Ben's Headshots.

My second post of the day!  After my third day of P90X, I feel unstoppable!!  haha  Good for me on my attempts to catch up on blogging.  As for the P90X, I should really take a video of myself doing it.  It's ridiculously hard, and I've been struggling.  All I can really do is laugh at myself at the moment... but I will bring it!! :)

Here's just a couple headshots of Ben.  Ben's a neighbor who needed some photos for his website.  How convenient that he lives just down the street.

Melissa and Paul Headshots.

Just so it doesn't come as a total surprise, every now and then Jacob will be blog posting and sharing photos as well... so you can look forward to those. :)

Now, more from the session with Melissa and Paul.  Here's the headshot Melissa ended up picking out, and wanted to repost to balance out the next photo of Paul.  I've been playing around with new layouts.





After the headshots, we had some fun with family photos for the Christmas cards.  After running around with Roxie, we tired her out enough to sit still.  :)  I loved the next set.  Too cute!











Always love some golden light. :)





Always a pleasure doing photos with these two... ooh and Roxie! :)

<3 Esther

Melissa Headshots.

Here's a couple headshots I did for Melissa last week.  It's just too easy when you've already done an engagement, bridal session, and wedding with them.  They were pretty much striking their own poses.  ;)



More from their session to come soon.

Halloween shopping this year is proving to be a lot more tiresome and stressful than I had imagined.  I've been doing way too much brainstorming and browsing around than doing something constructive.  Maybe it's overrated to be something creative and original.  :P  It's so much time and energy.  Maybe if I can't go for something original and creative, I'll just pick out something "sexy" or "sassy" if you're shopping at wal-mart.

Hmmmm.  It's $70 for something I'm going to wear once.  Have you guys ever returned costumes the day after Halloween?  lol

Promotional Sale Fall 2009.

It's 09.09.09!!! Repeating that reminds me of my wonderful German friends. Oh Nein.

Now that the busiest part of wedding season is over, I'm looking forward to doing more portraiture work, traveling, and spending time working on personal projects. :) The 50 states project inspired me to want to take on a similar project of my own that would involve both traveling and more personal photography. What they did was bring together 50 photographers across the US to take on a year long project where they capture photos that represent the state in six categories: people, habitat, landscape, industry, entertainment, and the last has yet to be announced. Sweden is also doing a similar project. Pretty sweet idea!

I suppose if I was take on such a project and it wouldn't be a collective effort, it would require me to go to all the States... even the boring ones! Although, photography-wise, I'm sure there are plenty of treasures to find anywhere I go. This may be a life-long project, unless anyone is willing to take a year or two off work and road-trip with me. ;) Should I add this to the 100 things to do before I die list? Yay/nay?!

Also, wanted to make this very important announcement:



Excited to hear from you! :)