poignant pauses

senior slideshow

amazingly beautiful girl! She looks beautiful smiling but to be honest it was the artistic moody images of her that I loved the most,like the third image down.  Here is her slideshow link

Click here to view her slideshow

and some images for those that can not view the slideshows.

I try to get a mix during my sessions. Different moods,styles like here is a typical headshot image but I like to think my headshots are not totally typical. I work to  give you beautiful lighting and a softness that is very flattering. It's important to me too to shoot in with a flattering angle(different for different faces) and to get good expression. It's so true what they say about the eyes.  You can tell when there is an openess,a connection. The eyes are absolutely the expression of the person's personality and charisma. It's so important to me to bring out the person,to make my images come alive with who the person is in front of my lens. 

as always I show the images just normal like shown below,bw and sometimes artistic processed like show above. 

Ok senior moment

I forgot to add the link to the slideshow.

Here it is

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I took the most loving pictures today. Oh can't wait to share them!

slideshows family and high school senior

What a week! My family had a stomach bug for most of it.  Of course we didn't all get at the same time so as soon as I had one child feeling better another one or two turned up with it all the while I was the most sick of everyone.  Ugh!!! So so sooooooo glad to be feeling better!

This week made me think of this family. I was so excited when I thought of  this song for their slideshow it is sooo them. They are amazing! They have gone through so much a premie handicapped child then the mom has had to go through chemo three times and currently going through a bone marrow transplant.  So amazing to make it through all that but then add to that their spirits these people are happy,uplifting..... If you met them on the street you would NEVER know all their sorrow and troubles.... just so inspiring to me because I'm a whinging baby most of the time. 

Click to view sun slideshow

Then.... one word beautiful....   Click to view beautiful slideshow

Please forgive the music editing my son is away at camp for next two weeks and he's my editor and does a MUCH better job then me! I'll have to redo when he gets back.

a few more for those that can't download the slideshow

Remember I'm showing mostly artzy processed images with this session but I also show the images just processed natural so both styles are there to order

Here is a natural one

darn typepad is distorting my images this morning....

 

slideshow

Ok I just recieved my favorite compliment of the week.

"Your shoots always look like everyone had so much fun!"    I Love that !

So in honor of fun here is the most fun shoot of the week's slideshow

three sisters families's slideshow click here 

How about this for a quick flashback??? Omg her hugely long brown nails ,kinky fro (which I love ,love a fro) then the babies breath reminds me so much of Mom(her hair was a lovely frizzy perm though remember those??? LOL!)This has always been one of my favorite songs of all time. I love the words so much it always gives me good feelings when I hear it.

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.

another slideshow

Another slideshow this time a beach session. Lovely Family it was a joy to capture them. The slideshow doesn't contain all of their images just the ones I felt told their story.

This time the slideshow has many full sized images. I'm sorry about the logo going across since they are full sized I have to be a bit more careful. It's sad but often businesses will use images off the web as stock without permission.

Here is the link

familyslideshow

I wanted to show a bit of what I actually show clients.  What  I show depends on what you mention you are interested in the questionaire I send.  Really everything depends so much on that questionaire. I can't tell you how much it drives my sessions. It helps me decide if a client wants a more traditional or more natural session it helps me know if they want that posed family shot or one more natural filled with expression. It's such a great tool and I"m love love love when people take the time to really fill it out fully.

Usually I show a few different collages these are great for limited wall spaces and gifts for family.

and a few wall galleries

 

30x30 fine art canvases

Christmas cards there is white borders around the blue cards which does not show up here because of the white background.