What's going on?

Today was a day like alot of others, its Friday, my partial cleaning day, if I am not too busy with work I try to get some portion of my housework done so its not all left for the weekend. First my car almost didn't start this morning when i went out to the carpool run. Well it didn't but then it did eventually. This when my husband has been away on biz for the week. Possible battery issue hopefully it will hold til he returns. Then the gym and then down to work with bathrooms, floors etc. I had a client at 1:00 so finished up and ran to the baby shop that is close to see what cute bows or hats or ribbons i could get to photography little Mary in. I've been there before, we've talked about business etc. This time though as with every place I go that is a small business the economy and the state of our businesses always comes up. We are both worried, us two women who own businesses and rely on the spending of other women who husbands may face layoffs, who feel the need like us to tighten up the spending until something shows itself. We are all concerned I feel it. Some days, I feel it so strong and I am so afraid I have to get out of my own head and do something, anything that keeps me from reading news on the web, in the paper, or even listening to what others are saying.

I hope that soon the scare will be over, that with Spring a renewal will come for all of us. The people out here not the politicians, not the messer-upers of the world, just us the lowly people out here, trying to pay our bills, keep our businesses alive and keep our families safe, I pray for our spirit to renew and for us to move forward no matter what the "sources" are telling us. Stop the media from scaring everyone and let us all go back to our lives.

I put this photo here to remind me and all that life starts here and this is the innocence we all crave. Enjoy!

A need for a bright spot!

Looking at this photo I remember specifically what it felt like standing there in the way too hot sun looking down at the beach and wondering if my freckled skin could take another day of sun. I remember the smell of the ocean and how happy that smell makes me, the taste of the salt water when I got hit by a wave. I remember how happy I was to be there.

Today with the cold weather, I need to think of this beach and think of better days.

Its been a hard week, one of those weeks when you get kicked in the teeth and still have to get up and continue. When you ask yourself what and why you are doing what you are doing, what's the point anyway?

Today I feel like there is no point, so i decide to take the day off from my work life and go in the kitchen and make something with my hands. Something everyone will approve of tonite when they all get home and not something anyone will judge, except to say "Mom, this is so good" and today that will have to be enough for me.

I ♥ Faces Kids Entry

"Baby Joy" 2008

This is my first entry to the I ♥ Faces contest. I am still trying to figure this out so bear with me while i try to get this entered. Its for the kids contest expressing "Joy". Check them out at (http://iheartfaces.blogspot.com/) to join the fun. You don't have to be a professional photographer to join in. They have both a kids category and an adults. Lets see how this goes!

Blogging Freeze!

So i am not that great at blogging. Its been months since i was on here and as i've said before its hard to blog when you feel no one is listening. In the past couple weeks I have been learning about social media and its effect on your business. I truly do believe it in, after all it fits right in with relationship marketing which is even part of our tag line but there is so much to keep track of and add information to....facebook, myspace, web site, twitter and blog its almost ridiculous. But I have a client who told me about something that might breath life into my blog. Its "i heart faces" a photo sharing place with a contest for a face of the week. It appears that we have to link this all through our blog. So here is their link to check http://iheartfaces.blogspot.com. Stay tuned while i try to upload my entry today.

Red, Yellow, Green and Orange

Can you believe these colors? I can't I feel like I am back up north, I have never seen it so beautiful here!

Shot this earlier this week, no place special, until you look at it like this!

What a gorgeous site!

Baby Feet!

Baby Feet
by Edgar Guest

Tell me, what is half so sweet, as a baby's tiny feet, pink and dainty as can be, like a coral from the sea? Talk of jewels strung in rows, gaze upon those little toes, fairer than a diadem, with the mother kissing them!

This is truly one of my life's great treasures baby feet!

New Prop - New Baby

It was a great week in the studio - couple new babies and a new prop to get the creative juices flowing. These sweeties were a pleasure to photograph, Luke loves his little sister and was probably the best two year old I've had the good fortune to photograph especially considering he just got a new sister in his life. This is just one of a bunch of great images we created. Thanks Eric and Julie, look forward to showing them to you this week.