Tuesday Tunes

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Tuesday Tunes

proudest aunt alive

One of the things I love about shooting in Texarkana is it gives me an excuse to see some of the most important people in the world...my parents, my brother and sister in law, and my adorable wonderful smart precocious funny nieces. This past weekend I was so lucky that it was the weekend of the girls "cheer camp" where they go for a few hours, learn a cheer and a dance and then they perform it for friends and family.

Well the two girls performances could not have been more opposite, and I just adored both of them. :)

Brooklyn is 7, she is very grown up now and she wasn't messing around. She knew the cheer and the dance and she worked it OUT. Here is a pic of her doing her thing, do you notice how she's the only one not looking over at the teacher doing the dance? And she's pretty much the only one doing the right move...girlfriends got some skills :) (Sorry, I'm that obnoxious proud aunt.)
And then there is Ella, aka monkey (I'm the only one that calls her monkey but I just can't help it, she's my cute little monkey!) So Ella comes marching out on the gym floor with the rest of the kids and I am front and center with my giant camera so of course, she spots me first. She then proceeds to yell "aunt avery aunt avery!" and then she starts making monkey sounds like she always does for me, then when the music starts and all the kiddos get in a line to do their dance they've worked so hard on...well at this point my monkey flat out steals the show. She jumped out about 5 or 6 feet in front of the other kids, yells "aunt avery watch!" and then she proceeds to break it down and do a solo dance complete with spins and twists and jumps not one of which matched up with the moves the rest of the kiddo's behind her were doing. In the pic you can see she's worked her way out of the line and is pretty much not doing anything the other kids are doing. :)

Gosh I love my girls :)

In Bloom

I have been dying to shoot in one of these fields full of yellow flowers I have been seeing everywhere. I honestly have no clue what the flowers are...they are probably just some weeds or something but to me they are just beautiful, and I love the feelings that yellow evokes. When I was a kid I remember being in Sunday school and the teacher had us all go around and tell our favorite color, well that was one of those moments that it dawned on me, at about 7 years old, that I was....well different. After about the 7th girl listed her favorite color as pink or purple (with pink being the obvious favorite) I remember thinking for a moment that maybe I should fudge a little on my favorite color... maybe pink wasn't so bad. Well I decided to stay true to myself and when my turn came I proudly said "yellow!"and I did get a few odd looks but the kids still played with me after class so turns out you can be a yellow girl and still be in the pink club sometimes. To me yellow really represents warmth and life and happiness and there couldn't be a more perfect color for this beautiful mommy to be's maternity session. They are so excited to meet their handsome sweet guy and I'm pretty excited myself! I love photographing new babies and a have a few coming up over the next couple of months and I just can't wait.

Oh and now my favorite color is green but yellow is still a close second :)

And how cute is "big brother"? *love*

Tuesday(ish) Tunes

Big day tomorrow so I'm trying to handle tomorrow's blogging tonight. :)

Childhood

I have SO many images to share from this day but I get sidetracked and get busy and forget to post them so I'm going to post a few now and some more later. I just love kids...being kids. It's my favorite kind of photo :)

Tuesday Tunes

Love this

Loving you is easy cause you're beautiful...

so...that song is in my head big time :) That happens to me all the time, I get a song stuck in my head and I can literally be singing it to myself for days, most of the time not even really realizing that I'm doing it.

Ok so there is a reason to this blog post other than making you all sing this song in your head now. I am going to be in Texarkana next weekend (the weekend of the 10th) and I have 1 slot left, it's a Friday a.m. slot so if you're interested just shoot me an e-mail! I hope everyone has a lovely weekend! I'll share some pics soon.

And now to finish it out..

do do do din doooo.....ahhhhhhhhhhhh :)

Tuesday Tunes

So Tuesday Tunes is something I started last week, and it's basically just me sharing some music I love on Tuesday's! Yep...it's that simple. :) So this week's video is actually from a very talented singer that I photographed earlier this year. You can see some photo's from his session here. You can find him on itunes just search "Ben Sharkey". I really love this song of his, the lyrics are just beautiful.




And he is also the main event at "Jazz in the City" on October 11, which is an event that will benefit the Suite Dreams project (www.suitedreamsproject.org) which is a wonderful charity. Anyone who lives anywhere near Detroit, MI should definitely go check out the show. I've heard him sing live before and it is definitely not something to be missed. Here Ben is giving the 411 on the concert:

And here is the flyer he keeps holding up in the video, if you can't attend (which I know many of you can't:) You can still donate to the charity by purchasing a ticket. And yep that is a photo I took of Ben, so cool to see it in "print" :)

Ayo, I'm tired of using technology...

