Indeed! April and May both were some especially busy months for me! I'm not hoping things slow down though! I love what I do! :)
So let's re-cap ...In early April I photographed our Dress Me Up contest winner, spunky Lil Miss Kayla. And in May I was able to shoot Mr. Evan, our Handsome Heroes winner! What beautiful children both of them are. So photogenic! I loved every moment of these shoots!
In early April I also had the opportunity to photograph Heidi Fralick and her precious children in Nashville's Centennial Park. What a beautiful family, Heidi! I had a lot of fun on this one too. (Loved chasing around the giant coy in the duck pond). I it worked out great that we could also incorporate Dakota's Senior pictures into this shoot location. Dakota is also very photogenic. Can I just say that I love it when I don't have to tell my subject what to do. :-) Dakota can really work the camera!
Little Baby Colton came right on time at the end of April. It had been late January since I have had a baby to photograph so I was very excited. I felt a little rusty, but all in all I think the outcome was great! Maybe this summer will bring me more babies! Truly, I think aside from nature, babies really are my best work!
And aside from scheduled sessions, there were a number of photo ops these past several weeks, like Ellie playing in a mud puddle. Ya know, I started to yell at her and tell her to get out of the mud because she was getting filthy, but I decided to listen to the little voice in my head instead. It said, "Just go get your camera. We're only a kids once, and you're gonna want to remember this. What's the point of being a kid if ya don't get a little dirty?" And what came out? A lil something I like to call "Mud Magic!" That's right folks; the mud and magic meshed together in all that mess and produced something so perfectly candid! I have never been so happy to watch my child get muddy! It does wash off after all. :)
More improv photo ops came with the recent visit of my best gal pal, Carrie Riner. She is a fellow photographer and her son Levi is just as amusing as Ellie. We had no idea where we were going but we knew we wanted to take some photos together. We ended up at the 8th Avenue Farmer's Market - a perfect location since it sits next door to the Bicentennial Memorial Mall and spray fountains. Ellie found those first. Levi was more cautious and stayed clear of the water. He preferred to stick with the Radio Flyer race car.
Other than that, what I have going on right now is a Father's Day photo contest. Wanna find out how you can win a free one-hour session for your that special dad? Visit my album at https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.469984426412658.1073741839.123829817694789&type=1
