Big Changes

so I have to let you guys in on some of the big changes I am making with my business! first and formost I am going non profit. a huge portion of what I make will go to feed hungry kids! I am on a mission to find and adopt and orphanage of my own so I can share pictures with you guys so you will be able to see what a differnce you guys are making when you have pictures done with me! I went out on a limb and asked on our local pages if anyone had any head bands tutus cute hats bean bags saddle or any kind of props you can fit a baby in they would like to donate to my business to help me help make a differnce. a a few women stepped forward and offerd to help! I cryed! Through their kindess I am closer to reaching my dream and that simply is just to make a differnce in this world! I cannot thank them enough for the kindness they have shown! I sat last night and bawled my eyes out looking at all the differnt orphanges that had been suggested to me! How can I only help one! when so many are in need!!! It breaks my heart!!! Anyways I just want to thank all of you who have sttod by me and supported my page just by continueing to like it! You guys are truly treasure and I cherise eveyone of you!! Also if their is anyone else out there who would also like to make a donation and be apart of this new Journy please message me! in all this I cant thank everyone enough! and I will leave you with the chorus of my Theme song LOL!
Send it on
On and on
Just one hand can heal another
Be a part
Reach a Heart
Just one spark starts a fire
With one little action
The chain reaction will never stop
Make it Strong
Shine a Light and Send It On
Send it on
Oh Send it on

Little Sawyer

So this Newborn session has pretty much been planned for the whole 9 months LOL! we started planning ideas right after she found out she was pregnet. This is another honorable session for me cause I got to capture Mom and Dads Wedding and maternity pics! I truly feeled honored they would trust with me their treasured memorys!! I am proud of this if was my first time ever using a saddle :) Sawyer is such a cute lil guy and a pretty good lil poser :) Here are a few from his session..

Lauren and Cameron " Maternity."

Soo needless to say I was super excited about this shoot Lauren and Cameron are so fun to work with!! I had the honor and priveldge of shooting their wedding.. Now they had a baby on the way!! As a photographer it is such an amazing priveldge to be apart of those forever moments! Here are a few shots from their session..

Stori Karp omcuteness!!

Stori was such a good baby! barely fussed they whole session! she was so content!! anyway I feel truly privilege to have been able to take part in creating these memories for the family! her are a few pics from her session!

Finding ME in a world full of critic's

  I don't fit in the mold of a regular photographer and I am not sure I really want to..  OK let me rephrase that I know I don't want to!!   So what category does that place me in now what am I????.  I am walking a road that is gonna be lonely and one that will require me to grow extremely tough skin...
      I want to create more of art pieces not something you see everyday.   I am a mold breaker LOL!  I don't want to stick to ISO and Aperture settings and do things by the book. .(gasp)....( for other professional photographers inserted here..) because I feel Like I am boxing myself in and only doing what the book says I should do. and to me that is like saying the world is flat and ends right here.. When the truth of it is there is a whole new world just beyond what you see..Who figured out those perfect ISO and Aperture settings?? someone learned them through trial and error I am assuming.. I over edit on purpose! (I will gasp for the ones who don't believe in painting your pictures)...:). sometimes I leave things in their natural form.. But not very often...For me Photography is art..
(ART  noun/ärt/ 
1.The expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power.)
I also paint and draw..So for me I strive to make my pictures....... well not just pictures..  I want my pictures to be art pieces.... Something someone will hopefully treasure and value and not be thrown out in next years yard sell... It just makes me sad that their are so many professionals that will criticize you because you are doing it differently..
(crit·i·cize verb /ˈkritəˌsīz/
Indicate the faults of (someone or something) in a disapproving way
Form and express a sophisticated judgment of (a literary or artistic work)

 Ordinary is a trend...
 or·di·nar·y adjective/ˈôrdnˌerē/ 

1.With no special or distinctive features; normal
I don't want to be part of the trend!  But honestly what makes my way wrong and their way right??
Who says you can't over edit???  Who made the rule to much color is wrong?? and if you feel that you have the authority to judge these things who gave you the license to define what art is???
  ( Not trying to be harsh by any means just curious)  It's almost as if Photographers who are making it big and even some who are still finding their niche :O)  have made a law of it and if you don't abide by the law you are exiled or earn the lovely label of a faux-tog...
     
    God used lots of vibrant color its all around us :O)  What would happen if he would have stuck to a set style??  How ordinary would our world be??   I am finding in this business you have to fight to be yourself and have the freedom to express what is in you.
    Being different and doing things against the grain is not well accepted. and the lack of acceptance comes 98% from other photographers.  I hope and pray I never fall into the place where I put other photographers down because they are doing something differently then I am doing. I aspire to be different! :O) . and think everyone should find their OWN style  and way of doing things.. That is what will define you and separate you from the millions of other photographers out their. Be your own critic! don't allow the opinions of others to form and mold who you are! be your own you! and express yourself how ever you want!  Remember its your own art! and if you want the contrast as high as it goes and the saturation completely off the scale. Then that is great because if you love it who has the authority to tell you not to love it???   So saying all this I am finding me in the freedom outside the box.. and my style is an expression of me some how or another.  I put a piece of my heart in everything I do!.
So back to my question at the beginning.....
                   ..... what am I?????
  I am a    ARTIST  ❉◠‿◠ ( An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. )

I heart faces weekly challange

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This week on IHF's the challenge is white and I was thinking white I dont have anything white.. Then it hit me HELLO! I just did a trash the dress and we used wedding dress's so I have white LOL this was such a fun shoot I cant wait to do it agian!..

Every girls 1st love should be a horse... :O)

Kiana has wanted a horse for a long long time!! and God knew the desires of her heart and placed it on someones heart to bless her with a FREE horse!! How amazingly awesome is that!! It was so neat to see how God answers prayers!! here are a few  unposed pics cause who wants to take time to pose when  your  new best friend has just arrived.

errrr hummm I would love to have a horse to!! LOL!!:O)