Posted on January 30, 2010
Hello beautiful people! I had a wonderful session with a gorgeous Kelso High School senior today [Kelso, WA]. It was cold, and it was raining, but when you see these images you will never believe it.
Zarina came to meet me early today. We did her hair, make up, went through her outfits and headed out for a rainy session. Zarina is absolutely gorgeous–she looks like she came off of the pages of a magazine. But she is also absolutely brilliant. She already picked out a college to go to and will major in Arts.
Here are a few of my favorite images from our session.
Love the colors: red, white and blue!
The shoes were quite something! Just look at them.
Looking like a supermodel [which she is in my book].
The outfit on the image below looks absolutely amazing and it was our spur-of-the-moment creation. Doesn’t it belong in a fashion magazine?
And then we went a little retro with the scarf. Just watch–we will bring it back and make it popular again.
Zarina, you were a trooper to weather the cold and a joy to work with. My your path lay straight before you!
Posted on January 24, 2010
Yesterday was my birthday. It was amazing! Demetrey took care of the breakfast, then we spiffed up and headed out to Vancouver, WA [bigger town than Longview, so there are certainly more things to do there 
]. But before we took off Demetrye treated me to my own mini photo session. 
And, of course, we had to do it right and do a few shots together [timer and a tripod come in helpful].
[I love him, love him, love him... and he is handsome to boot ].
Then we headed out. Had a great lunch, hung out at a book store [my choice, and we both love books], and then went to see Avatar in 3D. Wowzers! The movie is long, but I could not tell, because I was so sucked into it. I would go see it again in a heartbeat… as long as I don’t have to pay for ridiculously expensive 3D tickets, however, yesterday it was so worth it.
After the movie we headed back to town… and things got even more interesting. We were passing through Woodland when I noticed, what I thought, a woman walking on the side of the freeway, alone… in the dark. Demetrye and I pulled over and waited for the “woman” to catch up. Well, thankfully, it was not a woman walking alone. It was a man, who was hitch-hiking from LA to Belinghelm, WA [sorry if I spelled the town wrong]. So, we decided that the guy should not freeze himself and gave him a ride to the local shelter. However… on the way we decided to stop by a Subway and get him a meal. We were going to be in and out, so I left my purse in the car, made sure that the car was locked and we headed inside.
The man picked his meal, and as Demetrye was getting ready to pay for it, his facial expression changed. “Where are the keys, hon?” Ah-oh! Since we got married we locked our keys in the car twice and ever since then I always made sure to have a spare on ME. This time… nope. I thought we’ll in and out and I would rather not drag my person with me. BIG MISTAKE! Turns out that Demetrye left the keys in the ignition and I did not even do my usual: “Honey, do you have the keys?” check before getting out of the car. Ouch!
Well, thankfully I have very skilled family members, all within minutes away. And THANKFULLY we were already in Kelso, only minutes from home. I called up my nephew [thank you, Adrew], and while the man was enjoying his meal, Andrew and Demetrye freed the keys.
Surely not a night we would easily forget!
When we got home, Demetrye spoiled me a bit more and gave me a full body massage, and I nearly fell asleep dreaming of the gift he is getting me this year: Canon Powershot SD780IS with HD video!!! Sounds silly, but I am so excited to get a point and shoot camera, especially considering that it has video capabilities also. I don’t like to drag my Canon around with me everywhere now–too big and too heavy just for snapshots. Once I get my tiny P&S I will be unstoppable 
.
I hate to think that my perfect weekend is coming to an end.
Posted on January 19, 2010
Drum roll, please……….
The entries for the Drawing were in this order:
1. Whitney
2. Courtney
3. Allie
4. Courtney [bonus entry for FB my post and coming back to tell me about it]
5. Stephanie
I used www. random.org to generate winning numbers, and here are the results:
Stephanie, that is YOU!
AND
Allie, that is you!
Whitney, I do not want you to feel left you, so I am going to offer your a different special, just for participating: $50 off the regular session fee, but the same rules will apply:
*Fee covers time and talent of photographer only. Prints are to be purchased separately. Minimum purchase of $200 applies.
**Session will need to be scheduled for no later than the end of March, 2010.
I will e-mail all of you with further details, and I am so excited and look forward to working with all of you in the very near future.
Posted on January 17, 2010
I had the most wonderful pleasure to photograph the prettiest little girl today. She is tiny as a pea with a head full of hear. Less than 2 weeks old but unusually alert. I was hoping that I could put her to sleep and photograph her as I planned, but little baby A* had plans of her own. I was able, however, to get a few shots of her sleeping… but the rest of the shoot was dictated by how she felt.
Here is a quick sneak of today’s baby session in Longview, WA. Enjoy!
This is one of my absolute favorites–she looks pretty in pink.
Fully awake, and so alert. She stole my breath away.
I will post more images from the session soon. Meanwhile, if you would like to win a Drawing for a Session with me, check out details on my precious post.
