Archive for June, 2009

Shannon + Colin

How pretty are Colin’s blue eyes?  He’s such a cutie – even when he’s being a total boy with his mouth wide open or his tongue sticking out!  His mom, Shannon, wanted to get some photos of the two of them together at Faust Park yesterday, and a few of him alone.  At 4 years old he already has a “fake camera smile” just like the rest of us.  Fortunately at 4 he’s still susceptible to laughing at the word monkey, so we managed get a laugh out of him for some of the shots.  I just love this first one – I hope Shannon does too!

Free Yoga in Forest Park

Urban Breath Yoga is sponsoring free yoga in Forest Park all summer.  I’ll be teaching this Sunday at 10am – bring a mat and some water and join me!  We meet in front of the Visitor’s Center in the grass (and shade.)  Class is an hour, and is for all levels.  See you there!

Valerie + Jeff: Married!

Valerie and Jeff were married on Saturday in the Japanese Garden of the Botanical Gardens.  It was a hot and humid day, but fortunately the sun hid behind some clouds during their ceremony, keeping the guests a little cooler and creating nice lighting for the photos.  We had a pretty short window of time for photos between the ceremony and reception – only 45 minutes to get all of the family, wedding party and couple and walk from the ceremony to Monsanto Hall for the reception.  We managed to make it work, even though the ceremony started 15 minutes later than expected.  We were just a smidge late for the reception (I hate being late!) but hopefully Val and Jeff will agree it was worth those extra five or ten minutes :)

Check out their SLIDESHOW HERE to see more images.  Congratulations!

Sheena + Barb

Sheena participated in my Good Karma Project last month – she had photos taken with her future mother-in-law.  That session was actually intended to be Sheena with her Mom and her future-mom, but Barb fell ill the morning of the session.  So we separated it into two sessions, finally getting Barb’s done on Father’s Day (even though it was a Mother’s Day present!!)  You can tell Sheena and her Mom are very close, and they both love having their photos taken.  See you ladies in September for Sheena and Tim’s wedding!

Have you been avoiding your wedding album?

You know who you are:  you saw the album pre-design I sent you the week after your wedding (last month?  last year?), and you may have even made mention of a few photo switches you wanted to make.  But then you buried that email in your inbox and never looked back.

Look back!!  Your album needs you!!  If your design could talk, it would be begging you to be printed on photo quality paper and bound into the gorgeous book that you already paid for.

I know you all are busy, and I’m usually pretty lax about getting albums finished.  But I sent Liron (who was married on June 7th) a pre-design for her album yesterday, and within hours she had given me her changes and approved an updated draft.  I’ll order her book tomorrow, which means she’ll get it within 3-4 weeks of her wedding.  Liron, you are my hero!  She has inspired me to, ahem, inspire you all to get your albums together.  So stop procrastinating and email me!