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I’ve got a new gallery up at the CUPCAKE site thanks to a beautiful woman I had at this months earlier boudoir sessions!! Here’s one teaser, check out the rest by going to www.shelbyleigh.com/boudoir
Due to the number of requests I’ve been getting lately I may be doing another marathon in May, if you want to be apart of it, email me and I’ll put you on my email blast list or just keep checking the blog!
Last weekends wedding was a full day of nearly 12 hours of shooting Connie & Brians beuatiful day! They were so sweet in making sure I was taken care of and got a proper meal. I still hear couples asking me for my food preference for the day because of this post I made a while back about getting a superb vegetarian meal at the wedding! That, plus a couple cups of coffee, keeps me going through those full days of shooting! Check out a sneak peak of the images I captured from their day!
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Ceremony: Open Door Presbyterian Church
Reception: Virginia Oaks Gold Club
As you may know, I created my 101 in 1001 list in 2007. Naturally I was over ambitious in creating my list, but pretty confident I’d get most/all of it done in 3 years time, hence the last task where it says “101. Donate $100 to charity for every task not completed (going big, more reason to complete them all!)”.
My deadline is this October and I’m not as confident as I once was in getting it ALL done, but I’m still excited about crossing some of these tasks off my list! I’ve went through and updated the list a bit, crossing off things I’ve done, that I didnt even realize I already did! Or italicizing the tasks that are in progress right now!
Here’s an overview of what I’ve done recently
“78. Fire a gun.”
This was a big one and I love completing this task!
“67. Reduce my worldly possessions by 101 things.”
When we moved in October, we went well beyond 101 things! I took carloads of things to goodwill and you should of seen the trash pile the day I pulled away from my old house. There’s a picture around here somewhere…
“66. Adopt a pet.”
When me and Brian started living together, I inherited a scaredy cat named Baker. You may remember seeing him being tortured out in the snow in our Christmas video. Although, hopefully we’ll be adopting a family dog in the near future!
Now, some of the things that are in progress…
“53. Get into shape (i.e. when my love handles don’t hang over my jeans) :)”
I’ve been struggling with this one since I started the list! We joined a gym recently and I’m hoping to get this one scratched off soon. I just need to actually make it to the gym!
“16. Go on a cruise. & 11. Visit Europe for leisure.”
Thanks to a really sweet home buyers tax credit, this is now a very real possibility for us! We are looking at mediterranean cruises that leave this summer!
“84. Take at least one photo of all my relatives in Montana. & 85. Take at least one photo of all my relatives in Maryland.”
I’ve been compiling photographs of my family, but I’m not done with it yet. This one is really important to me, as we have 5 generations alive! I was really sad that my great grandmother passed last year before I had a chance to go back out to Montana and finish photographing my relatives.
I have a lot to get done, and I know realistically I might not, but I’m fine with that. I plan on making a new list when this ones done! Do any of you readers have an suggestions to help me finish any of my unfinished tasks?
I photographed some sweet engagement photos for one of my couples with a wedding later this year. We chose to go by the Washington Monument and get images with some of the neat architecture around there. Shooting downtown is one of my favorite spots… when its not crowded!
Portrait Pricing will be changing May 1st! You can order a session with 2009 pricing until 5/1, and you can use the session anytime, and still keep the current session price, print prices and product prices!
2010 Session Price will remain the same but print and product prices will be increasing slightly. If you have any questions or would like to order a portrait session, please email or call!
I heard about this cause from a friend and wanted to blog about it in hopes to get more donations their way and to get others to blog about it! Whenever I have extra time, money or goods, I try my best to donate it towards something worthy. Even if you can’t donate, spreading the word is important, so post this on your blog! I just copied this text, and to make it easy, feel free to do the same!
“Lauren was abused by her nanny as a child from the age of 10 to 16 and is now an activist for child sexual rights. The abuse went on 24/7/365 without stopping and she was afraid to tell anyone because the Nanny threatened to harm her and her family. She founded the non-profit “Lauren’s Kids” in 2007 and since then has been instrumental in getting important legislation against sex offenders passed, has written a children’s book, has developed a school curriculum teaching kids that its always “Ok to tell” and her biggest and boldest effort to date is this 500 mile healing journey.
She began April 2nd, 2010 at the house where Lauren was abused and we are walking all the way to our state capital in Tallahassee, FL. Lauren walks 30 miles a day in the florida heat non-stop, if you were to drive it would take you about 9 hours, but she is going a very specific non-direct route all thru Florida stopping at sexual abuse treatment facilities and other noteworthy events down the road.”
Lauren’s Kids Website
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