Miller Time

No this post is not about Beer!! It's about my BFF Jen and her precious little family. She asked me a long time ago if I would do some Christmas pictures so she could make cards this year and of course I was super excited...and then we both forgot about them!! So 2 days before she was set to leave for Christmas we did an emergency shoot, I stayed up all night editing and the results are super incredible if I do say so myself...Hope you and your family loved them Jen!

Family Christmas

So my gorgeous friend Allison asked me to join her family Christmas celebration this year to get some group pictures. Unfortunately not ALL of the family could make it, but a large crowd was there and they wanted to preserve the memories. It was so much fun to meet her family and see the friendship and silliness and LOVE that they all share! I am sorry I was not able to stay for dinner but hope you all love the pictures.

the sisters with mom

the little ones

My beautiful friend Allison!

 

It's Autumn at Christmas!

So I think that most of you who view this blog are facebook friends and so you probably have already seen LOTS of pictures of this little angel. Her Daddy is stationed over-sees right now, so my priority was getting the pictures up and available to him ASAP!! I can't imagine being gone from my family over Christmas...especially when your family includes a brand new beautiful baby girl. So although you may have already seen...INTRODUCING

(I don't know why these pictures are sideways...sad I will try to work on that)

Obviously she has a lot of personality...

 (oh and side note this super cute Christmas hat was made for me by my talented knitting friend Jacque and I love it so much I literally want to just steal babies off the street to take their pictures in it! Thank you J!)

 She has a killer sense of fashion as well...I am pretty sure this is the cutest/girliest Christmas dress ever! And check on the incredible boots on this girl

 She comes by her good looks honest...her mommy is pretty as can be!

Merry Christmas!! I hope I get my hands and my camera on this cutie again soon

Opryland Family Christmas

So a few months ago my friend Allison introduced me to yet another beautiful friend, Lesley, and I was so excited when she contacted me about some Christmas family pictures. We went to the newly re-opened Opryland Hotel, which is beautiful as ever and had a blast doing these pictures. I was a little nervous about shooting her son b/c he had never met me so I thought he might be shy...ummm no problem. That kid is a born model!! He was awesome for 2 whole hours! I love all the pictures...here is a small taste - hope you guys love them!

At the Park

So a LONG time ago I asked one of my student workers (Courtney) to come with me to Dragon Park to do a photo shoot. I had never shot pictures there but love the park so wanted to try it out. She said yes but then the time NEVER worked out. We decided to include her roommate (Diane) in on the shoot and kept setting dates...and cancelling dates. Setting dates...and cancelling dates. FINALLY we were able to get together and they brought along their friend (Gaby) and we had our photo shoot. To be honest, not the best place I ever shot, also the lighting at that time of day not so great. BUT regardless we finally did our shoot and they are young, beautiful college girls so of course the pictures still look great and I think everyone had fun...at least I hope they did! Sorry it has taken so long girls but hope you like your pictures

Graduation Pictures

So this is my gorgeous cousin (and student worker) Elizabeth

She has a beautiful smile and you can see it in the rest of the pictures but I couldn't resist adding that one because it is soooo gorgeous!! I can't believe she is getting ready to graduate from COLLEGE!?! But she is and I am super proud of her and was glad to help her get some pictures for the occasion.

Love you girl! Hope you love the pictures...many more to come :)

Things...

So this is not a "people" post...it is a "things" post. When I first got interested in photography I mostly took pictures of things, buildings, trees etc...but lately I have been enjoying people SO much that I have sort of let that slip. Over the past few photo shoots though I have taken some time out to snap a few of these things that are around us. I have then used these things to practice using some different editing tools. Since this blog is supposed to be about what is going on with my photography I decided to take the time to show you some of the results...as you will be able to tell I especially love trees! But it is cool to see how many different things I can do with the trees. So if this post bores you...sorry! :) More people to come soon.

This one is my favorite! I just love this tree!