Discontinued Holiday Bundle - $10!!!!!

Michelle Black and I are discontinuing our 2008 Holiday Kit - a bundle including a TON of resources for your business and Photoshop! Our discontinue price is an insanely low $10!!!

Our Jam-Packed Holiday Bundle includes:

Two Textures
Two Holiday Card Templates
A Gift Certificate Template
Quick Proof Action Set
Customizable Proofing Gallery Templates
[for your website]

*Bonus* Storyboard Template
Purchase Agreement
Instructions for Use


SAMPLE IMAGES OF PACKAGE CONTENTS:

*Storyboard Template*

*Gift Certificate Template*

*Holiday Card Templates*

*Textures*

PROOFING GALLERY TEMPLATES
FOR SPRUCING UP YOUR ONLINE PROOFING SYSTEM!!
*ALL ARE FULLY CUSTOMIZABLE WITH INTERCHANGEABLE BACKGROUNDS*

Sponge rollers revisited

So my daughter and I have discovered (rediscovery for me, as I had these as a child) the world of sponge rollers. It is so much fun to see her in these crazy curls, depending on the size we use she may have tight ringlet curls or longer, looser curls - the package has 3 or 4 different size rollers in them. Anyway, I couldn't resist sharing some candids I snapped of Lourdes after wearing them to bed the other night!

Top 10 photographers!!

As part of something I read on flickr today I am doing a top 10 featuring some of my favorite photographers - if you'd like to read about this challenge you can find it here!


1. Heather Evans Smith Photography

Her work is dreamy, conceptual, and feels very intimate regardless of the subject. To pick a favorite image is an impossibility! She inspires me to no end!

Smart woman that she is, I can not right click and copy her images so I'm going to link you to a collage instead! But please do visit her amazing new site!

2. Deyan Stefanov

He thinks outside of the box, with strengths in composition, originality, and excellent contrasts and tones!


3. Silent Shudder Photography

Tim is a master of atmosphere and mood! His tones and textures and view of the world in general lends to the incredible moods of his portraits. I've been fortunate enough to be photographed by him and think he's going to be sought after by many in his area (and further)!


4. Anniken Hannevik

I have only recently discovered Anniken's work and website! Her work runs the realms of portraits, fashion, nature, conceptual, macro, and children. And the music on her site somehow sucks me in even more and makes me want to look through there all day!


5. Alyz

Alyz caught my eye back when I spent WAY too much time on deviantArt! She tells stories with her photographic art as many artists do. She just does it a bit quirkier lol! I lover that her work is artistic, conceptual, and just bizarre enough to intrigue me!



6. Nikaa

Hers is a world of wishes and dreams, whimsical and beautiful, like fairy tales. I also can not save her pictures to post here but please please take the time to visit her flickr gallery and look through her work!

7. Esther Hernandez

Esther's is also a world of dreams, and sometimes borders on nightmares lol! Her pictures are like glimpses of a soul...leaving you wanting to know more...more about the subject, more about the artist....

Yet again I can't upload an image so please visit her website and take a look around!

8. Melissa Rodwell

Melissa captivates me with her fashion work - I'm especially drawn to her lighting and inspired by everything she does and shares. Which is TONS by the way - she is so helpful and willing to guide us as artists. I have to thank her personally for being such a sweetheart to me!

Please visit her site as well as her very informative blog!!

9. Ella Manor

Ella Manor is experimental and admittedly off the cuff. I'm intrigued by her light and movement and in love with her post work.

Please visit her galleries at her website!

10. Lilya Corneli

Michelle Black once referred me to Lilya's site and I have been inspired by her ever since! Her self portrait work is incredible and I love her use of color and texture!

Again, I have no access to her images so please visit her website!

Return to full force!

So this week, life returns full force - an appointment and band practice tonight, I'm the volunteer mom at Girl scouts this Wednsday, Lourdes has dance Thursday, and I have shoots on Friday and Saturday. I find myself wanting to just crawl under the covers and hide for the duration of winter most winter months though, so it can be hard to drag myself out. I wish I could find a way to combat that feeling but as of yet I've had no luck. Please tell me I'm not the only one!

I've started a new journey into knitting. I am attempting to self teach and its a bit ridiculous to be completely honest lol! I worked on a scarf for two days before ripping it apart and attempting a baby blanket (for my daughter's baby doll, way less pressure lol). What started as roughly 20 stitches has grown to rows of 86 stitches hahaha!!! I am pretty sure I SUCK! I'll take a picture of the finished item when its actually finished!

My studio renovation is in limbo. The holidays and rampant sicknesses in our family brought it all to a screeching halt but I am going to have to get back on track with that next week. In the meantime I'm desparately seeking an affordable option for a super cool velvety chair! I have another round with my recent senior this weekend and I really wish I could come up with some ideas that I haven't done before but it just hasn't happened yet. And its soooo cold! I thought I would freeze to death when we shot on Tuesday and its going to be much colder this time! :(

All whining aside, I am focusing my new year goals on family. I simply have to make more time with them this year and that is going to start with my sister. I love her and miss her dearly and we are going to have a date night at her place in the next few weeks - dinner and quality time. I'm looking forward to it more than she knows!

Current booking incentive!

I thought it was time to finally update my booking incentive! The current incentive for booking a session is a $20 print credit to be used towards any prints of your choice!

Here is my recent senior. She reminds me of Hayden P. from Heroes! She was super sweet and I am going to do some further shooting with her at a few more locations in the next couple of weeks which I'm really looking forward to.