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!

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!)

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!!

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

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





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!

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!

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




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.

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,

August, all moved in.

So I've been putting off blogging, because frankly I've got nothing to blog about. So if you have a busy internet surf planned, you can exit now. :)

But if you really have nothing better to do than read my blabbering blog, then sit back & have a glass of wine... or a bottle of beer... or whatever it is you might enjoy!

My last blog was about how I came to the realization of all the last things I would be doing at my old tiny apartment meant for tiny people. No, not people as in plural. There's enough room for one tiny person who doesn't have many possesions. I on the other hand have a husband who hoards all his things from his childhood on.

Lucky for John (husband), the new place has enough room for all of his crap, plus my hobby equipment that spent the last three years in a coma in the basement. I now have a corner in our DEN (yes, DEN!!) for my full sized keyboard, a music stand, and my saxophone. Having this extra space has even got me jazzed enough to play my instruments. Unlucky for John I'm in desperate need of some practice.

Having all this space also has gotten me the photography bug. I just wanna shoot shoot shoot! We have a spare bedroom that is empty just for photography sake. If I could be any happier about that I might burst. Tonight I did scratch the itch for a photo idea that I got as soon as the livingroom was set up. It is a self portrait, but I would really like to recreate this shot for someone else. Any takers??

Beautiful Hipster Neighborhood

Today it hit me, this is/was our last weekend living on Jenifer Street. Yes, Jenifer with ONE "n". Yesterday morning when we rolled out of bed to ride our bikes to the farmer's market for a danish from Stellas, I was oblivious of this fact. Hmph!

Though I didn't acknowlege that it would be our last weekend in this beautiful hipster neighborhood, we did make the most of it. After the farmer's market we headed over to the Atwood Summer Festival. We got there in time to catch the last half of VO5, a funk-disco-dance band. I was enjoying the music so much that I didn't think to get a funky band shot, which could have easily been done! I did get this candid of two of the band members after the set:



Atwood Summer Festival did manage to tucker me out though, after a perfect summer day I was in bed by 10 PM (On a Saturday night, this is madness!).

Today was spent doing last minute packing, cleaning, and putting the couch on the curb (it was picked up in less than 15 minutes, it was a sweet looking couch). With all the packing came the realization that this perfect neighborhood I currently live in won't be my neighborhood. I'm not moving far, it's a hop and a skip away. Sans the jump, it's that close.

High Heeled gals

Maxwell Street Days in Madison was a blast even through the chilly-for-this-time-of-year-weather! It's especially a blast when you get four girls together from different cities that just need to break free from everyday stresses.

I had a friend in from Milwaukee, Green Bay, and Deforest (yes, I realize that Deforest isn't that far of a travel, but the Deforest gal drove from Wausau that morning, so give her credit!).

We started the morning with a treat from the farmer's market, then made our way through the crowd on state street. Things weren't marked low enough for any frivelous spending, but we did manage to find some margaritas to loosen those wallets.

Just when we were tired of digging through boxes & bins, a girl on a ladder screamed into her megaphone that all shoes are one dollar for the next ten minutes. We scrambled like a startled flock of geese to find our shoe sizes. Ten mniutes later we each left with some one dollar high heels.

What's better than a bargain? Trying to walk in high heels!
(And nothing beats a good time with long time friends.)




Thank you to my friends for an enjoyable weekend, hope to see you all soon! <3<3

EDIT-- hmmm, it appears half of my friends photo was chopped...
full size here: View On White

Summer. Things. Fun.

Since the wedding I've had one shoot. I don't want to (or maybe even can't) upload any photos just yet. It was a portrait of a girl...for a magazine!!!! When it is published I will upload it and blog for sure. But out of respect I want to wait until it's available to the public first. By the way, learning about this shoot I was jumping for joy and am very excited about it. I can't wait to go buy 10 copies of the magazine!

