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William & Sofia

November 1, 2008 – 7:51 pm

Back in August I worked with this cutie pie set of twins for a commercial shoot.  Today they were my portrait clients and they can now sit up!  They were so cute and I just love it when babies are newly sitting, they are just so proud of themselves and their new skill!

Thank you to the V family for welcoming me to your home!  You are such a sweet family and I had a wonderful time!

Sofia’s Mommy told me that she is a very serious baby, she sure is cute though and we managed to get some smiles from her, but this is her serious look.

Little Will took a power nap and he was such a happy camper when he woke up!  Check out their dog Lenox sitting behind him, he was the best dog ever.  So gentle with the babies and such a little love.

Together in the rocking chair…

Last but not least, their beautiful Mommy & Daddy!

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Officially Initiated

August 14, 2008 – 11:45 pm

✓ 1. Have law enforcement show up at your new home.

✓ 2. Have multiple power outtages.

✓ 3. Experience thunderstorm.

✓✓ 4. Get lost because your GPS has no clue where anything is, and you are about as geographically challenged as they come. (deserves a double check)

✓5. Order “sweet tea”

✓6. Visit Gone With the Wind Museum

✓7. Have someone cuss you out on the phone because you “stole” their home phone number.

✓8. Get stung by a vicious monster.

✓✓9. Listen to your security system blare for an hour because you have no clue what the passcode is because the system technically isn’t being activated until next week. (double checks because it’s happened twice already).

✓10. Can’t call home because you don’t know your home phone number and your iphone reset itself and you lost all your contacts and the home number was one of them. You are reapeatedly asked for your phone number and you have to say, I don’t know. You are then asked for your cell phone number and you have to look on the side where you have taped the number on to the phone with a post it note and a piece of tape.

✓11. See the big KFC Chicken

I think I can honestly say that I am now offcially initiated and I’m a Georgian. (Is that how you say it? Hmm) Last week law enforcement showed up when the power went out after the storm when we couldnt get the security system turned off. The power has gone out two times in less than two weeks. My GPS is acting like I’m crazy when I type in addresses, I’m wondering where this attitude came from, she suddenly gets upset when she starts all this “recalculating” mess when giving me directions. I’m waiting for her to scream obscenities at me when I don’t go the way she tells me to go. Sweet tea is a must if you live in the south, I’ve drank my share already and its back to Coke Zero, Diet Pepsi and that yummy Chick Fil-A Diet Lemonade.

Comcast gave us someone elses phone number, no they had not cancelled it, they were still using it and they weren’t so happy when their friends started calling and I told them they had the wrong number. Yikes. So sorry about that, didn’t mean to take your number, you can thank Comcast for that.

Today we were at the pool, I was minding my own business sitting there with my feet in the water while the kids were swimming. I started feeling a really bad sting in my arm and looked down and this huge monster was stinging me (ok it was a wasp, but just let me be dramatic and picture the hugest wasp on the planet). I immediately start screaming like I’m at a New Kids on the Block concert and try and get the darn thing off of my arm. He (I’m calling the wasp a he, he looked mean) wouldnt let go and finally I was able to flick him in to the pool. This darn thing hurts, it made me sick then I had to take a nap for a while. My arm is still swollen and I can still feel the stinging, I guess because I can’t get the stinger out. Google repeatedly talks about venom and all sorts of bad things. Yikes!

(gee I’m rather rambly tonight for someone who was stung by a monster ;-) )

This afternoon on my way back from Marietta I stopped for a quick tour through the Gone With the Wind Museum. It’s not real big but they have a lot of neat memorabilia, posters, costumes, etc. So here are a few snaps from there. Oh but before that I passed by the big huge chicken that has googly eyes on top of a KFC restaurant. Apparently it’s a big deal around here as a few people have mentioned it to me, so now I can mark that off my list!

But first, here’s one quick one of my little client Mr. J, from his at home portion of his session…

They sky was completely white for a little while this morning, it was weird!

and here’s that chicken I was telling you about…

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One Year Later

June 15, 2008 – 9:41 pm

hope all of you had a wonderful Father’s Day and that you gave your husbands and or fathers a special day today. Normally we go out for Father’s Day, but this time we stayed in and my husband had his favorite sushi! We are continuing to purge and pack for our big move to Atlanta at the end of next month.

