Garynation

But only one reason. There are others, but sadly, taking pictures and learning editing has left little time for blogging my personal family stuff. With all these new changes and new photography venture, there will be blogging, but it will be a different type of blogging. I’ll add to that later, for now, I’ll just put some of this fall’s work out there for y’all to see.   I call these “The Couv’s”. I went to school with Jill and we have remained friends since high school and we even (get ready for it – I know I’m old!) play pokeno together. I took shots of her family and her brothers family and both families together. It was my largest shoot yet. There was so much to edit and look at and pay attention to, it was a bit overwhelming. But the feedback was good and they even gave the pictures to other family members as gifts!   Little Charlotte was a late walker and her mom wanted some pictures of just her, no big sister or big brother to steal her show! She is adorable, and s...

Silly, I know. But the past few months have shown me how many different random things can come together and form something delicious. I don’t want to give away too much yet, but I’ll start this story with the birth of my first daughter, Marielle. Marielle was born June 2008. I had been wanting some pictures taken of her, but didn’t really know anyone to do it. I knew I didn’t want to go into a studio, I really wanted to be at home, where I’d be comfortable and so would she. I was looking on Myspace (I know, that sounds so foreign now!), and saw that a friend of mine from grade school, and even pre-K, Jennifer, was doing photography. I knew she went into that after school, but didn’t know how far she actually took it. She wasn’t living here in Baton Rouge, but I decided to send her a private message just telling her that if she was ever in town, I’d love for her to take pictures of Marielle. She messaged me back very quickly and said she was going to be in town the next day and she cou...