Unexpected opportunities.

I absolutely love the unexpected opportunities to take photos. I usually always carry my camera with me wherever I go, even if I just leave it in the car - I almost always have it.

Tonight, driving home from town, we had such a pretty sunset. These pictures aren't amazing, but I love being able to capture this moment in the day. Especially when the air is a little crisp (even when it's warm out, there's just a "bite" in the air, you know fall is right around the corner with one foot in the door) and there are a few clouds in the sky. The colors are beautiful.



This picture I adore. I don't even really know why. Miah was driving and I had my window all the way down shooting pictures (one of my very favorite things to do!). I think I just love all the contrast of this picture. From the sky, to the blurry field, and the empty field with the tree, I just love all the contrast. I love this picture.



Some may find this weird, but I love watering pipe wheels. Is that what they're called? lol Anyway, I love them. I have several (and I mean SEVERAL) pictures of them from various locations. I just think they're cool. :) And I love the lighting in this one, another reason why I love sunset time. All the soft yet super bright light it casts is just amazing.



Thanks for looking! :)

Photographs

I just wanted to put the word out there, in case there are people who want pictures on a budget, seniors who can't afford what large professional places charge, or anyone who just wants pictures done by me, that I'm now officially doing sessions! :) I've wanted to do this for the better part of 15 years!!! I'm so excited that it may all be working out now!! :D

As of now, I'm completely up for options as far as locations, poses, any info you may have or want for your pictures and I'm completely reasonable in prices ($55.00 flat rate, no matter how many pictures or people) because I'm just starting out. This may or may not change in the future. I don't have any specifics on time or number of pictures as of yet, but I may as time goes on, if I get busy, stuff like that. I'll give you a cd of all the pictures that I take (except for ones that have flaws in them, for example, ones that are blurry or if I've completely missed the mark, haha) and I'll even edit them for you if you'd like. With the cd, you can print as many as you'd like, how big you'd like, they're all your pictures. So right now, it's pretty open ended as far as what you'd like done.

If you have any questions, please email me at Shamiah2323@aol.com or send me a text at 541-556-4275.

Photo shoot with some of the cutest girls ever!

I'm starting to think about taking this photography thing seriously.
Who am I kidding?! I've been thinking about it since I was in the 6th or 7th grade! :)
I've always loved photography. Always. I'm hoping to get good enough to maybe even start making a little money with it. But I definitely need practice, so today I asked my great friend Heather, if I could do a little photo shoot with her and her beautiful little girls. She has THREE of them! :) Bailey, Carly and little Annabelle. They are SO cute and capturing their personalities was so easy. They were a joy to take pictures of!
We went to the duck pond (Alton Baker Park in Eugene) and of course, I had to get a picture of the bossy/rude goose. I don't know what it is about the ones with the orange beaks, but they're SO mean! LOL!

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Beautiful Bailey

Bailey and Carly

Carly, Bailey and Annie :)

Heather and her baby girls.
I love this picture.

I had to sneak a picture of my own in here. :)
Carly and my Tay.
<3

Impromptu photo session

The kids were pretty restless today.
They didn't want to play outside really, they said there was "nothing to do", which I highly doubt, but at any rate, they weren't happy and were taking it out on each other. So instead of listening to them fight in the house or let them play video games (which I am not really a fan of anyway), I decided to go for a drive and try to find some good pictures spots.
And we did!
We found this old train, it looks like it had been abandon and the tracks obviously weren't running anymore and I thought this was a perfect picture spot. Then we found an old fire truck and snapped some photos with that. In my head, the photo's seemed like they'd be really great with the firetruck, but eh, they weren't as good as I hoped they'd be. But I still think they came out ok. :)
So here's our little impromptu photo shoot! Click on any image to make it bigger. :)

The task of finding and taking prints for my living room walls.

For the longest time now, I've been wanting my own pictures up on my wall. Not paintings, not big iron work, not framed art, but MY prints from MY pictures. I haven't had a good enough camera to do this, with the angle and the depth I've wanted, but.... now I do! :) My husband took me out today and I took several that I'm debating over.
I'm not much of a fan of landscape pictures. I think a lot of them are beautiful, for sure, most of them actually, but for me, it's just not my thing; not what I'm into. I love taking pictures of things. The other day, I took a billion and a half pictures of a soda can. With different angles, different lighting, different focus settings and so on. I LOVED it. And if I was brave enough, I would have probably saved a few to frame because I really thought they were something special. A little nontraditional, I realize, but really cool nonetheless.
I LOVE taking pictures and looking at pictures of buildings. I love the long angles of the pictures, when you're shooting them from below. So I've decided that those types are what I'm going to put on my wall. I think I've decided on a few hydrangea pictures (which I will name below), but these are a few of my favorite shots.

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((I guess this could be thought of as a "landscape", but I adore hydrangea's, so I had to take a few close ups))

((I think these are what I'm going to have printed and hang on my living room wall. I'm tempted to turn the hue to sepia, because plum doesn't really match my decor, but I haven't decided yet))

((I really love this one))

((This is obviously some kind of tree, but it's growing like a weed would grow. Not planted by a person, just a seed sprouting up and growing in such a strange spot! But I LOVED the pictures it produced, especially with the sun and shadows))

((My grandpa retired from the Greyhound Bus Depot in Eugene, and we were downtown today, so I snapped a few. I think I will probably frame this as a gift for him. I think he'd really love it))

((I loved playing around with the focus on my camera, now I'm totally into angles. This one is fast becoming my favorite angle))

((So so so handsome))

((Beautiful))

((Taylor running to catch up with the boys))

REPRESENT!!!!

((I loved the building reflection in this!))