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Apr 24 2012

HOMEWARD BOUND [Champaign Modern Portrait Photographer]

Oh Yeah!

Here we come and we are staying a while this time! We are planning on lots of fun family time with a little work thrown in the mix, so schedule your session now because the allotted slots are limited and when they are full… well, they are full.

C U soon! (Sorry, I couldn’t resist…)

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Apr 03 2012

FLYING HIGH! [Austin Modern Family Photographer]

Don’t be scared of wind ladies! Think of it as your personal wind machine.

The gusty wind this day became just as much of the setting of these photos as the actual location was and I LOVE when that happens.

Don’t get me wrong, those perfect late afternoon shoots with the beautiful lighting and calm weather are definitely awesome. A number of my favorite images come from those sessions. However, we don’t always get those days though I’d bet central Texas gets more than most. I also secretly (well not so secretly anymore) love those days when the weather just won’t cooperate. Magic can really happen in those moments and I love the challenge of creating that magic.

We made magic this day, soaring in the windy evening. Don’t you think so?

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Be sure to capture all the memories and magical days! I’m scheduling out my year now and I have a limited number of sessions each month. If you want to guarantee you get your session in the season you want, contact me as soon as you can. You can use the now booking link above to book your session with me now.

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Mar 13 2012

PAINTED LOVE [Austin Maternity Photographer]

I’ve been waiting to do this portrait for a long time.

For her first pregnancy, this mom and I paid homage to Whoopie Goldberg’s portrait in the bathtub of milk by Annie Leibovitz (how much more fitting can you get for a maternity portrait?) The resulting photos caught the eye of the editor of Pregnancy Magazine and were featured in a special mother’s day edition.

A while later Jen approached me with an idea for a collaboration. She is a painter and wanted to bring her special talents into her next pregnancy portrait. So when I heard she was pregnant again the brainstorming began.

Jennifer’s paintings are very organic and colorful and we wanted to bring those qualities to the portrait. We also needed a mural that would be feasible for a very pregnant woman to paint and one that could be replicated on her body easily. After a lot of back and forth we settled on this very bold and bright design.

We hung the backdrop paper a few days before the session and Jen painted the mural. As I am no painter we enlisted the aide of another very talented artist Lana Waldrep to help us. The body painting took about 2 hours and Jen was a champ through it all. Lana stood Jen near the painting and free handed a similar design on Jennifer’s body. We weren’t trying for a perfect match just a similar feel and the ways things lined up in the final photos was quite serendipitous.

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