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Hi there!  I know it has been way way way too long…..fact of the matter is I have completely let my blog and website go this past year.  It is always on my list of things to do but honestly not very high up on the list so it just seemed that I never got here.  

Many people ask me if I am still doing photography and the answer is yes!!  I’ve just been horrible at posting the work I have been doing.  This past year I cut back A LOT however, I’ve gone from my busiest months of 8-9 sessions a month to not accepting more than 3 per month.  It was a change I had to make to put my family first.  Having a new baby and now being a mom of two, I don’t want to be remembered as a mom who is always working on the computer.  I’m not a good wife or mother when I get too stressed out, and even with three sessions a month that kept me plenty busy!  Most of you know that I also work at Mayo as a CT Technologist, and some changes have been made to our policies for time off which will really restrict time the time I have to put towards photography.  So until I am able to drop down in my fte at Mayo I will continue to only accept 2-3 sessions per month and can’t guarantee I will get any better at this blogging thing but I will try my best….I really do love sharing my images with all of you!  I’ve decided for 2012 I am not going to take any newborn clients and hope to focus primarily on children and high school seniors. 

I hope you all are enjoying the holiday season, and get to spend it with friends and loved ones!  I thought I’d share the holiday card photo session I did of my beautiful nieces.  This was the only day we had where the weather was decent and although the temperature was bearable it was so incredibly windy!!   But these girls were troopers!

Here is the front of their Christmas Card…..

and the back…..

Safe travels to everyone on the road and in the air to be with family and friends for the Holidays!!! 

Thanks for looking!

Hi Everyone!  Sorry I have been MIA again…..I had the best intentions to do something fun here around the holidays…either a favorite photo type contest or put together a slideshow of my favorite images from 2010…..but I just have not had the time.  Now that it is already almost halfway into January I guess I will just try reach one of those goals next year!  2010 was really an incredible year and I feel so blessed to have met the wonderful people I have through photography, both my clients and fellow photographer friends.  Photography itself is something I am so passionate about, and have times at shoots or editing where I could just jump out of my skin I love it so much.  With that being said however, I feel like I have devoted so much time to it these past two years that it  has caused me to sacrifice too much precious time with my daughter and family.  This realization came to me mostly when we were having the ultrasound of my baby shortly before Christmas.  We found out that we are expecting a baby BOY!!   We couldn’t be more excited, especially because this is the first boy ever in a very long string of girls on my side of the family…..I’m so happy that my dad will finally have a grandson, and my husband the boy that he was truly hoping for.  I knew I was going to be emotional either way when we found out the sex, but I pretty much cried throughout the entire rest of the ultrasound and doctor appointment that followed.  I blame it partially on all the pregnancy hormones, but also I think a big part of it was a feeling of having lost too much time with my one and only daughter.  So my goal for 2011 and all of the years to come is to find balance in my life, between my work at Mayo, my photography, and most importantly my family.  I don’t want my kids to remember me as the mom working on the computer…..this I know for sure.  

I also had a huge wake up call meeting with my accountant last month and realized that self-employment taxes are not my friend…..ouch!!  So I need to do a bit of re-structuring how I run my business…..and haven’t had the time to put it all together, but my goal is to have it all set by February.   My pricing will be changing as well as my schedule, I am only doing a limited amount of shoots per month, and although I have said that in the past I am really going to stick to it this time!    This change will give me the opportunity to still get a taste of doing what I LOVE, and will allow me to be a better photographer, I will have time to continue to learn and push myself to do new projects and shoot more creatively…..no client deserves a photographer that is stressed and stretching themselves too thin….so this way the clients I have I will be able to give my all to….and that’s the way I want it. 

I also need to figure out my maternity leave plan for photo shoots etc. and will be posting that soon as well.  I will honor all pricing as it is at the time the session is booked, so if you know you are planning to have a session with me this year…you can book now at the current rates.

Now on to some images that give me that jump out of my skin feeling!!  When we got to our location the lighting was PERFECT and I was so excited….then we quickly realized there were way too many misquitoes to continue to shoot so we had to quickly run and get some spray and race back in hopes of not missing too much time in this light…..this golden hour or so before sunset is so beautiful yet so fleeting.

The hippie/free spirit in me just adores this image……I fast forward 15 years and picture her dancing at an outdoor music festival….hopefully as freely as she is here!   Oh, and the awesome knot dress made by my talented mother! 

I still have many sessions from this summer to post….I will try catch up so I am not posting summer pics in winter and winter pics in the summer!  To see what I am currently working on head on over and “like” urban b photography on facebook, if my client is on the page I will often post a few images for a sneek peek for them there!

Have a wonderful weekend, thanks for still checking in!!