And speaking of the wedding, the newly weds liked their photos! You know you've done well when the bride asks if she can upload some to her facebook! :)

Other than the little photography I've been doing this summer, I recently gained a ton of inspiration, and I'm about to burst if I don't do some creative shooting soon! Last weekend was the Art Fair on the Square in Madison. It's probabaly my favorite event in Madison. I go and walk around for hours staring at other artists work in awe. I leave with an itch to get shooting!

This weekend is an all girls weekend for me. I've invited my close girlfriends into town for Maxwell Street Days . So no serious photography this weekend, just goofy girl photos. But keeping that bit of youth is a good thing.

Happy summer & stay goofy!

Our first wedding -- slideshow!

It took us a week to finish editing, but we're finally done! I believe there are over 100 photos that we are including on the CD that the newly weds will get, but I chose my 22 favorite from the photos to put into a slideshow.

View the slideshow here.

I did not include any of the formal portraits except for 2 of the newly wed ones because I wanted the slideshow to feature the "Ooohh... Ahhh..." photos that are unexpected. There are a lot of formal portrait ones that I'm thankful of the 5:00 afternoon light for.

The ceremony was the most difficult to shoot as the sun was behind them, but with John being mobile and me shooting directly down the isle we were able to get a nice mix of photos. I could write a blog of "10 things I learned from my first wedding" from this experience. I'm so happy we got this opportunity, and I hope it opens more windows for us.

The newly weds have not seen the slideshow or the entire collection of photos themselves yet, but I'm sure they will be pleased. They were really great to work with, and I hope that all future clients will be just as great.

It was fabulous, fantastic, incredible, beautiful & hot!

Incase you were sitting on the edge of your seat, the wedding was great. Just as I predicted; perfect first wedding shoot.



Just one sneak peak for now. Will have a slideshow to share at some point during this coming week.

We're taking a leap (a big one!!)

This Friday, June 26th 2009, John and I are doing our first wedding!!

Are we nervous? Are we excited? Are we ready? Yes, yes, and yes!!

The couple that is getting married are our perfect match for a first wedding. They are very laid back, casual and cool. We met a week ago to talk through things and get an idea for portrait locations. I think it's going to turn out wonderfully.

One tiny part that makes me nervous is that the sun will be behind them during the ceremony, at 5:00. During the ceremony lighting could be tricky, but we've got our Alien Bees and flash units. We're preparred for it!

This weekend I will be busy editing photos. A follow up blog with the results will happen at some point next week. I can not wait to share my first wedding experience!

Rupa and the April Fishes

Over the weekend the Marquette Waterfront Festival provided entertainment for myself and hundreds of other Madisonians.

It's rare that I like a band that I'm seeing/hearing for the first time enough to buy their album. That is exactly what happened after I saw Rupa and the April Fishes perform.



The band is based out of San Francisco. Their music is not easy to define; it's a mixed influence of French chanson, Argentinean tango, Gypsy swing, American folk, Latin cumbias, and Indian ragas. But let me tell you, it's quite the experience to dance to this music. In a single song it can go from a tempo that has you jumping like there's no tomorrow, to a slow staggering sway back and forth.

They are definately worth a listen:

Pirate-fest - Port Washington, WI (FUN!!)

I remember a time, when I worked crappy part-time jobs at restaurants...And worked every weekend, and every weekend was beeeeeautiful outside, and every customer was kind enough to let me know how beautiful it was outside and it's a shame that I'm working...

Now that I have my weekends free, it's just my luck that the weekends have been cloudy, rainy, windy, and just not beaaaautiful like how it was when I had to work.

The point is, is that my two good girlfriends and I went on a day trip to go hiking at a state park, and then to Pirate Fest in Port Washington. It sprinkled rain most of the day, and everything was gray. Even my outfit was gray. Gray sweats, a gray hoodie.

On the positive side, it was good that it was cloudy. The hiking trails at the state park were not in a forested area, they were through sand dunes. Had it been sunny we could have been badly sunburned being exposed like that. And being with two girlfriends who I don't get to see very often is always a good thing!

