Sunflowers, fields, violin, piano and amazing light.
This is absolutely one of my most favorite sessions! The Murphy family is beyond awesome, I love so much about this session.
I wanted to do a quick little post about my beautiful daughter. She has always wanted to show animals in 4-H. When the time came that she could do a program that teaches her about showing an animal of her choice she choose to show either a dairy cow or beef. I could not be more excited, her grandfather, her father, her mother, her aunts, great grandparents have all shown cows. I am so proud of her. She did a mentor program through 4-H. She meet with her mentor and he worked with her and she just loved it. We are so thankful for her mentor/friend Jacob and his knowledge, time and help. She had a great time at the fair and her family really enjoyed watching her take on the family tradition of showing.
Here is some history…. Her grandpa on the left (photo credit……. The Detroit News)
Her Dad on the right (photo credit…….Dick Green)
Her mom (me) on the bottom left (photo credit….Livingston County Free Press)
Then my daughter on bottom right (photo…me)
Proud dad, grandpa and her cute little sister waiting for her to show….
Posing with her mentor…
One happy girl……
Perfect weather, perfect location and perfect couple…… all made for an amazing wedding. It was such an honor to be a part of capturing their day. I wish Carl, Julie and their beautiful family many blessings!
Julie…. You are beautiful!
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Welcome little Clara to this great big world! She was so excited to get here, she could not wait another 4 weeks! She is perfect, healthy and beautiful.
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.