Miller Family

I have many friends from high school that I didn't keep in really good contact with, and as much as I hate Facebook most days, it has helped me reconnect with some of them. One of those friends is Laura Miller, who now has a beautiful family who I thoroughly enjoyed photographing! Their little daughter, Haylee, is just gorgeous and has the most alluring bright blue eyes. Every picture she was in just lit up, so I have had a VERY hard time picking just a few favorites! We had a few rain showers during our session, but the pictures turned out wonderful nonetheless. Good thing we did our session at a park with a few pavilions to hide under!
After much thinking, here are my five favorite shots from the weekend.

Rountree Wedding

On August 6th, my dear friends Ian and Nikki had a wonderful casual wedding... And I was given the pleasure of photographing it for them! It was a HUGE learning experience, as I have never photographed an event as important and special as a wedding. I ordered a new lens just for the occassion, and it got to the house three hours before the actual wedding started! But I LOVE my new lens! It's a 55mm-200mm telephoto zoom lens, and it works wonderfully for all of my sessions. It was definately one of my favorite purchases lately, and a smart one, in my opinion... I already have another wedding to photograph on August 20th, so I'll need the ability to zoom.
There were over 400 photos from the beautiful, low-key wedding, but I'm sharing five of my favorites with you. Hope you enjoy them!

Camden

Friday I got to do a session for a friend of mine from high school, Robin. It was awesome getting to see her for the first time in at least 5 years, and to meet her adorable little boy, Camden! I learned how challenging it can be to get good shots of such a little one, but we got some pretty good ones! We ended up getting 730 pictures because continuous photography is a MUST when you aren't sure when your subject is going to decide to crack a little smile. I also learned that some of the best shots don't even have to be smiles... You can see little bits of heaven in the faces of some young ones, and you can definitely see it in Camden's photos! Look at the wonderful personality this little one already has in my five favorite shots from our session!