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Meet Alison

 

For me, art and photography have been my lifelong loves.  It started with pencils and markers at my Grandma's desk,  filling notebook after notebook with drawings.  From there it moved on to watercolor, acrylics and taking every art class my high school counselor would let me.  

I got my first camera for Christmas in sixth grade.  I took pictures of mountains on our vacations, flowers, my brother....you name it.  I loved capturing the moments, the colors and the light.

As I got older I would pour over art and photography books.  At first admiring others work and then later studying their techniques so that I could create the visions bursting in my head.

Fast forward to 2005 and starting my own photography business. I am now blessed to be putting my love for art and photography into creating memorable portraits for my clients and their families.  My style is simple, no fuss, no props.  Only great locations and natural light, capturing my subjects in creative, memorable portraits.

 

’sam I am…’

This week at school the kids have been celebrating Dr. Seuss and reading.  On Monday I was lucky enough to go to school and read ‘The Cat in the Hat’ to Sam’s class.  Very fun.

Every year the kindergarten class makes a hat in celebration of Dr. Seuss’s birthday.  I love watching all the kindergarteners walking past my house on their way home from school wearing their hats.

Today they will be reading ‘Green Eggs and Ham’ and making some of their own.  I said to Samuel this morning that someone would probably say something about the “Sam I am” part of the book.  He sighed, rolled his eyes and said, “Oh I know Mom, I’ve heard it all already.”

Funny boy.

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oh, the fun we had!

I spent the morning with this sweet baby, his mama and little sister.  It was so fun!  Baby could not have been easier.  His mama got his tummy full and swaddled him tight and that was all it took.  I have soooo many pictures I love from this session I couldn’t wait to dive into them.

There are more to share, but here are just a few to get started…

Yes, he is on a bookshelf, but mama is very close by.  ;)

With this lovely session and a sky full of sunshine it’s looking to be a pretty good day!

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bright eyes

I photographed this sweet, very content baby girl yesterday.  She is 9 days old, but she was in no way a typical, sleepy newborn.  Her bright eyes were open for our whole 2 hour session.  Sure we tried all the usual tricks…a full tummy, a warm blanket, snuggling with mom.  Nope, not interested in dozing off.  Clearly there was too much she would miss.  ;)

I think my favorite moment of our time together was when her sweet 4 year old brother came over to talk to her.  Her whole expression changed as she heard his voice.  If a newborn can have a look of love and admiration, she had it.  Oh, what a precious love siblings share!

Have a great weekend!  Enjoy this beautiful sunny day!

alison

“you and me day”

As some of you may or may not know, when I am not taking pictures I am a hospice nurse.  I am fortunate enough to work a few weekend days each month, allowing me to be home with my boys during the week.  The job is a bit of a love/hate relationship.  I love the families, the work, the people I meet and care for.  I hate that at the end of the weekend (usually two 12 hr days) I am more mentally and emotionally exhausted than I would ever think possible.  Most Monday mornings after a weekend of work I wake up feeling like I’ve been hit by a truck.

Usually after coming home from work, on Sunday nights, as I am tucking Henry into bed he asks what we will do on Monday.  I always answer that Ben and Samuel will go back to school and Dad back to work.  He then gets a big smile, wraps his arms around my neck and says, ” you will stay home, right?  So we can have a you and me day.”  This is our ritual. He loves our days at home together as much as I do.  We don’t usually do a whole lot.  He’s just content to stay at home snuggled up on the couch with me and his blanket, play with his cars, read books etc.  Yesterday we decided to do a little something different and head to the zoo.

First we hit the jungle…

I tell you, when I walked in feeling the warmth and humidity of that place I could’ve stayed all day (well…minus the smell). It felt so good to be WARM!  Henry enjoyed the monkeys and we even had a little bird follow behind us for most of our walk through.  He eventually ditched us, flying off to where the keepers were bringing out food.  Upon trying to leave the jungle we were met with a big, fat, not so friendly looking opossum standing in front of the exit door.  Evidently he thought the warm, humid jungle sounded good too.  After watching him for a few minutes we headed off to find another exit and move on to the aquarium.

This was by far Henry’s favorite stop.

(pics are a little grainier at this point.  It is dark in there.  ISO was pumped up to 1000.)

Taking a break, watching the sharks and sting rays in the ‘tunnel’.  Then moved onto see the jellyfish.  I LOVE  the way the camera picked them up.  They glow in the tank they are in, very cool.

After going back to revisit the penguins several times we moved onto the butterfly pavilion where there are butterflies fly freely inside this beautiful place of flowers, fountains and plants.  I have to say I got a little nervous when the volunteer started to explain the rules to us about not touching the butterflies or STEPPING ON THEM.  As she is telling us this I am looking at Henry and thinking of all the times I saw him smash bugs last summer.  But, we went in anyway…

Thankfully we left the pavilion with all butterflies still intact.  Next we went in to the insect area…

Bet you can’t guess what these are….eeewwwww!

After seeing the gorillas and orangutans Henry was done.  Enough zoo for one day.  Before falling asleep on the way home he talked about seeing the tigers and bears the next time we visited.  We got home, had lunch and one tired boy took a 3 hour nap.  It was a good day.  A good “you and me” day.

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