Lots of Blogging to Do...

Hopefully during my winter break from K-State I will be able to catch up on my blog posts...I still need to post for Jeff's Senior Pictures, Starla's Senior Pictures, Monica and Tyler's Fall Engagement Session, Ashley and Ray's Engagement Session, the Boyce Family, and Jeremy & Krystal's Wedding. Also I have pictures to post of my beautiful cousins Carly, Mariah and McKenzie as well as Lea who is staying with my Aunt and Uncle as a foreign exchange student.

I have been updating my SmugMug with recent pictures, so if you have time make sure to go and checkout the new pictures I have posted. astaatsphotography.smugmug.com

Thanks for checking out my blog...make sure to stop back in a week or two to check out more!

Jeff B. Senior 2010

On Sunday, October 25th, I had the opportunity to take senior pictures for Jeff. I have known Jeff for a couple of years now since he is my boyfriend Tj's little brother. Jeff is hilarious to talk to and be around...it's even more entertaining when you get both Jeff and Tj together! Jeff attends Wamego High School and was a football player. So we thought it would be great to get some pictures in his football jersey. We started out at Pillsbury Crossing and then headed over to the K-State campus. Thank you Jeff for letting me take you senior pictures and good luck in the future! Here are some of my favorites from the day!

Wedding Preview

I recently had the privilege to shoot the wedding of Jeremy and Krystal. It was a beautiful day out, especially for November. It was a great and very fun day to be a part of! Thank you Jeremy and Krystal for letting me be there! Here are a couple quick shots from the day...I will have more to follow!

Photo Updates

I have been busy taking pictures lately, just haven't had time to post very many yet. I am going to post a couple of teasers from some sessions lately.

Here are some of what I have been up to lately...I will try to do full posts later.

Jeff and Starla's Senior Pictures....We started the day out at Pillsbury and then headed over to the K-State Campus.

Also, Monica and Tyler decided that they wanted to do some fall pictures since the colors outside are so beautiful...so here are a couple shots from their fun session!

I am very excited that I have the privilege to shoot Ashley and Ray's Wedding at the end of December.....I sure hope the weather stays as nice as it has been lately for their day! We went to the Wamego City Park on a Sunday morning to shoot some engagement pictures....here are some of my favorites!

Skylar Senior Pictures

I had the pleasure of taking senior pictures for Skylar, who is a senior at Blue Valley High School. I was really impressed when I met him and he had decided on the locations he wanted, had planned out what to wear at which location and even had some poses in mind. It was obvious from the beginning that Skylar loves his truck. So of course we took several pictures with it....it does look great in the pictures! We started out on a bridge, then to a corn field, and headed on to the wheat field for pictures with his truck. Skylar had a neat idea that he wanted a picture on the highway with both his truck and his dad's truck included in it....as he was parking the trucks, a County Sheriff drove up and stopped to ask if we needed any help....it was a lot of fun! Then we headed back to his house for some more pictures....I even made Mom and Dad pop in on a couple of the pictures! Skylar wanted to take a couple of pictures with his girlfriend, Carrie, so we ended the morning by taking pictures at a pond. They are a really cute couple!

Thanks again Skylar for letting me take your senior pictures....I had a great time!

Here are some of my favorite shots:

APW VII--Flash Photography!

September 4th, Chris of La Brisa Photography (http://www.labrisaphotography.com/) held a mini-workshop to teach us some tricks about how to use flash, when we need it, when we don't, how to fill flash, etc. I arrived late not only because I had to work til 6, but I was not so good with the directions....and it was me not the directions.

Once I got there we had two subjects to photograph, Cade and Samantha. Cade was having a great time playing in the dirt, the grass, and with his truck. He even tried to climb over the fence! He is an adorable little boy! He was really excited to let everyone take his pictures once his mom let him know they could go get ice cream when they were all done. Samantha was our other model...she did a great job. We all had to laugh and tell her that we normally don't leave anyone in the same position for as long as we had her holding them, but she just kept on working it!

Thanks again Chris for another amazing workshop! Here are some of my favorites from the day:

Anderson Family--August 26, 2009

It has been a little while since I have taken any official pictures...mainly due to the fact that August is a very very busy month. I had the pleasure of taking family pictures for the Anderson family last Wednesday. Rain was in the forecast, but someone was looking out for us and made it stay away just long enough for us to get our pictures taken! We started at the Wamego City Park and then headed out to Pillsbury for some fun water pictures. We even snuck the family dog, Starsky, into a couple of the pictures. It had been a little while since I had seen the Andersons since they had moved away, so I was really happy to see them. I used to babysit the girls when they were little and I was afraid they wouldn't remember me, but they said they did so I'll take it! Thanks again for letting me take your pictures! Here are some of my favorites from the evening: