Waking up with the sun.

If that is not an enough reason to get up early I don't know what is.  BEAUTIFUL.

Picture of the day

I am thinking and thinking about what kind of blog I want this to be. So I am trying some things out to get the feel for it.  Thanks for being patient with me.  I want it to show my personality in photography and not what I see in others because that of course shows their personality.  There will be lots of changes coming up.  So let me know what you like and don't.  CHEERS!

There is nothing better than waking up to the sun shining.  Happy Wednesday Everyone.

Newport Beach, Oregon

We have a family tradition that when a birthday comes up in our house we go on a trip. It was our daughters 11th birthday so we choose to head to the coast for the weekend.  Newport Beach is a place we have wanted to search and explore since we arrived in Oregon.  As you can tell I had a great time snapping away.

We had a great time walking downtown watching the fishermen bring in the fish, flying kites, running with the dogs, and esp enjoying birthday cake.  HAPPY BIRTHDAY HANNAH.

Kaley-Senior Session

I met Kaley back when I was working at our old church and she was on my children's ministry team. I instantly fell in love with her.  She is a sweet, funny, and a beautiful lady.  She asked me if I would take her senior pictures when she found out I was heading back to Alabama for a visit and of course I could not refuse her. She had helped me out so many times at church.  We had a great time shooting at the same time playing catch up.  Thanks for the opportunity Kaley and for being such a trooper in the 100 degree heat. 

Popham Wedding(my very first)

I was super nervous to shoot my very first wedding.  Thankfully it was for my dear friends Kristan and Nathan Popham.  They have a wonderful Love story.  Nate had some health issues that didn't allow them to have an actual wedding so they were originally married at the court house.  Through God's healing hand and amazing doctors he has been healthy for a year now.  Now they had the chance to have the wedding of their dreams and hop on a plane to Jamaica.  I was so blessed and thankful to be able to be a part of their day. Congrats again!

Little Princess

My second model of the week....Hannah, my super excited, pumped, ready for anything daughter.  Any one who knows her know she is full of life and her laugh lights up a room.  She has such natural beauty taking her picture is so easy.  She even gives me a few pointers.   We ended up going to two locations. 
First Location, old farm field down the road from our house:

Second Location, downtown Newberg.

My favorite little Man

I am getting ready to shoot my first wedding and to say I am nervous in not even close to the definition. So I am having my children be my models to help me practice. hehe. We had fun today. I just let him run around and have fun and bribed him with some extra time to play and I have the perfect client. Cheap too.

still working on light and shutter speed but all in all I am pleased with what we came away with. Feel free to shoot me any advice or comments.