Sarah and Ryan's Baby Shower - February 10, 2007

Sarah and Ryan will be welcoming a baby girl named Kathryn Ruth in early April. Their shower was held at Beth and Stephen's house in Seguin which was an excellent opportunity to get out of Lubbock for a weekend. As you will see, Sarah is an extremely cute pregnant lady.

Due to the circumstances of my travel, I was unable to contribute to the shower edibles, but I was consulted in the making of this punch.

After the shower games and opening of gifts, this quickly turned into a photo shoot for Isabel and Madeline. I just couldn't help myself. Isabel looks so gorgeous here.

Here is Madeline's "excited" face.

Now here's something you usually don't see at a baby shower.

Kristin and Tom - January 20, 2007

As previously promised, here are my favorites from Kristin and Tom's wedding day. It was a beautiful day and I only wished we could have spent all day outside taking pictures! Everyone looked great and I loved meeting all of their friends and family. They are all really good dancers and kept the dance floor busy all night! Keep in touch!

To see all of Kristin and Tom's pictures, click on the following links:

Rehearsal
Getting Ready and Portraits
Ceremony, Receiving Line, and Portraits
Reception

The links should be good until May 2 and you can also order prints using the links as well.

Kristin and Tom - Rehearsal

Okay, it's taken me a long time, but I'm finally done with Kristin and Tom's wedding pictures. They got married at the beautiful First Baptist Church in Statesville, North Carolina. It was quite an adventure! First, my flight was canceled due to bad weather. Then, American Airlines lost our luggage and we had to go buy all new stuff in the case that it didn't appear before the wedding. It was delivered to us on the day of the wedding. Finally, the flight back to Texas was delayed and we missed our connection to Lubbock, and had to spend the night in Dallas without luggage again.

Lessons learned:

1. When traveling, carry on my photographing clothes and shoes. It was impossible to find a pair of comfortable dressy shoes on such short notice!

2. Always shoot RAW. The rehearsal pictures were all shot in JPEG and it was impossible to fix the colors in post-processing. That's why they look a little warm. The ceremony was all done in RAW and it was really easy to adjust the white balance.

3. Always wear pants with pockets or keep the camera bag in an accessible area. I didn't have pockets to carry my batteries or memory cards and ended up missing the garter toss.

Here are some pictures from the rehearsal and rehearsal dinner. I'll put the wedding pictures in a separate post.

So apparently, the bride is not supposed to practice walking down the aisle. I had never heard of this before, but it actually makes a lot of sense to me. My practice walk was a lot more meaningful to me than the real one.

Groom's cake

Coming Soon

I haven't posted in so long that I forgot my password! I've been working really hard at Kristin and Tom's wedding and I will post those images soon, so check back in about a week or so. Shortly after, I will be showing some beautiful pictures of Isabel, Madeline, and Sarah about which I am super excited.