Chelsea's Senior Session

Chelsea's Senior Session

Chelsea's Senior Session

Chelsea's Senior Session

Chelsea's Senior Session

Chelsea's Senior Session

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First Forbeyon Album

First Forbeyon Album

First Forbeyon Album

First Forbeyon Album

First Forbeyon Album

First Forbeyon Album

First Forbeyon Album

First Forbeyon Album

First Forbeyon Album

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I was on Johnny Cash Radio!

This is actually the 2nd time that I've written to the show and the 2nd time they've mentioned my name on the air.

http://www.johnnycash.com/

If you listen about halfway through, my mention comes at about the 29.5 minute mark. I don't think you can fast forward on their site, but I download the shows from iTunes so I can go back an re-listen. :)

Man, I suck.

If I didn't want to have a completely separate personal blog where I could vent about work and non-photography (and photography too, I suppose), I would probably just get rid of this blog. But alas, I want to have an unprofessional outlet sometimes too. :) So here I am.

What's up, you ask?
Well, this week is chaotic. Stephanie is moving out on Wednesday. We just aren't getting along. And as a 27-year-old with a house, a business, a dog and a serious boyfriend, I'd like to have a clean (NOT spotless, however) home that stays relatively picked up without me having to do major cleaning for 2 hours before someone comes over. So that's my reasoning. Her reasoning is that she doesn't like my dog.

I'm selling some of my stuff. Nothing major really, but I sold 2 of my backdrops and my backdrop stands last week. I just don't want to do that type of shooting anymore. I'd rather use natural, urban, immovable backdrops from now on. I mean, that's what I have to do at weddings, so why not use it for all my portraits too? I'm also selling my original kit lens I got with my D200. It's been refurbished by Nikon twice and I'm just tired of dealing with it, plus it's slow (f3.5). My new Sigma lens more than makes up for it's crappiness though, so why have two similar lenses when one is obviously better?

Speaking of portraits, I'm getting ready to do a senior portrait session on Thursday. I CAN'T WAIT. It's going to be a blast and I've already got my creative juices flowing for some great locations and poses. Aaron's going to be my assistant for the first time. I'm not sure he's looking forward to it, but his job is easy and it will help me immensely.

Then we talked to Aaron's stepmom last night about maybe doing his stepbrother's senior pictures in a month or so. YAY!! Maybe this means I can get some more seniors booked for next year.

It is now TEN DAYS until Illinois football and I am so excited for this season to start. Not to mention that the kickoff is going to be extra fun because our whole crew (minus Kayla and Ryan) will be in St. Louis Friday night and all day Saturday. The only crappy part of the weekend is going to be the drive from STL to Peoria immediately after the game. I think we'll be lucky if we roll into our hotel room by 2 a.m. Then I have to be at the hair salon by around 9 a.m. to get my hair done for Kayla/Ryno's wedding. Whew! I'm SO SO SO glad I get Monday off to recover.

Although, Monday is the possibly the day Dad will start moving his stuff into his new house in Mason City. He wants me to help. I don't know how much help I'm going to be. So we'll see how that pans out.

Alright, I'm off to run some errands before lunch!

Edit: I totally forgot to mention the other reason this week is chaotic. My cousin Valerie needs a place to stay tonight, so she's coming with her toddler Annabelle. Oh, and she's also bringing her boyfriend Joe and his two boys! LOL... it's going to be a crazy night/morning, I'm sure.

I fixed my sunglasses!

The beads kept falling off, so I bought a bunch of replacement ones and some glue and it was SOOO easy to fix them.

Bathroom pics

Before:




After:





(sorry some of them aren't rotated!)

And after I make a couple more changes, I will update those pics as well. :) Let me know what you think of the color! And, this is the first time I have ever bought NICE towels in my entire life. Hehe...

The chicken salad saga continues...

I tried Panera's chicken salad on Friday. I was pleasantly surprised. It was pretty good, but I guess nothing special (no nuts or fruit). I also got it on Tomato Basil bread instead of whatever it was supposed to come on. The whole sandwich came in between $5.50 & $6, but I also got chips and a pickle spear with it! They also put mustard on the sandwich (not IN the salad though) and I thought it was a nice extra touch. Very light and refreshing, exactly what I want from my chicken salad.

I'm almost ready to post the before and after shots of my bathroom.

And tonight I'm going to continue to work on wedding albums and refine my watermarking process so I actually use it (on both my blog and Flickr!... maybe Facebook too). Stealing images is becoming more and more prominent you know!

Oh, and I almost forgot... one of my kitchen lights just DROPPED from the ceiling last night. For no reason at all. No one was even in the room. So I'm off to a couple of the home stores to find a new light that I like.