The Buchanan Family Preview

Sorry! This is a very short post. With packing for our trip I did not get all the editing done that I had hoped. :( Here's one picture for now . . .

Mini Session with My Mom

This is my mom! We had some fun doing a little mini session about a week ago. She is soooooo beautiful!! Here are a couple of my favorites. Another favorite of mine was a picture of her laughing - I showed it to her on the LCD screen on my camera right after it was taken and she didn't seem to like it so much. I won't post it on the blog, just so I don't receive any harassing phone calls from her cursing at me (just kidding, she wouldn't do that). Here's my wonderful, beautiful, loving, kind, sweet, fun mother.

The Durrant Family Preview

It's taken a lot longer than I had hoped to get this preview up. Sorry! I'm trying to catch up.

We're leaving on vacation, so I'm going to try and get the other 3 previews up that I need to do before we leave tomorrow. Wish me luck!

These pictures were taken last Tuesday. It was a lot warmer than planned on (which was great) and this family was so much fun to spend time with. The kids had lots of fun feeding the ducks and playing in the leaves and I think we captured some good pictures of them just having fun. Here's a little preview.

The Dowell Kids Preview

I had tons of fun doing this session!! It was my birthday and my husband took the day off of work, so he was with me at the photo shoot. It was great! Too bad that can't happen all the time, I think we made a pretty good little team. ;) These kids were so fun and adorable to work with! Here's a little preview.

More for Mindi :)

Here is some more pics for the Barker family preview!
And about that funny story . . .

So, the place we took pictures at was an old farm. Farms smell like cow pies, it's just a fact of life. I saw an old rusty looking trailer thing and thought it looked like it would be cool for some pictures, so I walked over and checked to make sure there wasn't anything inside. It looked like it had hauled some "dirt", but it looked like it had been swept out pretty good. So I tried to get some of the kids to come over for a picture and only one of the kids was willing to get in, and a couple of the others kept telling their mom that it smelled really bad. I don't know if it's cause I was recently sick, or what, but the whole place smelled faintly of cow pies and it didn't smell any different to me over there. So I didn't think anything of it, and we went on taking pictures. As we went to leave, we walked past one of the farmers on our way out and he had this huge grin on his face. He stops and talks to me and Mindi and says, "ya know, you're the first photographer we've had who wanted to take pictures of the manuer truck", and then he kind of laughed. I was so embarrassed! But we all got a good laugh out of it. I learn something new, or a better way of doing things, or I get new ideas and such every time I take pictures. The biggest thing I walked a way with on this occasion . . . I learned what a manuer truck looks like and NEVER to take pictures next to one again! haha.

Just a little clarification . . .

So I was having a conversation with my sister in law today and it made me think I should explain a couple of things so there isn't any confusion . . .

I will always post a preview from your photo shoot hopefully the night of the shoot, but if not, it should be up within a few days. How many pics I post, really depends on how much time I have at that moment - but generally I like to post one family picture, one picture of mom and dad, and one picture of each of the kids.

I edit pictures in the order they were taken, with the exception of the previews. After I post a preview of your family, I then go back and work on the the family that had their pictures taken first and then work my way down.

Once I've finished editing all of the photos from your photo shoot, I like to post more of my favorite pictures on the blog in a new post.

My biggest priority (as far as your pictures go) is getting your pictures edited and back to you. So, if I ever start to feel like I'm getting more behind on editing than I would like to be, the blog will have to be put on the back burner until I catch up. I may not always be able to do all of the posts and all of the pictures on the blog that I would like to, but I promise that as long as there is time I will keep up on the blog as planned.

The other thing I felt I should clarify . . .
Blogger should be the 8th wonder of the world!! Sometimes when I load up the pictures they have their full color like they do when I'm done with them in photoshop and then other times I load them up and the color looks much duller. And even though I shrink them all to the same size to be loaded on blogger, if I click on some, it blows them up way bigger than they should be and it makes the picture look like it's low quality, but then other times it does just fine.

Why does it do this?? I'm really sorry, but I have NO CLUE! Which is why I think it should be the 8th wonder of the world. But your pictures will look great on the cd I give you, so no worries! :)

The Larson Family Preview

This is my friend Tami's brother's family . . . bet ya can't say that ten times, fast. haha ;) Here is a little sneak peek at some of their pictures I took today.

P.S. in case all you out there who check out my blog were wondering . . YES! I LoVe COLOR! :) Sometimes I'll come across some pictures that I look at and think - hmmm this one would do good in black and white, or sepia, or whatever. But for the most part, I think most of my pictures look best in color. It's just my personal preference. Hope you like!

The Blomquist Family Preview

I got to take pictures for the Blomquists tonight! They are such a cute little family, I really enjoyed spending time with them. Lizzy (the little girl in green) would just walk up to the camera and start doing all kinds of cute poses - I don't think I told her how to pose once! It was so adorable! Here's a little preview . . .

The Barker Family Preview

I had tons of fun taking pictures for the Barker family today! I got home kind of late tonight, but I just had to get at least one up on the blog for a little preview. We got lots of great shots and I can't wait to go through them all. More pics to come later and a funny little story too. ;) Enjoy!