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Make a Smilebox slideshow Allison takes dance lessons. I asked her to do some jumps for me. It was so dark but I finally was able to catch one jump that I liked.

Allison and Abbie in the City

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Allison is my 1st cousin's little daughter so that would make her my cousin 'once removed' right? :) Anyway, I went and picked up Allison (dark hair) and her little friend Abbie and went downtown Baton Rouge and we kicked up a good ole time. I got some cute pics that I really liked. The only problem was, we started too late and lost our daylight very quickly! Oh well, just a good excuse to do it again soon! Watch the slideshow I put together called 'girls in the city'. The song makes me wanna dance....wooo!...fine...,fine, 'JUST FINE'...wooo!!! Did you catch the hint? Yep, Mary J. Blige! This a good anthem for me and all my fellow YOUNG AT HEART chickadees out there! Hope you enjoy it and remember what it was like to be so young!

2 min Soar Scholarship Submission

I finally put something together. This is my first video experience. I purchased Sony Movie Studio HD to edit this simple video. That program can do so much more but it will take me a little time working with it to know more. I'm proud of how this turned out because it feels like a triumph. The reason I say triumph is because I drummed up the courage and inspiration to step out and submit this video as my application submission for a scholarship. If I were one of the 3 lucky women who receive the scholarship, I would have the opportunity to learn about the photography business from esteemed professionals in the business. I have hours and hours of pictures and days worth of stories I could tell about how I became interested in photography and what inspires me. But, the requirement was a 2 min. video. This is the condensed version and final submission. There are so many wonderful video entries already submitted. I might not be chosen and that is ok. But, I knew that if I failed to submit, I would have zero chance. Anyway, here is my shot at it. I uploaded on Dec. 19, 2009.

STOP THE MADNESS! Look at that stupid face shot! Why does video always freeze on the most ridiculous and goofy look?!! Conspiracy, I say! Whatever, I don't care. I am proud of myself for trying actually.

Soar Scholarship Uncut Video Interview

Just me speaking from the heart...

What We Leave Behind

Tonight, I am watching a training video by Rick Sammon. In this particular video, he was talking about the business side of photography . Rick is the author of many, many photography books. The video that I was watching was part of the online training workshops on kelbytraining.com. Anyway, Rick was asked by an interviewer how he remains motivated to work so hard. He said he loves learning and being busy. After a slight pause he said that mostly he does it for his son. He said that someday his son will have all those picture files and that he might be able to sell a few. But, what he is really happy about is the pictures of the little moments captured of his son when he was younger. His son is now 16 but he began remembering the pics showing an earlier time when his son was riding on his shoulders in the swimming pool. Rick said that he knows that his son is going to look at all those pictures and realize that he was loved. Awwwe, now I like Rick Sammon even more~! I will have to add him to my fave blog list.

Isn't that what life is all about? What kind of memories are you making with your children? Act crazy, be goofy, be tender and mostly love those babies big and little!!!

Brooke Senior 09

Brooke has the most beautiful dark red hair. I love it.

Monica Senior 09

Monica is a natural beauty.