On my way!!

I am so excited!!  Right now, as I type this, I'm listening to online marketing tips from the best photographers in the nation!  They get me so pumped up about my business!  I am also signed up for an all day seminar in Minneapolis this coming Sunday.  If you're interested in coming with me, I can still sign up one person for only $29!!  Let me know asap, and I'll get you signed up!  We can carpool and talk pictures the whole entire way. Sounds fun I know!  :)  If you would like more info on this without the commitment, you can check out the topics at this link:  www.salleeschool.com  

Now, onto another note...kind of.

I took a few pictures of Maddex and Hadlee the other day.  Consider this my "brag book" and just pretend that you're stuck with me, while I flip through pictures of my adorable kids.  We've all been there right?  Only this time, you just have to "X" me out and I'll never even know.  :P

One more thing...

I forgot to show off my new logo!  It's official as of today, and I wanted you all to be the first to see it!  I'm in love.  <3

Just about today...nothing else. :)

Well, as you can probably tell, this post is going to be about nothing special.  Actually, I take that back.  I need to re-word that.  It's about everything special.  It's going to be just about today.  I had such a great day today, and I feel so blessed that I thought I'd bore you all with it's details.  I played.  Yep, that's it!  I did what I wanted, when I wanted to do it.  It felt great!  Me and the kids went on two walks, and I even jumped on the trampoline!!  We went on a walnut hunt (yes, we have the misfortune of living next to about 10 giant walnut trees), looked for purple blades of grass (don't ask) hung the laundry on the line for the first time this year, and then sat on the steps eating cheese and crackers.  I felt like a kid again!  I didn't take the camera with me at all today, and as much as I would have liked to capture those simple fun times, I had to do them without trying to chase the kids and lose the moments.  I have the pictures right where I need them, and won't have to file them away or burn them to a cd.  I have the memory of just playing.  My agenda for tomorrow?  The park and library.  If anyone wants to join me, feel free!  Just be sure to leave your maturity at home.  :)

A very sweet shoot!

Normally I don't share my client photo shoots on my blog, but this one I can't help.  It is a very sweet, very big boy named Jordan.  He was born at a whopping 10lbs 3oz, and I can only have pity for his young mother.  I mean, OUCH!!

This baby was one of the best, most cooperative little guys that I've had yet.  He slept through the entire shoot, and even though he was already almost 3 weeks old, he let me pose to my hearts content.  It was so fun "playing!"  I'm going to be honest with you.  Normally, I don't get excited about newborn shoots because I'm nervous the entire time!  The whole feel for the time slot is based solely on the baby's attitude, and if they aren't happy, no one is.  Little Jordan however, stole the show, and the hearts of all who were present.  He made me so antsy to get the next newborn appointment call!  Heck, I might just have to talk the hubby into one more.  Just one.  ;)

Something Green

With all the confusion of keeping track of the days for the Photo Challenge, I somehow missed the day that says, "something green."  I thought and thought of something creative, but all I came up with was my house plant.  Pretty boring, I know, but I'm hoping to really use my creative side with the next few challenge pictures.  (Hoping to, was the key words!)  I know that I'm struggling with my "bad habit" as well as my childhood memory.  The latter seems easy enough, but times have changed, and I no longer live out in the country where I built forts, or chased down the barn cats to be my "baby".  We have no forts, and (thank goodness) no cats.  We don't have a tire swing like I used almost daily, and the toys are no where near as boring as they were about 20 years ago.  I'll have to get back to you on that one, but in the meantime, here's a picture of my house plant.  Try not to fall asleep.

Challenge Day 5: Low Angle

I am in a few photography courses right now, and they all mention how if you edit pictures, you should look at them in a different light (if you edited at night, look at them during the day) as well as on a different day.  You'll see things that you didn't notice the first time around, and your taste can change that quickly as well.  I have really started noticing that with the pictures that I've been editing!  Although this is not a favorite of mine, it is meaningful.  I love that Maddex is always on the floor playing "Uncle Luke and his demo", and I'm glad that I had an excuse to be able to capture it.

Challenge Day 4: High Angle

This is my beautiful baby, Hadlee.  She tells me that she'll be my baby even when she's 8.  How sweet is that?!  Unfortunately I'll have to break the bad news to her, that even is she's 100, she's still going to be my baby...thumb, Me Me (blankie) and all.