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I was surfing Miss Jen’s blog and found she had a cool new toy in her side bar:

the human clock, how clever and adorable is that! you can get one for your blog, widget, whatever at the human calendar . It’s handy and is photolicious what is not to love!

I’ve been doing quite a bit behind the scenes lately, reworking products and packages (more on that soon) meeting with Brides and scheduling e-sessions! Last weekend was busy as we shot a charity event at the Detroit Opera House. In between paperwork and pictures there is of course my little boy, who, when bad weather in California caused a cancellation here in Ann Arbor, allowed me to take his portrait.

He is my favorite subject.

It was my pleasure to photograph the Chef (as well as the food) of my very favorite Restaurant. Talk about photographer perks, we got to eat, well taste, everything on the menu practically and I got to do some shots in and around the kitchen, I’ve seen Rattattoui a ton of times and of course had to go peak in the cooler.

We’ll be back to our regularly scheduled engagments and weddings (and some portrait sessions) soon

orders and packaging and processing and emails all on the computer! but I try to get out sometimes and enjoy the sun a bit, hope you do too!

We had so much fun last weekend, how could I not have fun boating and hanging out with two people as sweet and fun as Shannon and Mike! They were great! It was hard to pick for the blog but here are a few of my favorites from our session.

I just hosted two full days of Zack Arias’s OneLight workshop and it was the most wonderful experience. I met so many amazing people and was totally gobsmacked by the amount of sharing and learning that was done.

How cool is this, it was taken outside an abandoned building, after 1am in the morning in total darkness!

hee hee using my hand as a light meter! Zack is setting up a shot in the background with Becky.

Here is a shot of Becky without off camera lighting (gorgeous)

Zack rocking all kinds of light!

One of my most favorite shots from the day how cool is this (and it was LATE!!)

Thank you Zack for being a great artist and sharing so much and thank you everyone who attended - wow so many new friends and thank you so much Becky, Betty and Kyle for making it a joy to shoot!

Keep in touch everyone!

There is a new wedding contest out there that I thought any photographers who haven’t seen it may be interested in. It’s being hosted at wedcomp , check it out!

I have something that I didn’t expect to happen in my lifetime, I have a family, extended and enlivened by those around us, that makes me feel like the most special woman in the world and I get to do what I love, with friends who support me and peers who enrich me. I am so blessed and I refuse to take it for granted even for a moment!

Heres just a few pictures of my Bean, we had the weather this last week so every chance we got we used it, kite flying and puddle jumping at the top of our list!

Jumping was just as much fun as watching the kite!

His hair is as long as mine! He says he wants to grow it down to his butt lol.. we’ll see how long it gets, but it’s totally up to him, I love it.

I’ll be away for a few days hosting not one but TWO OneLight Workshops. Zach Arias (check out his new blog it’s great) will be here and I won’t be as available as I usually am (I’ll try to check my email and get back but may do a lot of catchup on Friday). Please know that if you have questions or want to book your wedding I’ll be in touch with you as soon as I can!

it rained today, wonderful cool (kinda chilly) spring rain and this week in snatched moments I tried to capture a bit of the daily things, the beauty and stillness around me.

The camera was a crazed lucky spur of the moment ebay bit of destiny and I adore it, it’s nice to just see the simple things through a new eye

Make sure no matter how you do it, as the weather turns and the sky opens up take a few moments to enjoy it.

I am thinking that I’ll be updating the side jukebox not quite as much as I thought lol, but it’s because I get stuck in a groove and listen to the same things over and over again. Right now in our house the top three albums played as voted on by Ares, then Sean then me who has the mac and gets the music, are:

• vampire weekend - vampire weekend (apparently everyone loves them as much as we do that’s great)
• white stripes - icky thump
• mika - life in cartoon motion

Ares is a dancing guy, so he likes the stuff he can dance to but it’s pretty freaking awesome watching him dance to St. Andrew(thebattleisintheair) off Icky Thump and singing to the lyrics

This battle is in the air
I’m looking upwards
Where are the angels?
I’m not in my home

Sean is more of a music guy, he likes there to be a beat and reggae tends to win out when he has control of the itunes.

I’m a singer, I like best to put on Sinead O’connor or Amy Winehouse, or Fiona Apple or Pulp when I’m cleaning or whatever and sing to it, loud (and terribly)

I went nuts and stayed up way to late the other night updating my last.fm and really enjoyed rolling around in older music, some stuff I haven’t heard in a while but consider my life classics, and then grabbed a few new things like Christine Fellows to spice things ups

if you have a last fm account leave me the link so I can add you or click on here agirlinlove and add me as a friend!

if you don’t have a last.fm account get one!