Sometimes when I’m with my friends I randomly subject them to Facebook headshots. Whether or not they’ll use them, I don’t know, but it gives me a reason to photograph their beautiful faces :o)

And then being friends with me also means your face might show up in larger than life form on the world wide web. I know they love me!

And I can’t forget my man. Who by the way is running for Ball State’s homecoming king as he is a student once again. He plans to win it and be the oldest homecoming king in BSU history. Rock the vote this week!

These have been a long time coming. Now that I know just how awesome they turned out, I would have worked on them sooner ;o)

We hustled out to the beach just before a big ol’ storm. Ben completely calm, Beth and I a little freaked out by the thunder and lightning. Ah, the sweet ocean … good memories, friends!

Hopefully they were worth the wait b.fam!

(p.s. Louie says, “I want to go there with Meghan to the beach right now”)

{ben.beth.meghan | summer.08 | chasing the storm}

baby jack | one week old | irresistible

I am so super pumped about the new products I’m offering! Not only will I be offering regular gallery wraps of my client’s favorite photos, but also my favorite … storyboards mounted on gallery wrap! I love it, love it, love it! I’m such a big storyboard fan. It just reinforces one of the reasons I love doing what I do … telling stories with photographs. Now with them mounted on gallery wrap … well, they just rock! Take a look:

*(sandbox paper and wording and play tag available through: The Shabby Shoppe)

I forgot my two favorite photos:

truly sweetness + light!

It’s safe to say I’m a little behind on blogging. I had three choices, go way back … which means I still need to finish editing, go halfway back … still edit, or start with this past week … and again edit. So, I picked the middle and edited away and will go either backwards or forwards from there :o)

Today I introduce to you my beautiful friends, the Eads. There’s truly a lack of words to fully describe what a blessing this family is to so many lives, including mine.

I’ve mentioned multiple times just how much I love the ol’ Quad. Our family often picnics there to pretend we are actually getting to go out to eat. Many times our friends join us too. There’s so many more photos to post just from this one evening in the Quad … Lou pushin’ Mark in the stroller, Jeff running around like crazy with all the kids, flare and golden light between the trees (of course), beautiful Beth and Megs faces … well the list could go on. And hopefully someday I’ll actually post them here. But for now this is just for the Eads.

Enjoy and hopefully some of their goodness will rub off on you!

{could it get any sweeter?}

 {just in case you were wondering where he learned this from … scroll down a photo}

 {1/100, 2.5, ISO 200, Program}

It’s no secret I have a love affair with flare (as I just recently mentioned, it may be how I busted my lens … which is now fixed — yay!). I also have an obsession with ultra blue skys, clouds and trees. The last few days the sky has been such a deep blue and the clouds so beautifully fluffy. I just couldn’t stand it anymore and had to take some photos:

Finally I am starting to go through my San Francisco and North Carolina photos. Here’s a little love coming you way …

I really don’t think my first senior photo session could have gone any better in the way of having the most perfect model. *k* was such a great sport even in the thick humidity, and put up with my dripping sweat. Thankfully I wasn’t the one in front of the camera. I’m not sure if it will be so easy for me in the future. She has such a winning smile (and non smile) and personality. I mean I seriously wish she could have been around to advise me for my senior pictures! Thanks *k* for being who God created you to be ~ beautiful inside and out!

So without further ado, I introduce to you the multi-talented *k*

rockstar:

tennis star:

 fashion star (I mean check out those cool blue shoes!):

best friend star:

I could post all day (obviously), but I guess I’ll have to save some for your gallery :o)

Here it is. The moment you’ve all been waiting for … the slideshow :o)

CLICK HERE to see it for yourself!

p.s. you have to click the pause button and then click the play button after that for it to start

music: These Are Days, by the 10,000 Maniacs
(Jeff Smith are you laughing at my 90s era music :o)

Hello, photo loving friends. I haven’t forgotten my promise to you. Jody and Scott’s wedding photos are here! I know I’ve had such a rough life flying from one end of this great land to the other in a matter of days and then to go on and spend a month at the east side’s ocean! It’s been fun, but now I am back in the Muncie flatlands and am happy to be basking in the bright California sun via photographs.

I felt so honored to be the one telling the story of Jody and Scott’s wedding day through photographs. When I played the slideshow through (posting tomorrow) I was all choked up. Then I played the slideshow for Mark and he was all choked up too. It could be that Jody and I spent a lot of good times on her college rental porch talking, laughing and praying when she lived in Muncie that made this so much more emotional for me. Good memories = good tears. And I consider her part family since Mark and her were always mistaken for siblings in college.

And though I had only met Scott one other time before the wedding, just being around him is calming. He’s an instant friend. Jody and him together are a perfect match. The power couple. I mean look at their smiles and see their laughter. Don’t you want to just laugh right along with them?! They’re pretty amazing!

So with that, thank you Jody and Scott. I look forward to my next vacation out west where my only responsibility is to laugh, smile and chill with you both!

enjoy …

{buttoning up}

{first meet before the wedding}

{could the sun have broken through at a better time?}

{and this is what i’m talking about friends–smiles and laughter! can you feel it?}

stay tuned for the slideshow …

Hi blogging friends with a love for photos. I just wanted to let you know I’m not lost, but I am without internet access. I will be back in the blogging biz world once I return from NC at the end of June. In the meantime, you can get a very, little, tiny sneak peek at a couple of Jody’s wedding photos from San Francisco here on the ro.fam blog  Bigger and fully edited ones to come later!  

I feel real blessed to share a name and a birthday with this sweetie. I wish I had video of her walking around because she’s so stinkin’ cute!

{40d, 1/500, f/1.8, M, ISO 100, 85 mm}

I will be out of state from Thursday, May 22 until the end of June. If you’d like to schedule a photo session please contact me to set something up for mid-summer. Also, if you’re visiting or living in or near Wilmington, NC send me an email, I’d love to hook up.