OK I cant leave it alone with just one picture of the wedding. This wedding was so beautiful.



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Jacob & Laura Bennett

This weekend was a BLAST! Our family went to Ohio for a WONDERFUL wedding with a WONDERFUL couple. I have knowen Jacob for about 13 yrs now. Jake and I always got into trouble a few time with his dad (our pastor) but we still had fun! Now we have Laura to get into trouble with us. :) Congrats to the new couple and here is one of many of my fav. poses.

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OK We are almost done with one of the sports nuts at our house. Mike has a few more games and he is done. Not too good this year but like I have told him you have to know how to loose before you can really enjoy winning. Amanda started her games last week. Now on Tues. she plays doubleheaders. They lost the 1st game by one run and won the 2nd by a landslide. The others that are playing ball in the house still havent won a game yet either. So Amanda is the only one that has one game this year. WTG MANDA. Other then ball I have been doing the church directory and its just about done...just in time to go to Ohio for a wedding at the end of this month. WWOOOHHHOOO cant wait. Well thats about all that is going on here right now.



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Hello again its been a LONG time but its baseball/softball season and this is my busiest time of the year. This year I have 4 out of 5 family members playing ball. I dont play ball....someone has to take the pictures...:) This is Manda and Mikes 2nd yr and then Al and Joe started playing on our church softball team. Everyone plays on Mondays and the kids also play on wed. I have been taking family pictures for our church directory and think I have one more family and I am DONE. There will be 63 families total this time in the book. Alot more since I have been doing them for 3 weekends now. Since the last post I have took some pictures of my daughter Stephine from prom and had my grandson here while his mom had surg. on her arm. Kayla is doing alot better but not back to normal (whatever that is) I know how hard it is to take care of a baby...but not with a broken arm. Loved having Nicholas here and cant wait til I get him back to take some more "real" pictures of him. On June 9th I will be taking Mikes baseball team pics so now Im in a rush to get the family pictures done. I just wish my business would really start. We are going to Ohio for the weekend of June 27th to take pictures at Jacob and Lauras' wedding. Not a paid wedding but just to leave state with the kids its going to be fun. Kinda like a mini vacation since we havent taken one in 2 yrs. Im hoping to take some of Steph's SR pics soon too. I cant believe she will be a SR next fall. All my kids are growing up too fast. But as a mom I have to let them make mistakes on their own and then tell them how to fix/get over them. I so want to move back to Birch Run that way I can really get my business going. I try but its so hard to charge the ppl I call freinds but if I want anymore photography things I will have to start charging. :( One of these days I will have all 5 of my kids here for pictures and also Nicholas. OK thats about all I have time to type right now. I am hoping to get better about this whole blog thing but first I have to meber that I started it and need to update it. My dry erase board is getting full with a things to do list....OK bye for now and thanks for reading my blog.

Beth

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Wow where does time go? I havent been on here since March...well the twins are starting ball and I have been trying to learn more about photography. Everyone thinks this is the easiest thing in the world to do but they dont stop and really pay attention to alot of the deatils that go into knowing how/what you are supose to do with a camera. I started out with a Point and Shoot and now I have the Canon Rebel XT SLR camera. I have 3 lens, 2 i got for christmas and havent used alot. I started shooting action shots this last week...boy did I miss taking them. Well today Al and I have been together for 17 yrs. WOW thats a long time and we havent killed each other yet..Notice that word YET? lol OK off to get ready to go out to dinner with Al. Have a great weekend, the weather has finally broke and its super nice out today.
Beth

OMG I feel really stupid right now. I see I havent posted on here since March 10th. Where has the time went? This week the kids are home for spring break. I really havent been shooting anything for the last 2 weeks. I have been trying some things that I have never done before. I have been using my camera on FULL manual. That means I have to focus and everything on my own. Usually I just let the camera do it but thought I had better try it so I can learn more. I also have been doing a little playing in photoshop. Im sure its nothing big for alot of ppl but I have been playing with curves and levels. Something else I have never done, and I am seeing some great things come from it. My pictures are in my eyes they look alot better then before. I also seen on one of the forums I visit about using a gift bag as a photo tent. So I tried it and the flowers that are posted here are what I came up with. I did do a curves adjustment and a crop also. Other then my little plays I have been reading alot about how to build a website....UGH I am so ready to pull my hair out its not funny. Also our church has set up the dates for the pictures for a new church directory. So thats another thing I have been researching and learning alot. OK thats about all I can think of right now....Til next time hope it wont be 2 weeks again
Beth

Wow where did the time go?? Oh I rember now...we moved. Not where I want yet but we will get there someday. It has been a busy few weeks. We got all moved and my internet thought it needed a break I guess. I was without internet for almost a week. I thought I was going to die :) but Im here now. I shot a wedding over the weekend just for fun. I know call me nuts but thats what I did. Not sure what to think of the pictures yet, because on Friday Al got me a new 20" flatpanel wide screen montior and Im having issues with the color. On here it looks so blowen out but yet when they are printed they are too dark. I will be working on getting that all fixed this week I hope. Other then all that this week seems to be pretty mello as of right now anyway. OK thats about all I can think of right now since its almost midnight and I am about to fall out of the chair from being so sleepy. OK I will share one of the wedding photos. Please let me know if it looks ok.
Beth