Monday, June 16, 2008

Charlie and Ryan!

Definitely my favorite!





And Amanda, I love this shot of you! Keep that bright smile!

Thank you for letting me be a part of your special day! You are such a cute couple, OK< yesterday I said you were HOT! Charlie, your dress has got to be the most awesome dress I've ever had a chance to photograph! Love it! I've not even begun to wade through all the shots from the reception but here's some of my favorites! More to come and a slideshow this week sometime. Congratulations and I wish you both a long, happy life together!

Friday, June 13, 2008

Cowboy Claude






This post has been long overdue! Shame on me! I shot these photos of this fine cowboy last year following the Oklahoma Centennial's Chisholm Trail Cattle Drive, a 2008 historic 're-enactment' along the same trail pretty much as in the 1800s. The cowboys started out down by the Red River and I met up with this guy as they entered Stephens County (Duncan) Oklahoma. After the first week was over of the drive, I met with Claude and his family to do some portraits of him. So that is what some of these are. I'm still processing cattle drive photos, but these are being printed and I will be giving him a set. I'm only posting a few here, but he gets to see all the best from the portrait work.
I am working on a line of cards and a book, so if you are interested, please post and I will put you on my email mailing list so that when the book is ready, I can send you an e-mail announcement with details. Thanks!

Saturday, June 07, 2008

sick. sirens went off.


brief points of this post: sick. tornado sirens. flowers. found a blog to read! photographs interspersed throughout. but you must read my entry!


not much fun being sick. started with a slight headache. morphed into what I thought was head cold, maybe some sinus/allergy issues. that was monday. by wednesday, I thought it would be the last of it. not so. worked extra long day in hopes of either working it out of my system or having everything done so I could slack off at work thursday. I got home, took nyqu-i-l and went to bed. been existing on spr-i-t-e and tea all week basically. some chicken noodle soup, til that was just too salty. (yes, the horrible boxed kind). hot holiday tea, for those wondering. yummy even when sick. thursday rolled in and I barely made it to work. got through deadline, and one hour and a half later, left, did the web check in from home with our fast med place here and by noon was in the office getting the ana-ly-sis. keep reading...

sinusitus. big time. i'm telling you my jaw felt like it was on fire, my head was about to rip open and my eyes hurt. got the z-pac and some other stuff. came home. went to bed, cold washcloth on head. as the day wore on and oddly enough, the dryline moved in, my head was literally exploding. at 9 p.m. in a deep sleep finally after taking tylenol extra strength and bawling like a baby..scared my family. they wanted to take me to the dr. (earlier that day) ... then 9 pm my husband comes in and quietly says, 'honey, they're sounding the sirens'...I sat up like a bolt of lightning (his words) and didn't hear a thing, beginning to think I'm dreaming. then it hit me, whoa, way too quiet, I mean like deathly quiet. now I'm hitting panic mode. I get up see the kids and granddaughter baby huddled in the hallway. I follow my husband outside then hear the sirens in the distance. for some reason ours wasn't working. drats. it was a week ago.
so I call the emergency services and find out it's straight line winds as I was so not with it enough to check the tv. then my oldest son calls and tells me the same. we're just suppose to stay inside away from windows. oddly enough, my headache is long gone. of course, the storm is HERE! well, it finally came but lucky for duncan again, it wasn't much. then I turn on the TV and see that the storm line extended from Iowa, into Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas. Now that's one long storm!
well, aside from that. haven't done much of anything but lay in bed.


had to drag self out to that mart to get some supplies. that wore me out. still don't feel a whole bunch better. tried to shoot some flower photos this a.m. I like them! shot a pic of my hot tea. pathetic, heh?

tonight, I covered the bed in a box of photos that were years overdue of being put in albums. oh, some were in albums once. took them out and never got them back in. now, don't confuse album work with scrapbook. don't do that much these days.
oh and this morning I got to read a few blogs...found a new one I LOVE ..dispatch from LA! beautiful, enjoyable. I felt like I got a trip overseas with her lovely yummy photographs!

Tuesday, June 03, 2008

Darling fairy princess!



Enjoy! You can find the fairy art pieces through Jessica Dittmer's Wish You Wells site. She designs custom pieces using her photographs of client's children and more. You can find the details at her site. Now, don't confuse my attempts for her artwork though. But just how cute is this! The second version without the flowers on the wall, a photographer friend said it looked like stained glass, how cool is that?!

Sunday, June 01, 2008

Trust




Here's my inspirational image for Sunday. If you look closely in your surroundings, you can find something to photograph. It's there, you just have to look. Trust, it's a powerful word that evokes strong feelings. When that trust is broken, either with a careless remark or in other ways, it can sometimes be hard to rebuild it. But, if you have a forgiving nature, it's much easier. When I was little and even up into my early adult years, trust came easily for me. Then there were some years where trust just wasn't something I gave freely. I believed it had to be earned. Not necessarily a great trait. These days, I have different definitions of trust and different levels of trust. My family, I trust them without condition. Just as I love them.
Well, that's about all on that subject.
Now, turns out the two images below were not such a hit with my sister, grandma of S and A! I got them printed in metallic and they are fun, nothing fantastical. In fact, the online image looks much better than the print. I'm going to try it in a matte finish and see what I think.
And I'm working on some fabulous stuff for my etsy shop that I think will be a big hit! And trying to create a jillion different albums (so that's an exaggeration..hah!) but hopefully I can soon be done with the wedding ones. I'm learning total patience on one of the projects. And that's the way it should be. The album needs to be something the couple is totally happy with so it is taking longer then most. Well enjoy, surf the archives and please post!