What Would Superman Do?

Times are suckity economically, and when you combine said suckity-ness with the 'slow' time in the photog business, it spells only one thing. Serious-meltdown-OMG! What am I doing wrong--I need to reinvent myself! I need a look, a vibe, a persona, the ridiculousness is ridiculous. In times like this, I hover over my laptop hitting 'send/receive' in a very OCD fashion (Me: The cable must be out again, otherwise I'd be downloading copious amounts of client inquiries, right ?!) and check my google analytics graphs, pie charts and bounce rate like I actually understand them. So when times get tough, the tough start investigating all the gobs of benjamins they could drop to make more money. It takes money to make money, right?

Well here I am, at this very free, blogspot blog, wishing I had a super snazzy and expensive 'couture' blog designed by fabulous people, much younger than myself, and able to pull off fashions I refer to as 'Forest Gump in his running across America phase' or 'Pat Benatar and Napoleon Dynamite are BFFs'.

I go through this crisis around this time every year and I'm hoping this year will be like years past, as in, 'this will be over soon, once the sun hits, biz will pick up' but there are two potential problems with my 'The Sun Will Come out Tomorrow' hopes. 1. The economy 2. The economy.

Meanwhile, I work on a few clients' files as well as my own personal work and I just wait... oh and get ready for a shoot tomorrow at the studio.

Spring has Sprung!

Gams with and without Jams

If The Shoe Fits

Rosa, Carla and Adam

This past Saturday, I got a chance to photograph the Saultwards (C. Saulter
+ A. Edwards=Saultwards) at a part in West Seattle. Everytime I do a family session I wish I did more of them (shameless pandering for business).
Anyway, they are quite the lovely family so with that... I present The Saultwards.

The Fords

I never thought I'd get a chance to meet the Fords for a photo shoot--lucky for me they were willing to give me a second shot. This past summer, a local photographer asked me to fill in for her--I felt honored and humbled to be the one chosen. I marked the day on my calendar and the rest is history, not the kind you want to repeat I might add.
Sitting in front of my computer one Saturday (this is were the ominous music starts) enjoying the peace and quiet on an empty house, I notice I have voicemail. Checking the message, I feel my stomach do a triple luxe--the message, left 20 mins. earlier, by a very sweet Heather, who doesn't ask "where the H E double matchsticks are you?!!!!" but who instead is checking in to make sure I'm okay. Bottom line, I was severely late for the Ford's family reunion.

Photographers, you feel me when I say felt my insides dropped through the chair--this is the stuff photographer horror movies are made of. The reunion wasn't far away, but far enough to make it a moot point--important guests, Grandmothers from out of town, were due at the airport.
Heather was gracious and forgiving --she accepted my offer to do her family photographs in the Arboretum to repent for my error. I couldn't be more thankful for a second chance to work her and her family. They are a beautiful family and I hope some of their good karma rubbed off on me.

Kyle + Molly

Molly and Kyle were married not to long ago and the location of the wedding gave us the opportunity to shoot at a number or places, which made the day a lot of fun and action packed. If you check out their engagement shots from a few posts back you'll see their engagement shots which are steamy and therefore rated PG13. :)

Congrats to the Newlyweds!

The Russo's in the Arboreteum

Back not to long ago, when the trees weren't naked and night didn't arrive at 4:30, I had the chance to meet the Russo family. They were lovely and their kidlets were cute beyond words. Below I've posted some of my favorite images. Interesting that most of my favorites are black and white--it goes back to my belief that the amazing colors of autumn can be really distracting when you're trying to tell a story about people, not leaves. :)