So Pirate Fest!! I had never attended this event before, but anything with pirates has to be fun. There were vendors with pirate gear galore, live music, pirate skits, and it was in a setting along beautiful (but windy) Lake Michigan.





Attendence seemed small to me, and I blame the weather for that. I'm going to give it a second go next year and bring my husband John, who I know would love it. Perhaps next year I'll have to get a 2nd job at a restaurant to ensure that the weather is nice on the weekend!

Baby Sam

I was fortunate to get a chance to shoot a 3 week old newborn. His name is Sam, and oh so adorable.



I really would have liked to get creative with him and do stuff like Kelley Rydin, a contact that I follow on flickr does. Sam is the first born child from the mom, and the most unique shot I was able to get was this;



This was a very quick shot, we were outside with Sam for no more than 2 minutes. Literally, only two shots were taken before mom wanted Sam back inside. Which is completely understandable. A new mom should be protective of her newborn, I probably would be too.

Hopefully the parents will invite us back for more, I really would like to get more creative with Sam, the possibilities with a newborn are endless.

Engagement session with long time friends

In May I had an engagement session with two very good friends of mine and John's. In fact, they were at our wedding three and a half years ago. She stood up in my wedding, and I will be standing up in hers -- which reminds me I better get on ordering that dress from David's Bridal!

It was a chilly and windy day for our outdoor session. The location was along a river, so the wind was ferocious. With the conditions, and it being with some close friends of mine, I don't think I did as well as I would have liked. I realized that doing this sort of thing with close friends can allow for some slack.

This was her favorite (also a favorite among flickr friends):



This is a favorite of mine:


Though, I do think to fully appreciate it, you might want to view it larger.
I have a few other gems of them saved on my laptop. I may do a short slideshow of them and add it to this blog at a later point.

So congratulations Justin & Becky! They have been together longer than anyone I know and deserve utter happiness with each other. I can not wait for the wedding next summer. It may be the last wedding I ever stand up in.

Race for the Cure 5/30/09

I admit I should have done this blog sooner, and I fully meant to...The delay is because I wanted to get some pink flowers to do a photo with, or just a photo of pink gerber daisies, but I realized that I'm just never going to make it to the florist during the week (and have been out of town on the weekends).



So! Saturday, May 30th I will be running a 5K race for Susan G. Komen, race for the cure.

If you have a few extra dollars to donate to the cause you can sponser me by:
1. Go to this website
2. Type in my name: Kristina Cirves
3. I'm the only name that comes up
4. Click "support kristina" above the yellow box with my goal meter.
5. Enter your payment information.

Easy!! I hope that you will, it's a good cause, and there are far too many women out there who suffer from it.

______________________________________________________________________________

"How Many Women Get Breast Cancer?

The American Cancer Society's most recent estimates for breast cancer in the United States are for 2009:

192,370 new cases of invasive breast cancer
40,170 deaths from breast cancer
Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in the United States, other than skin cancer. It is the second leading cause of cancer death in women, after lung cancer.

The chance of a woman having invasive breast cancer some time during her life is about 1 in 8. The chance of dying from breast cancer is about 1 in 35. Breast cancer death rates are going down. This is probably the result of finding the cancer earlier and improved treatment. Right now there are about two and a half million breast cancer survivors in the United States"

(This last section was copied and pasted from theAmerican Cancer Society website.)

Captain's Walk Winery - Green Bay, WI (ARrrrRRrRrrrrRrrrr!)

If you ever happen to pass through Green Bay Wisconsin, be sure to stop by the Captain's Walk Winery! What a pleasant, friendly and fun place to enjoy your favorite wine, or learn about wine. I personally know nothing about wine other than I like the sweet stuff.

On May 16th the Captains Walk Winery hosted a pirate themed wine tasting festival. Live music, wine tasting, and delicious foods, and pirate attire encouraged!



Not only was the event fun, but it also was a great opportunity for candid portraiture. The two portraits on this blog are my favorite from the day. The two also happen to be my friends who I did an engagement session with.

Hey it's May!!

