Incidents and accidents

I just got my print copy of the Accent Gwinett magazine that the article about Mere was printed in. I managed to hold it together reading it the first time on the web, but seeing it in print and remembering the day I took the pictures day made me lose it and I sobbed all the way back from my mailbox. I miss her, but what an amazing article Tracy Ray wrote.

Read the article here: http://accentgwinnettmagazine.com/index.php/March-April/Ours-for-a-Time.html

So see the other entry I wrote about her, check here: http://www.stylizedportraiture.com/blog/?p=279

I’ve got a crush…

On Christine’s babies.

My younger brother got married in Ohio over the weekend! I adore his new wife, and he just can’t wait to be a daddy! It was about 23F out there that day, but they allowed me to torture them outside for a few photos.

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I totally suck at updating. Honestly, nothing is going on! Work has been slow, which has given me time to get my business up to speed in terms of new policies and junk. Nothing you really want to hear about, just new ways of doing things and new products to offer. Booooring. I have a few things in the works for the future, but nothing I can really talk abut yet.

January really blew in terms of emotional stability. I was up, then down, then up, then down. Feb is looking better, but it’s still been a little bit of a roller coaster. I need a real vacation that doesn’t have anything to do with work or friends getting killed. Valentine’s day is small this year (like every year, really). John and I had planned to go to the Tenn. Aquarium, but it’s just too much $$ in my slow month. Instead, he brought me breakfast in bed (Diet Coke in bed day!) and he hid a hand-colored note in my laptop. Awww!

I’m out of things to type about. More photos!

Since I couldn’t manage to finish a photo a day, I’ll do a photo a week this year.

1/52: Rescue
Some of the 100+ volunteers on Blood Mountain Thursday to look for Meredith.

2/52: Tampa
The Tampa convention center at Imaging USA.

I got lucky and spotted this juvenile Cooper’s Hawk while at the Botanical Gardens on a shoot. He/she was about 5ft off the ground in a tree. I was about 15ft away with my 50mm lens, so this is a 100% crop. Not too bad though.

Why my sister was (and continues to be) the bane of family photography sessions:

Just a small selection of the ones I have to wade through. Thanks for the head-swapping practice, dear.

Personal photos I just haven’t posted yet.

Horses at Jessica’s place.

The Stump’s nemesis, Stinky. She’s SOOOO sweet and friendly, but Stumpy would eat her if we let her in.

I rode in a helicopter!!! I can now knock it of of my ‘things to do before I die’ list.

It was way awesome, but poor John didn’t enjoy it as much as me.

I have to say, I love my new Lightsphere! I just bought it and tried it out last night, and it’s everything it’s hyped to be and more. I bought it for good night shots at an upcoming wedding, and I feel so much better about those future photos now. Too bad I’ll be laughed out of the reception for having Tupperware on my camera.

f/2.8, ISO 250, SS 1/8 sec

f/2.8, ISO 640, SS 1/20 sec

Mom’s wedding went well. I didn’t trip over my heels or fall down the stairs. I nearly cried during Dave’s wedding vows, they were so sweet. I danced like crazy and as a result got fewer pictures of her wedding than I’d like.Thank goodness I talked her into hiring someone else. It was fun to enjoy myself. Pictures of her wedding following later.

The day after, we took pictures for my mother’s Christmas presents. She said she wanted some pictures of all three of us together, since it’s been years since she had some. Meggie’s been away for years, so this was just now possible. The original plan was to drag a tripod out and just have Tim (Meggie’s brittish guy) press the button, but it was easier for me to set the camera and let Tim compose it himself. He did a pretty good job. At one point he said “This is actually quite difficult!” and Meggie replied with “Yeah, imagine how hard it is when it’s actual children instead of adults just acting like children!” It made me feel good. I was like “Oh, she understands!”