Posted on May 27, 2010
It took me less than 2 weeks to get to our vacation images! Yeah! That is a reason to celebrate all by itself. Normally I get buried with work right after coming back from vacation. This time, however, I had a goal, I wrote myself a reminder and… viola–here are our vacation images!
Demetrye and I loved the sunshine in AZ, although, to be honest, were completely shocked by all the brown we were seeing when we got into our rental car and headed to the resort. The first day I thought AZ was plain ugly. By days 2 and 3, though, something must have changed in my brain, because I started seeing beauty in the plain dirt mountains! [not like the ones in WA state, for sure] 
I looked up a lovely vegan restaurant where we had our first AZ meal: Lovin’ Spponfuls. If you are in Tucson, you should really try their food, especially the mushroom soup! Delicious!
Day 1 was reserved for rest and relaxation [we had to get up at 4 am that morning to catch our plane]. One the second day we went site seeing. Jewish Historic Museum was our first stop. The museum is dedicated to the memory of The Bergen Belsen holocaust survivors. 
Then we headed to my favorite site of the whole trip–St. Xavier Mission. The building and the surrounding areas were simply breathtaking!
The inside of the building was masterfully restored to its old glory by numerous artists.
I have to explain the next couple of images. The entire trip my husband had an unhealthy fascination with cacti. He had the need to touch and poke as many of them as possible. He ended up being poked by one of them [I think they finally had enough of his abuse 
]. During one of our morning walks he broke a needle off one of them and tried to hand it to me… the wrong way! I got PIERCED with it…
We also visited the old town of Tombstone, AZ, known for the gunfight headed by Wyatt Erp and his brother.
Just imagine our disappointment when we flew back to Washington to a non-stop rain… Makes me sad just thinking about it… Now we are counting days to sunshine.
Posted on May 21, 2010
Boring senior images?! P-lease! Who’s got time for that?!
With only a few weeks before graduation I had enjoyed staying pretty busy with amazing seniors. My last session, right before taking off for vacation was with an R A Long Senior, Irina. I posted a little teaser earlier, and finally had time to finish off our amazing session together.
If you are a senior and DON’T want boring senior images contact me ASAP! I still have a couple of spots left before graduation. Make it a memorable year for the rest of your life and get treated like a SUPER-star that you are! {Open to Longview, Kelso, Castle Rock, Vancouver WA, Rainier OR and surrounding areas photo commissions.}
Posted on May 15, 2010
Hello, lovely readers 
If you are wondering why I have been silent the last few days, I am so happy to tell you it is all for a great reason–my hubby and I are soaking up the sun in the lovely desert of Tucson. I will add a few images of our adventures when we get back
Posted on May 11, 2010
The session preview you are about to see had been in planning for several months. Irina, R A Long {Longview, WA} senior, had a fall session with me and wanted to follow up with a second session, closer to her graduation. We planned all of the details, even hoping for a certain kind of weather. I can tell you that the weather did not do what we wanted it to, but the rest turned out fabulous and neither of us had any regrets.
A few days prior to the session I visited Irina’s house and rummaged through her closet–it is one of the services I offer to my clients… no, not the rummaging part, but helping them coordinate their clothes for the session and consult them on how to apply their make up. A few tips and tricks and a few outfits later we had a movie star in the making.
But… check it out for yourself.
Fabulous! Simply fabulous, that is how I feel about the session and my gorgeous senior muse. Clients like her are the reason I love photography!
Irina, there are no limits to what you can accomplish in your life and with your life as long as you put no limits on yourself. Dream BIG! Achieve much! May God always be the beacon in your life!
