so...new computers can be really hard sometimes. i am still getting used to this one, which is why all of the fonts keep changing on my pictures these days. i guess it's good to try some different things out since it seems that i don't really have a choice anyway.
so...new computers are hard but vacations in the mountains are not. we just got home from a week-long adventure in colorado with my family. it was a wonderful trip and everything was so beautiful. i will hopefully be able to get around to posting some of the gazillion pictures we took while we were there. the one thing that may keep me from that is how many pictures i have to post in the meantime...
I can't believe it's been a week since I've posted! I try to do better than that but things have been crazy around here! Here is another June wedding...another beautiful day and a glowing bride and groom. Rebekah and Michael were so ready to be married--she was one of the most laid-back brides EVER, which made them really fun and easy to photograph. Thanks, you two, for letting me be a part of such a beautiful day.
It's funny how I also photographed Claire and Anna Claire on successive days the same week that I took Grayson and Caroline's pictures. They are just about the same age, too, and are both so much fun. They both were pretty shy at first and it took awhile before they warmed up to me but they were both all smiles by the end. I love the process of watching kids relax into their natural selves over the course of a session.
Claire's mom requested the song for her slideshow and it has become one I've loved using in recent shows. I get a lot of questions about the songs that I use and how I choose them for shows. I really love using songs that are a little bit different and may not be ones you hear everyday...incorporating music in an original way has always been one of my favorite parts of what I do. There are lots of times when I will finish a show with everything except for the music...sometimes you've just got to sleep on that kind of thing! All that to say, thanks to Claire's mommy for the newest addition to the song library!
It was really fun to get to take pictures of two babies more or less the same age in the same day last week. Happy six months, you two! It is amazing to see the way they change so much in such a short time! I have photographed both Grayson and Caroline before so it is really fun and challenging for me to try to do something new and different each time. They are super easy babies to photograph! Caroline's mommy knew she wasn't herself the day we did the pictures and it turned out she had a double ear infection the whole time! It makes me sad to see all the pictures of her smiling and working so hard when she didn't feel good at all...what a trooper!
I know that I am always saying what a gift it is to be a part of people's lives as I attempt to capture life through the lens of a camera. I feel like I am always writing the same thing. Maybe I am. My hope is that the story won't grow old. The magic of what I get to do never fails to amaze me. Photographing a wedding is an incredible experience-- you just sort of appear in the middle of this really beautiful story and all of a sudden you're right in the center of it all, watching these priceless moments of time unfold. Wow. I cry at every wedding I photograph and during a lot of sessions with kids and families. It's just life. And maybe it is a dressed up, not your everyday kind of life but it's life just the same. All this being said, Steph and Wes had a wedding day of celebration and I was honored to witness this part of their journey. The pictures of the two of them were taking just minutes after they said their vows and their joy at being husband and wife is contagious. I don't think I could have gotten them to stop smiling for anything.
the whisenhunts