I love love loove these kids!

This is my third year photographing these two and I just adore them!


This time we took to the streets of Ybor City, Tampa to take some pics for the Christmas card. I had Corbin, in tow, helping me get them to talk and smile. We trekked a couple of blocks and called it a day.

I had too many favs so I made a couple blogboards to show them instead of loading this post down with images.

The gorgeous G!

Model-riffic Lil J!



Aww.. Sibling Love!



Are we done yet?

Look Who is One!!!

" Let him have cake!"



Have you ever offer to do a favor for someone or give them something and your schedules never seem to mesh right? Well that is the moral to the next posting.


I have known this little one's mom for a long time and when she got pregnant with him, her third, we were gonna do prego pics. Then we decided to do newborn pics. Neither of those happened due to continual schedule conflicts such as sickness, bad weather, etc.


Well, he is one now.. and still as adorable as when he was born! I am so happy I FINALLY got to shoot this little bugger! ( I wanted to keep him)

Here are some shots from his one year shoot!


Love how he is holding his hands.


Such a beautiful smile!



reaching high!

Happy first bday lil G Man!

Amazing G and Lil J

Once again, it was my pleasure to photograph little miss amazing G and her little brother J. They are beautiful little people and make me work for each and every shot. G is so willing and able to strike a pose that we have to ask her to turn off the charm for candid shots while J has me chasing him and braving obstacles to catch him being candid.

Thanks to their mom, I was able to see a part of Tampa I was unfamiliar with. We took these pics at the University of Tampa, which is gorgeous, a week ago.

Here are some of my favs.

Fall Photos in The Park

It has been a little while since I have posted, huh?

I have been pretty busy with school but did have some time to do some wonderful family photos at the local park mid-October and never got around to posting those.

I love my Doodlebug Moms and they love to keep me busy taking shots of their little ones. The following are just a few of my favorites from our Fall photos at Anderson Park.





This is two families worth of kids and they are all BFFs! Took this between family shoots.







Thanks for looking.... another post soon to follow

Baby A on the Way! (First session of 2009)

Well.. I am back from my "staycation" and ready to blog my first session of 2009.
I had the pleasure of doing some maternity shots for a fellow mom in my group. She is due Jan 29th and wanted to get some nice shots of this, her second, pregnancy.
Here are some of my favs of her .. along with her daughters three yr pics.









Heres big sis also... isnt she a doll?

My future in-laws.. maybe

I had the pleasure of snapping some christmas card pics of my friend, and co-hort in the College of Education, Sue's fraternal twins.

*Interesting side piece: Our kids were born the same day in the same hospital! They get along well enough for me to believe they met while in those little "baby fishbowls" in the hospital.


Well, Corbin adores her daughter so much that he speaks about marrying her at times. So,ofcourse I grabbed a shot or two of them together also.
Here are two of my favs from the shoot.. The rest are top secret until after Christmas.




These two.. are too stinking cute!

Then came, ofcourse, Corbin and his future wife - maybe


arent they adorable!?

We couldn't get brother to kiss her for a pic so Corbin volunteered without hesitation...



As always.. thanks for looking!

Amazing Grace

How sweet is this little girl? This should either be my first or last post within a series of 3 of this adorable duo. Thanks for reading!
This little girl is ADORABLE! She is so easy to take photos of and she takes direction well.. often making her own faces. She did tune out once or twice like LilBro but being in a backyard with water and wildlife it is not easy to focus. We did some outfit changes with her, my favorites are the tutu's, and came out with some fun shots.

Mom and I talked about doing some more fashiony oversaturated or contrasty shots like the websites do that have these tutus for sale as well as the normal editing with some black and white.

I am tickled pink over these shots.. here are my favorites

No shortage of hair accessories for this little girl!

She is so cute!

Just kickin' it!

This was her pose idea.. notice the Egret in the background?

Thanks again for coming by.. take a look at the other 2 posts in this series.

and The Giant Peach

Let me begin by saying that I decided to come up with titles that are random, silly, creative, not so creative, and etc. I don't like to be blatant with clients names but why not have fun with the shoots through ridiculous titles too. This should be blog number two of three. Thanks for hanging around!

This is LilBro.. hes adorable and has the most beautiful blue eyes. He is trying to master the art of walking and decided that grass was too interesting to stay put on... this posed a little bit of a challenge to get him to stop long enough to look at me and smile. I think I captured his spirit quite well and many of his giggles even if he wasn'y cheesing it FOR the camera.

Here are my favs of LilBro.

This lil man was not interested in having pictures taken. He, just mastering walking, felt that grass was too much fun not to attempt to dash to and fro. I did catch him smiling - in the other direction.

ah Ha.. gotcha!

Eyes so pretty they don't have to be in color... sheesh!

Am I the only one that thinks he looks shifty eyes in this picture?(hence the contrasty edit)

Are we done yet?

I just love this shot, don't know why, but I love it!

Thanks for stopping in!

BigSis and LilBro

This is the either the first of three and last of three posts regarding these two beautiful children. * Im not sure in what order they'll post. Regardless, these two beautiful children were a treat to photograph. J is not the best walker yet BUT he loves to do it and.. well grass was kinda cool and disturbing to him all at once. I had to rope Big Sis G in to hold him down or keep in the frame for the picture. These may not all be mantle perfect captures but they are great captures of these two and their relationship.

My favs
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I love this one her fixing his shirt

There were many of these- not looking but it captures a milestone for J... when he couldnt sit still.


Another tender moment.. nah I think she was trying to hold him down.



There we go

SO either thanks for looking at all three blogs.. or thanks for visitng the first of three. ( again , I dont know what order these will be posted in.)

Little boy wonder

Its been a little while since I posted. I have been keeping busy with school BUT am looking forward to the pick up in business that Christmas creates!

This is a session I did 2 weeks ago for a dear friend and cohort in the College of Education, Marjorie. Her little boy is ADORABLE!!! He doesnt like to sit for pictures so the fact that we got a few was amazing in and of itself. He was very into my animals, the dogs and cat, as well as my telephone. (he called my neighbors in Michigan a few times)

Here is a peak at their shoot.
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Here he is calling my neighbors...