My latest Fantasy Shoot

Hello everyone! I hope ya'll are having an awesome day! 

Last weekend I got to photograph one of my favorite subjects, my niece Carissa.  She was such a trooper. It's been over the 100 degree mark here in Oklahoma for a couple of weeks, and boy was it a hot one even at 9 a.m. I have to give Carissa props, she put on the formal dress and gloves and off we went. I love to photograph the unusual. I've always been a fan of Halloween and costumes and am moving toward this in almost every shoot.  I love the complexity of "out of the box" art, and love to bring the viewer into it. This can also give the subject something fun to look forward to and "play the part". I mean, who doesn't like to play dress up?

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Ever spend one whole day on a project?

Well today I did! I've been working on my greeting cards and wanted to put one together for a family reunion. I got a little nostalgic and decided to use a photo of my great-grandparents. I spent all day trying to tweek it and get it where I wanted it. What do you think?

What 3 day weekend?

Well, while most people were at the lake on Memorial Day weekend, I spent mine at home waiting for the phone to ring.  My 13 year old, four legged best friend, Scooter was in the hospital.  We took him in Friday to the vet and found out he has diabetes.  We picked him up at 5:00 and took him straight to the animal hospital where he stayed until Sunday night. We brought him home and now we have new responsibilities. A good diet and insulin shots twice a day. He's a trooper! It's been a week and I am happy to say he is doing much better.

While I spent the weekend at home, I got busy on making some new greeting cards to get my mind off of my sick baby.  There is a link at the top of the page that will take you directly to my store. The cards cost less than most cards you would buy at your local retail store and the quality is wonderful. I ordered some myself and I know I will never buy another greeting card from anyone other than GreetingCardUniverse.com. They have every occasion you can think of! Most retail stores only have the normal selection, but I just can't get over the categories available here. Here is a recent one I sold last week:

Inside of card reads: Congrats on your first home run!

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.