Last year around this time I photographed a brand new baby girl named Avi. Yesterday I traveled to her home in Playa Del Rey for her one year portraits. My how much she has grown! She is sooooo super cute and I love how busy she is. She’s so excited that she has just started walking and she was on the go and proud of it! She was a total sweetheart. You should see how happy her Mommy is when she looks at her, so wonderful.

To Avi & her Mommy, thank you so much for having me back for your very special one year portraits, it was wonderful seeing you again!!!!!

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Me, Gladys Knight & The Pips…The Last 61 Days

May 31, 2008 – 8:15 pm

This one is going to be a long one so take a potty break, grab a snack and then get ready to read.

This weekend I took a little time off from shooting so that we could get some family stuff done and start a major purge and pack plan. This is such a bittersweet announcement and I’ve been trying to find the right words of how to blog about it and never really came up with anything clever so I’ll just say it.

I have been in Los Angeles for exactly 11 years. I have loved living here, there is nowhere on earth just like LA, for better or worse LA is one interesting beast. There are so many things that I love about LA but at the same time there are so many things that I could live without as well. My husband and I have decided to leave California. We want a slower paced, more community driven and more affordable way of life.

When I was talking about this to one of my best friends she said, hey why don’t you move here! She has said this to me on many occasions and we just laugh and move on to the next topic, but the last time she said it I really gave it some thought. Now after a short time to think I had it in my head that this was exactly what I wanted to do, but convincing my husband, someone who was born here and has never lived anywhere but here was going to be a hard task to accomplish. Or so I thought. I explained to him my grand ideas and plans and it probably took him about 15 minutes to say, you know what you are right, let’s do it. So with that here we go.

I’m nervous, I’m happy, I’m scared, all those things at once! When I drove my little moving truck to Los Angeles from Nashville back in 1997 I was all of those things, but now I have children, a husband and whole lotta junk to pack! I also have a wonderful and successful business with so many amazing clients that I will be leaving behind. That is the bittersweet part, the part that breaks my heart. There is always a way around that problem and several of my clients have solved that problem for me. So for my clients who would like me to continue photographing their families I will return upon request if I have a few families who would all like to have sessions around the same time. It’s a win win for me because I still get to see their smiling faces and photograph their beautiful children.

So just like Gladys Knight and The Pips who left on that Midnight Train to Georgia, I too will be doing the same. The clock is counting down and I have 61 days left here in Southern California and then we will be leaving and relocating to a little town called Dallas, GA (which is just about 30-45 minutes outside of Atlanta, or should I say HOTlanta ;-) ). My amazing friend and photographer Julia Greer and I will be working together and we will also be running our own photography businesses just like we do now. I am so excited about that, she is such a wonderful person.

My children are excited too, they are excited about our new home that we have found, the new friends they are going to make and the trip across the country. My daughter asks me every day if it’s time to go to Georgia, it’s so cute how excited she is. To all my LA blog readers, you would not believe the difference in real estate there compared to here, it is completely mind blowing at how much home you can get for your money there. For the price of one home here you could buy 4 homes there (no I’m not joking!).

I will be shooting right up until we leave and I have many wonderful clients who I will be meeting soon and photographing their little ones during my last two months here. I have a few spots open so be sure and email me asap if you are interested in booking one of the dates. I can also give you the contact information for some other wonderful photographers in the area for after I’m gone (or like I said, find a few friends and I’ll gladly come back! for your photo session!).

So…. wonderful people of Atlanta, I’m going to start booking for August now so email me if you would like to schedule a session! Ok I’ve rambled enough and I think at some point I stopped making sense and just started mumbling. To my wonderful friends and clients in LA, this is not goodbye it’s a see you later, and besides I will still be here for two months!

I’m going to start sharing California related photos for the next couple of months, and I will for sure be blogging our cross country trek (I am *so* excited about all the photo ops that will be headed our way!). So this is a photo of my street, I will miss palm trees, because the last time I checked there weren’t too many of those in Georgia.

and enjoy a little Gladys Knight & The Pips (this video is from 1973, the year I was born!)

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