Finito!

It's official!  After posting to my photo blog yesterday, uploading an album to Facebook and an album to my website (well, technically the proofing gallery is up but, not the album), I am officially done with my November wedding!! FINITO! WooHoo!  Free at last. Free at last. Thank God almighty I'm free at last!  hehehe. That being said, plan on me visiting your blogs a little more!  I have missed you all and look forward to finding out what everyone has been up to!  And thanks so much for hanging in there with me friends.

Editing 600+ pictures kept me extremely busy during every nap break and every bed time for the past 2.5 months. For me, editing is probably the most tedious part of being a wedding photographer.  Shooting the actual wedding is exhilarating! I love going to a new setting, working with a new wedding party, new details and beautiful moments to capture. Coming home after the wedding and looking through all the pictures is also very rewarding.  Quite often as I sort through the images one or two pictures will keep jumping out at me.  It's as if those shots capture the essence of what I felt when I shot the wedding.  The shot below, is one of those essence shots as I like to call them. lol.  The shot was intentionally focused on the bride's boots as they swooshed around which gave the shot so much character and whimsy and blurred behind the rustic boots are the bride and groom with big beaming smiles that say it all.  " We are so happy. Life is good.  I love him and I love her."

My First Wedding - At a Glance

I have been meaning to post some pictures from the wedding I shot in early August for some time now.  It took me about a month to edit the 600 pictures that I promised the client.  I edited every evening after my little one went to bed and during every nap break which was an average of 20+ pictures a day.  It's was lot of editing to say the least but, it really is so rewarding to see the fruit of my labor unfold.  I actually have another wedding booked for late November which I am really excited about!  I think I would be more than happy to shoot 3 or 4 weddings a year but, I wouldn't ever want to take on more than that.  I don't ever want to take on too much because being a good Momma and a Wife is my first priority always but, I am so thankful to have such an awesome creative outlet!  

I posted more of the wedding images on my photography blog here   check em' out.   I look forward to challenging myself more in the future, improving in the areas that I am weak, creating a faster work-flow with my editing and just overall growing as an artist.  I'm so happy that I took the plunge!  I will also be shooting my first official newborn session this week! EEK. I kid you not, newborn sessions make me way more nervous than weddings but, the more I do them the more comfortable I will get....right? lol

 I absolutely LOVE this picture of the cake that my assistant, Elissa captured.  Beautiful isn't it!