Engagement Session

I couldn't be more excited right now!!

I put up my second post on my brand new photography blog

featuring some of my favorite pictures from a shoot I did this past week

of two of BE's and my friends

who are recently engaged!

I think they turned out amazing

(if I do say so myself)

and I'm so excited to finally see the vision of what I wanted to be doing from the start

starting to slowly but surely

begin to take form.

I had so much fun,

and it just made me realize more than ever that this is something I want to stick with.

Since I am still learning,

I welcome feedback,

so please go check out my other blog and let me know what you think!!!!

(oh, and please follow me on there too!)

CLICK HERE!

:)

Spring Has Sprung!

Ahhh

Spring air

Open windows

Short-sleeve shirts

and a puppy happily sunning himself in the yard.

All the makings of a perfect day off!

Which was much appreciated after the crazy weekend at work.

I also had a new toy

:)

I finally bought a 50mm f/1.4 portrait lens.

I saw.

I drooled at the mouth.

I debated.

I caved.

And I think I'm in love.

My poor husband and dog!

They quickly became my test subjects,

and as they rolled their eyes at me,

I happily snapped away.

I am super excited about how well I am getting the feel for my lens,

because I have a dear friend coming into town tomorrow

and I get to do her engagement photos!!

I absolutely can't wait!

Knowing that that was coming up also prompted me to *finally* make myself a site

just for my photography.

I'm hoping it will prompt me to schedule more sessions and really get my passion off the ground

so it can grow into something more.

It intimidates me sometimes

being in a town surrounded by a multitude of established professionals,

many of whom are my friends.

I don't want to go asking them a ton of questions

because I feel like I'm being a bother,

and I don't want them to feel like I'm trying to sink into their market.

Right now my focus is to photograph as many people as I can

so I can get the feel for my camera,

get the feel for directing people,

and get the feel for how this whole thing works.

But I'm enjoying it so far :)

I love being a nurse,

but photography has become a great release for me on my off days

to help me get rid of all the stress I accumulated 

from being in such a high-flow environment all week.

Other than that, things are going great here.

The weather is perking up

and life is good :)

I'd like to invite you to go see the first Spring post on my photography page:

HERE 

and let me know what you think!

 

Hello, World. I Have Arrived!

I am super excited to announce that my Etsy shop is open for business!!

 I got my first three photographs stretched onto canvas

 and now my babies are spreading their wings!! (so to speak lol)

So go check me out at:

 The Living Lens

and tell your friends about it! 

If I get good feedback on my shop I will start adding more.

 I really want to see some of my Blue Angels photos on canvas too.

 For right now I'm just excited to be up and running!

 This is the beginning of a dream I've had in my head for a long time.

 Being only an amateur photographer

 it's a dream I never thought I would see come true. 

 So it might only be a start,

 but that's just the point -

it's a start.

 :)

"Thanksgiving is over! Christmas is now!"

To preface the title of this post,

 the hubs and I had a funny moment the other night.

 I asked him to put up THE TREE.

 To which he, as always, rolled his eyes and whined.

 You know, like men do.

 Since men don't understand women's obsessions with things

(like Christmas).

After much convincing, he proceeded to comment that,

 "Thanksgiving was just yesterday, though."

 and to which I replied,

 "Thanksgiving is over! Christmas is now!"

 Needless to say, our tree is assembled in the corner

 glowing in Christmas beauty as we speak.

 lol

 Got some bad news this week.

 Apparently the place we picked to have our wedding ceremony in Atlanta,

 which overlooks Piedmont Park,

 will be on the road that will be shut down on our wedding date

 during the exact hours of our ceremony...

 for a Red Bull soap box derby.

 Which means thousands of drunk idiots all over the park

 (where we were going to take pictures)

 being loud and obnoxious and probably being the reason my whole family won't find our wedding location because they are all out-of-towners and roads will be closed.

 Honestly, I'm worried that we won't even be able to hear ourselves think.

 Of course our coordinator waited to call and tell me the news

 "so as not to ruin our holiday".

 Awesome.

 Good thing we already bought all of our save the dates.

 With the date on them.

 And the venue.

 And they shipped.

 And they're already in envelopes at my house.

 Seriously?

 So now I don't really know what to do.

 Grin and bear it?

 Hope it's not that bad?

 Because I can't really change the date thanks as always to the lovely Air Force,

 and I can't really change the location because it's printed on 200 paid-for save the dates.

 Advice?

What would you do?

 Also, I'm entering this picture on 

 and then, she {snapped}'s blog

on the show-off page!

 I just ordered this picture as a canvas to become my first shop item on Etsy!!!

 I'm super excited about this.

 I plan to sell a whole line of canvasses of different door-knobs,

 because I'm weird and they're my photography obsession.

 I hope there are other people out there who like door-knobs lol.

 Have a great week everyone!!