Abilene Families: Mommy Made Over!

Today is a very exciting day!

The latest issue of Abilene Families is out, featuring a few photographs I took for the "Mommy Made Over" feature, including the cover image!

If you aren't familiar with Abilene Families, it is a magazine associated with Abilene Reporter News and the local school districts, Abilene ISD and Wylie ISD.

According to their website, Abilene Families focuses on the issues, joys and challenges facing families in Abilene.

One of the joys in family life in Abilene is the opportunity to win a fabulous makeover with Incognito At the Village Hair Salon and Dillard's.

Here are a few shots of lucky winner, Marissa, after her transformation:







Be sure to pick up your copy of Abilene Families today to check out the full story, and a few "before" shots of Marissa as well!

Special thanks to Incognito hairstylist, Maloree Munn, for her gorgeous work on Marissa's hair, to Regina Rains, owner of Incognito, for giving me this opportunity to shoot for Abilene Families, and to my beautiful hairstylist sister Tina Billiet! Also, thank you to Chesley Martin, editor of Abilene Families, for her sweet compliments!

Of course, I owe a huge thank you to Marissa Thompson for laughing on cue and walking like a supermodel!

You ROCKED it!! :-)

Courtney Senior Portraits

Remember this beauty from her sneak peek?



Well she's back!

Courtney met us at the Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest and the T&P park downtown for her senior portraits.

Steve Morrow, from Morrow Photography was gracious enough to assist me on this shoot, and he let me use his ExpoDisc for proper white balance!

I am never, ever shooting without an ExpoDisc again!

Courtney has the most incredible blue eyes, and we had such a blast on our shoot.

Pictures!!




















Steve, thank you so much for your help and introducing me to the ExpoDisc!

Courtney, you were such a joy to work with, and girl...

You ROCKED it!!!

Meagan's Family

What a beautiful day it was at ACU when Meagan and her family met me to take pictures!

Everyone was so laid back, and little Jonah was all smiles!

Here are a few favs:



All together!



Jonah's such a ham!



Daddy and Jonah



Sister, sister!





Thank you for a fantastic shoot!

:-)

Courtney Senior Sneak Peek

Ok, I just can't hold it in any longer!!!

The world must see how gorgeous my latest senior is!! AHH!!

I was uploading the pictures from our shoot last Saturday and this one screamed out "EDIT ME NOW!"

So I did...


...and here it is:





There's a lot more to come!

:-)

Lance and Kallie Engagement

Kallie had two words for me as we were talking about her engagement portraits.

"No cheese!"

Haha! A girl after my own heart. I love it!

So Lance and Kallie met me out at Buffalo Gap, which, by the way, is quickly becoming one of my favorite spots to shoot, and we spent the late afternoon having fun and taking some pictures.

They are so down-to-earth, and full of laughter!

Here are a few favs:

















Ok, so maybe one cheesy pic snuck in there at the end, but all in all, awesome shoot!

Lance and Kallie, thank you for allowing me to be a part of this special time in your lives!

You ROCKED it!

:-)

Seth and Anna Engagement

What an adventure it was to shoot Seth and Anna's engagement portraits!

They are such a fun couple, and they had a million ideas for pictures!

From airplanes, to tractors, to horses, to lake docks, and everything in between, the opportunities for amazing pictures seemed to be endless around their families' land in Breckenridge.

I believe I could have stayed there and shot all weekend and still wouldn't have scratched the surface of the potential of incredible shots that place and this couple held.

Ok, enough about the awesomeness of the location and couple!!!

Bring on the pictures!!
























This next picture is probably the most unique location I've ever shot.

At the end of the shoot, Seth and Anna mentioned there were some wildfires that had occurred the day before close by, and was curious if I would be up to taking some pictures in a burned up forest.

Umm...oh heck yes.

So I found myself in a forest where everything around me was covered in ash.

The trees, the ground, the rocks, everything.

I couldn't put my camera bag down because the bottom would have gotten filthy, and, due to the eerie surroundings, the entire mood of the shoot seemed to have shifted.

We spent a bit of time exploring, then we began shooting.

What we came up with made my jaw drop, and I hope yours does too.



Seth and Anna, you two are a breath of fresh air, and I can't wait until your wedding!

:-)

Nastasha Senior Portraits

Nastasha contacted me a while ago wanting senior portraits.

So we met at Starbucks, and ended up talking about 2 hours!

Ah, I see so much of myself in her.

She's in band. I was in band.

She loves Sigur Rós. I love Sigur Rós.

She's a dancer. I...well...ok, so I can't make it through the week without falling at LEAST once, so no similarity there, but...

Add in my bestest Emily as the perfect reflector holder, and this was the making of a beautiful shoot!

And beautiful it was!!

Here are a few favs:



















And of course, we can't forget...wait for it....



Da, da da da!! Emily!! The Perfect Reflector Holder!



Girls, thank you both so much for a fanta-bulous shoot!

Nastasha, you ROCKED it!!