Saturday morning I  had miss Zaylee in front of the camera. She is a firecracker. I decided to use the front porch of what would have been Zaylee's Great Great Great granndmothers home. Its still standing on the family farm. It has incrediable old rockers weathered by time and front porch sitting, old windows with wavy glass and the the cob webbs and inperfections left by time made it a perfect spot to photograph a bare foot little girl wearing a hand smocked dress. I can't wait to have these images ready.

My school career is drawing to a end. I have mixed emotions about my time here coming to an end. As I start my new journey I am both excited and scared. Having a new baby, startting my own business, moving to a new state. Its all a lot to digest and process. I have so many goals and things to look forward to! I leave school with new knowledge and some life long friends......oh yeah and student loans  due!

Do the right thing for the right reasons always. This includes giving your talent away sometimes. I often find when I give it away I am richly blessed with a some of my best work. Something about giving it away opens up the soul make me feel more free to create, unfortunately that doesn't pay my bills:( So I have to select my cause carefully.

Looking forward to a road trip Sunday with a fellow photographer to help get the creative juices flowing. I need a good creative rain so to fill the well ! I really need a new challenge or idea to get me moving. I am ready for a change....ready to get my magic back.

I did a little relaxing this past weekend and enjoying the family. However my relaxing always seems to involve Nikki! We spent some time on Little Bear Lake. I had so much fun capturing images of the kids riding the floats and diving into the lake from rocks. I found it to be a balancing act to steady the camera  on a moving boat and capture the action being pulled behind it. I had a great time capturing these moments of the kids having so much fun as well as challenging myself to grab the shot.

I enjoyed some time with family on the lake this past weekend. I decided that Nikki would make her maiden journey on the boat! I got some great images of the kids riding and flying off the floats! My favorite are the images of them jumping in the lake from the rocks. It was challenging to steady myself and Nikki on a moving boat to get the shot but I think I created some great images and we made some great memories.