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oh so silly! {i heart faces}
January 31, 2012
My poor children. Many a Saturday morning I wake up excited for my plan of trying a new setting and new ideas with my camera on my children. I pull out outfits for them while singing and smiling and dreaming of the fun in store for the day. And then they realize what I am doing. And the groaning and crying begins. I remind them how it always turns out to be way more fun than they think it is going to be and that if they are good, maybe I’ll have a special treat waiting for them. They reluctantly get in the car and go along with my shananigans, and I love them for it 
… though I’m not sure they would say the same! This shoot was a short and sweet one, their favorite kind, and we let off a little steam and got a little crazy. And sometimes that is just my favorite.
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donut date {lifestyle downers grove photographer}
January 19, 2012
Since it is freezing and snowy here at our new home, people aren’t too excited about doing outdoor photo sessions right now. Unlike our old home in warm California where I could shoot year round. And there were mountains. And non-stop sun. Yes, I am missing that right now… though I do love it here . I am just a little cold… SO, I finally have some time to go through some of our own family photos that have been sitting on my computer untouched for months… and I came across these from a little donut date after a soccer game for our little guy. He earned this trip as a bribe from his dad. It is so funny how we teach our kids to not kick or hit anyone or anything and be nice and polite and sweet, and then when they get on the soccer field, we yell, “KICK THE BALL!! GET IN THERE! BE AGGRESSIVE!!” No wonder little J just kept giving us a confused look as he skipped across the gym floor following his teammates… I love him and his precious heart . Since he was having a hard time getting his head in the game, his dad told him if he kicked the ball 5 times, he could go get donuts after the game. That’s all it took. After each kick, he looked at us and hollered out the number of kicks he had accomplished so far. It didn’t matter that he kicked the ball towards the opponent’s goal, or that he kicked it straight into the wall. He focused on that ball and he kicked it. And we were so proud.
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Soo cute. He looks completely satisfied. Yum! Hope your new year is off to a great start!
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HER conference!
November 15, 2011
At the beginning of this month, I was so incredibly blessed to attend a photography conference with some of my favorite photographers! My husband surprised me with a ticket all the way back in April (have I said how completely wonderful he is lately??), so the fact that it was actually time to head on out to Grand Rapids was almost surreal . I was quite nervous to be out there on my own not knowing a single person, but I was blown away by how friendly everyone was and how much fun I had being with so many people with the common passion of creating beautiful images.
Here is the HER Creative Team of Ben & Laura Harrison (of Harrison Studio, H2O Creative Album Templates, and Folio Websites), Tim & Dee Hasberger (of Color Inc and Red Letter Words), and Jaclyn Nelson getting us all fired up the first night the conference started…
Jessica Claire spoke the first evening about “The Business of Change”… and showed us adorable pics of her new little man …
It was so fun to meet Angie Arthur and Amy Locurto from I Heart Faces! I LOVE their site and have entered a few of their contests here and there and find them SO encouraging!
And Bobbi from Bobbi+Mike came by with a fitting topic of “Why So Serious?!” Great stuff… she is one hilarious gal…
I actually didn’t know of Sarah Rhoads before the conference, and she was easily one of my absolute favs. Fell in love with her story and her work…
Chenin Boutwell is amazing. A rock star. She does a million things and does them all really well and has it all organized and well managed and everything. Amazing.
If Amy Wenzel wasn’t inspiring, I don’t know who is. She spoke on “Finding Your Creative Voice” and I was so challenged to not be afraid of who I am and to GO FOR IT.
These were only a few of the speakers. Yup. There were more. Incredible wisdom shared. If you were not there this year, now you know… you should have been there!! Get it on your calendar for two-zero-one-two. HER Conference.
You can probably tell by the above images that the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel was STUNNING… But if you couldn’t, here’s one more just to help get the point across…
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Great post Tangie! HER was such a wonderful event– you summed it up well! Meeting you was definitely a highlight for me! See you in 2012 (if not before!)!
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such a great post! loved having you there this year
thanks a bunch!!! xoxo, laura
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subways and fedoras downtown {chicago lifestyle photographer}
November 8, 2011
We have been wanting to go downtown as a family and just check it out as non-tourists. Because we live here now. But we still looked like tourists . I thought it would be fun to do some family photos in Union Station in the Great Hall, and after that we ventured around, did some very light shopping, and had some Chick-Fil-A. We didn’t really walk many places, but it didn’t matter — we saw so much great culture and so many interesting people, and it just reminded us that we need to do it again sometime soon.
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Oh, I am feeling these, T. Such a cool vibe!
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Love those faces.
It’s great your kids will co-operate with your photography.!!!
Great faces!
Just darling. and so silly. Great shot.
The faces are great, and the photo is awesome!
These are the best kinds of pictures, when they can be themselves, and a part of their personalities shines through.
I love the color in this picture, and they sure are cute! Oh, and silly! Thank you for leaving a comment on my post!
What silly faces! and love the color.