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A Beach Session {Michigan Portrait Photographer}

 I went to school with the mom and dad of these two- from kindergarten all the way to graduation. When  there are only 26 kids in a graduation class, you get to know each other pretty well.  When I look at their kids, it's kind of like a flashback from childhood.  

Sweet Brynn: 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 and Cole, who has curls just like his dad did when he was that age.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 The two of them:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.... and one more because I like her smile.

 

Carrie and Brad, you guys did good  :)  it was fun to visit with you and catch up a little bit!  I'll let you know when the rest of your gallery is ready, it should be within the next couple of days.

Enjoy your Sunday, everyone!

 

Pete and Wendy {Upper Peninsula, MI Wedding Photographer}

Pete and Wendy's wedding was the kick off to my three and a half week work/vacation (who am I kidding, mostly vacation) in the U.P. 

 
 

 

 

 

 

The first looks:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I just love the emotion in her eyes in this shot.  The first looks are definately one of my favorite parts of the day, especially when the light is so, so, so good.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The beach, it's funny how you don't really appreciate where you've grown up until you're 500 miles away.  I miss the beaches.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The traditional:

 

 

 

 

 

Pretty bride---  the light in these are amazing, so fun for me to see some of the finished products from the day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I this picture makes me smile.....

 

 

 

 

 

 

..... and one more.

 

 

Congratulations Wendy and Pete,  I hope that you love your sneak peeks!  I'm sorry it's taken so long to get them up on the blog, we just took them off of the laptop and put them onto my work computer yesterday.  Thank you, Brita for helping me out that day- your pictures look great.

That's all from me today, I have a newborn coming up later this afternoon and a three year old on Saturday morning- so that'll be fun. If we've had a session recently, please be patient with your  peeks on the blog- they're coming, I promise. 

The Most Smiley Baby Award

Goes to little Lexi.... and I may just have to show her entire gallery on this blog because she is so, so, so cute! I have been emailing back and forth with her mom for many months hoping to meet in the UP this summer for a session, as they live in Alaska during the school year. I am so happy that we were able to do it, rain postponements and all.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think that this entire session was really great but these two just make me smile, the biggest smiles are when she's with her mama.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A serious one..... because it doesn't have to be all smiles all of the time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

... and now the princess dress, I love her skin tones with this dress color.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

... then the session was over and she was happy about that.

You have quite the doll baby, guys! Thanks so much for letting me take her photos, maybe I'll see you again next year in the yoop.

 

Look Who's Two {Livingston County, MI Portrait Photographer}

It's been a long couple of days in front of the computer so I'm a little nervous to type anything too complicated on here.  Besides, why would you want to read my ramble when you can see this cutie.

He loved the balloons, it was so cute- he just laughed, and laugh when the would float up.    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and we sing......  when a session is about a two or three year old: it's one big sing -a- long. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

....  and now I am going to call it a night-  thank you so much for coming to see me. it was really great to meet all of you!

Happy Day, everyone!

 

Brian and Crystal Pt. 2 {Grand Blanc, MI Wedding Photographer}

I have been working on these photos this week and am almost ready to send them off to Brian and Crystal. Before I ship them off and close their files, I thought that I'd share a few more of thier day at The Captian's Club in Grand Blanc, MI. 

I'm on a black and white kick right now  so remember that they'll get a color version of all of these as well.   

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

First Looks:

 

 

 

 

 

Some formals: Brian and Crystal put aside about an hour for just pictures of the two of them, I love it when couples decide to do this.

 

 

 

 

 

I struggled whether or not to show these in black and white or color- black and white won out but I put a couple of the colored  versions in my website's wedding formal gallery if you want to take a peek.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some of the important men in the wedding.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The vows:

 

 

 

 

 

 

....  and a few in color.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can see more photos of their day here.  Thanks again, Crystal and Brian!  I'll email you with your gallery shortly.

 

 

Dave and Jenna pt. 2 {Southeast Michigan Wedding Photography}

I finished this wedding up before I left on vacation and thought that I would share a few. I was going to do my favorites all in black and white because I know that the bride loves them processed that way almost as much as I do but there are a few in here that had too many great colors in them. So... here we go.

 

 

 

 

 

First looks:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Flower girl right before walking down the aisle..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dad and his girl.

 

 

 

 

Dave and Jenna.

 

You can see more pictures from Dave and Jenna's wedding here. Happy Thursday!

Checking In After Checking Out

Well, hello there. The kids(minus Pete- he's still at grandma's for another 2 weeks) and I just got back into town last night after three and a half weeks so I thought i'd quickly say hi. I don't even have a picture to share yet because they're on the other computer but if you want to click here you can take a peek at last years and see where we were.

So.... I'm here- a little overwhelmed with everything that needs to get done yet anxious to spend my evenings quietly at the computer proofing pictures and seeing the finished products. I have a lot of sessions that I"m anxious to share with you- I think that I ended up having 1 wedding and seven or eight sessions while I was there. Fun.fun...

Now if only my quarterly sales taxes would go away.....

Happy Tuesday, everyone!