So I've had a few "technological difficulties" lately and it's definitely frustrated me a little....ok maybe "a little" is a slight understatement, I've sort of had to restrain myself from ripping the computer cords out of the wall and throwing the thing out the window, but everyone does that right? Ok , maybe not so much, but my computer hasn't been the only culprit, my camera...or more specifically a memory card betrayed me as well. With my computer working so slowly that I was pretty sure a couple of mice were in the CPU spinning a little wheel flinstone style, my CD burner deciding not to work for like the 15th time, and my memory cards bent on ruining my life I was feeling slightly flustered. But now it's a new day because I finally got a new laptop that is actually faster than I am, I am no longer drumming my fingers on the desk waiting for it to catch up. I'm actually wondering how I made it this long without it, but since my computer was only like 3 years old expect another blog in a couple of years with me complaining about how painfully slow my laptop is.... computers are SO out to get us. I still have lots of pics to share but here are a few from Oregon that never got their day in the blog spotlight, and I adore these pics so that would be a travesty. Eventually some of them will make it to my "beachy ones" gallery on my website, you can go check it out, nothing but photo's from the beach, pretty much my favorite place in the whole entire world. :)

Beyonce had better watch out...

single ladies videos will never...ever....ever get old, especially if there is an adorable baby in it.

Tuesday Tunes

I carry it in my heart...

Ok, so I sort of want to hate Brooke a little for being so stunning while pregnant. I feel quite sure that if I were pregnant I would be a round miserable mess, but I can't help but love her even though she's way too stunning because she's such a sweetheart. And she used to model as did her husband so it's sort of like "photographer cheating" for me. :) Of course their oldest daughter is beautiful and I'm sure sweet Hannah is going to be a little bundle of lovely sweetness. I can't wait to meet her. :)

I've actually been reading in I Samuel and came across Hannah's Prayer, I thought it was timely since I had just photographed sweet Hannah in her mom's belly so I wanted to share it here.

"My heart rejoices in the Lord; my horn is exalted in the Lord.
I smile at my enemies, because I rejoice in Your salvation.
No one is holy like the Lord, for there is none besides You,
Nor is there any rock like our God." (I Samuel 2:1-2)

Can U Believe

When I was going through these pics to grab a family shot to share on here I couldn't believe that they really didn't look like they were standing in the rain, I was sort of expecting damp looking hair and raindrops that I would somehow have to magically photoshop out, but really they look rather dry and happy! These crew was so great, they were real troopers because it rained the entire session. We shot some in the house and then went out to their family's beautiful land and they braved the rain...and the ants...They were all pretty awesome for going along with the photo's even though the conditions were less than desirable. Now... I have to admit... even though I just adored every single one of these people, Bella is sort of my favorite of the group ;) So this blog posting is a little overtaken by Bella pics but I couldn't help myself! She's just such a sweetie.

You'll notice I posted a couple of storyboards of Bella. I blog storyboards on occasion and I haven't really been offering them in print but I think it's going to be something I offer in the future. In the meantime if you would ever like a storyboard just let me know and I can whip something up for you. :)

(Storyboards are basically a collection of 2+ photo's that sort of tell a story...like the bubblegum one and the bedroom one below. They would all be printed on one print, mounted on styrene. You could place them in an easel or hang them like a normal print. Storyboards typically come in 10x20 size and square sizes)

Also Bella's dad used to play football for the NY Giants (I hope I'm remembering the right team:) So anyway I'm rooting for them tonight even though I live in Dallas and by law am apparently supposed to be a Cowboys fan. I'm doing a little multitasking and watching the game while working and as of right now the Giants are up 13-7. Go Giants! (I'm glad my dad doesn't read this blog... I'm pretty sure he would disown me for saying that)

Loved Ones

This family was so full of love, not only did I get to meet mom and dad and new beautiful baby sister and handsome big brother, but I also met grandma and grandpa. Everyone was so sweet and I could tell that everyone was just full of love for these two kiddo's. Usually with newborns I try to get sleepy shots but this little honey was not exactly up for nude napping, so we just went with it and with those beautiful eyes I guess it would be a shame not to get some photo's of them open anyway! And big brother was so cute, he would do an awesome t-rex impression, the photo of him walking away from me he's in full t-rex mode. So cute :)