Georgina and I met over shared pins on Pinterest, her style match mine perfectly. When I finally got to meet her and Jake I was even more excited, they are one hot couple who are fun and up for anything. We had a beautiful fall evening for photos and one again Georgina and I agree on beautiful light and they got it. Such a gorgeous day, couple, session. After talking weddings with Georgina, this wedding at The Barnsite Retreat is already on my fav list!
Oh these two. You can just tell they are each others strength. This session was fun and sweet and everything a session should be but so much more. Tyler and Alysa aren't getting married until 2016 and it makes me sad I won't see them for over a year. Alysa is my hero, she kicked cancer right in the face and she is strong, beautiful and her attitude towards life makes me want to not sweat the small stuff ever again and look at the big picture, you can tell these two live their life that way and I look up to them for that. I can't wait to see them again all dressed up and ready to be married, it's going to be magical.
It's no secret I have a lot on my plate, I always worked better under pressure for some reason, I used to work in an Operating Room at a hospital and I would hand over supplies "stat" and I thrived during those times, the downtime is where I struggled. So it's no surprise that I find a balance for work-life, home-life and photography-life. I know I am a broken record when I say, you find time in your life for things you love, but it's true. If you love something you'll find time whether it's a person, a hobby, a sport, work, party, etc. We're all busy in life but we find time. This year has been probably my biggest year yet, but I never felt out of control (minus October,damn you) I found a good balance but I had to subtract something I like to do to continue something I love to do. I cut out family & senior sessions to shoot weddings. You can imagine it's not an easy week to work all day and then rush to a family session, shoot it and get home by 6-7pm to spend very little time with your children before bed. It just didn't fit anymore. Traveling miles one way to a 30 min session just stopped making sense to me. (When available I do still travel for engagement sessions when you book a wedding with me) I have had a lot of interest in sessions and it really pains me to let past clients down or see them go elsewhere. My response to them is "I do limited sessions, at my home and as available". No more travel and no more scrambling my family around. Once a year I do hope to add mini-sessions to the schedule, like I did this weekend. I have a full schedule Saturday & Sunday!
Thank you all for your support, for following my work, for your "likes" and commenting and feedback (I can't express enough how much I love feedback) thanks for sharing my page with others and recommending me and most of all for understanding that I can't do it all , as much as I would love to be superwoman ;)
I took the day off the other day to take a deep breath, do nothing and shoot my very favorite subject at the apple orchard, scored some yummy honey crisp and pumpkins. These two are the reason for the reduction in sessions. As you can see these two are my whole life, the cutest boys on earth and I love them more than my next breath.
