Jill is starting an interior design business and decided it would be great to have some photos of herself for her new website and promotional materials. She saw my work after I did an engagement session for her best friend Kristy. Despite a vey muggy, drizzly morning I think we got some fun shots around the Soco area!

 It has been a pretty long time since I photographed any kiddos but my neighbor Karen and her friend Tracy asked me to do a session with them and their daughters and I thought it would be fun to try out my skills once more. It was a great time but I forgot how much work it is to photograph kids! Way back in the day I was a manager at a children’s and family portrait studio and it brought back memories - what an exhausting and backbreaking job! We started in my house for a few setups and then moved outside to a field near my house. I think it worked out great and Emily and Izzy are just too cute!

I was able to go to the Chen family home recently to do a portrait session for them that they won after making a generous donation to the American Heart Association last year. They were so great and their basset hound pup was so cute - I had a great time shooting their portraits.

I had such a great time shooting Jenny and Matt for what you might call their “anniversay” portraits. Jenny is Julianne’s sister (her bridals are a few posts down) and at Julianne’s shoot we got to talking about Jenny’s wedding pics and how she wished she had known me then. I suggested some “anniversary” portraits in their wedding clothes. Jenny convinced Matt who wasn’t too thrilled to don a tux again but Jenny said “he did it because he loves me.” So cute! Jenny even brought details from her wedding and I shot those for her so that she could use those in her album, since she didn’t get many pics of those items at her wedding.

This leads me to a tip - if I’m shooting your wedding - send me an invitation (and any other save the dates, etc) and/or bring it with you to the wedding or give it to me in advance. That way I can get a picture of it at the wedding!

I had so much fun photographing the girls of Elite Weddings recently! They are a hoot and it is impossible to take a bad pic of them because they are all gorgeous. Here are some of my favs!

I had so much fun photographing some anniversary portraits for Natalie and PJ this week. Natalie was married in South Texas over 4 years ago, and I photographed her bridal portraits over 4 years ago prior to her wedding. Time sure does fly, I was thinking she had been married just 2 or so years ago! Natalie ran the marathon the day prior to the shoot so was such a trooper to be walking around for pics!