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Sometimes I really struggle with remembering that…. And especially that…. Some days it is hard to remember that……. And I really take this…… and this advice to heart……. I want to always remember to…… Don’t you? I know you are shaking your head yes. So……. Get out there and…….       Happy Friday the 13th! I think today is actually a pretty lucky day for a few of our clients! I know you can’t wait so I’ll get right to announcing the winner of our Top Ten Images of 2011 contest. First, we would like to thank all the friends and family that commented and rooted your favorite image on to victory. It was quite the exciting competition! We had over 700 votes!! That is unbelievable! The competition was fierce and 3 images actually battled it out neck and neck until the very end. So, without further wasting of your time 🙂 The winner is…………..
Since the competition was so exciting we couldn’t let our 2nd and 3rd place images go unrecognized so each one will receive a 12×18 mounted metallic print. Woo Hoo! I told you Friday the 13th was lucky!! Congratulations to……….
Thanks again everyone!!! Have a great weekend. Saturday was cloudy and overcast as January days in Texas tend to be. If you ask me it was the perfect weather for Matt’s senior photos in downtown McKinney. Matt is a Senior at Legacy Christian Academy and not a big fan of having his photo taken, but you could never tell from these images of him. Matt is so photogenic and a natural in front of the camera. Also, he was quite the trooper as we took photos for close to 2 hours! Thanks Matt for being so awesome. You are a very cool young man and we are glad we got to hang out and get to know you!
One thing that photographers struggle with (or at least I do) is documenting for their own family. We spend a ton of time and energy documenting, recording, and creating memories for other families and sometimes when it comes to our own family……it feels like too much work. Didn’t I just spend 60+ hours editing photos and designing albums and now you want to create something for myself? Sorry, I’m just too tired. This is something I have really struggled with over the past few years. See, I used to scrapbook. I don’t mean I had a cute rolling case that I took to crops on the weekend. I mean I was a hardcore, know every product by manufacture name, have a dedicated room in my house, every spare moment was living and breathing scrapbooking-scrapbooker. I recently just donated my collection of 5 years of Creating Keepsakes magazine. Yes, I had EVERY issue and every single one of them had post-it notes and dog-eared pages. WOAH, that sounds a little cr-a-Z-y. I’m a little embarrassed to admit just how obsessed I actually was. As my photography business began to take off I just didn’t have time for it any more and to be honest it felt a little too much like work. So, sadly my family’s photos have been left undocumented. So, so sad. Last year I vowed to change this. I tried, and failed. Well, I didn’t actually fail, because I did take WAY more photos for myself than I had the previous year so that was an accomplishment in itself. I still plan to have a simple album of all the photos printed very soon. Few words, mainly just photos. This year I would like to go a bit further and document some words with those photos. Enter Project Life….. I’ve been reading about it and following a few of my favorites scrapbook designers over the last year and this year I’m going to give it a try myself. As much as I LOVE paper and all the fun details I decided that going the digital route would be the simplest for me this year. And in order to actually succeed I’m ALL ABOUT simple. I downloaded the Digital Project Life Kit: Clementine Edition from jessicasprague.com and I’m well on my way to documenting the bits and pieces of our life in 2012! I can’t tell you how excited I am about this project and plan to keep you updated as I work through it this year. If you are interested in documenting your family I highly recommend heading over to the Project Life website and check it out. It’s super easy and there is a ton of information. Don’t think it’s important?!? Read this blog post about the importance of documenting. IT IS IMPORTANT. PERIOD. Life is fleeting…
The title page for my Project Life 2012 album. 🙂
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Beautiful… keep it up!