Meet Samantha

This is my awesome friend Samantha. She and I both attend the same school and run on the cross-country team together. More pictures later this weekend!

The S Children

I first met these incredibly cute kids several years ago when their mother asked me to babysit them. I've snapped some pictures of them just for fun, but I was honored when their mother hired me to shoot their Christmas pictures. Her previous photographer shot some amazing photos of the children, but moved away last year. I knew I had some big shoes to fill!

J, the little boy, was very careful not to get himself dirty. Usually when I see him, he's running all over. When we arrived at the park, however, he carried himself in a very dignified manner and continually patted his hair. SO CUTE!

S, the second little girl (far left in the photo below), was actually feeling very ill. She was such a trooper and was so precious for the evening.

Big sister, L, was not camera-shy at all. Her personality is very much like mine; she's the mother hen and everything has to be just so!

Coming Soon!

Aren't they just the cutest? I got to hang out with them this afternoon. Jackson, the adorable little boy, wouldn't stop talking to me. Little boys like him just melt my heart!

More images coming later this week!

goodbye, fall!

Elaina and the neighbor boy cleaning the leaves...

As much as I love fall, I really do miss the flowers, the sunshine, green grass and warm temperatures.

Yay!

I hate tooting my own horn, but this is really just too exciting for me not to mention :)

For years and years and years and years, I contemplated pursuing photojournalism as a career. I've obviously decided to take a slightly different approach to photography, but that doesn't mean I've stopped snapping pictures of events. A week and a half ago, I snapped hundreds of pictures of my teammates racing in Wisconsin. Imagine my surprise this week when I opened the newspaper and saw my photos. My reaction was actually something like this (not even kidding)...

"Oh look, a story about the team! Cool! They even included some pictures... [insert long pause] Those look like the ones I took....oh, they ARE the ones I took!"

I can be such a clown sometimes. Anyways. They included two of my absolute favorite pictures from the entire event. I've shot many different action/sports events, but I've never liked many of the photos. Usually the athlete has their eyes closed, their mouth is wide open, they look horrid, the quality stinks or the overall photo doesn't capture the determination, hard work and mood of the event. Well, I finally have my ideal sports pictures and my portfolio is happy! I don't think the editors of the paper could have picked better pictures:

Great job UMDXC!