Work stuff.............

This weekends shoots went really well......great pictures of great looking families :) and the children were so easy to photograph.......one little boy got fed up with posing (he was 2!) and went off to play but I got some great candid shots of him playing which worked out really well.

I was feeling really down about my photography business last week.....stupidly I took to heart some comments from someone I photographed who had extremely low self esteem and probably wouldn't have been happy whoever took her picture! I took the comments personally when really it was her issue and nothing to do with my work.......unfortunately there is nothing I can do...what can I do...show the world her pictures...the good pictures I gave her an dlet everyone see how good they are???? NO I can't do that can I? So there is nothing I can do to tell the world I disagree with her...don't they say the customer is always right? Or you have to let them think they are right at least.......

Anyway I was feeling so ill last week and that was all I needed......I was actually dreading the photo sessions this weekend...but they went so great....really nice families and happy smiley children who were a pleasure to work with.......

Tonight I am ordering my new props...my backdrops and also an egg and nest (to sit toddler in or lay babies in) for Easter pictures....and a flexi glass mirror which can be used as a pond or pool for some lovely fairy pictures that capture the childs reflection in the 'water'............

I am ordering a black velvet backdrop too for maternity pictures......the black backdrop absorbs the light and looks great in black and white pictures!!!

Now I am finally feeling well I can get working on the website....

I got some great reviews on LP today........and a few inquiries and bookings because of them :)

When I edit pictures now I can see so many improvements since my early work...in just a few weeks I have learnt so much and improved...no where near where I want to be but with the props etc to help I can get there I know it....I am upgrading my studio lighting when I get back from holiday......and my flooring is being changed thankfully........

Lots to do, lots to do......................

The Lake House.............

What a wonderful movie :) We watched it last night...we had heard a lot of reviews (good and bad) about the movie so weren't sure if it would be good or not...but we loved it.......I think DH is heading out to buy it this week as he says he wants to wtach it again very soon :) It was a lovely movie :) Very heartwarming and romantic and yes I cried :)

The colour of the maple leaves inside the house in Fall was stunning!

Keanu Reeves in that movie isn't bad either ;)

Oh and I now want to read Jane Austens 'Persuasion'....it must be the only novel of hers that I have not read!

I am so glad Lloyd loves the movies I love :)

The long and winding road................

This is our road in the snow :) Not sure the picture does it justice but it's beautiful.....

Life in a snow globe....................

A few of the pictures I took this afternoon on our walk....................

Old gateway.....

Before we went out on the atv's, we went for a walk in the snow with my camera to get some frosty pictures...the hoar froat had hung around all day making the trees look stunning! I couldn't have my camera out for long though because it was snowing too hard.....

Out for a snowy ride....

Lloyd and I took the quad bikes out for a while this afternoon...we created a new trail through another wood as well.....it was so much fun skidding about and trying to make it up the hills....Lloyds atv is a 4x4 but mine isn't but it coped great in the snow...it is snowing heavily out and when we were coming in we noticed our tracks had already been covered!!! It is supposed to snow all evening as well...possiblly all night too......very pretty out there and its so nice being on the quads while its snowing :)