My Pictures...er Photography...

I have, for years, taken pictures. I can remember as far back as 6th and 7th grade being the girl who brought the camera to school every year on the last day. I would take tons of pictures- to the point my friends were no longer smiling in them. I would make my mother drive me to our neighborhood Eckards drug store or Walmart to get them developed via one hour.
I would seriously thumb through what had to of been maybe 100 pictures every year and choose the best and either make a collage or slip them into whatever flip book I begged her to buy me. Strangely, I never took up scrap booking. ((shrug))
In high-school, my senior year, I took a photography class. I learned about shutter speeds, f stops and all kinds of stuff. I borrow my mothers old school manual 35mm Nikon. I learned to develop my own pictures in a dark room . It was awesome and I STILL love looking at the book from that year. As matter of fact, my mother STILL has the framed black and white picture of our cat that I took! LOL
6+ years ago I received a Sony Cyber-shot camera as a Christmas gift. It was my first *real* digital camera..4.1 mega pixles people. HOT HOT HOT ;-)

Pictures, tons of pictures..on a memory card that held 50 pictures... oh man...

Fast forward to 2o months ago, I saved up and got myself my Canon Rebel XSi ((insert chorus of angels here))
I love this camera with every inch of by being. It is my baby.

THIS is the VERY FIRST picture (swear to God) that I took with it. My newborn 5lb nephew Cohen. AKA "Favorite." My sister in law was so cool to let me come and just bombard this sweet tiny thing with my over zealous energy and my new camera. Imagine... 1st time aunt + new toy = well, look at his grumpy face!!!

As I came along, and continued to take pictures of this sweet boy (bless his heart) I got better. I and still learning and still finding the time to do little shoots. I am NO PRO, and I have days where I think I am capturing what I want and when I look, it is not AT ALL what what was wanting. I have blurrs, I have well, moments where I ask "What in the HELL were you doing!?!"

Then, I get a good one. I see all the things I have captured. Moments in my life that I look back on my computer and say "Oh, wow I forgot about that" I have more pictures of this little boy, than I do of anyone else I know. No lie...

As you can see, its gotten better. I am learning.

Hes now 18 months and a running, blabbing ball of energy. A far, long, cry from the pictures above...


I do photography for my clients during their births. I do maternity shoots... I am learning to do a lot. It challenges me. Though I never promise perfection, I promise them I will capture a moment (or two) that they may have forgotten. Hopefully moments of time that evoke emotion.

Moments you don't try so hard to remember.....

Moments you think you don't want to remember.......

The moments you beg to never forget.....

Snap shots of labor and birth moments are fuzzy and even distorted by the hormone bathed mind of mom and adrinline rushed brain of a father or partner....I truely hope, that ALL of my clients find somthing in their pictures, no matter how UNperfect the photo. That they have a memory that their minds may not have kept otherwise.