our entire lives changed in April when we got the call from the agency that a birth mom wanted to meet us. It was in that moment that I knew this story was meant to be ours. Two and a half months later we finally welcomed our baby girl into the world (this past Thursday, [...]
Category Archive for ‘Fridays’ 
Photography Friday: Studio 6.23
Dear Sweet Readers,
May I be cheesy for a moment and say I miss you? It’s true. I love blogging and I love my readers - the secret and non-secret ones. ; ) The reason I’ve gone missing is because a few weeks ago I was sitting in a coffee shop here in town working. My [...]
Photography Friday: Shannon Sewell
Hi Lovelies,
I’ve been lying low for awhile now, but I’m alive and kicking. : ) Sometimes I just need a break from all things media. It helps me refresh.
Now, on to June’s installment of Photography Friday with the ever so lovely, Shannon Sewell.
I am so happy to have found Shannon. I didn’t share this in [...]
July’s Photography Friday: Shannon Sewell, interviewed by YOU*
Hello, : )
I am finally back to the grindstone. The past 5 days of traveling has left me with a sore butt. Literally. I’m not sure I’ve ever known butt soreness like this. I feel like I need to go running for 3 days straight but it’s raining and is supposed to all week. So, [...]
Photography Friday: Max Wanger
In a world where new professional photographers are popping up every day, appealing to the masses with their I shoot “babies, maternity, boudoir, business headshots, families, weddings, bands, seniors and architecture” business models it’s incredibly refreshing to find someone who has a style that is so distinct, so specific, so divergent it only appeals to [...]
knock, knock …
…anybody home?
Why hello, world! I am in fact here and, I’ve learned something terribly tragic. When my husband is out of town I have zero balance in my life.
He’s been gone for 2 weeks.
(I feel like I can finally write that now that he’s only hours from being home. (didn’t want any boogie men showing [...]
Photography Friday: Tara Whitney
Hi Tara,
Before we get started I must confess something. For a long time I thought of you the same way I thought of New Kids on the Block back in their prime. “Don’t like them. They’re a fad,” my sister so adamantly told me. She was 8-years older than I so everything she said was [...]
Photography Friday: poofy hair & the best Google search I’ve ever made.
My husband thinks I have dreadful hair. Okay, he never actually says it’s dreadful with his words, but he does with his hands. Every time we’re sitting on the couch together or he passes me in the house he’ll pat it. Like a Chia pet. He says he just thinks it’s a bit frizzy and [...]
Photoshop Before & After (and a little trick!)
Hi Lovelies,
Many of you told me that you loved how Kristie shared her editing steps. So, today I thought I’d share with you how I turned this:
Into this:
Kelly is totally, 100% scared of the camera. Since she’s a photographer herself this is not okay! If we as photographers are uncomfortable in front of the camera [...]
Photography Friday: Kristie Serra ~ Before & After / Photoshop Teaching
Kristie is so super kind and wanted to show us one of her photos before & after and also share the steps she took in Photoshop to get to the after photo. I want all of you to FIRST NOTICE how beautiful her camera is SOOC (straight out of camera). She nailed the exposure and [...]