My Shameless Brag - I'm a finalist!

I'm a member Professional Photographers of America. PPA is one of the biggest professional orgaizations for photographers. They recently had a contest for the cover of their monthly magazine. I entered a photo that I call "Coffee with Katie." Turns out they had 50,000 entries!! I came in 5th place! Sooo I just wanted to share my exciting news! I'm stoked! I can't wait to get the magazine in my hands!

CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE

A sneek peek for Allyson

Okay...so I have like 10 blogs I need to blog! I know I know you guys are waiting! I'm sorry!! I've been SO busy I'm behind but I will catch up and blog a whole bunch over the weekend!

I went out to the Zipp family ranch in New Braunfels yesterday and had a great time with this family. I was downloading my cards from the session and I HAD to take a quick moment to blog this teaser! Soooo in good Longhorn spirit here's a peek at the Zipp cuties! Hook 'em!

Another Very Special Session

Once again I had the privilege of photographing another family to be part of the CTMC Hospice gallery. This was a very special session. It's not every day you get to photograph a new baby with his great grandfather!

Mr. Oliver Bertram is 93 years old. He has worked in the pharmaceutical industry all of his life. He was a researcher in the Beaumont area. I had the honor of photographing him with family one beautiful September afternoon here in San Marcos.

When I arrived the family was all together. They just had eaten lunch and the house smelled yummy like freshly baked cornbread. Mr. & Mrs. Bertram have been married for 69 years! They have one daughter Donna Murphree. Donna has two children Sarah and Ryan. Sarah's son Gage Oliver is named after his great grandfather. He was super cute and just two months old.

I looked around the beautiful home and found the kitchen had some really prettty window light and knew that would be a great place to photograph them. Thanks to Ryan who helped me move furniture! He also held my reflector for me!!

We did some family portraits of everyone all together and then we photographed Mr. Bertram with baby Gage Oliver. We wrapped the baby in a beautiful blue afghan that someone makes CTMC Hospice to give to their patients. I LOVE the portrait of them together in black and white. Baby Gage Oliver was so sweet! He smiled in his sleep all the time. It was adorable.

I had a wonderful afternoon with this family! I hope they'll enjoy these portraits as much as I enjoyed making these memories for them!

I didn't have the chance to put up a "big" slideshow because It's been crazy with holiday work and weddings at the moment but I did want to put up the youtube version at least!

These portraits will be part of the CTMC Hospice Gallery that will travel around the community to raise awareness of what Hospice care is an how it can benefit your family.

Oliver and Zelma Bertram

I still can't believe they've been married for 69 years!
There is proof that Love can last a lifetime!

A portrait of Mr. Bertram

A sweet moment between daughter and father.

Little Gage Oliver really wanted to nap! Poor baby we kept waking him up!

This is my FAVORITE portrait from the session! It's just SO sweet!

I love the juxtaposition of the little feet and the hands

Gage Oliver SMILED like crazy in his sleep! Too Cute!

Generation portraits!

My Bride is Prettier than Yours!

I drove to Dallas yesterday to photograph Gianina and Chris's engagement session! Oh how I love Dallas! Everytime I'm there I want to move back! So apparently Sunday is the day that all photographers venture out to photograph in the Dallas area! Photographers were everywhere!! I'm going to post a shameless brag though... I do have to say that my bride was prettiest!

Here is just a quick sneak peek from our session!! Aren't they adorable? I had such a fun afternoon!! Thanks guys!! We have a lot of beautiful images! Much more to come! Just wanted to share this quick peek!

Also special thanks to my good friend and rockin cool photographer Melissa Miller who was kind enough to come an assist at my session! XOXOX love you!

My Handsome Little Man

Better late than never! I've been so busy I'm behind on blogging! I'm trying to catch up! I've got more coming very soon!

I couldn't not post photos of my most favorite boy! Guy turned 6th last month! He still gave me way more "stink face" photos than smiles of course LOL! But I did manage to get some smiles. He's so handsome! Even if I say so myself!

Sweet Baby Lexi

You know... you can never have too many photos of babies in tutu's! LOL Meet sweet Lexi! She is the neice of Shawn! Shawn is the amazing stylist and makeup artist we've been working with! Baby Lexi popped in for a few quick portraits! Isn't she adorable! I SO need a girl!!

Sneak Peek For The Erretts

Just wanted to share a sneak peek of the Errett family! They're always a blast to photograph! I can't believe how big Katie and Will are now! When did our babies grow up!! Much more to come! You guys are going to love the silly ones!!

Thank You Everyone!

I just wanted to thank everyone from coming today to our open house! It was a great success and so good to see everyone! We had such an amazing turn out! Thank you guys SO much! :D Thanks to Jaime too of Blue Goat Gourmet for all the amazing food!!

