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Phil & Kendra

06/16/2011

I don’t think I was ever so excited about shooting a wedding as I was about this one! Strangers at first, but after being there for rehearsal, and having the honor of spending the night before the wedding at a hotel with the bride and bridesmaids (not to mention being loved and welcomed with open arms by the bride’s family!), by the time the Big Day came I was quite excited about documenting it for them. I was reminded that the main reason I love photography is because I love people and I love how every person is different and how challenging it is to try to capture that. Yay for photography! 🙂

Phil & Kendra, your testimony/love story is absolutely beautiful and I bless you guys for allowing God to have worked in your lives the way you did. I promise not to gush too much on this so public of a place, but I do want you to know your testimony both challenged and blessed me and it was seen all throughout your day and it still pops out at me every time I look at your pictures! Editing pictures with your happy faces was almost like therapy for me… hmm, is that good or not?? 😉

Thank you for being such amaaaazing sports. I never saw a couple so comfortable and happy with each other and SO easy to work with!!! Wow. Thank you for the honor of choosing me as your photographer; I hope you will be pleased with the pictures!

I also want to thank my assistant, Matt, for all your help! I know a lot of these shots wouldn’t have been possible without you; thank you for working along with me I hope I didn’t boss you around too much; I’m kinda known for being bossy! 😉 It was fun teaching you a bit of what I knew, sharing ideas with you, and watching you work. You definitely have an artistic touch and I hope you can pursue photography some day!

A big thank you is also due to Adam & Sana L. who were not only my chauffeurs but encouragers and adopted uncle & auntie for the weekend! Thank you for your patience with my time schedule and just for being YOU. Love you guys!!

I will only be posting a few on here but CLICK HERE for the link to the pictures on facebook. Because of my lack of internet, it’s faster just uploading them to my album there, though i will always prefer Flickr for any photo uploading!

A Tale Of Two Princesses

10/21/2010

It started out with each of the princesses taking a shower and getting their hair ready to comb. 🙂 Like I said before, I thought *I* was hyper… but you should have heard them giggling. It was so fun! They helped each other get ready while I worked ahead a bit on supper, cuz the lighting is always perfect right at the time i’m usually working on supper. (yes, a very sad fact! there’s been many a day when i have to work HARD on keeping a positive attitude while stuck in the kitchen with the sun sending it’s last and best warm rays outside) After they had combed each other’s hair out, I took them over to my little house and then I had fun dolling them up and they had fun using Sandra’s hair mousse and hair accessories – big stuff, i tell you!
So it started with much dressing up and then the rest… well, i’ll tell it in pictures. 🙂 I admit that since these pictures were all my doing, and i have no parents or clients to please through them, i went and did it all precisely as i wanted them. Vintage, antique film, etc. As much as I love trying to please my subjects, it’s just too much fun doing something all “for myself.” So feel free to leave your comments and critiques. As I’ve always said, I have my unique style which can’t be totally changed but it can be bettered.
Enjoy!

For the rest of the pictures, go to my facebook album.

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Smile for Jesus!

-SPR

1-year-old J [part iv]

08/09/2010

I love antique filters!

Well that’s all I’ll be posting. I had about 90 images that were keepers and that makes me happy cuz i think i’m getting better at working with manuel focus. Maybe i’ll just skip buying a new lens. It would save me a couple bucks that I could use for college later. . . 😉

God is good all the time!

-SPR