So...last time I wrote a blog I typed that I would be better about blogging weekly, I think I've slacked a bit!

BUT!! I have a good excuse! I have been very busy and behind on editing! That's the thing, taking these unpaid gigs I don't feel quite so pressured to edit these things in a timley manner.

So far I spent a weekend in Wausau to visit my mom for mother's day, was a fun, fun weekend. Nothing in particular to blog about there.
Then the following weekend I went to Green Bay to visit a friend, do an engagement session (almost done editing those!), and went to a pirate party. The Green Bay trip will be a blog of its own as soon as I'm caught up on editing. I suppose my friend might like to see the photos before I blog about them!

As for the rest of May, I have a session planned to take photos of a month old newborn. I cross, cross, cross, cross my fingers that it won't be canceled! And after that I run the Susan G. Koman race. Exciting times in May!

A geek in pink

On Sunday May 3rd John and I got to see Jason Mraz live for the 2nd time. This time we got seats instead of being squished in the pit. The seats were unbelievably better with an elevated view.



Jason Mraz was excellent as expected. He does marvelous riffs and bends his voice in his extended notes. When ever he belted out a long note my jaw dropped and yelled, "damn!!". Although "I'm Yours" is his most over-played song on the radio, I love it and think it's genious. The lyrics are so perfectly inspiring. His entire album, We Sing We Dance We Steal Things, is very feel good.

One thing that annoys me about going to big named artist concerts is that they won't allow DSLRs into the venue. Yet pocket cameras are just fine. In December when I saw Carrie Underwood I brought my Canon SD600. The photos that I got just weren't up to par. They were very noisey and not as sharp as I would get with a DSLR.

For Jason Mraz John borrowed a friend's Canon SD700 and I borrowed my mother in law's polaroid point & shoot. The polaroid managed to get the photo above, which I am pleased with, but I did attempt 30 other photos that did not turn out. The polaroid was very slow, after I took one shot it took a minute for the camera's recycle rate to be ready for another shot. John attempted a few photos during the opening bands and decided right then to give it up. But after seeing some of his attempts I wish he would have tried a few on Jason, some of his attempts weren't that bad.

I understand that venues don't want recording devices into the concert, but why is having a decent looking photo so wrong? The tour merchandise doesn't include decent looking photos that I could buy.

The one time I did attempt to sneak a DSLR in the security guard sent me back out to my car. Then there are times when they don't check your bags very thoroughly and I could have snuck the camera in.

I know I need a new point & shoot for occasions like this. And I have asked for advice on good point & shoots, and later found out that they were in the $300-500 price range. Yikes, that's a lot of cash for a point & shoot. For that kind of money I could get a new lense!

Oh well, we had a great time, Jason Mraz is a genious; it's our god forsaken right to be LOVED LOVED LOVED!

100 Years Later

Friday evening John and I stopped at Ancora coffee on King Street near the capital to see Craig Wilson's showing of his arial photography. My favorite photograph was a incredible panorama of the city by the Monona Terrace. It was great to see the photograph in a large, real life frame. It's gorgeous on the computer monitor, but to see it on a wall is another experience.

Next the his modern day arial views of Madison, he had George Lawrence's first take on the Madison skyline in 1908.

Craig spoke about the pieces and explained the significance of George Lawrences arial photographs in Madison. At the time these photographs were taken, airplanes did not frequent the sky. George Lawrence's eyes were the first to view Madison from above.
"To photograph something that no one's eyes have ever seen, that's just like wow!", Craig explained.

To think about that statement puts a new perspective on the things I photograph. Most likely I will never do anything as ground breaking as George Lawrence, but I am definately inspired.

Still not forgotten.

Hello blogger, it has been far too long!! When I started this I had planned on a weekly post, and so far I have failed. Let's see if I can be better about this in the month of May!

In April I had 2 scheduled sessions and both were canceled. I hope to get them rescheduled, but I will leave the ball in the client's court as I don't want to be too pushy.

