The Bishop Family

Yea!! I can't wait to show these pictures off. This family was introduced to me from a family friend and I'm so happy they inquired about doing a family shoot. Cheryl the mom is so nice, and sweet. I've truly never met anyone that is genuinely so nice. You hear about it, sure you may know people that say they are, but she defines the word. She's got a really nice gentle, caring way about her. And being a "Mom" totally fits her.

We had the shoot at their home to make sure the baby; Maggie would be comfortable and so we would get more of a lifestyle feel to our shoot and no so posed. I think we accomplished this quite nicely. It was also refreshing to have a male in our shoot (the dad) who actually wasn't afraid of the camera. He welcomed it, it was really easy nonetheless to capture this family in their element. I'm so glad I got to capture you guys while you did your normal routine with Maggie.

And what was also nice, they had just adopted a beautiful puppy named Molly so I got to play with her as well. And who doesn't like puppies?! The only thing that made this a crazy shoot was at the very end, literally walking away from the family a nice little black jacket stung me.. Ooooo is what I felt.. It was terrible, and I had a shoot right afterwards. So, needless to say it wasn't pleasant.. But it makes for some good memories, and I think the sting was worth it after I got to view the images.

I heart faces entry

This photo was entered into the I HEART FACES entry for May. This was my entry for the theme "FACES" :) Please vote, and check out all the other great entries. They are truly amazing!

bringing up the old building the new

I was looking through and perfecting my new fine art website I found some of these goodies from the past. I'm hoping to have my fine art website up in the next week! :) 

Seattle Washington! So, today I went around in our Downtown area in Wilmington, NC. And I thought after hearing this great seminar on CreativeLIVE on Journalist photography I'd be apt to see what our downtown has to offer. I was stumped.. Living in a small town is not as great as people think it is, for a photographer. My creative side seems to have died since I have moved here. It's so hard to be inspired about the UN-inspire able. It's hard to see things different after seeing them repeatedly and the scenery never change. So, I came back home looked through my photography stock that I have on my good ole hard drive and found something to be inspired about. SEATTLE! Robbie and I went there on our honeymoon last year. Well, it was our first and last stop on our cruise to Alaska and it was so cloudy and dweary that I think I almost lost sight of "LIFE" that was happening around me. Here are some pictures that I felt were what I was looking for today in Wilmington, but had already apparently captured somewhere else. 

Inspiration

I was looking through my images and I can't help but see a noticeable resemblance to certain ad companies photography. I love the American Eagle, Gap, Lauren Conrad & Ann Taylor's look books. I would love to take their images one day, it would be a dream :) But til now, here are some of their examples... of their work


(all images courtesy of AnnTaylor.com and Anntaylorloft.com, AmericanEagle.com, and Laurenconrad.com)