Saturday, December 12, 2009

I've been avoiding you.

Hello blog, and to anyone who might take a peek here every now & then.

The title of this blog is 100% the truth. I have been avoiding my blog. Not because I've been gleefully busy taking photos (though I wish I had been!). I've been flying solo on the weekends since John (my husband) lost his normal job and got a crappy substitute job. Without his helping hand, it's more challenging to do photo sessions. But to clarify, I am a big girl, I can handle things on my own, but John is truely my other half.

Knowing that I'll likely be without John, I haven't been promoting our services as aggressively as I did when he had weekends off. BUT, he does not work Sundays (usually)! If you're in need of a last minute Christmas photo session, hit us up! We would love to hear from you!

On a more positive note, we did manage to get one session in last month with the adorable Allie!


We hope your Holidays are wonderful! Hope to see/shoot you next year!

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

There's less than 3 months until Christmas!!



You might want to start thinking about family photos for your Christmas cards!! It's not too soon!!

Every year John & I do up a goofy family photo with our cat to send out to our families. If you don't have a family photo tradition yet, we're ready to help start that for you! Christmas is a time of family, tradition, joy and love. What better way than to share that expression than with a family photo.

Think about it! (And please do contact us!)

Dreaming of a wonderful Christmas

Monday, September 21, 2009

It's the last day of summer!!

I got a quick session in to wrap up the summer. And what a fun session it was! Kids are so fun, so unpredictable, and a fun challenge!



I'm thinking I'll have to add this to the gallery on my website. Her pose was naturally done by her. Love her attitude!



He wasn't as camera shy as his older sister, but he also wasn't interested in the whole ordeal. This is one of my favorite shots that I got of him.

There's a few more that I should share, but I'll have to keep this blog short for the time being.

Enjoy the last day of summer, and welcome beautiful fall colors!!

Saturday, September 12, 2009

My long over-due September post (I've been published!!)

I have a photo that's in a magazine!!!!

published!

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It's in Our Lives, Madison's LGBT&XYZ magazine.

I am giddy, thankful, and just so darn happy that I got this opportunity. A zillion thanks to Patrick from Our Lives for contacting me! Be sure and catch the next issue that will have another photo from me in the same section.

If you are on facebook you can become a fan of Our Lives.
And while you're logged onto facebook don't forget to
become a fan of BiG Red Photography too!

Picking up a couple copies of Our Lives was probabaly the most exciting thing I've done all September. Other than that I am soaking up as much sun as possible before daylight becomes sparse.

It's odd how this is the best time of the year, yet it's the sad to me because I know what's around the corner. Cold. John and I took a little road trip to Kohler Andrae State Park last weekend to say our goodbyes to summer. We hiked through sand dunes, got a touch of sun burn, jumped into Lake Michigan (it was cold!) and parted with the season.

So long summer!
so long summer

Friday, August 28, 2009

All signs point to blog

So. Well well well. What have I to blog about? All sorts of random things.

Last weekend i had one and a half shoots. I call the shoot I did for my friend's toddler a half shoot, because it was stricly for fun. No business. The other shoot was again for the magazine I did a photo for-- which so far I have not revealed because I'm a believer in "don't hatch your chickens before the eggs", though I'm not getting paid for the gig, but it is great experience/exposure/advertisement. The first magazine photo isn't out yet, so I'm hush hush about it until it hits the stands. That way you keep coming back to read my nonsense anyway. :)

So back to last weekend, shooting the toddler. Her name is Allie, you've seen her before. Adorable kid.

With a smile like this, who wouldn't giggle in agreement?


We went to Sun Prairie's Sweet Corn Festival. An inexpensive, entertaining event. I unfortunately just got braces & was not able to enjoy any sweet corn, and to tell you the truth, I don't even like corn, so it wasn't a huge dissapointment. What was a huge dissapointment was the fact that cheesecurds cost $SIX DOLLARS. Six dollars? I could get an angus beef burger at Hardees for six bucks. Out of their minds. I starved until I found a Culver's after the event.

My next blog will be about the magazine, it should be coming out next week. I'm probably making too big of a deal out of it.

Have a wonderful weekend!

AL 10 ORIG

Friday, August 21, 2009

Single white female & night photography

Okay, so I'm not single. But I am female, and I do love night photography.

Here's the thing, when John is out working late, and I have a Friday night with nothing to do, I enjoy going out on my bike scouting locations for night shots. But being a female alone in the dark makes me feel incredibly vulnerable.

I have said in the past that I would go and get myself some mace...One of those things that looks good on paper but I've yet to do. Perhaps I'll tie a string around my finger tonight so I remember to complete that task tomorrow?

None the less, I did go out tonight and indulge myself in a wee bit of night photography. I only shot from three different vantage points.

My favorite from the night:


old cars are just too cool


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The last photo brought warm fuzzies to my heart... I was sitting in the median on East Johnson and a truck came to a slow halt by me. My first thought was, "oh great, I'm about to be harassed", and then out pops a 12 year old girl's head, "Hey, do you need any help?"
I was not expecting this and replied a cool, "No...". The driver who was probably the father said, "Oh, well it looked like your bike was broke or something".
Then I realized they were caring Madisonian people. I said, "Thanks for checking, I'm fine!".

Wow, I did not realize that this good natured spirit still existed in the world! Maybe it's a Madison thing, or maybe there's still hope for good in the human kind.

Sunday, August 16, 2009

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step

Over the weekend John and I were fortunate enough to have great friends invite us to their campsite though we had zero money to pitch in. They said, "It's all paid for, we have plenty of food, just bring yourself... and a tent".

So we did.

The friends had the luxury of enjoying Kettle Moraine State Park for three nights, we joined them just Saturday night. I'm so glad that we went, because it was so enjoyable to be with good friends and in a beautiful Wisconsin state park.

Of course being there for a limited time did limit my photo taking, and I didn't want to tune out my friends with the camera, so few photos were taken. But the ones that I did get, I'm pretty happy about.


This is the second stairway to an observation tower that overlooks much of the park. Unfortunately photos from the tower were a bit difficult with the thick haze and humidity in the sky. I did manage one my friends though (sans Becky, she was trailing behind).



I went black and white due to the haze in the background.

And lastly, a photo of a road.


"Beauty often seduces us on the road to truth." --David Shore,