One thing I did accomplish in April was my first run in a race! I ran the Crazy Legs Classis, which is an 8K race. 8K = 4.97 miles. I finished at 48 minutes and 44 seconds. That's my personal best time, but I'm going to continue training to aim for a better time next year. That's right, next year!

For May, I would like to attend a photocamp in Milwaukee, hopefully learn some new tips & tricks, and perhaps find some photo opportunities.
The following weekend I plan on a trip to Wausau to visit my mother for mother's day. Hopefully she has the weekend off. Also hope that I find some photo opportunities there!!

And at the end of May I'm registered to run the Susan G. Koman race for the cure. This is a 5K (3 miles) race. For this race I am supposed to get donations to benefit the cause. I have set up a page for people to donate, but don't know the URL at this moment. It's written down at home. So a new blog will be up this week with the URL and I plan to do some sort of self portrait to promote the donation.

Thanks for checking in with my slow moving blog! Happy May!

blogger, i have not forgotten about you.

Not sure if anyone keeps up with this blog, but just incase I thought I would check in.
Lately every time I have something scheduled something comes up & the shoot is cancelled. So in the meantime, while I have no one to shoot, I've been shooting myself.



"An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. . . The truly wise person is colorblind."
--Albert Schweitzer

So I will paint myself green with optimism that timing will work out for everyone!

The Birds & the Bees

Didn't shoot many humans over the weekend, and the few that I did would not approve me my posting their photographs online--which I respect!
Instead of human shooting I enjoyed searching for signs of spring. I think I was successful:





I still have a number up upcoming potential shoots, just waiting for all the ducks to get in a row.

Gumption

In my past attempts at asking permission to take a stranger's photograph I have been denied. It's happened several times and discouraged me from asking.
I'm not quite sure what got in to me today, other than 2 margaritas, but I asked two young ladies if I could take their photo. Both were very nice and agreed to. Here's what I got:





I'm so glad that I did this because it got me some more courage, and I noticed something.

In the first photo of the girl with the green wig, the lighting isn't the best, the sun was to her side, half of her face is slightly blown out. In the second photo she was in the shade and the lighting on her face is even.

It's something that I have read a thousand times: when taking portraits outdoors, take your subject into the shade. Now I get it.

To top it off, I almost didn't ask the girl with the puppy because she was in the shade. I'm so glad that I talked myself into it.
And yes, I do realize that the puppy is not very in focus, but I'm still proud of the image since I had the courage to ask a stranger to take their photograph. It's a big step for me, and if I continue to have this confidence it's going to gain me more experience and knowledge with portraits.

Ally's first birthday

A friend of mine asked me if I would be the official photographer at her baby's first birthday party, and I was thrilled to say YES!! Allison is a baby that I have photographed a few times before, and she's great. She has the most amazing big, blue, curious eyes. And she's incredibly sweet. This was definately a fun shoot.



One thing I enjoyed about the shoot was that I could actually take charge. Usually when I'm at social events I don't want to get in the way and interupt the flow of events. This time I was able to say, "Hey, let's move these two gifts here and set Ally here". It was nice to be more in control of the composition.

Another benefit of this shoot is that I took advantage of there being lots of relatives present. I got gutsy enough to ask couples if they wanted their portraits taken, and everyone was very enthusiastic about it. There will definately be some new additions to my gallery on www.bigredphotographymadison.com.

Here is a slideshow of some photos from the party: Slideshow

New camera, new website, new blog.

I did my part, I consumed. I purchased a Nikon d300 with my tax returns, what a buy! First guilt swallowed me whole. Then I got home and took a few test shots (new lens too). Guilty about what? Amazing camera, a zillion thanks to my husband for talking me into it.



The new BiG Red website!! We have been working so hard to get this thing up and running, and a zillion more thanks to John for doing the extra effects. I hope my visitors are as pleased as I am with the site. This blog will be moved over to Wix (the host) when they have that available.

For future shoots, I have a few potentials coming up. One is a first time expecting mother which I can not wait for. Location for her may be a challenge, but I'm up for it, who wouldn't be with a great new camera and a great new site?