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I did a really fun shoot with my sister, her fiance and his sister on Sunday and it turned out really great because we had a ton of snow, which added that extra fun element! They are giving the storyboard and an album to Nate and Gina’s grandparents in Korea because they don’t get to see them very often. Plus, what do you give me somebody who already has everything?? Custom Photography!!! So, I stayed up late Sunday night sorting, retouching, designing and ordering and crossed my fingers and hoped that they would arrive on Tuesday with a whole day to sort through everything before they left. Well, I called yesterday and it was still at the lab, in Minnesota!!!! Uh oh! So, I had them overnight it and they said that it would arrive between 6-8:30am and somebody needed to be there to sign for it. I told my sister not to worry because as soon as the FedEx man comes, I will drive 20 minutes to the airport and drop it off to you. Well, I got up this morning at 5:45am to wait for the FedEx man, and it was a little hard to get up because I had stayed up until 2am emailing back and forth with my friend who is designing my new client sales/gallery area…more on that later. So, 6am comes, then 7am, then 8am….starting to really panic at this point. So, I go online to so I can track my shipment and it tells me that it’s at the warehouse and it’s scheduled to be delivered at 10:30am!! This is NOT good, Megan, Nate and Gina are waiting at the airport for a flight to South Korea that leaves at 10:30am!!!!!! So I told the FedEx lady to hold the package and I would drive to their facility and pick it up and then drive to the airport and drop it off. So, I head 20 minutes in the opposite direction of the airport to the FedEx facility, get lost, find my way again and finally get the package in my own two hands. Huge Relief!! Well, it’s now 9:30am and they are leaving for Korea in 1 hour!! I booked it down to the airport in record time and made the hand off to Gina, who luckily works at the airport and made the hand off easy. I literally threw the storyboard and pictures at her through the window so she could run off and not miss her plane…all with 45 minutes until take off. Phew, I’m tired and need a nap now.

I would like to thank my iPhone GPS for not being helpful at all
My mom for mapquesting me directions
And the lady at FedEx who told me to turn Left onto Roswell Road instead of Right. (that cost me 20 min)

I hope his grandparents like the pictures, especially after going through all of that!

For some odd reason, Atlanta got hit with a snow storm yesterday…which was a fun surprise! So, Ernie and I went into the backyard to play and I found out that he LOVES snow. He loves eating snow, laying in snow, running in snow, sitting in snow, etc. Here is a storyboard I made of him, it was hard to pick which images to put in it because there were so many cute ones.

I’m glad I took these images yesterday because it is pouring rain outside, booo! It’s been a crazy since I’ve returned from WPPI, I’ve been busy trying to implement everything that I’ve learned and I’m exhausted now…lots of late nights. Hopefully my new blog will be up soon, but I’m still working on the design. Almost done! Have a great weekend.

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Here is a quick photo of Ernie on the back porch this morning…he looks so ferocious.  I’m leaving for Las Vegas tomorrow for the WPPI Convention, so I won’t be blogging any until next Friday.  Have a great weekend!  

I was at a clients house yesterday doing a product shoot for her new website and we had to take a break to admire how CUTE her dogs were being!  I shot the dogs for about 5 minutes and I think we got some pretty fun images.  Here are some of my favorite.  

As I was making my bed this morning, I noticed how incredible the light looked coming through the windows so I threw Ernie on the bed to take some photos before the light changed.  In the middle of our mini shoot my friend Tiffany called so we finished the last 1/2 of our shoot on speaker phone which made Ernie have some pretty cute faces.  I couldn’t decide whether I wanted to show you in color or b&w, so here is both.  I’ve decided to post new pictures of Ernie every Friday to celebrate the beginning of the weekend!  

I have a fabulous studio that I haven’t been utilizing, primarily because I’ve discovered that I like shooting in natural light in my clients homes the best.  I think my photography is more personal and relaxing when it’s in my clients own environment. Soooo, I have been inspired to turn my studio into a space that showcases all of my prints and products where clients will come to order.  I’m going to have prints and canvases hanging on the walls in different sizes and textures so you can see and touch the product before ordering.  Below is a picture of  Cowbelly Pet Photography’s  office space in Seattle that has totally inspired me!  I’m really anxious to get started on this project, but I want to wait until I get back from the convention and trade show in Las Vegas because I have a feeling I’m going to find a bunch of cool new products I’m going to want to order.  Sooo, my goal is to have the space done and ready to use on March 1st.  I will still be shooting in my studio…but now it has 2 purposes! 

I’ve been seeing dog silhouettes here and there on different photographers blogs and so I decided to try it myself.  I went into my studio yesterday and with the help of my dad, we got a couple good profiles of Hadleigh.  After some photoshop work…this is how it turned out.  I was talking to a creative friend of mine yesterday and he suggested an easier way to do it.  Instead of shooting Hadleigh on gray paper, I should shoot on a green screen.  Why didn’t I think of that?   It sounds complicated, but it’s really not.  Instead of using gray paper, I should use green because it’s easier to make my selections in photoshop that way.  I’m going to make doggy notecards using her silhouette, can’t wait to see how they turn out.  If they look awesome, then I’m going to start offering a doggy silhouette notecard session to my clients.  I’ll show you once I get my cards back from my lab.