{Karena, Senior 2015}

Benefits of your mom being a photographer:

a.) pictures anytime you want them

b.) free senior pics...with as many sessions as you want :)

I have been looking forward to taking my daughter's Senior pictures ever since I jumped into the photography business.  We've had a crazy, bumpy summer, but we finally got the chance to have her summer portrait session (in September), and could not have asked for a more beautiful day.  Blue skies, a slight breeze...just absolutely perfect; and, as always, Karena rocked the session (with a little inspiration from ANTM...America's Next Top Model...our secret addiction).  

I can't wait to see what the fall and winter sessions bring!

So, of course, being a photographer's daughter, we got to take advantage of both fall and winter seasons...snow days rock (although, it was absolutely FRIGID that day)!!

July 4th...in September

Holy cow.  I am just getting around to posting on the blog because somehow my life slipped into turbo speed and mass chaos in one fell swoop.  The first set of pictures I'm posting are from our little town's July 4th fireworks show...and let me tell you, it was a show that rivaled many big cities...well, at least some of the smaller of the bigger cities!  I had never taken pictures of fireworks before (I know, shocker there!), and I thought it would be a good chance to practice with longer shutter speeds.  So between mosquito swats (did I mention we live in the middle of mosquito-ville?), I was actually able to catch some decent shots!

This one isn't the city's fireworks...it's my son and his sparkler art (but it was too cute not to post).

{Lauren and David}

This is technichally my next "catching up" post, but it's also about the wedding of one of my close friends.  Lauren and I have been friends for several years...yes...we'll leave it at "several".  A few years ago, I was so thrilled when she asked me to take newborn pictures of her son, and then his six-month pictures, and one-year pictures (you get the idea); and I was almost beside myself when she asked me to take pictures for her wedding, because she is one of the most fun people to be around, and I knew this was going to be a super-cool event.  I had no idea that she had chosen one of the most beautiful churches for her ceremony, and the neatest reception location we have been at so far...I mean, really, there were just oodles (yes, that is a word) of places there to snap pictures, and the day was perfect.  Warm, but not sweltering, too early for the mosquito swarms, just enough poofy clouds to make the sky pretty, and a little breeze...sigh.  

We thought we'd died and gone to photographer heaven.

{Catching Up, Part I}

I knew it would eventually happen.  I was doing really well at managing the blog site, the website, juggling my other job, my children's activities, and suddenly I'm sitting here, finding myself three months behind...dang it.  I really wish there was some magic Blog Fairy that instantly uploaded photos (along with some fantastically clever comments) to this site.  Of course, I also wish there was a Laundry Fairy, a Homework Fairy (who specializes in really senseless Master's Program classes...like Ethics-I mean, who needs that, really?), and my favorite, the Personal Assistant Fairy.  I think maybe I listened to too many fables...or watched too much Disney.....

My prayers for random Fairies is not why you're visiting this blog, though.  
You want to see some spectacular pictures of fabulous people and breath-taking scenery...and I am not one to let anyone down, so here we go!

{Dustin, Senior 2014}