Greeting Cards!

Woohoo! I can now offer greeting cards! It took a while to get some of them designed, but I'm finally up and running! I have a link at my www.poeticvisionsphotography.com site. I'm so excited. My husband and I have been talking about wanting to make cards for years. I'm just getting started, but hopefully it will catch on. Eventually I hope to have many occasions to choose from, but for now I believe my Sympathy cards are absolutely beautiful. If you get a chance, I hope you take a look and possibly find some that suit your needs. Here is the cover of a few:

To read the inside, go to the link: http://www.greetingcarduniverse.com/poeticvisionsphotography
Hope you have a great day!

I love to revamp!

I just finished revamping my splash page for Poetic Visions Photography. I've had some ideas rolling around in my noggin lately and I finally put them out for everyone to see. I absolutely LOVE my website host PhotoBiz. They have several templates to choose from, but allow you to personalize to suit your own taste. If you are a fellow photographer and looking to advertise on the web, I highly recommend them!

I've also started a new venture involving my photography. Look for Poetic Visions Photography's line of Greeting Cards very soon! I'm very excited! I was hoping they would be available before Mother's Day, but they haven't been processed yet.  There will be a variety of different occasions available, from sympathy to blank inside. I'll keep you updated to when they become available.

I'm looking forward to a couple of spring shoots coming up. Now that we've received some rain, the grass and trees are just beckoning to have their photos taken!

Check out my new Splash Page here:www.poeticvisionsphotography.com

I'll leave you with one of the beautiful roses from my rose garden. Hope everyone has a FABULOUS day!

Oklahoma Springtime

I await spring the way most folks look forward to Christmas. The sunshine, warmth, the smells, and the beautiful flowers are just a few things that generate joy for me. But my big love...the storms! Yes, tornadoes can be scary, but after being raised here and living the majority of my adult life here, the storms are what makes it exciting! Maybe even more so now that I am a photographer. I took these photos on Good Friday and can't wait for another major system to blow in so I can photograph it. Hope you enjoy!

 These guys chased me to my car! I finally got brave enough to turn around and snap some photos. Maybe they were hungry. This is at Lake Stanley Draper. Normally that would be water behind them, but they drained some water to do some improvements to the lake. I'm sure the drought has taken it's toll as well.

 This photo is a hybrid between two photos. There are two layers of clouds. The original clouds that were in the horse photo and a photo of clouds taken over my house later that evening. I like the way the two melded.

This photo also has two different shots. The clouds were taken from my front yard and the horses are taken on Indian Hills Road in Norman.

16 years? Feels like it was yesterday.

Sixteen years ago today the Alfred P. Murrah building in downtown Oklahoma City was bombed. It's hard to believe it's been that long.

I was at work that morning doing payroll. I went to the copy machine and all of the sudden it felt like a truck hit the building.  A few minutes later and I was outside looking at the smoke rising from downtown.  Our building was located at 5th and Meridian.  The day was sunny and clear so it was quite easy to see the terrible devastation happening.

I worked for a personnel company in the accounting office at the time.  We had crews on site downtown setting up the Arts Festival, just blocks from the bombing. A man I worked with there had a wife that was in the building. Thank goodness she was alright, physically. My husband John, I had only met him a month prior, was at the Arts Festival set up.  His sister Barbie worked at the courthouse. It seemed forever before anyone could get a hold of John. We had Nextel radios and everyone was frantically calling him.  He was shaken up, but ok, thank goodness.

A few days later our company worked the parking at the fairgrounds for the memorial service and we passed out little blue pins for those entering.  I had made several pins with white, yellow, purple and blue ribbon a day before to pass out as well. The amount of support that showed up for the memorial was overwhelming.

I hadn't seen the bombing site until a few weeks later. I went there on Mother's Day. I was shocked to see how bad it actually looked in person and will never forget what I saw.  Years later I photographed the site after it became a memorial.  I'm posting these photos in dedication to all those affected 16 years ago today.

I will never forget.

Who doesn't love a newborn?

Saturday finally arrived! I was so looking forward to photographing my friend Jill's new granddaughter, Eleanor Sparrow. Jill and I met at church and quickly became close friends. We've shared many moments of joy and sorrow together. I jumped at the opportunity to do one of the things I love the most, do a photo shoot of a newborn. I can add this to my list of joyful moments spent with my great friend! I've posted a few of my favorite photos. Hope you all enjoy!

Trying this again!

Not sure how, but I somehow managed to delete my previous blog! Oh the horror! Well, we'll see if the second time is the charm!

I'm looking forward to doing a fun newborn session tomorrow.  The precious one's name is Eleanor Sparrow. Her name alone sparked so many options for baby photos. With 3 trips to the craft store, I think I finally got all the props I wanted. Maybe too many!

I should have a few photos up by Sunday so stay tuned!