Lauren: senior || chicago, il baby & graduate photographer

Here are more pictures of dear, lovely Lauren.  The first day we choose for Lauren's photoshoot was super cold, and I ended up being sick.  So, we re-scheduled for a few days later, and the weather ended up being PERFECT!!  We were very blessed.  God knew best.  :)

The leaves were turning, the air was warm with only a slight cool breeze.  The perfect weather for a grad shoot.

Now let me tell you a little about Lauren.  Lauren and I went to a photography class together back in April.  For both of us, it was our first plane ride without our parents.  In the words of Samwise Gamgee, "This is the farthest away from home... I've ever been".  ;)  Our trip was to the magnificent mountains of Colorado.  Pikes Peak was right out of our front door.  Talk about the Majesty and wonder I felt being so close to those beautiful mountains!  We were even more then close, we were in-between them, nestled right up against them.  Spending a week with each other gave us a bond of friendship that I don't think any storm could break. 

Lauren is a shy gal.  But rivers run deep in her.  Breaking through the surface to get to know the true Lauren was my mission.  ;)  She is a kind and thoughtful person.  And SO very fun to be around!  My goodness we had some laughs!

And did I mention that she is a photographer as well?  Check out her blog. http://laurenraephotos.blogspot.com/

Lauren, keep being the awesome person that you are, and have a great senior year!  I have enjoyed our friendship in so many ways.  You make me smile. 
 

:)


~Stephanie

Autumn Splendor~

This week I am entering the I Heart Faces photo challenge.  The theme is Autumn Splendor. 

This is my beautiful friend Lauren.

:)

Check out I Heart Faces. :)

http://www.iheartfaces.com/

Stephanie~



~Esther Serenity || Baby Session~

This is my dear friend Rachel's new baby, Esther.  She is perfect.  Her nose is the cutest little button nose I have ever seen!  She was just simply lovely to capture.  Her little pink cheeks made you want to smooch them and smooch them!! 

I have known Rachel since I was 3 years old.  She has always been like a big sis to me.  So when she told me she was having a baby....aaahh!  You can only imagine my excitement!!!  So now I'm an adoptive aunt. 

Yep.  I'm proud.  :)  Auntie Stephie is my name.  Spoiling her will be my game.  ;)



Introducing you to Esther ~ cutest little sweet pea on the earth.



~Stephanie~

Flowers, Girls and Curls

Hello all!!  I have a wee post for you!  I have been very busy with many fun things.  Flower markets have started again for me this summer!  My friend Stephanie and I are having a ball together!!  Yes, we are both Stephanie's.  We are getting quite the reputation.  I don't know what it is...but people think we're funny!  We say it's a Stephanie thing, you might not understand us or get our way of thinking, but things are always perfectly clear to us!

I took Charlie (aka my camera) along to our Wednesday market.  It was a really nice day out.  We've been having some really bad weather.  Lots of rain.  Lots and lots!!
This pass week was lovely out.  Not too hot, not too cold, just right!  ;)   

This is us in the morning at about 5:00am on our way to our market.  We like to say, "Dark and Early!!".

It's kinda fun getting ready together at 3 in the morning.  Doing our hair, putting our makeup on, trying to decide what to wear....*sigh*, it's such a hard life.  ;) 

With it being so humid out hairspray is a girls best friend.  I do love our 4:30am Walmart runs to find something for breakfast besides eating McDonald's every morning.  Cuz you know we like to save that for lunch.  ;)

We enjoyed seeing the beautiful sunrise!!  It was breathtaking!

Lots and lots of flowers!!  These lilies were SO pretty and smelled SO good!  The only thing with lillies, is that their pollen gets everywhere!  The yellow stuff.  Now if they were only sitting in a vase, it would be fine.  But we had to move them all over while setting up and taking down, and just brushing up against us a little bit, we had yellow powder all over us.  I'm sure the bees thought us to be quite charming. 

This is what we do to entertain ourselves with interesting pictures!  Smiling sunflowers!!

Stephanie.  Don't be mad!  I just HAD to post this!  You are too cute!  Thanks for being an awesome friend and doing crazy poses for me!

This is her, "Yeah sure, I look good!" face.

You know you've made too many bouquets when your driving along, and you see a tree with huge broken branches and go, "Hmm, they need to trim up that bouquet, it has some dead stems!" 

Isn't she lovely!!  My dear friend Stephanie is beautiful inside and out!  I am so blessed to have her as a friend.

The whole display.  We were able to have the two tents last week.  It really helped our display to feel open and relaxed, and not cramped.  Hopefully we can have two again tomorrow!

Have a lovely day!  Think of flowers!

~Stephanie~