my grandma is totally kick-ass (sorry to swear, gram, but it’s true). she watches all steeler games with her terrible towel, has a crush on george clooney, and makes the best pumpkin pie. happy 86th birthday, gram! you are totally the bee’s knees and i love you. :) <3
*i’m watermarking it as my own seeing how it’s a family picture, but photo credit to whoever took this picture of my grandma back in the day.
woah! it’s been a long time. i’ve been super busy between website additions and holiday gatherings and have totally neglected to update my blog.
some fun updates:
– designing a coffee table book exclusively for the use of bringing to my consultations so you don’t have to look at pictures of the coffee table book, but can actually see the coffee table book itself. i know, a crazy idea right? ;)
– CSP now ships all high-res portrait DVDs and both low and high-res DVDs of weddings in personalized DVD cases. they’re padded, have magnetic closures, and have your photograph on them. more importantly they look awesome and protect your DVD better than a standard jewel case.
– carolyn and geoff got droids! now i have instant access to e-mail, my twitter account, and my calendar…which means you experience less time waiting for me to get back to you. :) although i’m pretty much addicted to checking my e-mail anyway and am generally pretty fast in responding, this is good for when i expect to be back in pittsburgh in 8 hours but actually spend 11 hours driving due to holiday traffic and don’t have anything else to do.
shortly before thanksgiving i was given the pleasure of photographing wonderful family portraits for jane and her husband. they have two married sons and 3 grandchildren (with one more coming soon!) and it was delightful to meet the family and take some adorable pictures. beautiful kids and a beautiful family!
the weather here has been less than stellar and one of the kids is recovering from the flu, so we stuck to the great indoors for these ones:
done editing all the photos of nichole, kevin, and connor… moving on to planning their wedding photographs soon!
hopefully kevin will come up with additional creative poses for his wedding too…
in personal news, i am currently in the midst of planning my fall weddings and portraits. :) i’ll get to more of that next week. still waiting on the trash the dress session permit from american tobacco – hopefully that will arrive shortly so we can get to that and squeeze it in. geoff and i are picking up camping gear from his cousin’s tonight for our weekend excursion into the wilderness which starts tomorrow. when i return i will be posting session photos from this week and later camping photos. no professional photography is allowed in north carolina state parks without a permit that i currently don’t have… so i’m assuming i should leave my really obvious giant photography equipment that draws lots of attention at home. it’s mostly my lighting gear, but every time i’ve used it in the past week or two i have been stopped by some person of authority or media. and i don’t need my gear being confiscated in a state park a few hours from home. :) i’ll still be taking pictures… just compromisingly lit ones. :)
for now, here’s a thursday throwback: child portrait edition.
