Meet K | Snohomish Senior Photographer

Now that my computer woes are hopefully behind me, I can start sharing photos again, which, after all, is the whole idea here...  I had the best time with K this last fall, shooting her high school senior photos.  She was my first senior, of hopefully many to come.  We ran around downtown Snohomish exploring all the fun locations to be found, and I was really happy with how they all turned out.  This is what I want to do!!  Bring it on, seniors, I need to find more of you.... 

K, I hope you're enjoying the adventure of your Freshman college year, I wish you the best.  Here are a few of my favorites from the day.

Tiny Road Block

Just so you don't think I've abandoned my newborn blog already - I'm still here!  I just hit a tiny, perfectly timed road block, and am now typing this directly from my brand new laptop.  :)

I'll be back posting photos before you know it, just need a couple of days to transfer data and get familiar with my new territory!  Oh yeah, and re-edit all my bleepin' photos that were on my external hard drive that crashed.  You know, details....

Technology Challenge

Today I spent some time with my new friend Lightroom 3 (Beta).  I do not have a previous version of Lightroom.  (Oh, if you don't know, it's a fantastic photo editing software by Adobe).  I'd heard it's a lot easier to learn and use than that scary beast that is PHOTOSHOP.  So when I learned of the free trial Adobe is offering during the beta mode of the new version, I jumped at the chance to give it a try, before plunking down the $$ for it. 

So far, I love it!  I've already been able to "tweak" my photos to get the more polished look I've been wanting.  I know I won't be able to avoid Photoshop forever, but for now, it's definitely lower on the totem pole of things-to-do-for-my-business.  My goal this week, is to spend some time going through some Lightroom tutorials, to get the most out of the free trial.  By spring, I will hopefully have enough amazingly edited photos to prove I deserve the real deal!

Here's one that I played with today.  Before:

And after:

Just some very simple stuff, but I'm a lot happier with the second one...

More on my technology journey later!

2010 is going to be HUGE!

That's right, I'm wasting NO more time, 2010 is the year to build my business!  I need a blog - check!  I need a website (nudge, nudge, web-designer husband of mine...)  and I need some portrait victims volunteers to help me build my portfolio!  Spread the word, friends, because now is the time to take advantage of my extremely affordable services...

Upcoming posts are going to feature some of my previous photo shoots, as a way to showcase my work while my website is under construction. 

And since we can't have a post on a photography blog without a photo, here's one of my darling son, Carter...

Thanks for joining me on this journey!