A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words. Ansel Adams

 the Photographer :: the Artistic Designer

a photographer who captures life’s every day moments one breath at a time. 

I’m a photographer who loves what she does.  A self taught photographer, I love getting out there and capturing the entire world with my camera. I love being inspired by every day ordinary things. Everything becomes a backdrop, a point of interest and I am on a constant journey to find the perfect spot, the perfect photo opportunity.   I offer contemporary, casual and fun sessions with a very casual and fun kind of photographer.  Your personal session will be on location of your choice; your home, your backyard, the park, down by the river.  I’ll let you be you and we’ll have some fun together and take some wonderful photographs while we’re at it.

 jack was back…this time he was F-I-V-E and very much in charge of the show.      wow…he was full of energy…and full of smiles.

One of my photos {echinacea} was picked for an esty treasury again. OOOH, how i love ETSY.

beautiful and so much fun.

 i won’t go into details here..but oh man…what we had to go through to get these set of pics. beware of the green brick wall downtown….that’s all i’m gonna say :)

Back to School Sale: 15% off ALL Prints!

MPIX Back to School Sale is here, and it’s a good one! ALL Mpix prints are 15% off!

The promotion will run from 9:00AM on Friday, August 27^th until midnight on Tuesday, August 31^st.  This includes E-Surface, Metallic and True B&W papers and print sizes mini-wallets through 24×36″. Now is the time to stock up and save!

Now for the disclaimer… The discount applies only to the price of the prints.  Any additional services applied to the print such as Gallery Wraps, Lustre Coating, Standouts, Retouching, or Mounting are NOT discounted. The discount is not available through ROES.   Click here to view our print pricing.

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L-O-V-E-D this session. I have to admit I was so excited when they asked if we could go out to their farm and do their session. I was so inspired–truly was a breath of fresh air.

I’m offering these wonderful 20 x 20 collage prints for all my sessions now. My design fee is $100. MPIX print fee starts at $17.99

 amazing family…great kids…wonderful mom and dad! loved these guys. we had so much fun, and the weather could not have been more perfect.

It’s that time of year. Summer draws to a close. Families gathering together to spend quality time with eachother before the hectic school year begins. Another fun family session.

Shutterfly Summer Freedom Contest

if you wouldn’t mind…and you love my photo…would you please take a minute and go over to shutterfly… http://contest.shutterfly.com/contests/showentry/325564  … and leave a comment and a vote! I’d really appreciate some love from you all!! Happy summer to all you water bugs all there. 

Another wonderful summer wedding. The couple was amazing and so were their families. Man we moved and grooved all day and got some of funnest, most beautiful photos too. My sister tagged along…camera in hand and helped me all day…so special THANKYOUs to her!!

  

These past few weeks I taught 3 week long classes at BSC. Three separate sessions with three great groups of kids. They soaked this stuff up like sponges and had fun doing so. I was so impressed by many of these kids. They had natural eyes that captured some amazing photos. Pretty inspiring really.

I promised them I’d post my own photos that i took during my classes so they could all see them…critique them if they want…i hope they leave me tons of comments. {wink, wink} This post has the kids in action. I’ll post another set of pics that were mine from the photo walks we did.

I had told the kids that I would post some of my photos from our weeks assignments and photo walks…so…here they are.

First one to leave a comment on a photo telling me a “rule” about it…gets a point! Remember there were 10 of them.

One of my photos {i love you} was picked for an esty treasury again. OOOH, how i love ETSY.

One of my photos {bird on a wire} was picked for an esty treasury again. OOOH, how i love ETSY.

Had Cole and Grace back for their “year older” pictures. Heading out to the back yard for these ones. These two kept me running, running, running, but i think we got some good ones.

I have been working on some designs for tshirts lately. The mark up isn’t too bad either…so it’s affordable, i thought.

Anywoo…check it out.

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Save big on large prints from Mpix! Large prints are 16×20 and larger. For the next 6 days save 25% on large prints. Simply enter promo code largeprints10 at checkout. The promotion runs from now until Wednesday at midnight CST, July 14th.

 One of my photos {my coffee mug} was picked for an esty treasury again. OOOH, how i love ETSY.

One of my photos {echinacea} was picked for an esty treasury again. OOOH, how i love ETSY.