Hillary Speaks...

No Way, No How, NO McCAIN!!! - Hillary Clinton 2008

Sitting here watching the DNC, Hillary showed why she is the amazing woman that she is. It takes a true leader to be able to give her dreams to her competition... Hillary supports Barack and for those of us that support Hillary, its time to support Barack Obama...

It's time for CHANGE!

A new step in life...

Tonight we had the opportunity to witness our good friend (and model) Jodie accept Christ into her life. New Hope was a buzz tonight with the excitement that Jodie was taking one of the biggest steps in her life. Congrats little sister... We are so proud of you...

A Wonderful Opportunity...

Today I had the opportunity to photograph our good friend and Pastor Tim from New Hope Church. After a little chatting about our love for restoring classic muscle cars and our cats we headed to the shooting room to create a few headshots... Tim was so easy to work with and we were able to capture some outstanding images.

Olympics...

OK... I was making a serious attempt to blog every day, come rain or shine. Then it happened. The Olympics. What time we have not spent actually working and processing images has been spent watching our favorite athletes chase the Gold at the Olympics. Shawn Johnson and Nastia Liukin were stunning last night!! Watching them compete in the All-Around competition... Wow! And of course, who can watch the Olympics and not watch Michael Phelps?? Robert and I both caught ourselves commenting that he is like a dolphin when he gets in the water!! The Olympics are over in a couple days though and life will go back to normal. Then, I promise to be a better blogger! :)

08-08-08...

Friday night, I had the honor of helping Joe Heiliger cover a big wedding that he had booked. He was expecting 250-300 people to be present at the wedding and asked me to come along to be sure that he had enough coverage. His assistant Laura and I covered all the details and the extra stuff going on so that Joe could focus primarily on the bride and groom.
The evening started at Salem Lutheran Church in Tomball, TX. It is a beautiful church and an awesome host for a wedding! I had to tease Joe though that he'd "better love me a lot" for all that I was doing for him for this wedding - to shoot from the balcony, I had to climb a really tall ladder. I don't do heights, not even a little. But I put my fear of heights aside and faced this ladder, a ladder that went straight up. Normal ladders have at least a 30-45degree angle, right? Not this one. Straight up. Carrying all my gear, I faced it like a real trooper though.

The reception followed a few minutes away at Northwest Forest's "Settlement House". The guests were invited to participate in a photo booth throughout the evening. I've heard about this concept previously but never actually seen one at a wedding. I have to admit, it was a pretty cool concept. During the wedding, the guests are given a 5x7 print with 4 wallet-sized images on it. After the wedding, the bride and groom are then presented with a video of all of the guests during their time in the booth. How cool!

Joe and I took some time with the bride and groom to do a few portraits before the reception started. Near the "Settlement House", Northwest Forest has a replica of the Alamo. We used it to stage the portraits, first with the bridal party and then with just the bride and groom. The bride, from what I gathered, didn't care so much about the "Alamo" as she cared for the doors on the front of the building, so I tried to pull that out in some of the images. The bride had a very definite idea of what images she wanted and that made our jobs easier!

Thank you, Joe, for the opportunity to be there with you! As always, it was a pleasure to work with you, creating images to capture memories for this couple that will last a lifetime!

Helping a friend...

A really good friend of ours, Joe Heiliger of J.Heiliger Photography, called last night in a panic to beg a favor. He was scheduled to do a commercial shoot for one of his clients today but had a family emergency arise that was going to prevent him from being present at the shoot. Joe knew that if we could help him out, we would. And we did. Rob drove to Tomball today to work with Joe's client, creating the images that the client needed for their magazine cover and article. The client was quite pleased with the results and Joe didn't have to worry about anything other than his emergency. Joe, if you are reading this, let us know how your emergency turned out... and know that we've got your back, brother!!

On a side note, for any of you that are reading our blog, please feel free to comment on any of our posts and let us know what you think. We love to hear from you and promise to visit your blogs and comment to you too!

The calm before the storm...

We wanted to spend part of our day in a photo session but our day didn't go exactly as planned. Instead, we ran a bunch of errands, took my parents to the doctor, and ran some more errands. What kind of errands would take ALL day to run? Well... like the rest of the Houston & surrounding areas, we were getting ready for the storm that is looming out in the Gulf.

Our car was running on fumes, so we NEEDED to go to the gas station. The rest of the city of Pearland was at the HEB gas station too, I think, fueling up "just in case". Lines were LONG. Then we went inside the HEB store to get some groceries that we have been needing to get - cupboards were looking pretty thin! I had been gonna go tomorrow but with the storm coming in, I had to go today. The rest of the city followed us inside too, I think. "D" batteries, water bottles, bread, canned foods... and even the ice cream... were already sold out because no one wanted to be out during the storm. I kinda expected the staple items to start running out but I had to laugh when we got to the ice cream. Who woulda thunk it?


Tonight, the weather is so calm. Almost too calm. Yet, Channel 2 was saying tonight that the storm has taken a slight north turn and they aren't sure if it's coming into Houston or going more towards Port Arthur. As badly as we need the rain, we are kinda hoping it will continue towards Houston. I guess we'll see tomorrow.

Storm on the horizon...

During the weather report on the news tonight, they said that there is a tropical storm out in the Gulf. From what they can tell, it looks like it's going to make landfall Tuesday and come right down our throats. Rob and I never do anything stupid to risk our lives to get pictures during the storms when they come in but, as soon as it is safe to get out, we always manage to get some good pictures of the area around us. As much as the Pearland and Fresno areas have been booming with development lately, I'm sure that flooding could be worse in nearby areas than in years past when it was just open fields around us. That is the part that we don't look forward to. It will be nice to have some rain though. I'll try to make a point to post some images afterwards.

Surprise!!

Our 2 boys have been spending as much of their summer at Grammie's as we will let them. They came home today though. It was nice to have them home again! Our church has services on both Saturday and Sunday, so we took them to church in the afternoon. Nick, the oldest, says he prefers Saturday services because they serve pizza and sodas before the worship time starts.

This evening, we decided to surprise the boys and take them to the Laser Light show that we saw last night at the Pearland Town Center. They were having an encore presentation but the boys didn't know that. After seeing the pictures of it today, they were jealous and whining "No fair!" that we had already gone without them. The look on their faces when they realized why they were at the mall so late at night was priceless!

On this day...

...in 1992, Rob and I were married. We actually started dating 20 years ago but on Aug. 1, 1992, we got married. Now, we look back and say "it seems like only yesterday!" For our anniversary, we decided to do something a little different and went to a laser light show at the new Pearland Town Center's Grand Opening tonight. My parents and a couple of friends, Rick and Lisa, went with us.
It was a really cool show! I have to tease Rob though - I took the camera to try and get a few pictures because he didn't want to hassle with it himself tonight. Poor baby just wanted a break. I took a picture of Rick and Lisa and another of my parents. Those are the only 2 pictures that I took all night. Rob was excited about the show after it started and shot most of a 2gb card. I knew he was going to do that... What has he got to say about it? He just offers a sheepish grin and shrugs.