chris & lindsey

7/21/2007 Carmel, IN

these two are just adorable together! it was such a fun wedding with absolutely PERFECT weather! beautiful blue sky, about 78 degrees, and LOW HUMIDITY...which is HUGE for mid july in indiana!! they had a huge (and gorgeous) bridal party. most of lindsey and chris' bridal party were friends from their sorority and fraternity days at IU, where they happened to meet. they both had a huge group of friends and family who clearly love and support them very much. i had a great time at this wedding...here are some of my favorite images from the day :o)

lindsey and chris...i wish you two the best...have an awesome time in hawaii!! :o)

all the handsome groomsmen :o)

she's stunning!beautiful couple huh?meet mason, the ring bearer... so cute!might have forgotten something... hmmtransportation: '53 rolls royce... niiceoff to party!i was in love with the car idea!this was such a touching moment. lindsey and her father's first dance to the amazing song " I loved Her First " by Heartland not a single dry eye in the room...i promise.

colbie caillat

Now, i absolutely LOVE music, and i have just a handful of female artists that i like...and this girl is one of my faves. Colbie Caillat is an adorable singer/songwriter whose album just released TODAY. I just bought the album on itunes and can confidently say that it is wonderful!! She's gonna be big! My wonderful friend Lacey introduced me to her a while back and i've been hooked ever since! Here's a video of my favorite song (which sadly didn't make it onto the CD...who the heck knows why!?) It's called "Droplets" and she's singing along side Jason Reeves, who is pretty awesome too (and man can those two harmonize!!)

:o) Hope you like!!

music city + race cars = a good time

So, this weekend I got to photograph another IRL race with the AJ Foyt Racing team. This one was held at the Nashville Superspeedway. I suppose I should have started out photographing a smaller race, because my first one...the Indy500, is the biggest race for the Indy cars, and I think I was a bit spoiled when it came to this Nashville race. Nonetheless, this race was stinkin fun.

It was originally supposed to be a Saturday night race. The weather was perfect leading up to race time...super hot and sunny. Then as the cars are getting lined up and drivers announced, these dark ominous clouds started rolling in and it just starts to pour down. And it just rained and rained. The few people watching from the pit crews, myself included, were completely defenseless against the rain. So we just stood there huddled to the side of Danica Patrick's tent...she actually talked to us a bit! Someone brought us a big tarp, so we just stood there with a tarp on our heads...we were SOAKED! I still thought it was so much fun... except for the down pour on all my photo equipment! (but it all survived, thankfully!

The race was rescheduled for Sunday afternoon...so all the fans left and all the cars were dried off and tucked away. The weather held out Sunday, with the exception of a handful of rain drops that caused a few 'caution' laps for the drivers. All in all, it was such a fun weekend. Can't wait to do it all over again! :o)

just after the down pour saturday night...beautiful sky!

this was such a cool moment when the car was first being pushed out to the track for the grid. there were so many people surrounding us!the pit crew is basically amazing! i was blown away at how quickly they work!

the pit stops were definitely my favorite part. they were so exciting!Darren Manning, the driver for Foyt, giving a couple interviews in the garage for ESPN during the rain delaythe legend himself, AJ Foyt (in the hat on right)Danica's pit crew was right beside ours, so I got a lot of shots of her and her team & basically was brushing shoulders with her. That girl gets soo much attention. Photogs were constantly following her! (Ashley Judd is lookin cute *of course* in the yellow dress & hat in the middle image)i was riding around the garages on the team's "pee-wee" bike, waiting for the race to start :o)

Gene Simmons, who is involved in IRL marketing, & Ashley Judd, wife of driver Dario Franchitti were hanging out at the track all weekend

i love this shot of the car getting fueled up before heading out to the trackjust me :o)

july pug...

So, we had our monthly pug meeting *pictage user group* this past thursday and it was such a blast! we all got together and talked a mile a minute about anything and everything photo...and then we all went out and did a fun photo shoot using each other as models. I have been looking forward to our meetings each month so much. It's a great time to soak up TONS of information from amazing fellow photogs! Here are some of the photos from our mini photo shoot.

i love this one of kierafave!!jennifer....she's so cute!some of my favorite images were catching all the other photographers in action...love this one!

coolest video ever...

This is a music video from the band Mute Math, one of my new fave bands....its shot completely backwards! It's crazy and stinkin awesome!! :o) ENJOY!



Mute Math - Typical

home sweet home...

So, I finally got to go home to Evansville this past week to visit family and friends. I hadn't been back since CHRISTMAS! So the trip was well overdue! I had such a great time! It's great to get away from the city and get out in the country...and RELAX! :o) My parents have the most relaxing house and its beautiful in the summertime! I got to spend TONS of time with my sweet friend, Lacey, and that made me super happy! I would have a ton more photos posted, but silly me, I forgot ALL of my cf cards up in Indy! However, we finally broke down and bought a new one so we could photograph Carrie's adorable baby, Waylon :o)

little Waylon wasn't feelin the photo shoot too much, but we still got some really cute shots...isn't he darling!?

just look at that face :o)Mommy & Waylon :o)awwwww

Lacey & Luke... this is SO cute lace!