poignant pauses

Slideshow

Here is the link to slideshow promised

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now to get to emails,I've been a bit slow today because I'm trying to finish some sessions before we go sailing tomorrow. My BIL has a 26ft catamaran and he's in the area so yeah! I didn't get to take much time off this Sept after all but I did take a few days and tommorrow is one of them yeah! I hope it' s warmer then today!

Loved this comment from a lovely family this week

"I just wanted to say how thankful I am that I stumbled across your website back in July.  My heart is so full as I watch the slide show - seeing my family captured in such a beautiful and touching way.  Your talent just amazes me.  It may sound funny, but I think that your pictures are so incredible because a piece of spirit goes into them"

I love it because that is so what I want to do is capture who people really are and how they relate to one another.  Like the mom who quieted her baby by rubbing his little nose,I had to once I noticed that get a capture of it,the little things that show who they are together.

more beautiful skies

Love the sky in these images! I haven't even looked at the second half of the session yet which was on the water side of the beach. I can't wait because I remember I shoot some with incredible clouds. I'll come back with their slideshow hopefully later today or tommorrow.

I'm actually working through things pretty fast considering. I recently started offering all the session files on a cd and ALL of my clients have been buying them so it helps because then there is not a lot of going back and forth with ordering,mailing and such. I really like it! My clients like it because once you own the files you can do anything. Create Christmas cards(I can include a few designed storyboards and cards if you request it, for free!),calendars,coffee table book,canvases,use in digital frames I actually earn less when clients order the cd but I think it's a win win for both of us. Five kids and our busy lives I like anything that simplifies it. :)

or bw?

sorry

**** heads up****

A girlfriend stopped by this afternoon and told me that she had been trying to call me but all the heard was static and then she was bumped to the voice mail.  Well I recieved neither the voice mail or the call so it seems our internet phone woes are still around. If you have called and not recieved a reply please try email.

I am considering buying a cell phone. I've fought it for years (I will sometime borrow one of my children's phones,yes everyone in the family but the babies and I have cells LOL!) I super dislike talking on the phone. I much prefer talking in person I'm sure some of my clients and friends would say I am a completely different person on the phone then I am in person. I don't know I just freeze up on the phone seems so awkward to me.  We've considered different options going with a land phone as well as the internet or just getting me a cell. I need to decide because the wonky problems with email(rarely now thank goodness) and the internet phone are really a problem that doesn't ever seem 100% solved.

Sorry, It's taken me so long to get back here with the slideshow I promised. I've had this session done for over a week now but couldn't upload it for some reason my explorer had gone wonky so I couldnt' connect with ftp and my techie(my husband) finally had a chance to look at it and fix it for me. So I was able to upload some of my slideshows this week,so here is the last session I posted their slideshow

silly sunshine family 

and what I worked on today sweet girls

I picked kind of usual music for this slideshow the reason was the mom and girls just seemed so feminine even more so next to their Dad/husband.  I loved what the Mom told me in her questionaire about the Dad. How he is super Dad and you could so tell how much his family adored him,really lovely the whole family.

Always a black and white or color???? I think the bw looks lovely with this session's light.

We have had kind of sick week. I mean really sick  yuck you should hear my voice! Still super mom(said tonque in cheek I would never claim that title! LOL! I"m too..... mmmm) that I am I drove (well actually Chris did but I was in the car that counts doesn't it?) the kids to 6 flags for the fall fest concerts.  I pretty much hung in kiddie land all day.  Which did have it's lighter moments....  For instance when little Ollie cracked up the operator of the old cars...  I'm struggling to get into the old car feeling pretty stupid ,my embarrassment must of made me oblivioius because when I turn around, the operator is just cracking up. I must have looked puzzled because she said he was (Oliver)pushing your bum the entire time.  OMG I died laughing just picturing it from behind...  It still makes me chuckle.   

Then I almost died when Sebastian driving for the first time gets around the bend and starts singing in his little boy squeaky voice a song by Cake "We're going the distance,We're going for speed" he sings it perfectly and I'm dying laughing.  I guess it says alot about my husband that The Distance is one his favorite songs he also loves that Mahna Mahna song also by Cake it's his phone's ring. I still laugh when I hear it ring sometimes.  It's so perfectly him.

