Senior Girl – Miss D

We met up for her senior pictures and I really enjoyed hanging out with her and her mom.

Working it….

I love real laughter in the pics…

So pretty…

Have a great weekend…hope you enjoy the peek!

Newborn Girl – Miss C

This precious newborn girl gave me one of the biggest smiles ever. It was even an open mouth smile which was super cute. Big sister came along to jump in a few of the pictures. She needed to warm up to me for a little while but once she did she became a little poser. I really enjoyed hanging out with you guys:) Hope you enjoy your peek.

Senior 2012

Here’s the first senior of 2012. We wanted to incorporate her love of FFA so we started at the Ag barn where her animals stay. She raises pigs but the cows in the pasture decided they wanted to be in some of the pictures! Thanks for letting me capture you in your senior year…hope you enjoy your sneak peek:)

The E Family

I hope everyone is having a great Labor Day:) I’ve actually had a couple of days of some down time and it’s been good! Each of the kids have gotten to do something special and we were able to have a date night last night.

This is one of my regular families that I started doing pictures for when their first child was born. And now I’ve done their second child’s newborn pics and now she’s ONE. I can’t believe how fast it seems like their kids have grown. They are definitely one of the sweetest families that I know! Hope you enjoy your sneak peek of pictures guys.

Parents-to-Be

This photo session kind of came together in an interesting way. We had talked on the phone, booked the session, emailed each other and talked on the phone some more. The first name of the person that booked sounded familiar (it’s not very common for a female) but I didn’t initially think twice about it. When it came to me as to where I had heard that name I started wondering if it could be. And it did end up being that person….my neighbor that I had met once a long time ago. We can literally look out the window and see each others home. Pretty funny that we had been communicating without realizing we were talking to our neighbor. After talking about the coincidence and the craziness of it for a few minutes we got started with the pics. They were great subjects…game for whatever and looking amazing. We tried to do a little bit with an urban feel and a little bit with the flowing grass in a field.

Thanks for letting me capture some of the last pictures of you guys as a family of two:)

Mr. K – One Year

It was SO HOT! I can’t even explain how hot it was for this session. If there was any wind this day it came to a complete standstill while we were doing Mr. K’s one-year-old pics. His poor cake was even melting. He was a great sport though and once we started the cake he was an extremely happy little boy.

37 Weeks

This momma-to-be looks gorgeous. She’s 37 weeks and looks about as far along as I did at 25 weeks! She is all belly. Why do some people gain it EV-ER-Y-WHERE(me) and some don’t even look pregnant from the back(her)! I can’t wait to meet their baby girl at her newborn session:)


Finally!!

After 20 months the new Studio Bloom website has been launched! Shameful, isn’t it?? I actually bought it in December of 2009 and would work on it a little and then months would go by before I would touch it again. Everything on the old site was so outdated but the funny thing is that it took me so long to finish the new one that some of the things that were loaded when I first bought it are outdated!

Here’s the new WEBSITE

There are a few changes of policies and pricing. I always wondered why most photographers did things a certain way and over time I’ve learned that they do these things to run a great, successful business.
One of the changes that was made is the newborn session fee. Newborn sessions are one of my absolute favorite types of sessions but with time I’ve found that the newborns require quite a bit more time. Not only for the actual session but in post-processing work. It’s such a precious and fleeting time that I’m documenting and I want to make sure that I get the pictures and that they look great. Don’t worry, if you’ve already notified me about your upcoming newborn you are locked in at the old session price.

Next, I need to get more serious about ordering time. The online gallery of proofs will now be up for 5 weeks before it’s taken down. When researching the timeline that most photographers give for ordering I found that they limit it to a small amount of time. I think that if there isn’t a cut-off in the near future then people (myself included) tend to procrastinate or forget. Going into my family session that I did with another photographer we had 7 days to place an order. Since I knew that I took care of it within the first couple of days. She reiterated that it helps things run more smoothly and I can understand that now. Once the gallery expires there will be a $25 fee to have it put up again.

I’m so excited because Studio Bloom Photography is now offering frames. They are gorgeous!! They come in a zillion colors and shapes. You can check out some samples in the “Products” gallery.

There’s a “Products” gallery and I hope that it helps people visualize the options better. I’ll be adding more pictures of products as they come in.

There are a few minor things that I still have to do but I’ve procrastinated long enough and it’s good to go:)

And here’s my crazy, about-to-be-a-1st grader tomorrow! Here he’s just chilling….not normal behavior for him. While in Florida he sweetly asked me if I wanted to go up and sit with him on the 3rd floor balcony. How could I refuse that?!


Still chilling….and still not normal….

Searching the web for Power Rangers

Still surfing….

And he found them. See…

And imitating moves

And singing along to a theme song. I think he needs to get into it a little bit more:)

He can give you any power ranger move you want but when his photographer mom wants a smile this is what I get:(

Baseball Baby

You can tell that mom and dad just might be baseball fans:) He looked so tiny when we put the bat and glove next to him and he wasn’t that big of a fan of being in the glove instead of wearing the glove.

Hope you guys enjoy the peek:)


Family of Four (May be a graphic post to some…you’ve been warned!)

There is a lot to say for this post. First, we did their family session at the beach last year and it went really perfect. Mom raved about those photos so going into this shoot I was a little nervous about living up to the last session. To start it off they drove from over an hour away and when they got within a few minutes away they made a quick stop. On their way to the car their youngest son tripped and literally landed on his face on the cement. When we all met up he was still quite upset (very understandable…poor thing)! We started playing and eventually he joined in and it seemed like it was all going to turn around but next….he was running down a hill with a kite flowing behind him and fell. And he was upset again. Then he was happy again and he was swinging and he slipped out of the front of the swing and as he was getting up it hit the back of his head (it was a rubber swing and not moving very much but still..)So, needless to say his day wasn’t going very well and in turn poor mom was stressed because the session wasn’t going as she had imagined it. Next we decided to go feed the ducks. From this point on things started to improve as far as taking pictures but there was another surprise coming!

And this is where it may be graphic to anyone that is squeamish about large rodents with long tails. WARNING: pictures at the bottom of blog post!


Just when you think you’re feeding a group of cute ducks…

you look up and right in front of you and out of nowhere appears a non-duck! A non-duck with whiskers and a very long tail!

Apparently, he or she is fed a lot because it was not scared and came right up for its share of bread.

At first glance you think you’re looking at a Beaver (of which I’ve never seen in person…don’t even know if they’re in this area…probably not but since I saw a bear crossing the road sign near Destin, Florida this year you never know. That’s a whole other story) but then we quickly realized it was a Nutra Rat. And it had friends. We spotted 5. And when we moved down to a dock over the water most of them swam their way over to where the ducks were going. Two of the younger ones were even fighting in the water. And another fact in case you’re interested (I’m sure you’re not but I’m going to tell you anyway:) is that their back feet are webbed just like a duck. So, the lesson to learn here is that when you’re going to feed ducks that walk up the bank from the water you need to watch every.single.thing that walks up for bread.