Friday Photo Journal, June 29, 2018

Friday!! Happy weekend all! Even though I have tons of work,  and several sessions over the next week, I am happy that my favorite part of summer is here. 4th of July to me IS summer. The whole month of July just has that delicious summer feel - relaxed, bright, sunny (without miserable heat) and red, white & blue everywhere. I love it!

Soooo, this week was crazy busy with work, appointments & family stuff.  Yesterday I had to take my girlies to my photo shoot. Little Miss has been begging to visit the beach, so she was in heaven. It was a toasty evening, with little breeze, so we all came home sweaty, sandy, salty and tired. But it was also gorgeous out, and the sky was pretty spectacular.

So, what's your favorite part of summer? 

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Friday Photo Journal, June 1, 2018

Hey friends,

Happy Friday and welcome to June! We are swinging right into summer. The school year is winding down, my beach sessions are picking up, it's hot and humid outside and the mosquitos are vicious. Feels like summer to me.

Last weekend we spent a day at the pool enjoying Memorial Day food and festivities, which was tons of fun. We also took the kids to a baseball game this week. All pics except the first are iPhone because I've been lazy, and because I'm still sore from the last wedding I shot. I seriously think I sprained my middle finger shooting, ha ha. It has never happened before, but holding up 8 lbs for 8-9 hours is too much for this old lady I guess.

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Friday Photo Journal, May 25, 201

Happy weekend friends! The past couple of weeks have been busy with work and kids' activities. I'm looking forward to a long weekend! How about you? I do have to work and shoot a couple of sessions, but I am excited for some family time too. And hopefully some sunshine-y days after loads of rain last week. What's on your agenda? 

My pics this week are of tulips. Only in the last image are the flowers actually a different color. The first three shots are of the same flowers. I was just playing around with the processing, but kind of like the way they turned out. Which is your favorite?  

And I'm curious, what's your favorite flower? I love so many of them, but ranunculus and peonies are definitely high on the list. Photographing wedding flowers all the time makes me wish I had a much bigger garden, and time to tend it. 

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Have an awesome Memorial Day weekend!

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Friday Photo Journal, April 13, 2018

Yip yip, it's Friday! Don't know why I'm so excited because weekends off are a thing of the past for me, but the weather is warming, the flowers are blooming and I'm feeling inspired by all the lovely changes unfolding. Last week I gave you dogwoods, this week: cherry blossoms and wisteria. :)

Last weekend we had an awesome visit with my MIL and nephews. They came up from North Carolina to help celebrate my son's 16th birthday. (Still can't believe it has been 16 years since I became a mom.) We took the kids to the Virginia Air and Space Museum in Hampton and had a great time exploring.

What have you been up to?

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Friday Photo Journal, January 19, 2018

Happy Friday all! I hope you've had a great week. We got another dumping of snow this week. Not as much as last week, but enough to play in. It's melting quickly though, since we're headed back into the 50's for the weekend. I love how beautiful the snow is, but the aftermath of muddy paws is no bueno. I spend half my life cleaning the floor it seems!

I played around with some creative techniques this week. It didn't yield anything spectacular, but it was fun to try different things. I do feel like I'm on the verge of getting the knack of freelensing though, finally. It has been a goal of mine for a couple of years. It is so frustrating that I usually take a whack at it and then give up for a while. I'm pretty sure the key is tons of practice, which I just haven't kept up with. I'd love to be able to consistently get something decent, so that I can incorporate it into client sessions. So far I'm a slow learner, ha ha. But I did finally get some wider shots that work, which I could never do before, so cheers to small victories! ;)

What have you been up to this week?

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Friday Photo Journal, December 15, 2017

Happy Friday friends! Hard to believe we are only 2 weeks away from 2018! I remember being a kid and thinking how wild it would be to see the year 2000 - I don't think I could even fathom 2018 at that point. No one dreams of being in their 40s, ha ha.

I worked like a dog over the past week. My shooting schedule has slowed, thankfully! Only two more sessions this year - so far (the week of Christmas - New Years is usually busy with family sessions), but I hope to be able to take it easy this year! I am nearly finished editing my last wedding of 2017, woohoo! and I have only two sessions to edit after that. Then I am all caught up! After this weekend, I hope to be able to focus on baking, Christmas prepping and family time - it will be such a relief!!

We are on the tail end of our fall color here, so pics this week include some super exciting nature photography (sarcasm) and my super exciting home life (more sarcasm). What have you been up to?

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Friday Photo Journal, November 3, 2017

Happy Friday all! Can you believe it's November?! Ack, the holidays are sneaking up quickly! 

Like most of the U.S., we are currently up to our eyeballs in Halloween candy. So. Much. Sugar. My mom threw an awesome Halloween party for the kids last weekend (thanks Nana!!), and then, of course, they indulged in trick-or-treating on Tuesday. We are in sugar city. At least we have a few weeks to burn it all off before the next holiday feast, right? 

How was your week? 

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Friday Photo Journal, February 3, 2017

Happy weekend all! This week flew by and I am posting and running tonight - sorry! I'll be back tomorrow to follow up. Hope you have all had a super week! We had a few warmish days this week (I think that groundhog might be wrong.) Here are a few shots I took of Little Miss playing in the trees outdoors:

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Have an awesome weekend!