Saturday, November 27, 2010

Brant and Jessica got married!

Hey everybody, sorry for the long LONG time since last post!  Am I going to sound terribly redundant if I say, "Things have been crazy"???  Sorry...they really have been crazy, unusually so, but I think they're finally slowing down a bit.  :)  And I have lots of photos to show you!

I had a lovely time photographing Brant and Jessica's Monticello, Iowa wedding today...the weather was cold but the people were delightful!  I'm downloading images at a Starbucks right now, and just couldn't wait to show a couple with you.

I saw these intense red doors yesterday -- and when we went there today the sun was in the PERFECT spot for a great photo.  Such a gift from my loving heavenly Father!  I love this shot!


Happy wedding party.  (And happy photographer.)  :)


Many more images are coming, of course, when I return home Monday...right now it's time to gather more of a certain item that has been in very short supply lately: sleep!  :)  Have a great Sunday, everyone!

- Kelsey Schweickert

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Wednesday, November 17, 2010

I love doing family portraits!

Yes, I really do!  I'm too busy with weddings to do a whole lot of portraits...but I love doing them!  This family and I had a grand time last Saturday in Livermore, wandering around a park and finding good light.  Oh, and very cool sycamore tree trunks.  Yes.  We found several of those...


Logan and Skyler.  These kids were so much fun.  We were great friends by the time we finished the photos!

 


Logan is a tremendously strong individual.  He can hold up entire trees, as you see.




Mommy and daughter have such beautiful hair!


I love the abandon of a child having a good time.


Beautiful.  I'm sure you'll all agree.  :)




Working on editing the whole set...they'll be up on my online proofing site soon.  I have to say, editing on one of the fastest laptops in the world (well, ok, pretty close!) is a delight.  This new computer was WAY overdue, and it's such a contrast! The old Dell served me well for a long time, but 4GB of RAM just wasn't near enough any more.  With 8GB now and a super-fast i7 processor and a fast graphics card and a nice big 7200rpm hard drive that I put in when I got it -- well, this computer is just making my life soo wonderful.  :)

Ahh...ok, enough obsessing...back to the editing.  ;)  God bless you all, my dear readers!

- Kelsey Schweickert

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Monday, November 15, 2010

Something to un-Monday your Monday


My dad is a hummer.  He randomly hums fragments of songs throughout the day.  I could always tell when dad was home because I'd hear his happy humming outside as he put away his bike and headed into the house.  He hums anything -- whatever comes into his head.  Sometimes it's something grand like the final chorus from Les Miserables; sometimes it's a silly nursery song that got stuck in his head from hearing the little kids at their piano lessons.  I love hearing my dad hum.  You never know what's going to come out, but it's invariably uplifting.  :)

For a long time, one of his favorite songs was an old hymn, "Like a River Glorious".  I haven't heard that song in a while but yesterday it popped into my head.  So I thought I'd share part of it with you, along with these photos from a recent trip to Oregon.

Maybe you're having a Monday and you need it un-Mondayed, or maybe you need some of God's "perfect peace and rest" for whatever reason.  I've been tremendously busy lately editing photos, designing multiple wedding albums, doing portraits, meeting with brides, planning photo sessions and weddings and classes and many other things and...yeah, I've definitely needed his peace this weekend.  And He always, ALWAYS comes through for me.  He's not joking when he says, "I will never leave you, or forsake you."  He's completely in earnest.  "Not one word has failed of all his good promise."  He is utterly, perfectly, gloriously faithful.


Like a river glorious is God's perfect peace,
Over all victorious in its bright increase;
Perfect, yet it floweth fuller every day,
Perfect, yet it groweth deeper all the way.

Stayed upon Jehovah, hearts are fully blest;
Finding, as He promised, perfect peace and rest.


May your heart be stayed upon Him today.

- Kelsey Schweickert

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Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Once upon a time, on a September Saturday...

...Dan and Julie Lane Murdaugh got married!  Enjoy this slide show story of their lovely day...good times, good food, laughter, beauty, and celebration all around!





- Kelsey Schweickert

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Friday, November 5, 2010

Just a little bunny

Hey everybody!  I'm too busy finishing up editing for the latest wedding to get a "real" blog post up...but I thought I'd post a few quick photos to give you a smile.  This is Teddy, a Mini Lop.  He's a little shy, but very sweet and more than happy to cuddle on your lap as long as you keep petting his incredibly soft fur.




Helloooo?


(Hmmm...so, if I wanted to get out of here.........)

Noelle lives next door to Teddy.  She is a slightly wilder-tempered rabbit with a little too much personality.  If she'll ever sit halfway still, I'll do a blog post on her someday too.  ;)  (Here she's too busy gnawing on the wood to pay any attention to me.)


OK, back to the wedding editing.  Hope these funny little creatures gave you a smile...in case you needed one.  :)

- Kelsey Schweickert

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