Happy New Year!

I hope you all had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! I decided to share one of my favorite personal photos from the Christmas season that I used on my Christmas cards this year. Greeting cards are something new we started offering this year at Adanac Images, the lab I work at. So I am pleased to let you all know that it also something that Melissa Photography is now offering aswell. Using up to any 3 photos from your photoshoot you can create personalized greeting cards of all kinds!
Available in 4x7 postcard style (as seen above) and 5x7 folded style with or without personalized text on the inside. We have all kinds of designs to choose from and for several different occasions.

Madison and Logan!

Two of my favorite kids! ...and one of my great friends since college (their mom). I enjoyed a visit with Casey, Nicole, Madison and Logan a couple weekends ago and can't believe how fast kids grow up! Madison is always on the go it seems, and loves to put on a show, what a cutie! And Logan didnt like the camera but we managed to sneak a couple photos of his adorable little smile somehow. We were doing christmas photos of the kids so hoping for some snow for the photoshoot, but with no such luck we did some festive photos inside. Just in time for Christmas! :)

I was really glad I was able to sneak this visit and photo shoot in! September to November is our busiest time at the photo lab and it seems impossible to find time for the camera. Now that we're slowing down I should hopefully be able to keep the blog updated more frequently!

I have not done a lot of child photography, but I sure do enjoy it! There's still time, if you're looking for some festive photos for Christmas cards, I would love the opportunity to expand my portfolio, which means great prices for you! ;)

And now that I am slowly starting to get some of my evenings and weekends back, I am booking photo shoots again!! Family, Child, Sports, Animal, Weddings and Engagements!

Happy Holidays!

Jenna and Devon * Married

I love weddings! Sept 10th was a beautiful day, the wedding held in the beautifully landscaped backyard of a home in Chatsworth, and with such a happy couple, who could ask for a more perfect day!
Ever since Jenna first asked me about doing her wedding and said that I had done her cousin Caitlin's wedding the summer before I knew it was going to be a good day! Caitlin and DJ just celebrated their 2nd Anniversary! It certainly does not seem that long ago that I was capturing their wedding day, where does the time go?!
I have posted here, a few of my favorites of the day and also uploaded a simple windows slideshow I have put together to sum up their day in photos :) Unfortunately slideshow photos are very pixelated when viewing the video in full screen... best to view in small screen. Needless to say I will be taking a better look into making flash slideshows asap!
Thank you Jenna, Devon and everyone else for a great day and being fantastic to work with! And I also thank Caitlin and DJ for recommending Melissa Photography! I hope to have the chance to work with you all again soon!

Congratulations Jenna and Devon!

Jenna and Devon shoes!
And Jenna's flowers were feathers,
made for some very cool bouquets!

Jenna and Devon

Here's a quick glance at Jenna and Devons wedding this past weekend, which I had so much fun capturing by the way! Watch for the full blog post for these guys coming up soon :)

Hello Again! Its been a long long time! This was exactly my fear in starting a blog, not keeping up with it... Anyways, I've been keeping busy at the school photo lab I work at over the summer, and school is starting in just a few short weeks so the crazy busy will be kicking in :) I love when its busy.

My little sisters are the usually the only ones that appreciate when I bring my camera home on weekends, everyone else hates having there picture taken. A few weeks ago my youngest sister had a friend over and wanted to do a 'country photoshoot'. My dad has a very cool old truck (known as "the beast") that the girls were excited to use as prop for a few photos. Here are some of the results from the shoot.

Alenka and Bryan

Another awesome couple, another great location ...and another rainy Saturday!
Unfortunately we saw rain on the day of Alenka and Bryan's wedding,
the ceremony had to be moved indoors but the sun did manage to come out
for a few minutes for us to get a few photos outside.
I love photographing at new locations and this was one of them!
The wedding was held at Bluewater Shores and a what a beautiful spot it is!

I thought it was fitting to give this ring photo an 'old fashioned' look to it after Alenka explained some history about it to me! I think it is the most gorgeous ring I have ever seen, absolutely beautiful!! You can see it again a few images down.

I do have to say, there is a benefit in having rainy wedding days
in that you get some of the greatest looking skies!

Alenka was so much fun to work with and I can't wait to work with her again soon! She is my first bride to choose to do a "trash the dress" session!! And what's even better is that she is going to take her horse out for the dress shoot, which I have to admit, a bride with her horse happens to be sortof a dream photoshoot for me, so needless to say I am more than excited for that! There will definitely be a blog post after that shoot so keep an eye out! We may wait until there's a bit of snow on the ground too which would just top it all off for me because, call me crazy, but I Love snow!

I decided to include this photo on the blog post, not only because I love it,
but also I thought it was cool that Alenka and Bryan chose to have
their wedding day the same day as their sons first birthday!

Congratulations Alenka and Bryan! It was an absolute pleasure capturing your special day :)
I'm looking forward to seeing you again soon!