Dress up session

I always love doing a "themed" shoot! This time the theme was gold & exotic!

Ghosts! Boo!

So the photo Colleen took at Joe & Mischelyn's wedding has stirred up some "bootastic" emails and comments! HA! So I thought I'd post the images that I have. The Crescent Hotel has been featured on the ghost hunters show. I seem to manage some kind of "activity" photo each time I go there. You can check out more about the ghosts at the Crescent here: http://www.eureka-springs-ghost.com/
I have more images but I will have to dig around for them.





This one was taken by my friend Deb Manley. I posted the original and another I tried to lighten up in Photoshop. None of these images have been manipulated in any way.

Wedding with Kimberlea Bass Photography

I was a 2nd shooter for a wedding for Kimberlea Bass Photography.

http://www.kkbphotography.com

I love 2nd shooting with Kimberlea. It allows me to try new stuff and experiment with no flash, etc. This bride & groom were married at the Bell Gable Chapel in Fayetteville. LOVE that place. It's the place that Doug & I want to re-new our vows at. It's perfect. I love the ladies that run the place! They come to belly dance classes and they are just a hoot!

Thanks Kimberlea for hiring me this past weekend. I also get to shoot a wedding with her this coming Saturday as well!

Joe & Mischelyn's Wedding

I had the honor of photographing Joe & Mischelyn's wedding on Sunday, May 4th. They were married at the Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs. It was a beautiful day out. Just perfect! Joe is a photographer in Fayetteville. He owns Creative Fotoworks and he asked if I could photograph his wedding. How could I turn down another photographer? I knew it would be fun. Other photographers that get married are the most laid back people to photograph....and they were awesome! Thanks Joe & Mischelyn!







These were taken by Colleen who assisted me at the wedding. She did a fantastic job of capturing some really unique moments!















And a wedding at the Crescent Hotel will be incomplete w/out some kind of "ghost" photo. Colleen wanted to "hunt" for ghosts so she took several images of just random hallways in the Hotel. I'm sure some of you may see the orbs and some of you may see "reflections" - you be the judge!

HOW CUTE are these?

http://www.dollycouture.net/index.html

I found this website today....Colleen and I have been talking about how much fun it would be to re-new vows with our husbands. We were talking about how we could do this together and share expenses of a fun party. We're so silly but when I started thinking about it....gosh - it could be a lot of fun!

I'd SO wear one of those dresses!

Now what?

At springfest. Taken by Colleen.

I feel a bit lost. I took my last HUGE test today. I have one smaller test on Monday morning that I'm not even worried about. I feel a bit lost without the stress and the studying. I'm sitting here at the house thinking "now what am I going to do?" Yes, work on photos, book fun shoots, take Amelia to the park.....all those fun things. I felt like the added stress of school really fueled a lot of my activities.

I'm relieved but still feeling a bit lost. I imagine I'll feel like that for a few days. I really am ready for the summer. I'm a bit sad to say good bye to the semester but excited about what is in store for the fall semester.

Today was Mr. Harington's last day to teach art survey. You can visit his website here: http://www.donaldharington.com/ He is an AMAZING author. I have read some good books but his are really something else! If you haven't had the chance to read his works, I highly recommend it!

April showers bring May flowers

Look at what my sweet husband bought me! A new car!

The golden hour. I love the hour during sunset....the gold off of the sun is cool. Asked Amelia to stand still for just a minute so I could get the gold on her.

This is from yesterday's storm.

From this morning, I always carry my little point & shoot everywhere.

Wedding

I went to Ft. Smith last night and photographed a wedding for Janet Hudson-Schroeder: http://www.jhsphotos.com/ ... I had a great time! Bride was really nice and fun! Here are a few from the wedding. I just got the awesome Nik filters so I played around in photoshop with some of the Nik filters.

Portfolio Submission

So I was asked to submit 15 images for review for a photography magazine. This is one of the images I sent in. I sent in a variety of different people. Since I mainly photograph people, I wanted my portfolio to reflect that.

I leave in an hour to photograph a wedding for Janet Hudson-Shroeder. I can't wait!

And.....I did 100 sit-ups/crunches today. Tomorrow I'm going to do lunges. My 15 year high school reunion is this July and I need to look good. he he he