Snow day

We knew the snow was coming. We could see it falling last night but nothing prepared us for what we saw this morning. About 17 inches of snow fell overnight with drifts up to four feet high. I could barely get my door open to let my dogs out. I pushed the snow, squeezed out of the door, and sunk knee deep in snow! My dogs looked like bunnies hopping from one spot to the next. After about an hour of digging ourselves out, I grabbed my camera and took some shots. I would have stayed out longed but it was cold and my fingerless gloves were of no help!

This is what I saw this morning....





My neighbor helping out with our driveway.


Hardly anyone was on the road.


Our dogs had a blast!



Notice her legs up to her shoulders are buried. And she's a big dog!







Hope you guys are staying warm!

Cheers,

Only two openings left for 2010

My calendar is filling up nicely and I will only be accepting two more weddings for the 2010 season. I've already started booking 2011 so if you're interested don't wait. There's only 15 spot available.

So why do I only accept a limited number of weddings per year? Well, there's a couple of very important reasons. The first is because I value my time with my family. Above everything else I may be, I am a mother and wife. My family is my top priority. I have young children (ages 8 and 6) and I don't want to be working so much that I miss the small stuff.

The second is because I value my clients. I am a word-of-mouth photographer which means that I don't do a whole lot of paid advertising. I rely on my clients to talk about me to everyone they know in the hopes that one of those people will book me. To get my clients talking about me like that I have to wow them. My goal is to go above and beyond the normal photographer duties so that I make an emotional connection with my couples. I am happy and proud to say that most of my couples end up being good friends of mine long after the wedding.

If I photographed more than 15 weddings a year I would feel stressed and overworked and not able to be the person I wanted to be. I know this because I've done it before. I am a quality over quantity kind of girl in everything I do and this is no different.