The Lovely Mary Frances :)

So, I'm totally swamped right now with editing and albums and all kinds of other stuff, but Mary Frances came to visit last week and I HAD to show you a photo or two from our quickie portrait session!  She is gorgeous!  :)  And there are more...I just have to catch up a bit...

- Kelsey Schweickert

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Some Texas "lilies of the field"

Hey there faithful blog readers...I have a TON more Peter and Mandy photos coming...I promise!  I'm just trying to crawl out from under the deluge of stuff demanding my attention right now.  Can't be everywhere at once, unfortunately.

So in the meantime here's something pretty to make you happy.  I found these on the way to the airport after Peter and Mandy's wedding.  Chris won the Kind Brother of Photographer Award for the day and stopped the car so I could grab some photos!

With our friend Rob Bennett, who came to Bonham for Peter and Mandy's wedding too.

He's a fellow photographer, and a Nikon shooter, but I don't hold that against him.  :D

Hehe.

And with that...I'm off to bed.  Wish I could sleep for a week, I'm so tired.  Have a great Friday night, folks!  I'll be back in the blogging business very soon with more images of Peter and Mandy's lovely day!

- Kelsey


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Now for some "other" photos.

Yesterday I posted photos from a portrait session last week in Chicago's Millennium Park.  But of course if you know me you know I can't pass up a pretty flower...or a sun star...or funny things.  :)  So here are some of the "other" photos that I took alongside the portraits.

The Bean...one of those much-photographed icons that we still keep photographing anyways...

I love tulips!  And they're blooming all over Millennium Park right now -- I was in heaven!

 

Oh yeah, gotta do a self-portrait too!

Hey, even better -- I found a mirror!

Can't get enough of these...

I never pass up the opportunity for a sun star.  ;)

And now it's time for this sleepy photog-girl to head to bed.  I'm working on a photo book project and my eyes and brain are pretty well fried.  Have a great night everybody!

- Kelsey Schweickert


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More cuteness!

Where Kate is concerned, the more photos, the better, in my opinion.  ;)  When I'm around her, I wish I had a sports camera with super-high shutter speeds.  She has the most hilarious expressions, and they change in a split second!

Here's my most recent photo of Kate.  Such a cute little waif!  ;)  She is growing up so fast...some time I need to do a "real" portrait session with her.

- Kelsey Schweickert


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Blake and Jae

A few more photos of Blake and Jae...because they're such a cute couple and I had a grand time doing their engagement session and "discovering beauty"!

What can I say.  I love being a wedding photographer.  It's so much fun to work with all these happy couples!  :)

- Kelsey Schweickert


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This cracks me up.

I found this on a store window, while walking downtown with my mom.  It made me laugh.  Hard.  So I took a photo with my phone, and thought I'd share it with you.  (Can you see us in the reflection?)

In case you can't read the quotes, here they are:

God is good but never dance in a small boat!

And:

As you slide down the bannister of life,

May the splinters never point

In the wrong direction.

And with that, I'm going to close.  :)  Hope you got a good laugh!

- Kelsey Schweickert


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Happy St. Patrick's day!

So, in the spirit of St. Patrick's day, and my Irish great-grandma Callaghan, here's some GREEN for you!  And some not-so-green pretty things that I found along the way.

St. Patrick's Day, meet St. Valentine's Day.  ;)

Cherry blossoms

Green window box with green things in it on a green shed.  :)  Score!

My mom's picture-book lettuce.  (Don't tell Peter Rabbit where she lives.)

Rose leaf.  (A pinnately compound leaf, for my botanically-inclined friends.)

Anybody know what flower comes from this?  It's rather poetically titled.

(I'll treat you at Starbucks if you can tell me the answer.  But I doubt anybody can guess.)

Cerinthe

I love this one.  :)

Johnny-Jump-Ups...wee itty members of the pansy family

Found on a golf course lawn.  Hehe.  That makes me chuckle.

Forget-me-nots

Proof that spring is in the air...the maple trees are budding out!

And umm, yeah, another proof that spring is here.  ;)

(Well, you know me, I can't go for long without a silly foot photo!)

Hope you enjoyed the spring and the green.  Frankly, I was having so much fun making images of green things, I couldn't choose which photos to use...so I just posted a whole bunch.  :)  Green is such a restful color.  I love it.

Parting shot...

- Kelsey Schweickert

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A pre-sunrise photo

I never really considered it before, but I kinda think dawn is a pretty cool time for car photos...especially with city lights in the background.  :)

Took Heidi to the airport at an unearthly hour this morning, and on the way back I couldn't help making a quick detour into the Oakland hills for a quick photo.  :)  I mean, what could I say?  Blue Hour was calling!

(The car's dark green, BTW...it's just hard to see the true color here because of the dramatic pre-dawn light...)

Hoping your day is awesome!

- Kelsey Schweickert


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