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Madness, Strawberries & Weekend Loveliness

Am I the only one who has gone MAD for March Madness. I can’t get enough of it! I can’t wait for this Saturday’s game when UK takes on Louisville. Go Wildcats!

This weekend I spent some time in Kentucky visiting my parent’s and my dog Hollywood (center photo below). He is a hoot. I wanted to get one simple photo of him and he wouldn’t pose for me unless I rubbed his belly. :) I wish he could live with his sister, Lexington, here in Tennessee with us, but I know he wouldn’t enjoy city living. ;)

This morning, I grabbed a pink plastic bowl from the cabinet and filled it with strawberries – only to be hounded by Lexi. She thought that because it was pink like her bowl that the contents were for her.

So yeah, she scaled the office chair I’m sitting in, then maneuvered over to the arm rest, and then finally, the desk. All while I’m sitting in the chair defending my strawberries, people! Talk about a determined (and spoiled) cat! The bottom left photo is her sitting on the desk eyeing the bowl. I didn’t make her jump down until she attempted to hijack my chapstick. She was so mad she couldn’t have whatever was in that darn pink bowl, so she knew stealing my chapstick would suffice.

The bottom right image is the tree line out my back door yesterday. What you don’t see is the busy road beneath it. It’s awesome how a shift of the camera angle can totally shift your perspective. :)

And that, ladies & gentlemen, was my weekend.

Have a fantastic Monday!
Bethany

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Journal Entry 409, Success, Happiness & Living My Dream

408 journal posts ago, I had no idea where I would be 409 posts into my photography career. I didn’t have a concrete plan, I just knew I wanted to photograph people. Specifically, people in love.

About a month ago, Rick asked me the simple question, “What is your dream?” while watching a TV show. I honestly can’t remember what the TV show was, but I feel like it was American Idol. And I feel like one of the contestants said something like “Singing is my dream,” just like the other 999,999 contestants.

Regardless of the show, his question literally stunned me.

It stunned me because, This is my dream. And I’m living it. I’m not the prettiest, the fanciest, the smartest, the most fun, or the best photographer, but seriously, I’m living my dream as a photographer.

I’ve noticed on Facebook & Twitter a lot of photographers fixate on this idea that they need to be famous to be successful. Success doesn’t look like fame to me.

Success to me is:

a hug from the bride at the end of our first meeting, being one of the only people to see a bride’s wedding gown before her wedding, wading through a creek on an engagement session, helping a bride and groom decide on flowers, making the bridal party laugh, capturing the slight sway of a bride’s earrings as she leans in to kiss her new husband, documenting a groom twisting the newly minted wedding band around and around his ring finger, bustling a wedding dress just in time for the reception, and a handwritten note a week after a wedding from a gracious and fabulous couple, before they’ve seen all of their images.

That, and so much more, is success.

Happy Weekend!
Bethany

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Kannon – Newborn Photography

Kelley & Patrick welcomed me into their home last week to photograph sweet six day old Kannon and big brother Kellyn. Now Kannon is over two weeks old, and I know he is as handsome as ever. I loved his delicate blond eyebrows and curious blue eyes. Kelley & Patrick decided to wait until Kannon’s birthday to find out that he was a little boy. What a great surprise! His big brother Kellyn is beyond happy to have a little brother. I know he will teach him about trucks and tractors and getting muddy and all things BOY! :) Kannon did a fabulous job posing, yawning, sleeping, and sneezing for me. ;) Enjoy!