Woohoo! Another fine art piece for you all today! This progress makes me so happy! I’ve mentioned before that one of my goals for this year is to create at least one fine art piece per month. This feels like an attainable goal for the year and it should help me “finish” the series by …
Gratitude Project | Winter 2016
I’ve been sharing a lot of my fine art projects with you and it seems I’ve let my Gratitude Project slip a little. Honestly I’m okay with that for a couple reasons. One – I think it’s important that we evolve as artists. If we continue to do the same things over and over we …
St. Teresa Decatur Spring Play | The Addams Family
This past weekend was the performance of St. Teresa’s spring play – The Addams Family. Like we did earlier this year, I popped in on Wednesday night for their rehearsal and we captured some pictures for their yearbook. There is a lot of prep, costuming, and makeup required for this play. Many of the cast …
Baby Journey Update: Nursery Progress
I realized it’s been a little while since I posted any updates on our adoption process here on the journal. I’ve been sharing updates on a more frequent basis on a facebook page I created for our adoption (Ryan and Stephanie Adopt). Feel free to follow us there if you’d like. Otherwise, I will periodically …
LSA Senior Yearbook Head Shots
I have mad love for my LSA faculty, students and families. From the very first time I came in to capture images for them – they were incredibly kind, friendly, inviting, and appreciative. Something that to this day hasn’t changed. I absolutely love walking into LSA and hanging out with these awesome young men and …
Behind the Scenes: 8 Things that Happen During Slow Season
We’re starting to come out the other side of what we photographers refer to as the “slow season.” Every year between January and March or so we see business die off a little bit (or a lot). It gets cold and dreary out, and people are starting to recover from the holidays. Not many people …
New Fine Art Series: Isolation
As you may recall, one of my goals for this year is to create at least one fine art piece per month. This seems like a pretty manageable goal since the shoots themselves don’t tend to take too terribly long. Sometimes there as quick as 20 minutes shooting, and the rest is all photoshop work. …
Start Planner
With all the goals I’ve set for myself for this year, I knew I needed to get organized in 2016. When I was in high school, I was an avid planner user. We got one at the beginning of the school year each year and I used that sucker like crazy. Well somewhere between college …
Guster Craynn Newborn Photography | Mt. Zion, IL
I’m so excited to share this handsome little man with all of you! Jarred and Laramie are two of our dear friends (who you’ve probably seen on the journal a time or two before). I still remember very clearly the night Laramie texted me to tell me she had gotten her positive pregnancy test. Of …
18 Things You Shouldn’t Say to Someone Struggling with Infertility
I’d like to preface this post by saying that I’m not a super sensitive person. I’m not easily offended, and I’m usually pretty good at looking at a situation from the other person’s point of view to understand where they are coming from. After initially writing this post, I actually read a blog post by …