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