What a awesome young man! It rained most of the shoot, in fact it poured at times, but we had fun and got some amazing photos. He is a natural in front of the camera.
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XavierJune 9th, 2015What a awesome young man! It rained most of the shoot, in fact it poured at times, but we had fun and got some amazing photos. He is a natural in front of the camera. |
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Another awesome senior, this girl has the most amazing smile and laugh.
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MikaylaJune 26th, 2014Meet beautiful Mikayla! We had such a fun day evening and it was such a gorgeous day! |
Meet beautiful Mikayla! We had such a fun day evening and it was such a gorgeous day!
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LogoJune 13th, 2014I am announcing my new logo and a new updated website. Yay, I am so excited! I really wanted something very simple and well, something that was very much me. 🙂 I have always loved handwritten logos and I have always loved butterflies. Butterflies have always been a special thing in my family, my grandmother […] |
I am announcing my new logo and a new updated website. Yay, I am so excited! I really wanted something very simple and well, something that was very much me. 🙂 I have always loved handwritten logos and I have always loved butterflies. Butterflies have always been a special thing in my family, my grandmother loved them. I was extremely close to my grandmother and when she passed away, my sister and I talked about how it seemed like we seen so many butterflies that first year she was gone. I personally felt that is was God’s way of sending me some comfort and just a little hi from grandma. I believe God comforts us in many ways and for me when I was seeing so many butterflies after my grandma passed, I felt peace. When I was first coming up with logo I had no doubt it had to have a butterfly in it. So the butterfly is hand drawn and attached to my name. The drawing was done by my 9 year old daughter Maretta, who was named after my grandmother. I am so excited to have a part of my child’s creativity in my logo. So I gave my thoughts and ideas to my amazing friend and graphic designer Veronica Louchart and she made it happen.
I also wanted to update my website, as I feel I have grown and changed in my photography journey. I feel and have always felt this journey for me has had its ups and downs, but I have always felt 100% this is where God wants me and I am happy to oblige. I love it so much and it is worth it. He has placed amazing opportunities in my life to help me to grow and one of those was working with the amazing talented Jean Smith Photography. I took her and her husbands He Said She Said workshop about 4 years ago, which was amazing, they simplified everything for me and I was so beyond inspired. About a year later, I started assisting her at weddings and now I second shooting weddings with her. It has been an awesome 3 years shooting with Jean and I feel so blessed to work with such amazing talent, that has taught me so much! I have now added weddings to my website and soon to come will actually be a separate wedding website, that is still in the works. So I hope you check back.
I hope everyone loves the new website and logo as much as I do. To introduce the logo, here is a photo of my daughter resting in the cool summer grass as the sun goes down.
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I Heart FacesJune 11th, 2014This weeks photo challenge at I heart faces is called “All Boy”. I decided to enter this photo because these two brothers are true little farm boys. I just adored them and how they look like they are discussing some serious farm business. 🙂 |
This weeks photo challenge at I heart faces is called “All Boy”. I decided to enter this photo because these two brothers are true little farm boys. I just adored them and how they look like they are discussing some serious farm business. 🙂
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Russ and Sarah MarriedAugust 26th, 2013I have known Sarah and her family for many many years. I was beyond excited to be a part of her wedding day. Knowing her grandparents came to the United States from Holland, I really was not too surprised when I was told they were getting married at the beautiful Windmill Island in Holland, Michigan. […] |
I have known Sarah and her family for many many years. I was beyond excited to be a part of her wedding day. Knowing her grandparents came to the United States from Holland, I really was not too surprised when I was told they were getting married at the beautiful Windmill Island in Holland, Michigan. Everything about the day was just perfect! This is a longer post then normal as I just could not stop myself, there was so many wonderful little details and fantastic areas to shoot. Sarah and Russ, I wish you the very best!
I love this next photo so much!
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I Heart Faces Photo Challenge “Framed”March 8th, 2013Beautiful senior, awesome old chevy pickup and one of my favorite images ever. You can visit I Heart Faces here to see my entry along with many more beautiful images. |
Beautiful senior, awesome old chevy pickup and one of my favorite images ever. You can visit I Heart Faces here to see my entry along with many more beautiful images.
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Fashion GirlsNovember 2nd, 2012I had an awesome shoot with four little cuties. Thank you to Ambrosia Vae Boutique for the amazing outfits for this shoot. You can check out the Boutique here. |
I had an awesome shoot with four little cuties. Thank you to Ambrosia Vae Boutique for the amazing outfits for this shoot. You can check out the Boutique here.
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WINNERMay 4th, 2012I want to thank everyone so much for all the participation into the contest! The winner was drawn randomly by a name generator. I am excited to announce the winner of the Contest and a free mini session is………….BREE DECARE! Yay Bree, shoot me an email at laura@laurafinleyphotography.com and we will work out the details. […] |
I want to thank everyone so much for all the participation into the contest!
The winner was drawn randomly by a name generator.
I am excited to announce the winner of the Contest and a free mini session is………….BREE DECARE!
Yay Bree, shoot me an email at laura@laurafinleyphotography.com and we will work out the details.
Thank you again to everyone for their entries. I truly appreciate all your efforts!
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Elise and Getting Real!April 26th, 2012First of all here is the beautiful and very talented Elise Hibbard. She not only is a good friend of mine, she is a very talented photographer based out of Chicago. She has given me advice along my photography journey and she has been a blessing to me! Last summer she came out to the […] |
First of all here is the beautiful and very talented Elise Hibbard. She not only is a good friend of mine, she is a very talented photographer based out of Chicago. She has given me advice along my photography journey and she has been a blessing to me! Last summer she came out to the old farm and we decided to have some fun taking photos. Which I myself do not like being in front of the camera at all, but as you will see in these photos, Elise is a Rock Star in front of the camera and behind. You can check out her work here.
On to the next part about this Title….Getting Real. I started this blog about 7 months ago and I honestly do not even know if too many people check it out. If you do I just want to say Thank You from the bottom of my heart and tell you a little bit more about me.
I struggle with blog posting. I am not a writer at all, in fact I am horrible at punctuation, spelling, and almost always at a loss of what to say about each photo session. I love my photo sessions and I make so many new friends, but when it comes to writing something, I pretty much come up with….. I had such a great time and love this family. Which I did and I do, but not much for keeping my blog entertaining. I take photos and I love it so much, I love to experience with new lighting, thinking outside the box and just being myself. I want to do the best for my clients and for myself. I am so passionate about it and I pretty much am obsessed with photography.
On a personal level I am such a determined person, I want something I am going to go after it and you better believe I am going to do what ever I can to accomplish it. I will do my absolute best at everything I do, whatever it my be from raising my family, to just helping others and with out a doubt for every single client I have, it is just who I am. I love people, I love life, I love having fun, laughing and I love to make people laugh. I feel so blessed in my life and I have often thought to myself, how in the world can I take this photography blessing God has given me and give back? Well I promised God that I will take this journey and I will do my best at it and remember always to thank him from this gift he has given me. I hope each and everyone of you can see some beauty in my photographs, whatever it may be for you. Enjoy life, laugh and be blessed! It is a very scary thing for me to put myself out there, but from here on out, I am really trying to open up more and be more casual in my blog postings. I hope you can look past my not so wonderful writing capabilities and grammar errors and enjoy the photography you see.
So now here is Elise!
Elise purchased some new off camera flash equipment, so of course we had to test it out as well.