Of course I'm sure you're all anxious to see who the winner was of our door prize!! LOL Shelby said you were all very nice to her since she was doing the drawing!! ;) So we mixed all the entries up and Shelby closed her eyes and picked. She drew TWO pieces of paper that were stuck together!! So we thought ok maybe we should mix them up again but then I decided...you know... Because I love my clients and who knows maybe it's because I was still feeling good from the wine! ;) LOL I decided to give BOTH people gift certificates for $500!!

The Winners are:
Jessica Meischen and Karen Craxton!!

Thanks again everyone for coming!! Congratulations winners! I will mail your certificates to you! Or email me if you'd like to come pick them up!

OH! And I know with all the people there I am pretty sure I missed handing out some of our reward cards for those of you that brought friends! It's good for a complimentary 8x10 for you and your guest from your next full session!! So if you didn't get one please let me know and we'll get those to you!

You're Invited To Our Open House!

If you're one of my Blog Stalkers you probably know by now the studio has moved! :D I'm loving my new place! So I'm inviting everyone to our Open House on Friday Oct. 10th. from 4:00pm until 8:00pm. I'm giving away a gift certificate for $500!! Which if that's not reason enough to come there will ALSO be wine, drinks, and awesome yummy desserts to eat! Jaime from Blue Goat Gourmet is catering our event! (Blue Goat is my favorite cafe in town!)

Bring a friend who's never been to us and you'll both get a referral bonus! So grab a friend, stop by Friday and come check our our new place! We'd love to see you!

We're Now Located at:

2401 Hunter Road
San Marcos, Tx.

Blog Tag

So I got tagged. Thank you, author Sean Rackley, for the tag. Now it's my turn to share the fun.

Okay, these are the rules;
1. Link to the person who tagged you Sean Rackley
2. Post the rules on your blog
3. Write six random thoughts about yourself
4. Tag six or so people at the end of your post
5. Let each person know he or she has been tagged
6. Let the tagger know when your entry is posted

Random Thoughts About Me:

1. I love to bake cookies
2. I'm neurotic about pretty much everything
3. I believe in happy endings
4. I think a baby smile and chuckle is like Crack!
5. I sing all the time. (and I don't care that I pretty much suck)
6. I know how blessed my life is

Now, for those I'm tagging; be careful out there because YOU'RE IT!!

The Shelby Lane (friend and fellow photographer)
Melissa Miller (friend and fellow photographer)
Teri Mason (friend and fellow photographer)
Shannon Errett (friend and ASP/PHP goddess)
Karen Craxton (friend and new mommy to be)
Karin Taylor (friend and homeschooling mommy of 4)


Enjoy the tag game and let's share the fun!

Beautiful Katherine

Meet the amazing beautiful Katherine. She's a 2008 senior from New Braunfels! She's now a college girl!! I'm working on her Senior album and I realized I hadn't shared ANY images from this amazing session! I have SO many favorites!! So I thought I'd blog a few real quick! I'll also share her album when I'm done! It's looking SO cool!

Teaser for Jody and Sam

I had the honor of photographing Jody and Sam's beautiful wedding the end of September. I am working on developing the images and I just had to stop and share this quick one! I love all the rich colors! I can't wait to share the rest from when you first saw each other!! So much love!! :D Much much more to come!!

A Sneak Peek for Lauren

Meet beautiful Lauren! I just wanted to share this quick sneak peek! Lauren is a Senior from New Braunfels! I can't wait to do her outdoor session! :D Lauren had one of the most beautiful prom dresses I've ever seen! I'm so happy they did hair and makeup with our MakeUp Artist and Stylist Shawn! She looked STUNNING! I also love the one of her with her little sister. Addison is in Kindergarden and her big sister is Graduating!! I thought that was so sweet! Much more of this beauty to come!!

Beautiful Alana - Happy Birthday!

I can't believe it! Alana is turning 10! Once again I'm amazed at how quickly time has flown!! I have photographed Alana countless times now. I've enjoyed documenting all her changes and my goodness!! Where did my little girl go? (Okay so she's not really mine but I'm going to say that because I don't have a girl so I satisfy my girl fixes with the daughters of all my friends and clients. ;))

The first time I photographed Alana was with her sister and cousins for their dance recital. I remember the background was green and they had some yellow chicken feathers or maybe they were ducks. I'm not sure. She was about five years old. They were all SO cute. Now she's all grown up and a young lady! She's still beautiful of course and she's still very funny. I've always loved to photograph her because she LOVES to pose for the camera. Here are a few from our latest session. Isn't she beautiful! Happy Birthday Alana!

This is a pull back! Mom and Layla where having too much fun on the porch! LOL