Thanks!

Hahahah, isn’t that great! I loved it. I still grin every time I think of it.

Kassie and Doug, I wish you all the best. And remember, you picked a pretty wonderful day to get married! (They were married on my anniversary. )

If you want to book a special or have any questions, email me at cherron @ raininglightphotos.com  

So, I got everyone dressed and picked a location. I was super excited and really hopeful. I mean, really, how hard could it be to get ONE photo good enough to put on the wall?

Ha. Apparently if you throw in a husband with a headache, a goofy four year, and a curious toddler into the mix, it can be very hard!

Observe:

As you can see, I’ve just realized John is chewing on candy.

This shot has perfectly captured the moment when I was thinking of who I was going to hire to do this for us once the baby was born.

I did manage to get two photos that I liked.

This one is pretty cute. Tates had taken over the remote by this point.

And this one just very well may be the one that goes up on the wall.

I just adore it. The baby pointing off at something really cracks me up. I think it will do. At least until next time when I hire someone. I’m already dreaming of what I will wear!

There are a few others that I haven’t looked through yet, as well as a few of just the girls and also some of John in the field with his amp and guitar. (Yes, amp and guitar. They were in the back of the car and you should have seen the attitude change once he realized that and thought it would be cool to set up in the field ) I’ll post those in the next day or so, I’m sure.

I guess it is a good thing that this was a little trial run because you do realize that we’ll have to do this one more time, right? Before the BIG session in the future? Why? Well, we were missing a family member in these as it wasn’t our time to have Blaze so we have to do more with him in it! Can’t you see it now? Not so thrilled hubby, goofy four year old, squirmy toddler AND angst ridden pre-teen all around oh so anxious me? Ah, yes, it will be grand.

Thanks for your patience!

I have a few remaining dates available in July and August for weddings.  I adore weddings and would love to be able to photograph all my available dates before September, so I decided to throw together a little Last Minute Wedding package, one for both eight hour and under four hour weddings.   If you are interested, you can use the contact page or can email me at cherron@raininglightphotos.com for more information!

I’ve yet to find a spare hour to upload my wedding and boudoir galleries (which I’m hoping to do tonight before Staycation 2009 begins this week), but you can easily click on Weddings in the Categories drop down menu  to see all the wedding blog posts.

I feel that it was my fault for not clarifying in rules that this sort of behavior not only is unfair, but that it would get back to me in some way. While I think that asking friends and family and internet friends for help is perfectly fine, asking internet strangers and violating the TOS of social networking boards is never a good idea.

So, because of all of this madness, I feel it was best to pull the poll and start again. I know that some are going to find this a bit of a hassle since they have already asked their loved ones to vote, but I promise, it will be worth it. How? Sorry, can’t tell. That’s a surprise!!

I will be putting out a new post shortly with the new rules and starting the contest again. I apologize for all the confusion!!

And thank you everyone for the wonderful offers to help me out with the camera testing. I got a great response. I’m no longer offering a free session, but will be running some contests shortly. Stay tuned!