Here is the song The Distance

a few

just popping in to say hi and show you a few from the session I'm working on right now. I've been doing so many senior sessions (rushing for deadlines) it's so nice to do a fun silly family session! Mom said our session was the highlight of the week. I've heard that a lot this month it always suprises me and makes me think how cool is that!  (big silly grin here! )

This one my heart went bump. It was a real moment betweent them and it touched me. I love that!

a super quick drive by

Just a heads up too if you are thinking of booking a session for July or August I do not have to many dates left. Sept and Oct are still lovely for beach portraits and I might be offering something special for families that choose a leaf/beach session still working on that. :)

Loved this family and so I have to share!! I've only just cracked these images and I can't wait to work on more!

(finished you can view their slideshow here  )http://www.linenphotography.com/sand%20buckets.htm

They were a family of three and their cousins,lovely fun kids!

I knew when we were chatting we would be a good match and sure enough we had such a fun time!

Here is what she had to say about the session

Danielle,

Thanks for a great time last night!  As we drove away, ----- and ----- kept chatting about what an AWESOME time they had.  ----- asked me the date and when I told her she said, "We had so much fun!  We should always celebrate July 8!"

So...what can I say.  You Rock! 

 

sneak peeks

a couple of peeks more to come. beautiful!!!!

Candid

beautiful family :)

then the outtake which if this was my family this would be the canvas... I love real!

Of course if you want really real and really candid

and don't forget how it all started

and how it will end....  I never thought I would say it but it will be sweet when it's just Chris and I again. Of course we will miss the kids terribly but .... It's going to sooo much fun to just be us again too.

another drive by post

I'm so excited a love story shoot tonight and the couple is so right up my alley!!! and I some more images from shoots that I'm excited over that I want to share soon.... hopefully....

Anyway I had to do a scouting trip for a client who wanted something different so I'm posting some samples for her.

a fall meadow shoot.  I did a really warm processing on these . But like all of my artistic processing I also show them just regular so you can choose which you prefer.

click to view it larger

moody lens flare

Darn you can't see in the storyboard how her little dress just flounced just so. I love it. So I must show it larger. :)

one of a kind

You know there is nothing like good friends YNWM? I was talking to some friends yesterday about dreams.  We've been reading this good book together(strong women ,soft hearts)You know the dreams you gave up on. The things you desire to do but for what ever reason or excuse you've given yourself,you haven't even really reached for them or you've stopped reaching.

Sometimes it's more comfortable to stay in what you know then to  face failure. But it's those challenges those adventures that make me feel really alive. My photography is always an adventure to me as I reach more and more for my dreams but there are other areas I've let go. 

Things I feel I was meant to do but fear and apathy have robbed me.

Think of the times you felt most alive.... Why? what was it about that place and time? Are you missing something too?

It's funny I can tell so easily when I'm off track of where I'm meant to be. I'm jealous of other's sucesses and  feel a need to compare. It's sort of like you stop living.  Such a sad place really.....  There is no one like me,never been any one just like me and there has never been anyone like you,will never be another like you.  It's amazing really.....  How sad to get caught up and miss that.

One of the reasons I love photography is it highlights people,their unique self.

Love little kid's budda bellies

yeah I know

Missing in action again! Sorry I've been super busy lots of fun stuff to share not all worked through yet though so just so you know I’m alive I will share a slideshow.

Every session I've ever done there is some point that I get mushy. The love I see in families just touches my heart so much and I'm a real softie.  This session was very special to me though I've thought a lot about them. I think it touched me especially because I have children that are just starting to border on adulthood.

The love between this young man and his Mom was so touching. You could see how incredible proud she was of him. It was wonderful to see how much they enjoyed each other's company in an easy going laidback way.

He is on his way to becoming a lawyer and has chosen to continue his schooling and become a doctor. Now that is impressive but what was most impressive to me was how he treated his mom... The young lady that captures this young man's heart is going to be princess in his heart. His mom has taught him the important things that who his is more important then what he does.

sigh...

I had a hard time limiting myself with the images I showed in their slideshow. I wish I could have added them all in way to0 many I loved.

Here is the link to their slideshow  Friends slideshow

Oh and I hope I don't embarrass him by the song choice. I felt his mom is like my husband's family. We've always been able to turn towards Mom and Dad when we were feeling a bit lost as to what to do and also we just always felt like they are there for us silent loving support.