Incidents and accidents

I’ve been SOO busy. Not really doing many shoots this week, but just working on changing everything over. I haven’t been able to say so ahead of time, but a local photographer and I are teaming up permanently. Frankie of Stylized Portraiture and I are now full partners (in crime)! We’ve been working on this for months, but I couldn’t hint too much in case the other local photographers watch my stuff. So, I’m now 1/2 of Stylized Portraiture. Frankie is taking the appointment bookings now, and she will match the client to the photographer based on what they want. I’ll be doing on-location, babies, children and fairytales. She’ll be doing studio shoots, weddings, seniors and urban.  In fact, we just got our first call today with the new system! The client wanted an outdoor baby shoot, so it went to me. Pretty cool! I don’t have squat to do for the first 2 weeks of April though, so I’ve got to get my butt in gear.

Check us out at http://www.stylizedportraiture.com/

The dress, originally uploaded by Heather-L.

13/52 - Client shot.
This poor girl was so patient with me. She’s seven, but that dress is a size five. I thought since it’s a corset back that it would be fine, but this poor thing couldn’t lift her arms at all and could barely breathe. I only tortured her for 15 minutes in this one.
This is one of my very favorite clients. I just LOVE her to bits.

Anyone who watches my stuff regularly: are these more.. anything? I used the rented L glass for this shoot too, but I’m seriously not noticing a difference at all between these and my beloved Sigma 50mm.

Red, originally uploaded by Heather-L.

12/52 - Our Fairytale sessions went great! It was long and rough, but we got through it. We sold two canvases and booked two sessions on the spot, and everyone was REALLY excited about the whole thing!

Tomorrow!, originally uploaded by Heather-L.

11/52 - Frankie’s studio, all set up for our fairy mini-sessions. 5 days, 12 hours long. 45 session, 56 total fairies. Ouch.

Teal Petti, originally uploaded by Heather-L.

10/52 - Client photo. I LOVED this girl. She was clapping along with mom to the right of me, who was singing the pattycake song.

John and I are going to the beach with my family this July, but I’ve gotten too big (in a good way) for my old swimsuits. I like vintage-looking one-piece suits or boy-short two-piece suits. Unfortunately, those just aren’t in ’style’ this year. I’ve looked through my usual place to pick one up: Target, but found nothing I like. Either they’re all ridiculously tiny (I don’t need my mom commenting on how much butt I have showing) or these nasty 70’s prints that make me feel more at home in a disco than on a beach!

So far, Google has been totally unhelpful.  Where can I find nice suits that don’t make me look like I’m a mommy or make me look like I shopped in the kid’s section?

Gold, originally uploaded by Heather-L.

9/52 - Client shot! I loved this kid.

2010, originally uploaded by Heather-L.

8/52 - Lunar eclipse.