Finishing Out 2010

Here are pictures from the last of my 2010 work. I'm starting fresh for 2011 with a brand new laptop and editing software, a new external flash, and (drum roll please)....the Canon 7D! I'm totally excited about this new year and all that it will bring! I have a couple's engagement pictures, Bridal's, and then wedding coming the first part of this year and can not wait to share the pictures from my new camera (the 7D). Although 2010 was a great year, I have a feeling 2011 is going to be better! Big plans, more learning, and new opportunities...

One thing I've learned this year, among a mountain of other things, is how beautiful people are, and how beautiful and precious life's moments are...those moments where we stop to kiss, laugh, capture our families in a photo, hold or sleeping babies, begin our life with the one we are so very much in love with...and because we can capture some of those special moments in a photograph we can awaken memories for ourselves, our children, for friends, for loved ones.

I hope the new year brings you all more precious moments. And that you take lots f pictures!
{I apologize for how some of the images do not look their best...for some reason when I upload them to the blog some images don't look as sharp as they really are.}
Thanks to all of you who gave support through 2010 and chose me as your photographer...because of you, my hobby is turning into something bigger!

  

Catching Up...or at least trying to...

A new post is way overdue! BUSY is all I can say for my excuse....and that I gave birth to our second baby girl, Nora! A lot of picture taking has happened since my last photo shoot and I have more photo shoots coming up! So lets start with the babies...

Babies are everywhere right now! I counted the other day 20 friends/family that have either already had their baby...recently, or are due soon (all within one year..most have been within the last few months!) I can't get enough of the sweet little newborns (especially my own). They are just precious little bundles of love.

Meet sweet baby Jake...born just a couple days after my little Nora. He's baby boy number 3 for my sweet-as-can-be-southern-mama friend, Mary Ann. The photos were taken on her bed using her bed quilt from Anthropology...I fell in love with it, and these pictures.

Next are the long-awaited-for twins; Maci and Dane. Alyssa and Ryan are the proud parents and some of our good friends. They went through a lot to get these two little munchkins here!

After the babies I was off to a wedding..my first, as the picture taker.

I love pictures with personality and that tell a story or capture a moment so I was so excited to do a wedding that would provide a lot of moments worth capturing.

The beautiful little bride is from Spain...and I love this picture because I told the girls to laugh {I was trying to help create a "moment" :)} but I'm not sure if Claudia, the bride, exactly understood my instruction here...but it makes for an adorable photo.

The pictures were taken on the grounds of the LDS Washington, DC temple.

I'll be posting more work and updating some things on this blog soon, so check back again!