My own Walker.

Some of you know that I use cloth diapers. Some of you also cloth diaper but when many of you hear this you kind of give me a strange look. Cloth diapers have evolved immensely since the days of our parents and grand parents. No longer are they boring and white. And no longer do they require the pins and soaking that many associate with cloth. They are so full of fun prints and colors that I hesitate to cover them up. I'm always on the hunt to increase my stash and eagerly await my fluffy mail. Many can be found quite readily at stores like http://www.cottonbabies.com/ and http://www.nickisdiapers.com/. You hear of brand names like Fuzzy Bunz, BumGenius! or Haute Pockets. Then there's the WHAM brands that you find readily at Etsy or at eBay. Still others are hard to find, selling out within seconds of going up for sale like the diapers at Hyena Cart. My favorite diapers come from my friends at Hyena Cart. I feel very lucky to own a single Stinky Couture diaper as Daphne only sells a very limited number of diapers every month. I was happy to find in my email box I had just earned another. Check out my youngest in his Stinky, the July winner of the Stinky Couture photo contest. www.hyenacart.com/StinkyCouture/

holiday deadlines and mini's at Kairos.

I really need to keep up on this. I've had so many beautiful sessions since my last update and I thank all of you for keeping me so busy.

It's time to talk about the holidays. I know, I know...holiday's already? yeah. It's creeping up on us fast. If you're thinking about portraits for holiday or Christmas gifts for the grandparents it's time to give me a call. The ordering deadline for gift and wall portraits for delivery before December 23 will be the Friday BEFORE Thanksgiving, November 21. Holiday cards should be designed, finalized and ordered by November 14 for a December 1 delivery. Canvases, books and other specialty products will need to be completely designed, finalized and ordered by Thursday, October 30. I will be out of the office and completely unavailable the week following the November 21st deadline and cannot guarantee delivery dates if these dates are missed.

A few weeks ago I did a series of mini sessions at Kairos Children's Boutique, located at 129 South 6th Street, right behind Main Street Bagels. If your looking for something fun and unique for your little one to wear, pop in on her. She carries name brands like Daily Tea and Petunia Picklebottom and See Kai Run. Things you can't find anywhere else in Grand Junction. She also has beautiful, handmade, one of a kind clothing that is just to DIE for. I love her stuff. I could run my hands through the little clothes all day long. Mini sessions like these were a first for me and I found the morning light inside her store AMAZING. So amazing that we're cooking up another day of shooting in the near future. If you're interested in this give Carla a call at 970.241.0460 and she'll put you on the list.

A couple of the images from that day:

Eleanor | Grand Junction Newborn Photographer

I think little Eleanor is my newest newborn poster girl. But then, I think that after every newborn session. Newborns are special. They are so new and fresh and perfect. My kids tease me because I always get so excited when I talk to a new mom on the phone. "Squishy" is the word I used on this call. My kids are still laughing at me and making fun of me. I like to get my lens on them before they are two weeks old and convincing a new mom of that right after they gave birth is sometimes hard to do. But at two weeks they start to loose that brand newness. That just out of the womb look. They start to realize that they can stretch those little frog legs out and that they like this newfound freedom. It's a newness that you can't bring back. A newness that calls to be captured, to be forever remembered with the lens. This one was just on this cusp of brand newness and her mother is so, so glad that I was there to capture it. I hear she's grown so much since these were taken.

And yes, this is Everett's little sister. And Connor's. And Parker's. L, you are an inspirational mom with 4 so young.

Alchemy and Pantha | Grand Junction Teen Photographer

When his is what results from the first click of your camera you know it's going to be a good session. I don't usually photograph teens. I mean my own don't even let me come near them with the camera. But this was special. One of these girls practically lives in my home and my daughter in hers. This was a special gift for her mother. A surprise. I grabbed both of her girls and took them down to Main Street, one of my favorite outside locations. I think it was the morning of the Christmas parade. I remember it being just freezing. Remember how cold and wet it was that evening? Weren't we all just about blown off the streets mid parade? Anyway, we were fighting some wind and we were cold. We almost called it a day before we got there and I was sure that wind was just ruining our little surprise. But I came home and downloaded my card and took a good look at what we had. I was floored. Then I remembered that some photographers, studio photographers actually use fans to create that wind. Here I thought it was a nuisance and in reality it was just perfect.






This one has a little story behind it. No, I didn't drag that chair down town with us. As we walked behind the Heirlooms for Hospice thrift store, the slider door was open to their storage area. I'm all about the moment. I see what is around me and use what I can. I spied the chair and I begged the women in the storage area to let me drag it to the street. At first they told me no and I pleaded some more, "just three minutes" and they had a change of heart. We grabbed it and click, click click and it was back where it belonged. This was one the girls chose to give to their mom and it's one of my favorite "seize the moment" images.

Everett | Grand Junction Childrens Photography

We snuck a little mini session in while I was there for Everett's new baby sister. You'll get a peek at her soon. Everett just turned three and was fun to photograph. So cute and he knows it. But, alas...when you tell a three year old just one more, they take you up on it and hold you to it. When you're done, your just done I guess. But that's okay, what I got was truly worth the four minutes he gave me. Well, maybe it was a few more than four.

Emma and Grace | Grand Junction Child Photographer

Or was it Grace and Emma? Either way they were inseparable. It was a few days before Christmas and Grandma and Grandpa were visiting. First we had an audience but the adults quickly realized we didn't need them and went about their business. We started with a few formals, well...as formal as I get. They wore their Christmas dresses anyway. Then we moved on to the tutus and jumping on the bed. I love to jump on the bed. We jump on the bed at our house often. We finished with a glorious bubble bath that ended with bubbles all over the floor.

falling behind.

I'm finding this blog a challenge to keep updated. Blogging is not something I've ever been able to keep up with. I start posts while sessions are fresh on my mind and then save them. I mean to go back and post them when I have the images to go with them ready and it just hasn't happened. I have several sessions to update.

more soon. really soon.

~C