Sporty & Girly

This morning I met M, (and her mom), for her high school senior photo session. As you can see, she is a softball gal!

It was fun shooting some action shots!

She is such a natural beauty.
We first did a couple portraits at my studio, then went to the softball fields, then downtown for some urban time, and lastly finished up @ the TWU gardens. It was a full morning!

*She kind of looks like Hillary Swank here....? Maybe?

Workshop Shoot (part 2)

I'm short on words today. I am busy editing, editing, editing! I completed my SF workshop images!
Finally, here are the rest from that awesome weekend:

This expression kills me with *cuteness*!

School No More....Almost!

Yesterday I met up with S for her college senior photo session.

We found a lot of awesome, new locations to capture her personality and what she loves about her college town. That's what photo sessions are all about: your memories - past and present, for your future keepsakes.



She graduates from UNT in May! That's not far away at all, but I'm sure to her, in the middle of her 20 hour course load this semester, that still seems quite distant!



From talking to her though, it sounds like she is getting great grades and is such a good time manager. This is her Spring Break week, and she is spending it studying and getting ahead in her classes so she won't have to stress as her final semester ends. Talk about will-power and a good head on her shoulders!



Well... she's studying, and also hanging out with me. A girl needs a break to wear her favorite outfits and model about town at cool locales!



Our last stop was the courtyard behind the restaurant where she works. A great idea on her part to finish up where she spends a lot of her time!

Congratulations, S, on your soon-to-be degree!

Gawsh...

I typically ask the parents of my little subjects how they heard about Birdseye Photography. It's nice to get feedback since I have ads in various places around town, and so it is important for me to follow up with that. Well, I asked B's mommy how she heard about us, and here is her sweet reply:

" I always pick up the advertisements at [B's] daycare, and there were some cute pictures, but never what I wanted, and I decided I really wanted some good pictures since he was turning a year old. I would religiously look through those books for someone, but unfortunately they are only for Dallas and McKinney areas, so I went to local.yahoo.com and typed in photographers and any city I could think of and I went to their websites. I'm a big website person, so I do want to say, I think you have a great one, and I don't know why anyone would choose someone else after seeing it! "

So, just reading that made my day and I thought I would share.

That makes me think of the power of saying "thank you" to someone. Anyone! The clerk at a dept. store that helps you find your size, the elderly man that held the door open for you, or your spouse who brought you something from the other room so you would not have to get up after a long day at work. It really is such a simple phrase that holds so much meaning and power. Hearing a "thank you" not only fills your giving tank, but makes one want to do more kind things for others, and thereby beginning the pay it forward theory. If we all do one kind thing for someone, and instead of having them pay us back with a kind action, if they do a kind action for someone else, then in the end, we all have a kind thing done for us and we do something kind for others, the whole world over.

I must say that I love what I do, and so hearing those words from B's momma encourages me even more to use my photography as a service, and continue to donate sessions to families who may not be able to afford custom photography, or have urgent ailments.

This Easter weekend, with the theme of re-birth, I hope we all are reminded how important it is to say thank you for our blessings, to each other and our Lord, and help those who may not have the bounty of gifts which with we are abundantly blessed.

Mother's Day Tweet!

Birdseye Photography will be offering Mother's Day mini-sessions for the month of April! Yes, a whole month! .... Well, until the slots are full, anyways!

Mother's Day Package:

$150

* 20 Minute Session at a Denton Park

*Personal Online Ordering Gallery

*1-4 Individuals Photographed
(additional subjects, $15 each)

* (2) 8x10's and (3) 5x7 prints

Session numbers are limited and your session must be completed by April 30th to receive your prints before Mother's Day.

Be like little B and and stop by and say hi to us this spring!

Mommies will thank you.

Mommy & Her Men

So the day after my last shoot @ the Arboretum, I returned the next day to meet this sweet family! (Who you may recognize from our time together last summer. The boys were just 3 yrs., & 6 mos. old then.)

Yeah...we had fun!

Look how big little J has gotten! 13 mos. old and walking like a pro!

Four-yr.-old A sang Itsy Bitsy Spider with me.

Doesn't he look like a little Baby Gap model here?! Striking a pose.

Their daddy was able to join us this time. And let me tell ya, baby J is a daddy's boy! When Daddy took A to the restroom, his mommy and I were joking because J was wandering in circles looking to see where his daddy went!

Not that the boys aren't sweet on their mommy, too! She's a great playmate and her boys, (all three of them - as she calls them), relied on her for the flow of our session. (No one can multi-task like a mom!)

Story Board

I love story boards.
They do just that - tell a story.
Any amount of pictures can be combined to tell however great or small of a story. Personally, I think short and simple is best. When you can see the love in a family's images, the story tells itself.

You will see more of this family tomorrow. I was working on their images and these three stood out to me, so I just had to share.

Mean Green Baby

I met little B and his folks @ the Arboretum this morning. We had gray, foggy skies and damp grass, but B's laugh brightened up the whole park!

His mommy and daddy both graduated from my Mean Green alma mater. It was fun thinking back (from a whole 4 years ago) on my days in college. Wait...has it already been 4 years??? It's amazing how fast time goes once you're out of school. During high school and especially college, it seemed like my years of homework were never going to end, and now it's hard to remember what having a paper due is like!

B is turning one in just a couple of weeks, and walking with mommy and daddy's help like such a big boy!

Mommy was quick with the hat! Most little guys don't appreciate their cuteness when they have a little hat on, and rip it off before I can even get my camera to my eye... B being one of them. But leave it to his momma to distract him for .3 seconds so we could snap a couple shots!

While his mommy was changing his shirt, I just had to take a time out and capture these adorable rolls in all their glory! Oh my goodness - I could play with him all day.

He laughed for us the whole session!

That is, when he wasn't on the go!

Workshop Shoot (part 1)

I'm sorry I've been so slow posting images from my workshop! It's been hard for me to get back in the swing of things for some reason since my return, and then with the snow at the end of last week, we just stayed in all weekend like the homebodies we are!

But, finally... here are a couple shots from our shoot during the workshop. We went to different stations around a block where several adorable children were playing about, and we photographed them as we would a regular session. We spent about 15 mins. with them and gave them some light directing, but mostly just interacting with the situation we were given. These rough-and-tumble boys were my first group.

Wonderland of Winterness

IT'S SNOWING!!!

....currently, actually!

When the hubby came home for his lunch break, not too long ago, we took our pups on a walk in the snow! We did that last year, the two or three days it snowed, and so now it must become a tradition. It sure isn't often we get to make these memories!
(I wanted to take a walk on his lunch break and not wait until he got home for the day because I didn't know if it would last that long! You definitely have to catch it while you can here! But turns out, it should stick for a while! Maybe a second walk this evening?)
With our temperatures in the mid-70s last week, I had (obviously) assumed that no snow day memories would happen for us this year. Man, we live in a crazy-weather state!

I love Pearl's cute, little coat! I haven't found one for Macy yet, so she just gets to be a normal dog and shake the flurries off her back herself.








After he had to go back to work, I wasn't done playing yet!




Can you spot the Pearl?



Macy thought it tasted good!






There is at least 3 times as much snow on the ground right now than in this picture, from about 1 hour ago.

I guess Pearl worked up a thirst. Oh, what's that? Why, yes, that would be our Christmas tree stand that she is drinking out of...suppose that may need to go in the shed finally...