Coffee Shop Fun!

WOW! I am so excited! Can you hear it!!!! Look at the exclaimations points!!!!!!  I need your help though.....all my clients.........This is for you!!


In May, an awesome local coffee shop has offered to allow me to put up some of my work and this is my chance to say thank you to you...with a big something to hang on your wall AT AN UBBER DISCOUNTED PRICE.....I haven't decided what the product will be but........I would like to know what your favorite print is from your session.    Please email me! Or comment below....

We will have an opening night for the show and  you are invited...the pictures will be up all month and you can take them home if you purchase them at sometime during the month when the show is over (June) and hang it up on your wall....so this is your chance to hang out in a coffee shop all month and feel right at home!!  

I cannont wait to see you all in one place and say thank you to each and everyone of you personally! 

Now to get serious.....I've got to find the perfect product! What are your suggestions? What would you like up on your wall?  I think I'm going to put this one up on mine...... Seriously.  I can't stop looking at it.

Mid-winter fun day!

It's already snowed this year....it's been freezing!! Global warming in reverse maybe? Global cooling more like.  I know my poor relatives and friends in Massachusetts are really not feeling this snow anymore.....and frankly, probably are not feeling so sorry for me right now.....Next year though, I'm thinking that it will be a different story. 

 Speaking of stories, this family has got one! They booked a while ago for their adorable little girls 3rd Birthday picture and I've got to tell you, I was sweating it a bit because of all of the interesting weather. Well wouldn't you know that it was most beautiful day and time I've probably EVER had the chance to photograph.  The day was full of warm, sunny, smiling light soft and diffused through the trees. I had to keep reminding myself that I was in fact awake, not dreaming,  and that I probably shouldn't have been running along that boardwalk like a little girl. It was just SO much fun!! Glad I didn't fall flat....that would have been somewhat embarrassing!

 We had a blast! Candy and cake pops, with skipping and jumping, what a great time!  Giggles and fence climbing and hanging upside down!  It was great to hang with you  all again!!! It had been too long! Thanks for everything! :)

Restart..go..

It's been one of those crazy times where I really got to take a real hard look at things and realize that, yup, I needed to improve on some things.  Well not just some things, MOST things.   What?  I've realized that I want to put out more quality and not just in photography,  but everything.... So...that is what I am going to be focusing on. Quality, not quantity, quantity can only go so far and for now I think am done with quantity.  We all want more quality, but are we willing to slow down, write out our direction on paper and go for it?! Its been a while....about 11 years to be exact in May, that we have done that.  I'm going to be looking at these goals every day and ask
"What have I done today, to achieve these?"  Minutes make up hours, and hours make up days, and days make up lifetimes. Not going to start this year meandering to just somewhere I'll end up.

So I am going to share some of my goals for this year. 

 Spend my the first part and last part of the day hanging out with my Father--upstairs.

Spend at least 1 hour a day laughing with my family.  I don't care how....You Tube videos could be a winner on this one.

Spend time with friends and family.....helping, living, loving, serving, jumping, playing, swimming, giving my best to all that did not get the best of me in 2010 and THAT fact made me sad, since we are moving a gazillion miles away (or so it seems)

Work on school as much as I can, the best that I can, but there will be limit. It won't be taking over my life. Alaska, has many hours of darkness, I'm going to save some fun schoolwork for then.

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Running again...at least 3.5 miles 3 times a week.......its half of what I used to call normal but have not done in way too long.  And now that I have put it out there......I have a Gold's Gym membership and need to be held accountable-so hold me accountable. I won't be upset.

Take Ah-mazing pictures, work on improving my skills, networking with other photographers,  and keep going until I get it right.

Notice:   The order of this list.

It is in the order in which I will work everyday. 

I LOVE,LOVE, LOVE, taking pictures but there is taking them and there is living in them. 

This brings me to the part that I am not wanting to do with every ounce of my being.........UGGG!!!

I only have about 5 full session appointments left available from now until May in the CSRA area. 

I cannot tell you how much you all mean to me and I can't say thank you enough for all that you have inspired, your ideas, love, and friendship.  You mean so much to me....and now I'm tearing up...so with that I will leave you with an image that is very close to my heart...........