Excerpts from Jack and Jill » Your life. Your story.

just melt my heart.  This little guy wasn’t about to give any smiles but he is oh so adorable anyway!!!  Love the hat AND that little pout is just too cute.  And look at those chubby little hands clasped together.  Total sweetness!

Busy -BUSY weekend planned… tomorrow I am photographing the wedding of Kami Smith and Cody Schmidt and I am so excited!  I remember Cody as a little guy when he was in school with my middle son.  I can’t believe that these guys are all grown up!!  Craziness!!!  I will be sharing some sneak peeks next week from the wedding.  I think it is going to be gorgeous!!!  Have a great weekend everyone!  Spring is ALMOST here!!!  Next week it will be already time to SPRING FORWARD!! YEA!!!!

I am really trying to form some better habits with the blog and website.  I can’t believe that we are already 3 months into the new year!  It is crazy.  Anyway, I will be posting sneak peeks on a more regular basis very soon-I promise! And I am going to get a system down to update the website a little more frequently.  Two goals for 2009 that I have yet to achieve and it is almost MARCH!!!  Last week I had the pleasure of photographing a sweet little thang in her home.  It was a lot of fun and let me get my feet wet with an in home session.  I have been toying with offering this as an alternative to the studio session.  I didn’t take any artificial light-we used window light only and just posed the little miss in her own surroundings.  It was fun and I did learn a thing or two.  I think this would be a lot of fun for  a newborn under the age of 10 days that is really sleepy yet or a six month old that is sitting up on his or her own.  One thing to remember is that if we plan on using natural light we need to have some nice windows and with a newborn especially we want to have the house REALLY warm.  Looks like spring is around the corner so that will help.  I do have a portable light system I can bring and a space heater to help out as well.  Leave me some blog comments and let me know what your thoughts are on the in home session.  I envisioned tiny curled up baby asleep on a mantle or book case…a dining room table.  A nakee 6 month old sitting up on gorgeous wood floors…really different stuff from your more traditional stuff.  If this look appeals to you give me a call and we can chat…

Next I want to share a precious baby image.  This is Jackson.  Isn’t he precious???  His proud grandma Debbie ordered this image in an 11×14 canvas and it was GORGEOUS!!!  We are now offering art gallery wrapped canvas.  They come ready to hang on the wall and make quite an impact.  As Debbie said there is just something so special about a canvas.  Something that you can pass down from generation to generation.  She plans on getting one of each of her grandchildren.

Isn’t Hunter just the cutest little biker dude?!?  I was a tad bit worried at the beginning of the session.  Hunter was just a little slow to warm up but once he did we had lots of fun.  I don’t often incorporate props but I love it when parents bring in something- as in Hunters case a special present for his 2nd birthday!  Won’t it be fun to look back at these images when Hunter is in high school?  Perfect pic for the year book Mom!!!  Mom told me that Hunter had been asking for the bike for a while now- each and every time they would go to Toys ‘R Us and boy was he excited when they got it out at the end of his session!!!  I will say that he was just a little bit frustrated that it wouldn’t “go”-no battery for the pics or I would have never caught up with him!  We got some great family images too.  Mom said that I could share so take a peek-their gallery went up today.

This little guy was so sweet! Just about a week old and he behaved so well. We did our usual stuff and then he let me play with something new…baby wraps and cocoons. I just got some new swaddle blankets and a couple of new wicker baskets that I can’t wait to try out and no newborn on the books! Help me out here-anyone have a newborn less than 2 weeks old that they are willing to share for a bit? Complimentary session and a $25 print credit. The only catch is that you have lots of patience and you bring your baby and let me play!