10 years

Yes, I like the band... but that's not what this blog post is about. :) It just hit me today that this year is my 10 year anniversary as a photographer!

Yes, 10 years ago... at the age of 15, I bought my first camera (with the help of my wonderful grandma). I worked at the 4h LSU mini farm taking care of stinky little animals for a week and made as much money as I could. My grandma said she would pay for the rest to help me get my camera. She was the one person I always remember believing in me, telling me I had "the eye" to be a photographer. If it weren't for her, I might not be a photographer today. :) I bought the Nikon N50 and used that thing for years!! It was an awesome camera even though it was good 'ol film.

Over the years I have learned so much and taken approximately 23,589,268,187 photos. (yes, I counted) ;) I am sooo happy I get to do what I love and what I'm super passionate about. Not only does expressing myself through my art make me happy, it's also an incredible blessing to be able to touch someone else's life with it. I love it!!

So I went and found the album that has some of my very first photos I took with my Nikon in it... and found a couple to show you all. Don't laugh! I was just starting out! I used my sister as a practice subject A LOT. Isn't she cute???




So happy anniversary to me! YAY! I can't wait to see how I've grown in my talent in 10 more years!!

Sara & Joe

I am one busy girl! There is tons of stuff I want to blog but no time to do it! Here is one of my favorites from a wedding I shot in San Diego last month. I'll post a lot more from their wedding as soon as I get some more free time.

Finally

Finally getting a min to blog something.

Here are twenty or so pictures from Nicole and Blake's wedding that I shot for Luckett Portrait Studio a few weeks back. I shot close to 700 so it was really hard to narrow it down to this few to blog them... They have tons of great shots!

I still have tons more material I want to blog... just no time to do it! Ahhhh!

I Heart California

I spent part of this past week in sunny San Diego, California. And I had SO MUCH FUN! I was flown in to shoot a wedding (those photos will come later) and while I was there I decided to take advantage of the beautiful place and do a photoshoot of my friends Dan and Jess. I've known Dan since we were little kids living in the jungles of Peru. Wow, that was a long time ago. Man, good times.... good times. Dan grew up and married a BEEE YOU TEA FULL girl. Not only is she gorgeous, but has such an awesome personality. Her and I are alot alike ( wink wink Jess ;) ) You scored good Dan. I love you both! Anyways, ever since I met Jess I've always wanted to photograph her. I knew the instant I met her she'd be so much fun to work with. And boy was I right! I'm not sure if I've ever had more fun on a photoshoot. She was such a natural with the camera. I've been wanting to shoot a girl having fun in a wedding gown and not worry about it getting messed up. I got this gown for her to wear and it fit her perfectly! I was ecstatic about that.

I shot about a million photos of her and Dan but here are just a few of my favorites. It was soooo hard to narrow them down. They did soooo well!!!

Click on each one to see the larger version.























Dan didn't like the cold water too much. haha.

I love the dress in this one.



Dan is very funny and knew how to make us both laugh a bunch!

This is just hilarious!

Final shots of the day... they were such sports about doing anything I told them to do. I love it.


And then finally I leave you with me and Jess... we stopped at McDonalds because we were both very thirsty after all that hard work!



More photos of so much more to come!