Today has been one of those days where I’ve smiled most of the day. I’ve been working out again and I finally feel at peace with life. I’m glad that business is calmer in these colder months. It’s nice to have more time to spend with my kiddos and my husband.  More time to breathe, and time to smile.

Though it’s my super “slow” time, I’m ten times busier this year in January than I was even a year ago. I cannot believe how busy you all have kept me. THANK YOU for still having me do what I love so much even when the weather turns yucky. 😀

In other news:

I’ve been working on a 365 project where I take on photo every day for 365 days. It’s my own personal project and so far I’ve completed ten days (I still have to do today’s photo). I’ve had so much fun stretching myself to take an interesting photo that has nothing to do with my “normal” work. My own rules say that it has to be personal and tell a bit of a story. I took this photo when I was trying a self portrait for one of the days.

I’ll share more of my personal project photos once I complete a whole month. 😀

And remember to smile!!!

Okay, I’m going to be totally honest with you all. A long time ago I used to say that I would never do studio work. Part of it was lack of understanding lights, backgrounds, etc. Part of it was not having the location to do it. But the major reason was that I thought I couldn’t do “fun” work in the studio. I felt as though getting good photos of people was only going to happen outside. I hated the idea of tacky backdrops and cheesy props.

I’ve been doing studio work for a few years now and have been in my studio location for a year and a half.

I have grown to LOVE it.

This session totally and completely confirmed that I could get REAL personality with a group of kids and teens in studio. They all had so much personality and made me really realize how much I can do against a simple backdrop with just a couch.

Here’s some of my favorites from the session.

This adorable family came and saw me just before Christmas. The mom is the owner of Sweet Cheeks Spa here in Longview.  Their little girl just melted my heart and we captured some awesome images even though it was COOOOOLLLLLDDDDD. She was such a trooper!!!

And thanks to the new technology of my website, here’s a fancy schmancy slideshow for ya. Please let me know if you like images in a slideshow for viewing and I’ll keep doing it. If not, we’ll go back to the old way!! I wanna make sure my site is easy for people.

Have a wonderful Wednesday!

I’m updating my site today and tomorrow so in case things look funky around here it’s because I’m spending my long weekend making my site look all shiny and sparkly.

I upgraded to a newer version of my site so it’s kinda different but still sort of the same. Yay for change!!!

Hope everyone had a fun and safe New Years!!! And because I can’t post without photos, here’s some of the wedding I did on December 11th that I’m currently working on. I have three more weddings to post (and countless sessions) but I will get to those SOON!!!