Beautiful Texas Bluebonnets

My first official blog post on our photography blog..

This past weekend, Kelly and I were able to go out and "flock through the bluebonnets" so to speak. Actually, we had a photo shoot in Independence, Texas and bluebonnets happened to be the theme, hence the pictures below. Before we did the shoot, we had to get ourselves into the bluebonnet spirit, and what better way to do that than attend the 2008 Bluebonnet festival in Chappell Hill , Texas!!!! The only problem was once we got into the festival, we saw nothing that had to do with bluebonnets. We expected to see demonstrations like "how to make bluebonnet center pieces" or "how to make Bluebonnet Jelly", but to no avail. It was mainly people selling crafts, turkey legs and Landshark beer which I did fork over 3 bucks to enjoy.

After we left the 2008 Bluebonnet festival, we met up with Tim, Maggie, and their 3 girls in Independence, Texas. We were told there were a lot of bluebonnets in this small town. We finally found Old Baylor Park and several patches of bluebonnets within the park. Here are some of our favorite pictures. The first one was taken by me (Not Kelly).

-Chad

What a weekend!

Now don't get me wrong, I love being busy, but this weekend was crazy! Three photo shoots in two days (and a total of 350 miles!)

From bluebonnets in central Texas, to the sandy beaches in Galveston, all the way to Grandma and Grandpa's house (not my grandparents, but for little Mckinley it was)...

More about all that later, but right now I'm in the process of editing the second photo shoot from last weekend of Kim & Paul and their 6.5 kids (.5 because number 7 is on the way)! Kim even showed me the spot on the wall where she is planning on hanging their latest family portrait. I can hardly wait until August to "update" their family photo and to take photographs of their newest addition!

Here's a sneak peek from last week's session...

The whole gang!

Now what is it with me and getting pictures of kids on swings? :)

Newborn Angel Angela

One of my best friends from high school welcomed her first little bundle of joy into the world last week, and yes, I had the lucky honor of photographing this beautiful little blue eyed, strawberry blonde baby!

Meet Miss Angela Marie!

Love and Taxes

Today is a special day for us, it's our 4th anniversary!

What are we doing to celebrate? Taxes. Yep, we're scheduled to meet with a CPA tonight followed by dinner.
Not near as romantic as some of our previous gifts: a vacuum cleaner (1st anniversary), dehumidifier (2nd), or a dishwasher (3rd), but not nearly as expensive either! Actually, if Mr. CPA does his thing right, Uncle Sam will be sending us $, to make our anniversary a positive financial experience!

Sacred Heart Co-Cathedral

Chad and I have been given the opportunity to photograph a wedding at the new Sacred Heart Co-Cathedral at downtown Houston in December. Now that I have seen the beauty of this church and the grandeur of the Cathedral, I am beyond excited!
It will seat 2,000 people, it is surrounded by beautiful stained glass, and has 8 foot Italian wood sculptures in its 6 shrines.

Chad and I plan to check it out for myself in the next few months and we are delighted!

Does anyone know of other couples getting married here?

Easter Photo Shoot

I had the opportunity to photograph the Phillips family while they were in town this Easter. I'm not done processing all the photos yet, but I wanted to post 2 of my instant favorites.

Little Hailey has inspired me. Watch for the "Holidays" gallery coming soon to my website!

On being MIA... and Astros photos!

Where have I been?

I've been missing for a while. One weekend I had on old friend in town, the next weekend Chad and I traveled to Las Vegas for WPPI, the following weekend we celebrated Easter with family, and tonight we went to an Astros Pre-season game.

I'll catch y'all up on the details of everything else in a bit, but for now, I thought I'd post some of the photos from the Astros game tonight. Chad took some, I took some. We were playing around with a new telephoto lens and I got brave hacking up one of Chad's photographs in Photoshop.

Sea of Green

Winding Up

Hunter Pence tossing the ball with the bat boy

Waiting in the Dugout

This was Chad's photo of 3rd base. I turned it B&W and then added the texture (it's actually green marble).

Chad's photo of Wandy Rodriquez