An Exciting Opportunity For Shutter Junkies!

We are surrounded by such an amazing community of people here in southern Kaufman County!  Having worked with so many students and families in Terrell, Scurry, Kaufman, and Forney over the last few years, we have made so many friends and had the opportunity to take some spectacular photographs!  And we are always looking to meet new people and take more photos, it’s our passion!

This year, when we learned that the Kaufman County Junior Livestock Showboard was accepting bids for photography at the 2018 Kaufman County Livestock Show, we jumped at the opportunity!  And then we waited...  But good news came this week when the kind people at the KCJLS emailed us to let us know that we had been selected!  How exciting!!!  Everyone, students from  all over Kaufman County bring their livestock and Ag Mech projects to the Kaufman County Fair to display and have them judged.  It’s the culmination of months of hard work and it is a wonderful opportunity to see so many of the kids from our community at their best.  And the most exciting thing for us is that we get to be there to capture all of those special moments for these students, their families, and the community!  We are so grateful to have been selected and we are already hard at work planning the details of everything that we will need to do to make sure we don’t miss a thing!

Within the next few weeks we will be setting up a dedicated page on our website with information so everyone will be able to stay up to date and know what to expect from us when the show actually starts.   If you have any questions for us now or anytime between now and the show, please feel free to ask!  

Thanks to the Showboard for this opportunity!  Make sure you check out their website at www.kcjls.com and definitely find them on facebook and give them a like! 

Check out our Livestock Photography Page Here!

Newborn Photography

Pinterest is full of super cute newborn photos.  In every position, cute container, adorable outfit, it’s just full of these beautiful and seemingly easy to shoot photographs.  I mean you look at them and think, “The lighting is simple, the props aren’t hard to make, this should be a piece of cake.”  But if you think that, you’d be very WRONG!

It’s really hard to keep a baby in a pumpkin happy... 

I never intended to be a baby or child photographer, it just isn’t what I’m passionate about.  That is until I had a newborn.  Now I find myself trying to recreate every ridiculous cute photo I see.  And my wife is just as bad.  We literally took about 500 photographs over the course of 2 different days and counted ourselves lucky to have gotten a small handful of good photos.  Over the past two months with our new little bundle of joy, we have discovered and now expect a challenge every time we want to try a photo idea.  Kids are not always cooperative so we have learned to be patient and to cherish even a single decent photo out of the batch.  We’ve also learned and babies will be smiling and happy all day, until the exact moment you half-press the shutter button and bring them into focus.  But the challenge isn’t going to stop us, cause I mean, have you seen all the cute Christmas phot ideas with babies on Pinterest!!!! 😂😂😂

Here’s to the challenge and the hopes of getting one good photo! 

Its Prom Season!

High School Proms are the best.  So much excitement, the air is almost electric!  Students go all out, renting and buying clothes, getting flashy vehicles and limousines to ride to prom in.  Its a moment you definitely want to capture and save forever!

For my senior prom, my parents took pictures with a 35mm disposable camera.  And my pictures look terrible.  They just do.  I cherish the memories that those photos bring back, but the photos themselves are really nothing to look at.  Its a good idea to find someone with a decent camera (not a camera phone, seriously those are terrible...) to snap some photos.  If you can afford it, definitely hire someone!  In ten years, you won't regret it.  

If you need someone to take pictures for your senior prom, send me a message!  Proms are fun and we love doing them.  From pictures at your house, or at the event location, we can make it work.  

To all of my Terrell High School friends out there - your pictures are edited and on their way to print.  You can purchase digital copies with a release for $25 per picture or you can order pictures online by going to the site below.

http://www.shutterjunkies.org/ths-prom-2017