Baby Carly and older brother Jacob

Here are some more pictures from one of our first year medical student friends. They just added a sweet baby girl to their family 2 weeks ago and i got the opportunity to take her pictures. It's always an experience taking pictures of a baby because you never know how they are going to respond. But they sure are sweet and it was fun to do. Since it's so close to Christmas we threw in some ornaments to make it more fun. Enjoy.

The Shumperts

Wow i thought i posted these back when i took these in October. The trees definitely don't look like this anymore. I just love these two! They have been such a sweet little blessing to us since we have moved to Milwaukee. It has been fun to go through this whole first year and getting aclamated to Milwaukee thing together.
Thanks Katie and Steve for letting me have some fun taking your pictures.

Rogersons

I got to do a family shoot for one of my neighbors. Nic is in love with the little girl so he came to help me out. The almost 3 year old really didn't want to be involved with pictures but despite that we got some good pictures.

Baby Lydia

I pretty much live in the coolest neighborhood ever, I kind of wish we could always live near ever body. One of my neighbors found out I do photography and she and found out another neighbor wanted to get pictures done for her baby.So the neighbor went through my blog/website with her. Then Viola I got asked to take this adorable baby's pictures. She had to try to two different days since Lydia wasn't too happy with her pictures getting taken the first day. But for this being my first baby photo shoot, I am pretty happy. Hope you enjoy.

 There is just something about a black and white baby picture.

Thoughts on continuing

I just recently moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin and just started a new job there. One of the cool facts that I shared was that I have my own personal website. Someone at work found my website and asked if I would be willing to do their family pictures. I had to tell her that I haven't found any photography locations in the Milwaukee area so I wouldn't even know where to start. She told me that once I was ready I should let her know and she has friends who would also want good family pictures and she would be able to get me a few family shoots. Anyway this has got me thinking. Do I want to start up doing photography here? But I have a couple of  disadvantages  one I don't know the area well yet (I can pretty much get to the grocery store and work and back to my house and that's it) second I don't have any indoor studio so I am limited to only doing photography in the spring/summer when I can get natural light. I also work full time which means my hours are limited when i can do photoshoots and then every hour after work is spent editing and getting the pictures just right. Also I prefer doing portraits and couples (although I have only done one family shoot and that was with 6 kids so I might enjoy doing smaller families I just haven't tried yet) and I am not sure how many opportunities I will get to do couples and portraits. I imagine most of my shoots would be small families.
But I really do enjoy doing photography. I enjoy interacting with people so I can take their pictures. I enjoy getting home uploading the pictures on my computer and seeing what I was able to capture. I know I still need a lot of improvement and the only way I can truly improve is by continuing to take pictures. If I were to conitnue taking pictures I would need to find a cheap and easy way to advertise a little bit or some how get my name out there.
Or do I just keep practicing as if I am going to be taking lots of photo shoots but don't advertise and just wait for people to come to me.

Anyway just have been thinking a lot. Would love your comments and ideas.

Nicole's wedding reception.

I love weddings. I feel like i have always been a little obsessed with the details of it. On weddings that I can't attend, mostly due to location, I anxiously await until they appear on Facebook so I can see all of the details. I can't wait to see the flower arrangements, the beading on the dress, the food, the favors, and the table decorations. My husband thinks I am a little crazy for getting so caught up in the details but I love it.

I just recently got back from Nicole's wedding in Colorado. All I can say is WOW. both her and her mom have worked really hard for months to get every single detail down perfect. Everything turned out perfectly. It was the ideal outdoor reception. I enjoyed capturing the details and hope you enjoy feeling like you are there.

Alyssa And Jocelyn School Pictures

I got to take school pictures for my beautiful sisters, while they came and visited me!

 The two of them!

Katelin and Joe Engagement

The weather has been a little crazy the past few days so we were worried they wouldn't turn out, but with a few prayers the weather was perfect. The pictures turned out awesome! They are such a fun couple I loved being able to spend time with them. Katelin and I were in the same stake growing up and even went to girls camp together, I am glad she allowed me the opportunity to do their pictures.

Congrats Katelin and Joe! You guys are awesome!