Life's Whirlwind Adventures

I don't really have a business name, I have worked with a couple Home based businesses, but I don't have my own business name. So this post won't be about my business name, but about the type of business I'd like to open. I have a passion for taking pictures.  I love capturing moments at family gatherings that show utter relaxation or pure joy.  Those moments no one poses for but that happen and you capture a moment that no one realized they wanted captured until it has passed. It's photographing real life as it happens.  I think this is an easier and harder type of photography to capture.  One you aren't staging people and hoping they get in the right light, you aren't hoping everyone is looking the same way, you are just out there capturing the moments.  But it is hard because it takes a special intuition, a special knowledge or ability to be able to read the crowd and moments as they occur. Everyone does this with their own family.  But there i...

I used to be anal about scheduling family pictures when Chandler was little, then he started going to school and I used his school pictures to update everyone.   Then I almost completely stopped getting pictures done, and I can’t even begin to explain why this was.   Then Leigham was born and in the last three years of his life we have done three different family photos.   It’s not bad, not bad at all to be honest, seeing as the last family photo I did pre-Leigham, was when Chandler was 5, 6 years prior.   So this year for Christmas I thought it would be nice to get family pictures done for everyone, so I made the family get dressed up and head out to Triple Ten Photography to have a photo session.   Alicia, the proprietor of Triple Ten and the artistic talent, is a friend of mine, and she does great work.   We posed and she was patient even though Leigham was less than cooperative.   We got some great shots and I was able to get ...