Peace Sign Project May 18

Friday May 18 Peace Sign Project!!! Please message me if you can make it.

Wedding Sweetness

Spring is Here!!

Image Collection {online portfolio #4}

One of my great friends, along with one of my favorite photos. I love that this is the photo in between the ones of them all sitting and looking at the camera. I love the way the boys are being themselves, the younger snuggled on his daddy's lap and the older boy being curious and exploring. The way that the couple look at one another with love and sweetness and tenderness despite all of the trails that come with children and marriage. This reminds of a real and authentic happy family. 

"Family is one of God's Greatest Masterpieces." don't know who said this but it is so true.

busy busy busy

I will get back to my favorites collection, I have been busy at the beautiful Davis Island Garden Club with  a great couple. Looking forward to a busy spring!

Image Collection {online portfolio #3}

 This image brings my joy, bring me a smile every time I look at it. It was taken at the Davis Island Garden Club in Tampa. I took a series of images as she spun, practiced and danced around ignoring my

presence. It was so refreshing that she just kept doing what she was doing. That comes in childhood, innocence, I think. We lose more and more of it as years go on, so looking at her reminded and I was thankful for her.

                                                                                                                                                              joy/joi/

Image Collection {online portfolio #2}

             I have included a few portraits of women on the morning of their weddings. They go from 4-5 hours before their ceremonies all the way in the limo the way to the alter. I feel wedding photography can be even more then even telling the whole story of a wedding, it is a passage way in a woman's life and soul. If the couple chooses to stay the course through a lifetime, a marriage can transform you to depths that could never be reached, would never be reached without it. I have only be married for 6 years and I am learning this.

           These women are beautiful, in love, they dress, they prepare, they readying themselves to new, to be different. I believe they will never be the same. I think further and I picture their young daughters viewing these, seeing her mother the morning she married their father. Glowing woman, classic, independent of dependents and I all can think is how her daughter's eyes may light up at the thought of that being her one day. For me these portraits carry so much more, sometimes more then the ceremony, or the bride and groom standing firm in their pose. This is her, now and becoming.

Jennifer checking her hair

                                                   Stephanie applying her last coat of gloss

Ashley moments before her father sees her

Amanda in her robe spraying her perfume

Jennifer on her bed all dressed

 

 Stephanie with 30 seconds until her walk

Jen with all bridesmaids helping her dress

                                                  Jennifer in her limo, leaving the hotel

Image Collection {online portfolio #1}

One of my absolute favorite images. Black and white film, I was on a wedding as a second photographer, a gorgeous tall woman with a flowing wedding gown and all of her eight bridesmaids there to help her as she dressed. Before having a digital camera that fact that I took two full rolls of 36 photos in her hotel on getting ready photos alone, was excessive. Now of course 72 frames seems not enough for such a time. There were a few that I loved from this sequence, but this by far the one that stays with me. I believe this wedding was in 2005. There is some work I keep from 2005, simply to show my growth as a photographer, but I keep this one to remind me to work that hard always. To work like I have to catch it a roll of film, rather then limitless attempts with a digital camera.  I can remember how inspired I was that day and how I was able to pick out some moments that are simply timeless. Digital cameras, unlimited frames, 7 extra years of experience and I can still honestly tell you it is in my heart, the rest is just technology and age... 

xoxo

something new

          For a long time now I have been collecting photographs, taking so many of them, feeling proud of  them, storing them, sometimes displaying them, but rarely speaking why they are so incredibly moving to me. I have come to realize these pieces of time that I take, that I name with my camera, are moments of depth, moments that matter to people. I am blessed to record them. To give them is not only my profession, it is my joy. It is how I serve and it is how I can give. In my heart, I don't need to paid for photographing an event, a wedding, or a family. It is more than being passionate about photography, it is  like light on a growing flower . It nourishes me, it moves me, without it, without a camera, my light glows dim, I am still and invisible. I am not myself. So I am blessed for the opportunities given to me and I bless back with the frame, with a single image captured, I show love that exists. I show proof of God.
          I am going to be posting a series of images, some of my most treasured photographs that I have taken. I just want a chance to showcase them and many of the people in them. You may have hired me with money for a service, but you also serve me and for that I am deeply thankful.

Live Bunny Pictures

Easter Bunny Pictures! Please call or email for a slot. Dress up in Easter dresses and hats, cute suits or bunny ears, bring the whole family, and enjoy a beautiful and fun time at the park with us

Easter Bunny Pictures!

I am working on a special session.. it involves 2 precious baby bunnies for Easter/Spring pictures. Save Saturday March 31 and I will post details very soon!

newborn photo session

I have always adored photographing newborn babies, but it seems in the last year or so I have grown this deep passion for how important their little lives are and how important it is to have them photographed. Maybe it is with my children growing, now 3 years, 5 years, and 11 years, I have watched them transform from this unused, untouched, unlived soft pure skin with trust, into amazing people that have so many gifts, but pure trust starts to escape them more with each year. They are worried about things, they cry when something is taken away, they ask where we are going. They are anxious about school or tests or what will happen tomorrow. How amazing the language of a newborn. They trust. 

Which is why photographing them at this age is such a gift. They will sleep under a tree in a basket, they will rest their bodies all curled and twisted, they are formed by what we do and they trust us.

Welcome to the world Allie...

Sweet and beautiful baby, just entering this world. Let it be a place of thanks and beauty for you. 

Picture Perfect

This is the Hayden family. Not only am I posting this picture because of how sweet those little faces look, but I also wanted to give some tips on having your family photos done. I LOVED their choice of clothes and shoes.  It doesn't always have to be the same colors or match, just wear what is you. Wear what is special. My client said her friend gave her baby the little mermaid looking outfit. Normally people assume they should stick with a solid color, this was a busy pattern with a big pink flower and it was perfect. Her mommy put her boots on and we went out on their front porch. A place I am sure they spend plenty of time on. We drove over to one of their favorite parks. They said every Sunday daddy and Brooks (that handsome little boy) go to play on the playground there. 

It is not always what should be done that makes family photographs special, it is most of the time capturing what is special that make the photographs worth taking. Goodnight..xoxo

Valentines Pancake Party

Precious People

Babies Needed for Photo Project

Hi everyone! I have a project, an open call if you will. I have had a giant, hand crafted wood peace sign made to fit this vision and now I need your help. I need 10-15 babies newborn-3 months old of all different races and nationalities to be a part of this project. I will be choosing a day in April or June to shoot, depending on how long it takes to come with all of those babies, and we will spend the morning shooting all of these beautiful babies carefully tucked into my peace sign. You won't be paid, thats okay  because your babies are priceless anyways. You will receive something special from the finished project and will be helping us get the message of world peace out. Please email me if you can make it and I will give you more details. Please spread the word to anyone you know with a baby that age. Please email or send my info to anyone that can help find us babies too. Thank you!

Tampa Photo Session

A sweet Saturday morning off of Bayshore Blvd. A birthday girl, turning 4 years old and a birthday baby boy turning 1. 

January Sessions