For 2012 and on I have decided that in order to preserve my sanity and continue to give each one of my clients 150% of my best we will only be taking on a maximum of 20 weddings per year. With this plan there will be some additional time that will allow me to work more closely with each of my clients while getting to know them even better and helping to plan their weddings.  With my experience and knowledge of the photographic and wedding industry I will be a great value to you! And the more involved I am the closer we will get which will result in a much more relaxed atmosphere and even more gorgeous images!!

Now most of you probably participated in or at least saw my 2011 Favorite Photo Contest on Facebook. Let me first say that it was soooooo hard selecting those images!! I had literally hundreds of favorite images from last year and really had to just pick a few! The everything BUT weddings part of the contest is over and you can see the winners and their prizes here. The Weddings part of the contest has been broken into 2 parts and part 1 is open for voting now! To vote and see contestants click here. I am so excited for this contest as weddings are my specialty as well as my favorite! I thought selecting favorites for Part 1 of the contest was hard but this is turning out to be way harder!! There are just so many images that I love it’s almost impossible to pick just a few! But we will manage and you may follow and Like SLWP on facebook to see the latest!

Again I thank you all so much for your continued support and love for SLWP! Most of all I thank God for giving me this wonderful talent to share with the world!! I am so looking forward to where life takes SLWP in the coming year!

And of course we can’t have a post without images so without further babbling from me here are some of my 2011 Favorites! Enjoy!

Hope you enjoyed browsing some of my favorites!! Now that collection of favorites did NOT include any Wedding images! There are a few Rock the Dress images but no Weddings. Watch my blog for a separate post just for Wedding Favorites!

Children are not my specialty but I very much enjoy photographing them! Here are my favorites, enjoy!

Is she not just the cutest thing you have ever seen!?!?!? Such a sweet little girl!!

Frogs are a thing with my family. So of course we had to kiss the frog in the yard:)

Summer just turned 2 and loves telling you about it!

A kiss for mama.

Oh and of couse the details!!

Ha! I asked her to look for the horses and this is what we got! How cute is that?!

Summer knows exactly what each animal does. So here I asked her what sound do horses make and she showed me!

So beautiful!!

And of course a kiss from mama.

Thank you Prairie for always having me take Summer’s portraits! It is truly a pleasure to watch her grow!! Can’t wait for the next one!

Here are four of the cutest grandkids ever! Linda (their grandma) commissioned me to do a session with her grandchildren. She was adament on having no posed shots, strictly candid, which I normally do a bit of both, so needless to say when I did try to pose these kiddos they didn’t like it much! But I sure got some cute expressions out of them! Doing a session of this nature was sooo much fun and it was a great learning experience too! I can’t wait for my next set of kiddos!

Here are my favs, enjoy!

Poor thing, the day before she fell and hit her knose so bad she had to go to the ER! Luckily she is obviously ok and I was able to clean her scuffs:)

I wasn’t wanting a grumpy face for this shot but I kept my mouth shut and ended up with a stellar shot!

So cute!!

Again so cute!!

When posing children one must make do:) I thoght I made do very well with this one!

He is a Knitter, totally loves it, so of course we had to capture that!

Thank you Linda for inviting me into your lives to capture your memories, it was a pleasure! I so look forward to photographing your grandchildren again!

When I shoot young ones like this it really makes me want to have a baby myself! But then I go home and realize how busy I am and I change my mind. In April though……We of course had to get big Sister in a few of these shots. They were laughing and playing I was lucky to get this shot with them BOTH looking and smilling!

I love shooting babies in their cribs, this is the one place that almost always has excellent light, great colored wood, and of course its the most comfortable. Look at her expression…..wow! Simply adorable.Molly’s 1st sprinkler experience. I feel honored to have been able to capture this moment.

Sarah thank you for inviting me into your home and into your lives! It was a pleasure getting to know your family and capturing your memories! I look forward to more sessions in the future!

Get Pregnant-we do a maternity session
Have Baby-we do a newborn session
Baby Rolls Over-we do a 3 month session
Baby Crawls-we do a 6 month session
Baby Walks-we do a 9 month session
Baby Talks-we do a 1 year session

That’s 6 sessions all rolled into one package at one cost. Best of all each session includes a print credit and digital negatives!!

Shoot me an email if you would like to start your series!

I also have been branded (finally lol) as you can see with my new watermark frame and logo. A big thanks to Tracy of Three Heart Design for putting this all together for me! Head on over to her blog and check her out she is awesome! There is one more new thing…..I got actions!! For those of you who don’t know what actions are they are tools you can use in photoshop to really make the images pop! I absolutely LOVE them and can’t wait to get more!! For those of you who are photogs and don’t have actions I got my actions here. You can thank me later:)

Now finally the images…..enjoy!