Viva Las Vegas!!

I went to a conference for photographers in Las Vegas the end of March. It was with the Digital Wedding Forum. I got to meet some of the greatest wedding photographers out there. It was enlightening, inspiring and motivating! My 3 top speakers were the Boutwells, Parker J Phister, and Joe Buissnik. Oh, and John Michael Cooper, he didn't speak, but we got to observe him doing a shoot with a bride and groom. Here's his site www.altf.com/

So anyway, I had a blast, took a few shots myself, but mostly just networked and tried to soak up everything I could!

First night there, I hit the strip, lost $80 bucks and realized gambling wasn't for me. So I resulted to taking pictures instead.










So the following day, rented a car and headed out to Red Rock Canyon. Funny thing there, we rented the economy car, but they were out of those, so we got an H3 instead for no additional cost!! Had so much fun looking around the state park. Took the H3 down some dirt roads, one even had a sign that said "not a mantianed rode, drive at your own risk!" LOL!! It just amazes me how different the country is out there! The desert and mountains are just so different and so beautiful, unlike anything I've ever seen before.






I also had the opportunity to go to a dry lake bad outside the city and caught this shot....

Upward Cheerleading

My oldest daugher, Tori, was a cheerleader for Upward Cheerleading. The season just finished, but I am just getting around to blogging it. Really there's only one shot I got of her that I really like and it's cause she's laughing. She's so hard to photograph these days. She always poses for me, and so it's hard to get a good natural smile from her. So here she is, my mini me.....



And while she was cheering, I was chasing around the "littles." (that's what I called my other two kids, cause they're so close in age, and so much smaller than Tori) I had a ball to entertain them....

Julie's Bridals...

So I get to blog Julie's bridals, too! She also got married in March, on St. Patty's day! Hers was actually my first wedding of the season! But those will come later, I haven't finished those yet. I shot her bridal pics back in January, and get to blog them now cause she's married! Yeah! I shot her in a bed and breakfast here in North Little Rock called "The Baker House" it was perfect for her and her dress. She looked absolutely beautiful!





Okay, so I thought I had uploaded more than this, but apparently forgot. So I have to go and resize them and will post the rest later.....oops!

My Gypsy Tour....

So, a few weeks ago, my husband arranged for my children to visit their aunt in Alabama for 6 days! He had drill for the Navy in MS, so it was sorta on his way. So I got 6 days all to myself! A friend of mine called it my gypsy tour, cause I stopped so many times! LOL! I like it, so it stuck. First I stopped in Memphis to see a friend (and fellow photographer) Christen Jones. Well, when photographers get together, we take pictures. Here are some pics I took of Christen....

(this one's from my camera phone)







So then I drove up to Louiseville KY, and stopped at a couple places along the way....

So first I stopped at a winery, and was really disappointed, it was all dolled up like a gift shop. They had wine tastings, and I tried them all. They were okay, I bought a bottle, just to be polite. They also had these really neat old cars. Not really expected in a winery, but okay, I'll photograph it.







Then I stopped on the side of the road, at what I thought was an exit, but it was a truck weigh in station, OOPS! But it had a parking lot, so I parked, and ran off into this field. Took some pics of some rusty circular thing. Not sure what those are called, but they looked cool, and then did some landscape selfportraits. It was so fun to just take off like that!





And this shot here I took driving down the road. The traffic didn't allow for me to pull over, so I held my hand out the window and set the timer for this shot! LOL! I can only imagine what those around me thought.....

Lauren King (now Holly)

So I finally get to blog about Lauren's bridal pics! I shot these back in October, but of course, couldn't blog them until they got married! She and Jeremy got married on March 23, then I went to Vegas for a week, so I'm finally getting caught up on this! Yeah! Lauren was so much fun to photograph. Not shy at all, and would do anything I asked. At one point I lay on the ground and literally had her run and jump over me, dress and all! Oh, and she had these totally cool boots on that were as colorful as her personality. However, she didn't wear those on the wedding day, she wore sneakers instead! LOL! Lauren reminds me so very much of myself when I got married, she's about the same age I was, and I just see so much of myself in her! What a great chic! hehehe.....
N E way! Here she is: