Category Archives: Personal

WTF..(ORTY???): My Bday Gift Request

40.  Hmmm…?  Since today is December, in just a few short weeks (though I swear I just celebrated 30) …here she is! As cliches go, this should be some sort of a monumental milestone of a bday..  Yet..it really does not feel that way to me.  I have no ‘old age’ feeling or need to...

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Its been a crazy month. (in the good kind of way..)  Knowing we were stepping into ‘Wedding Season Part 2′ I took a few days to head to Ohio and catch up with the crazies (aka…my family)  –Knowing that this wil be the last of ‘free time’ until somewhere around mid-January.  (Trust me…I am NOT complaining!  We are...

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Studio Opening and Thoughts on Being Self-employed

So… the studio opening happened and it went off without a hitch and actually matched up to our (what some may say, way-too-high) expectations we had for the night. Yes–we ran around like crazy people both setting up for the opening as well as diligently covering a lovely weekday wedding at one of our fave Charlotte venues, The Morehead...

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Vegas Baby: WPPI!

My photog friend, Jennifer Scholting (whom I met at last year’s NAPCP Retreat) and I packed our bags and headed to the West coast for The Wedding and Portrait Photographers International Conference and trade show last week.  (WPPI is an organization for professional photographers which was created to be a photographic community of support/education/business ideas etc. and over 14,000 photographers from around the world gather in Vegas every year.) Much of out time...

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B. Published!: Sugar Row

So many amazing things have been happening around Bluesky these past few months its pretty humbling to see how far we have come in a few short years.  For example, I awoke this morning and began to check out the typical items I do on any given morning (social media sites, blogs and emails..you get the picture) and lo-and-behold, one of...

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