Oh sweet Miss Ruey! How I adore this little girl and her wonderful family! Words cannot express how lucky I feel that Kyle and Macky came into my life three years ago for their engagement session, and I’ve been documenting this beautiful family ever since! It seriously feels like just a week ago that I …
Creating Your Own Photoshop Action
I thought I would use today’s journal entry to share with you all how to create your own actions in Photoshop. If you are anything like me, over time you have probably accrued quite the collection of photoshop actions. But what I’ve come to realize is that I tend to use the same actions over …
Night Sky Photography
Sometimes, or rather oftentimes, I feel this need to create. Once upon a time… one of my college professors told me I should never do portrait photographer, but stick to nature and landscapes. Today I find that statement rather funny considering my clients love the way I bring out their inner spark and personality in …
The Value of a Professional Photographer
It seems about once every couple of months, I have a new client call or come in for their consultation and hear about a prior experience with a photographer that was less than they expected. Either the quality of the photographs was poor or the service was sub par or the photographer was unprofessional. Whatever …
Hendricks & Carr | Staley Credit Union | Commercial Photography
From time to time I get the wonderful opportunity to work with my favorite marketing guys – Josh and Mike of Hendricks & Carr Marketing & Publishing in Decatur. These two really know their stuff and I have a great deal of respect and love for them. Last week on Monday morning, was one of …
Locations: Downtown Sullivan IL
Previously I shared one of the locations near our Kirksville home-studio – Camp Camfield. Well today I thought I’d share a totally different style location near our Kirksville home-studio and show off a little of The Square in Downtown Sullivan. The Square is literally about a 12 minute drive from our home-studio – so it’s …
A Sign…
I have been thinking a lot lately…. I shouldn’t say that. I think a lot all the time… probably too much really. The more accurate explanation is that I was thinking a lot about one particular topic lately. If you’ve been reading my journal for a while now, you may recall my post about our …
Photographer Product: Sunset Skies Overlay Set
You may recall from a post earlier this year, that I’ve been working on a few side projects for myself and for others. It’s something that keeps my passion going. And I’m so excited to be able to offer yet another product for fellow photographers today! I am primarily a natural light photographer, so often …
Fun at Maurices!
As many of you know – I’m insanely excited to be partnered with Maurices out at Hickory Point Mall! I’ve been a huge fan of this store for years now for many reasons. I love the clothes they carry. I love that they carry sizes for bigger girls. I love that they carry similar style …
Growing Older…
Sometimes I have days where I find myself exceedingly aware of my body. Like I’ll wake up being really aware of my teeth – how big they are, how they rest against one another when my mouth is closed, where they don’t line up, they may ache some or feel off though I don’t know …