Parallel Palms on the Etsy Front Page

I recently joined a new Etsy treasury team called "Front Page Treasury Team," and it quickly lived up to its name! My Parallel Palms photo print was on the Etsy front page today as a part of this beautiful collection curated by Hadley Sedgewick of hadleyclay. Thanks, Hadley! I hope I can return the favor! :)

Family Portrait Session at the Park

I am excited to share some of the shots from my most recent portrait session! This lovely family had to reschedule several times due to rain, but it was so worth the wait! Jenni and Jake's son, Jonah (don't you love the triple J?) is about to turn 1, and they wanted to celebrate his first year of life with some beautiful portraits. We met at the Little Children's Park in Ocean Springs, and I had tons to fun playing with Jonah--and his parents! We're all pretty pleased with results. :)

August Photo A Day, Days 25-31

Well, folks, I kind of fell off the Photo A Day bandwagon this time around. Once again, not all of these were taken on the correct days, but since I started, I'm going to finish. 

Day 25: Culture. Frozen yogurt has lots of cultures in it. ;)

Day 26: Entrance. This is the entrance to my workplace.

Day 27: 10 minutes from home. A fun family photo shoot at the park! (More to come from this session in my next post.)

Day 28: Corridor. 

Day 29: Lucky. I'm lucky to have had an incredible education.

Day 30: Cluttered. The table in our office waiting room.

Day 31: Dangerous. 

August Photo A Day, Days 18-24

I've been a bit of a Photo A Day failure this time around, I'm afraid. I've had a sinus infection this week and have felt too crummy to take photos some days. I'm all caught up now, but some of these were taken after the correct day; in other words, I took five of them today. ;) Not ideal, but I feel better knowing I'm caught up. I'm not a quitter!

Day 18: Someone you spoke to today. My husband, of course. :)

Day 19: Lost. The Parable of the Lost Son.

Day 20: Stairs.

Day 21: Slow.

Day 22: A room. Our bedroom.

Day 23: Yellow. A hose at the harbor.

Day 24: In the background. Do you see the pelican?

NY Fashion Week Luxury Gift Lounge

I'll be back with the next installment of Photo A Day soon, but I want to interrupt it with an exciting announcement: I am going to New York Fashion Week! Well, I'm not going, exactly. But my business cards are! Thanks to The Artisan Group, my Uninvented Colors business cards will be included in the swag bags at GBK's celebrity gift lounge! I am thrilled!

 

August Photo A Day, Days 12-17

Another week of Fat Mum Slim's Photo A Day has come and gone! Here's what happened with me and my camera (and, ok, my phone) this week.

The prompt for day 12 was "macro." I photographed the hydrangeas in our backyard. I've taken lots of pictures of these but never edited them quite like this, and I think I like it.

Day 13's prompt was "fast." I was thinking all day about how to capture something moving fast, but then my husband mentioned needing to get the piano tuned, and it gave me this idea. This music moves fast!

Day 14,'s prompt was "trash." I couldn't bring myself to photograph the stuff in the trash can, so I went with the outside of it. I had never realized what cool reflections happen on stainless steel!

The prompt for day 15 was "the best." My birthday was the 14th, and it was a good one! I got lots of love from family, friends, and co-workers. They really are the best!

Day 16's prompt was "cooking." We actually went out to eat, so there was no home cooking for me to photograph. So, how about some cookbooks? I am embarrassed to say that there are a couple of these that I have never used. I need to fix that soon!

Day 17 was an inspiring one for me, too. The prompt was "exercise." Exercise is normally an important part of my life, but I have been bad this summer. Travels, visitors, and lots of rain got me out of the habit, and I had not done much exercise recently. No more! After I struck this forward fold pose for the photo and realized it hurt, I decided something had to be done. So I did a great Pilates workout and am wonderfully sore today. I'm back in the habit. :)

August Photo A Day, Days 6-11

Despite my lack of blogging, I'm still keeping up with Photo A Day. The prompt for Day 6 was "this means a lot to me." I played around with this one a lot, but my favorite shot was this simple one of one of my favorite Charles Wesley hymns. The poetry is deeply beautiful, and the melody is so much fun to sing!

Day 7's prompt was "a sign." All day at work, I kept meaning to photograph the "Testing... Do Not Disturb" sign on the outside of my office door, but I managed to get home without doing it, so I roped by husband into posing for plan B. I think I like this sign better anyway. :)

For Day 8, the prompt was "peekaboo." I decided to peek out from behind the fascinating book I've been reading.

The prompt for Day 9 was "2:00." I happened to have some unscheduled time from 2-4 at work, which happens to coincide with happy hour at nearby Smoothie King. I love it when that happens!

The prompt for Day 10 was "beverage." Alex and I went to a party at our friends' house, and I snapped a shot of the collection of beverages on ice. I wish I had done it earlier in the night when it was fuller and the ice wasn't melted, but I still like way all these circles look.

The prompt for today, Day 11, was "I love doing this." We went to the yacht club this evening, which is one thing I love to do. I especially love drinking Shirley Temples on the deck as the sun sets.

Somehow I failed to realize (until now) that three photos in a row are of beverages. I think I need to diversify this coming week!