Sarah

For those of you that don't know, I'm not the only Sarah Reed in these parts.  In fact, my sister in-law is also Sarah Reed (and you thought your family dinners could be confusing!).  In addition to being an awesome mother, wife, sister, and friend, she teaches vocal lessons and music and is a VERY talented soprano.  She has been in the process of updating her website (check it out here and listen to her lovely voice!) and asked me if I'd be willing to take some new photos for her.  Of course, the prospect of spending an afternoon with her taking photos is something I was thrilled with and my niece Emma joined us as my photographer's assistant (and got in on the modeling action herself for a few shots). Here are a few of my favorite shots.  Love both of these beautiful ladies!

Family Fun

We had a fun, but HOT! family photo session this past Memorial Day with family friends. Joan and Marlin have been family friends for years and their family is growing with the recent addition of twin grandchildren in addition to their two other grandbabies.  We played around in the shade at the Penn State Arboretum before it got too hot! It was fun chasing after all the littles and catching up with their parents, too!

Oliver and Lily were fantastic and so much fun!

Someone has her daddy's eyes...

Curious about the pool...

These guys handled photos like champs (so did the babies...).

Miss M

Mr. A

Grandma snuggles are the best!

Miss J - Senior Portraits

So you may have noticed that I haven't posted much here lately... like in five or six months! Life has been busy with the little one, work, and, well, life in general! But when Wendy emailed me a few weeks ago about doing Jessica's senior portraits, I couldn't refuse. Why? Because this family has been close friends with our family forever. Because Jessica was the flower girl in our wedding (Yikes! If that isn't enough to make you feel old, I don't know what is!). Because I've been SO itching to get back out with my camera, and who better to do it with then a lovely young lady who is a ton of fun? And really, I got to hang out with the whole family during our shoot, which was an added bonus! It turned out to be pretty cold and windy the day of our photo shoot, but Jessica dealt with the cold and wind like a pro! I actually stopped into Jessica's house the night before the shoot to look at photos, and let me tell you - this girl knows how to dress! Check out these outfits below - great looks, perfect accessories, and a few different looks without overdoing it. Love, love, love this girl and so happy to have had the opportunity to take her senior portraits!

Ok, on to the photos!

Seriously. How pretty is she?

Jessica is a dancer, so we snuck into a local dance studio for a few shots...

and then found this AWESOME building right down the road. I love shooting in historic towns!

Jessica is also in the band - she plays the clarinet and is the drum major for Bellefonte High School's marching band. So of course, we took a few photos in her uniform!

 

I also snapped a few shots of Jessica with her younger sister, Kristen, who was super helpful at keeping the ducks away in the park! Love these girls!

Baby Owen ~ Gainesville Newborn Photograher

Ahhh, babies!! :) They're so wonderful and sweet. There's nothing like that good clean baby smell (note: I did say clean.... babies don't always smell lovely!) and that soft, soft skin! You may remember Kelly and Mort from their maternity session a few weeks ago. Well, baby Owen was born on Tuesday the 5th, and I had the pleasure of spending a few hours with them on Saturday to capture some images of their sweet new guy! Owen was so good the entire time -- he cuddled right up on the warm blanket and hardly fussed at all. So enjoy all of the sweet baby goodness!

 This cute blanket and hat were hand knitted by a friend of the family. It was so soft and the hat fit just perfectly (Great job Jamie!!).

Love this one in Daddy's hands. :)

Mom and Dad are SO in love with baby Owen. It's the best thing. Ever. Seriously. :)

And now an out-take. Kelly is a dressage rider and before our session had emailed me to ask what I thought of trying to get a photo of Owen on her saddle. I was game to try it, but as you can see below, Mr. Owen was having nothing of it. Poor guy!! Kelly rescued him off the saddle pretty quickly...

Happy Wednesday!

It's been how long??

Yeah, so just call me a slacker now. Except that I really do have good excuses... really. None of this "the dog ate my homework" type stuff either... so where have I been? Why has my blog gotten slightly dusty? Let's see... since the last blog post I have had one amazing concept shoot (put together by the lovely ladies at Anwen Elizabeth Photography, Chrissy Rose Photography and myself), have been to Connecticut and back on business, and now have some family in town. So last night, more than a week after the concept shoot, I finally had a chance to actually look through the photos I took that day. So today you get a sneak peek, just enough to pull you in and get you as excited about it as we were and still are! Meagan and Nate were awesome models, as was their adorable Basset, Frannie. So enjoy some of the eye candy and check back for more later this week!

Some of the amazing details:

Frannie was super all afternoon!

Love this shot. Totally Chrissy's idea!

 RAWR! Both of you. Seriously...

And a shot of the 3 photogs. Laugh like Julia Roberts!! 

Ella ~ Gainesville Bridal Portrait Photographer

I don't even know what to say about this shoot. Except that it exceeded ALL of my expectations. All of them. I set this shoot up for fun, hopefully to get some portfolio shots, to get some practice working with posing, and to style a shoot from start to finish. Ella, a really good friend of mine and my fabulous horseback riding instructor (those arms? She's earned them!), agreed to model for me. Between the two of us, we got her makeup done and all of her hair up (She has a. LOT. of. hair. Seriously. It goes the whole way down her back.). She provided the awesome shoe assortment (this girl's got some kicks!).  And then we took Jared for a body guard and headed to an urban area in downtown Gainesville for some photos! Wendy joined us downtown and we all had a great time. I'm thrilled with how the photos turned out! <3 Ella, Wendy, and Jared for making the day so fabulous!

This is probably way too may photos for one blog post, but I really couldn't choose.... Enjoy!

RAWR!

Playing with a little bit of sun flare. I'm not great at this yet, so bear with me!

Red shoes!!!

Love the old bike rim Wendy found and strategically placed.

Ella rockin' a wicked hair piece I picked up at a local thrift store.

Love this blue door. LOVE it.

Playing around with the colors.

Again, the shoes!

Wendy shooting. :)

Happy first day of December!