed when around moving kiddos. So even though these settings weren't specifically picked for this picture, it still works.
Photoshop Talk: (all from Totally Rad Actions)
Yin/Yang
Select Pop (paint over areas with brush)
Flatten
Oh Snap 56%
Get Faded (winter) 36%
Get Faded (summer) 27%
Flatten
Boutwell Magic Glass 71%
Then after looking at the images I thought there was too much grass, so I cropped it down.
Why did I chose this picture?
I love these little girls and how they play with one another. As I was watching at how extremely sweet they were to one another I yelled back at mom asking if they were always like this. She gave me a look and then laughed :) The oldest daughter is a huge helping hand with the two little ones. The middle child is well, a little independent. She is doing her own thing even though you want her to look at the book and act like she is interested in what her sister is reading, she honestly just doesn't care. And that just makes me laugh, because that is SO me. This image portrays the older sister as the mother figure, the middle sister as the independent one, and the littlest girl as the follower and listener. This is also interesting to me even more now that we have a baby of our own. I wonder what he will grow up to be like, and what a future sibling one day in the far off future will be like and how they will be with each other.
More to follow...maybe tomorrow.
I've been wondering the last few days how people know about my blog and how often they visit. The only people I know that visit are those that leave a comment and when you do, I love going to your website, or blog and checking out your work and leaving comments too. For the past six months or so my blogs are imported on to my Facebook page and I know some have checked out the blog because of that. However I took it off of Facebook, because I wanted people to come to the blog and view my pictures there, not just on Facebook and leave a comment on my blog hopefully :) But maybe that is how some of you know to look at the blog. So all this to say I'm curious as to how you hear about my blog/website and if you like what you see.
What would you like to see more of?
Also, I wanted to say that I wish I wrote more on my sessions, but I really don't do a very good job at it so I keep it short and simple. Would you like to know more about the sessions or do you really care?
Alrighty then. I want this blog to not only be about the work I do, but I want it to also be about my clients and bloggers. So speak up and let me know what you think on the blog topics and posts too.
A picture to part you with of the homemade strawberry ice cream we made a few months back on a hot summer day in our fun Anthropologi bowls :)
Have a fun Monday night!
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