10 favorite songs

I was tagged by my friend, Sheila, to list 10 of my favorite songs. I'll do a couple at a time and hopefully by the end of the day, I'll have 10. I've always loved music, finding only 10 will be difficult. This reminds me I have got to get an ipod, I rarely listen to my own music these days.

#10: U2-Where the Streets have no Name. I still get chills listening to the baseline :)



#9: Guns n Roses-Paradise City. I remember stalking MTV waiting for the release of this video. I watched it for the first time in a friends living room, we were both so excited we couldn't sit still. Ahhh, to be this young again, I was a senior in high school when this song was released. I still love the black and white footage at the beginning.



#8: Rio-Duran Duran. Really showing my age here. This one's for Gina ;) John Taylor was the hottest, lmao.



#7: Everclear-Santa Monica Although this was released several years before, when my ex and I split up I listened to it a lot. It helped me realize that I really did want out of that relationship. I thank God every day for helping me see that.



#6: Violent Femmes-Blister in the Sun


#5: The White Stripes-Seven Nation Army



#4: R.E.M.-Loosing my Religion



#3: Smashing Pumpkins-Bullet with Butterfly Wings

8 things

I've been tagged by Reneeto list 8 things that you may or may not know about me. I'm not sure I'm that interesting. Here goes:

1. I was baptized Lutheran in my early twenties and while I am spiritual, I do not attend church. I should change that and take my kids.

2. I absolutely despise having hot feet, I wear flip flops most of the time.

3. I usually wear jeans and yes, they almost always have holes in them. I'm an artist, I can dress whatever way I want right?

4. I'm just absolutely tickled today. I belong to an online photography site that has monthly contests. For the month of July, I placed second. Here is the link for the July contest announcement page.

5. I am positively humbled by the fact that I was included with such a talented group of people in the above competition.

6. For a couple of months now I've had trouble with my external flash. I fiddled with it today and read the manual. HA! it was in manual, not ETTL mode. I'll blame that on my dh :)

7. I am going to master my flash by the end of this year. No ifs ands or buts.

8. I hope to have a small studio by summer of next year.

Now I have to tag 8 more people. I'm not sure I can find 8 people that haven't been tagged already! Okay, Meg, Sheila, Lyndsay, Marla, Lauren, Jenny

I think everyone else has been tagged!

In love with the light

and that pretty much sums it up :) TFL...you can leave a message :)

Tomato juice

Weekend before last, Mom and I canned tomato juice so that we will have it for chili this winter. Thank fully, Mom takes care of the tomato chopping part b/c raw tomatoes make me ill.





We had a little help.


Normally, she runs away but not this day she wanted in on the action. I had to take advantage of it :)


Like the little horns that the reflection on the microwave behind her make? She's so deserving of them :)


I love seeing her this happy:


and for the last shot of the day, tomato juice by sunset light.



Thanks Mom, I had a wonderful day :) and a wonderful week. Love you.

E-mail

To anyone who has tried to e-mail me in the last few weeks, please accept my sincere apology. Apparently my ISP's spam filter is blocking nearly everything. This will be fixed soon :) Thank you for your patience.

I've been at my Mother's house all week, so lots of photos but no editing. Will continue when I get back home Sunday ;)

The Laundry Mat?

YESSSS...where else would you go for family portraits? I understand this isn't what most people have in mind for family portraits. One thing I want to do for my clients and myself is to give them something that they can *feel* 20 years from now. I want you to look back on a portrait and say, "remember when we did this? We had so much fun!" It's nice to stretch your wings and try different things every once in a while :)



Special thanks to my sil for letting me do this :)