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Cope & Tara | day after (or 5+ years)

Weddings
Mar. 23, 2009

I believe it was January when I offered a free “day after”  session. I was going STIR CRAZY to shoot something. At first, I was enjoying the start of the new year when folks are settling down with all their new Christmas toys (and bills). Suddenly I thought I would go crazy if I didn’t shoot SOMETHING. SOMEONE. ANYONE. with my camera, of course. And since I love brides and grooms with all my heart, I decided to offer a free Day After shoot. Day After shoots are for the couple that:

a) doesn’t want to take time out of their wedding day for portraits

b) wants more than 15 minutes of portraits from their wedding day

c) wasn’t in love with their portraits from their wedding day

Sometimes this couple got married the day before. Literally. Especially on DESTINATION weddings. You HAVE to have more than 15 minutes of portrait time on destination weddings. duh. Sometimes its the week after the honeymoon, sometimes its 6 months later and in Tara & Cope’s sessions,  5 years later.

Here is an exerpt from the email that assured me I had to pick Cope and Tara:

“After 5 years of marriage, 2 over seas deployments, and 1 amazing little boy, we’re still smiling and very much in love, maybe even more so. I still fit into my white wedding dress and Cope can proudly sport his dress blue uniform. It would mean a lot to say thank you to the man that loves me and how proud I am of him for going to war and coming back home to us SAFELY after so long.”

Here are a few sneak peeks from Cope and Tara’s “day after” session!

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Ava | 9 months … ok. really 10.

lifestyles
Mar. 20, 2009

Stephanie wanted me to shoot Ava’s 9 month session. And she asked me… like the day Ava turned 9 months. What tha?! No, really I don’t remember when she asked, but I know we weren’t able to get her on the calendar til she was more like 10. But these are still her “nine month pictures”. Because she made the call when she was nine months. and because …we said so. so there.





i think i am going to come through the screen and eat her up. seriously.

and then i am going to eat her up, again.

and now… for my FAVORITE PART of our session. Well, our session was actually over. But Stephanie sat Ava in the high chair to eat cheerios. HER FIRST CHEERIOS EVER. EVER. LIKE EVER. and i couldn’t help it. I unpacked my camera. and… be still my heart. I am seriously about to come through this screen to eat her. I want to grab her out of the screen, out of the high chair and kiss her til she cries mama. but i will practice restraint. but only because i can’t really grab her out of the screen. and ONLY because i can’t really grab her out of the screen.

and if you need to see some more of those cheerio pictures check out Ava’s Slideshow!

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Cope & Tara | just one…

personal•Weddings
Mar. 18, 2009

I try to milk every second for all its worth. I checked off my to-do list this morning, it only had 3 things on it. Not because I only have three things to do, but I only had time for these three things. Kinda big things. Now I have… 7 minutes to spare before I have to run out the door to pick up Claire and Char from pre-school. So I ask myself… what can I do in 7 minutes? Straighten my temple prostitute hair? No, that would take about 12 minutes. Straighten up my desk? 2 minutes, but then I’d have to find something productive to do with the other five. Put make up on? Nah… I can do that while I drive. Make the bed? Its almost noon… going to get back in it about 12 hours, so whats the point? Soooo, I settled on this. Chatting with you. My blog readers. Both of you.
And while I am it… just one of Tara and Cope frolicking in the field. A sneak peek, if you will. More to come. Whohoo! With a minute to spare!

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