Five Days of Birthday Giveaway – Day 3

First off, congratulations to Stephanie, yesterday’s winner according to Random.org.  Stephanie I emailed you so make sure you get back to me!  🙂

Ahhhh..Day 3.  Today is for the locals (or people willing to drive here).  One of my most favorite things.  Wine.  Who doesn’t like a good bottle of wine??  (Well I guess there are people that don’t.  But I don’t know any of those people.)  Unfortunately pesky little interstate and mailing laws prohibit me from mailing my favorite bottles of wine to anyone.  BUT I can give away a $25 gift card to my most favorite wine store – The Savory Grape down in E. Greenwich.  It’s a wonderful place if you haven’t discovered them yet!  They are extremely knowledgable and very helpful.  They even keep track of your purchases if you sign up for the club card and can recommend wines based on past purchases.  And they give a discount when buying six bottles or more.  Not that I would EVER do such a thing.  😉  (It’s my husband.  All him.  I sent him to buy this and he came home with eight bottles. See??  Bad influence.)

Anyways.  Free money ($25!).  To buy WINE with (and they have some GOOD stuff).  If wine is not for you, stick it in someone’s stocking who does like it!  Same rules as always, leave a comment below for your chance to win.  Entries accepted until midnight, winner selected tomorrow.  Obviously you must be 21 years of age or older to win.  Or give it to someone 21 or older.

Good luck!  🙂

Five Days of Birthday Giveaway – Day 1

So if you have been following my Facebook Page you may have perhaps noticed that it is my birthday week.  It started on Saturday as I will celebrate an anniversary of my 29th birthday this coming Saturday.  I love my birthday.  Being eight days before Christmas has always had it’s challenges but I love it.  When I was little I used to get excited because whenever it was birthday time, there were always lights on people’s houses to see.  Who else (other than December birthdays) can say that?  There was some combining of gifts over the years but for the most part my family and friends did a great job.  Now that I am older and have a business of my own, I have decided to give away five of my favorite things for my birthday week.  So stay tuned all week to see what I’ve got for you!  To enter the contest you only have to comment under the post.  Easy peasy!  Make sure to leave your email when you send in your comment so I can reach you.  Comments will be accepted until midnight and I will select the winner the next morning.

First up today, one of the most important things in my life.  COFFEE.  I cannot function properly without coffee.  I just can’t.   Now I admit, I am a bit of a cheater when it comes to coffee.  For regular coffee in the morning, it has to be Dunkin Donuts.  Don’t bring me Starbucks, I won’t drink it.  But for specialty drinks, it’s Starbucks all the way (the exception being Dunkin Donuts Mint Hot Chocolate – that’s pretty awesome).  So today’s gift to one lucky winner, a $20 gift card to either Starbucks or Dunkin Donuts.  You can choose.  The other will go into my wallet into my husband’s stocking.

Leave a comment to be entered to win and good luck!

🙂

Bribery | Rhode Island Photography

There are others from this session with MY family to share.  But really, this explains why bribery works.  And why I shoot in continuous mode with my daughter.  🙂

Natural Beauty | Rhode Island Maternity Photography

A bit of blunt honesty time here.  I’ll let you in on a little secret most photographers have.  I sometimes really don’t like my work and get really bored with what I do (the work I produce, not the job itself).  It’s true.  I’m not being overly dramatic or self-deprecating.  I really do, at times, dislike what I have done.  I’ll love a session for a month or two.  And then I’ll go back and it just won’t do it for me anymore.   All I can see is what I did wrong or how I could have done something differently.  And yes, the opposite is also true at times.  A session I didn’t really like, shots I wasn’t really happy with; I’ll walk away for a bit, then come back to them and like them much more.  But I digress.  A lot of the time I can only see what I am doing wrong.  And I get frustrated.  I see in my work the same things that I rely on time and time again.  I desire so strongly to break out of the norm and do something different.  Change how I am shooting.  But in the end, I fall back on what is reliable.  What is expected.  I stay inside my nice little box of “do this, shoot that.”

It’s scary to step outside the box.

When you stay inside the the box things don’t change.  You don’t mess up.  Your work stays the same.

It’s also pretty boring if you never step outside the box.  You never mess up.  Your work always stays the same.  Complacency sets in.

And when that happens over and over, you kind of get the “blahs.”  And the blahs are no good.  Especially when you’re looking at four sessions in 48 hours!!

Amy’s session was my breaking out of the box and banishing the “blahs”.  I had been pretty “eh” about myself and my work recently.  Her session helped me out of my funk and helped me love my camera again.  It definitely helped me love maternity all over again!!  We set up three gorgeous, fun outfits and two locations.  Add to that a beautiful momma-to-be who knows how to stand and who is an absolute natural as well as some yummy light and great backdrops and you have the cure for the blahs.  I didn’t do anything totally ground breaking here.  But for ME it was something different and outside of MY box.  I had total say on locations and a lot of say in the outfits.  The poses were about 50/50.  But I love love love what we came up with together and I hope you do, too.  🙂

Mine on Monday | Rhode Island Children’s Photography

It had been a long and busy weekend – football game into the early morning on Friday two hours away, family visit, a birthday party and a baptism (thank goodness no sessions!).  Driving home from Fall River at 5:45 I looked at the sky – the beautiful, sunlit sky and asked my son if he wanted to go do his six year old photo shoot at “our field” which we discovered a few weeks ago.  He said sure, so when we got home we changed in record time, he put on his new red puffer vest and we went out to our field.  20 minutes of shooting was what I got.  I could have done more (and so could he!) but it was getting late.

These are perhaps my favorite photos of him ever.  Not only because the light was gorgeous, the location was everything I had imagined and my subject was one piece of my heart.  Not only because I was truly shooting for myself and no one else.  But because in 20 minutes I captured over 40 images (edited, much more were shot!) of my boy as he is.  His total and true personality.  I got the serious, the giggles, the jumping, the running, everything.  I got the 6-going-on-30 side of him in his serious face as well as the 6-going-on-3 side of him when he told me to take a picture of his bum as he rolled around.

My first baby is six years old.  Six very big, loud, excitable, wonderful years.  He’ll be passing me soon in height (okay, that’s a slight exaggeration, he’s only 4ft tall and I’m 5’3″ but he’ll get there soon enough).  He eats enough that the teenage years’ grocery bills are scaring me already.  He loves his legos and is really getting into dinosaurs and loves all things Cars 2, though we’ve yet to see the movie.  He started kindergarten (he missed the cutoff by four days last year).  My baby is riding a bus and going away to school.   He has to shop in the 4-7x boys section now.  The “t” clothes are gone.   He inhales books, zipping through them in mere hours – right now he is obsessed with Hardy Boys and Geronimo Stilton.  He talks all of the time and is the most amazing big brother I have ever seen.  He lives and loves so passionately and so fully it terrifies me the idea of releasing him into the world in case anyone would ever hurt or disappoint him.

He is my first baby and my growing-way-too-quickly big boy.

He is my one giant third of my heart.

Evolution of a laugh…

Look at the clouds, mommy…

Let’s run again, mommy.  I’ll race you…

Make some faces for me…

Oh Captain, my Captain

My boy.  My love.  My heart.



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