Smokin HOT!!!
Here are a few headshots from the Brevard Business Moms business meeting! I offered to do some headshots of some of the women if they arrived a little early and let me tell you, yum yum! They are so fab and so beautiful!
Enjoy!!
Here are a few headshots from the Brevard Business Moms business meeting! I offered to do some headshots of some of the women if they arrived a little early and let me tell you, yum yum! They are so fab and so beautiful!
Enjoy!!
First photo is Makenzie Lee with Sensaria.
Middle photo is Kim Wallen with KidZone Playnasium & Enrichment Center.
Third photo is Julie Paniczko with Knock It Off Replica Purses and Accessories.
I'm getting a new banner for my blog and website... I have seen the prelim and let me tell you dah-lings it is oh-so-fab!!!!
And yes, the website is going through a mini-redesign. It is just taking too long to load! And something isn't quite right!!!
Will hopefully be debuting the banner this week!!
And yes, the website is going through a mini-redesign. It is just taking too long to load! And something isn't quite right!!!
Will hopefully be debuting the banner this week!!
As adults we complicate things to the inth degree.
This chick is fab and 15. Her work is inspiring. It speaks to me, and the one thing that it really says is STOP COMPLICATING THINGS!!!
http://eleanorhardwick.com/
This chick is fab and 15. Her work is inspiring. It speaks to me, and the one thing that it really says is STOP COMPLICATING THINGS!!!
http://eleanorhardwick.com/
Editing + Music.
I have to have the music on while I edit. When circumstances arise that cause me to put the headphones on - like tonight when family is watching movies and I am editing... I wish I had old-skool stereophonics big-A headphones because seriously my beats are wicked...
On my playlist tonight and most nights until I hear something better...
I love new music. I love hard music. Crunchy. Techno. Soft. R&B. House. Silly... I just like it if its good. If its good it's on my playlist.
Truth be told I am procrastinating.
I am almost done editing my last images and yet I just want to dance... is that bad???
Hehehe
"...You can dance if you want to..."
Here are a few things I bought this week... totaling under $100!
The two frames shown in the picture... cute and decorative need minor cleaning and maybe repainting
Cost $35 for both
Eiffel Tower... found at Marshall's, have been wanting to collect them for years and they really aren't something that is easy to find everyday... $14.99
Two Globes... also a fan of vintage looking globes, again these aren't your everyday decor items and can be expensive but bought at auction... $10 for both
Wood and Vinyl rocking chair to be used as a prop or part of decor, but probably not... $30
$85 total, and super cute stuff can't wait to use it!!!
I felt compelled today to think about why I do what I do.
I love it, yes. Is that why I do what I do?
I am good at it, yes. Is that why I do what I do?
My style is unique, yes. Is that why I do what I do?
I am a photographer for those reasons and more.
I am excited about it. I am an artist. I want to create create create all the time. But...
I am also a storyteller and a visual biographer who documents life as it happens.
I am passionate about it. I don't hesitate when people ask me what I do. "I'm a photographer."
I also do it because I wanted to provide something more than the chain portrait studio experience. I wanted kids to be kids, moms and dads to document their happiness and love, babies to be babies, brides and grooms to feel butterflies one more time, high school seniors to have portraits that they can cherish 20 years from now. To provide something that was more.
Because I'm an old soul and a new soul. Because I make music with my photographs. Because it is where I belong.
All these reasons and more are why I photograph.
And why I love it.
I love it, yes. Is that why I do what I do?
I am good at it, yes. Is that why I do what I do?
My style is unique, yes. Is that why I do what I do?
I am a photographer for those reasons and more.
I am excited about it. I am an artist. I want to create create create all the time. But...
I am also a storyteller and a visual biographer who documents life as it happens.
I am passionate about it. I don't hesitate when people ask me what I do. "I'm a photographer."
I also do it because I wanted to provide something more than the chain portrait studio experience. I wanted kids to be kids, moms and dads to document their happiness and love, babies to be babies, brides and grooms to feel butterflies one more time, high school seniors to have portraits that they can cherish 20 years from now. To provide something that was more.
Because I'm an old soul and a new soul. Because I make music with my photographs. Because it is where I belong.
All these reasons and more are why I photograph.
And why I love it.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE everything about set design.
In fact, one of my commercial ventures {to be played out in the future} is to photograph interiors and exteriors commercially.
But, THIS has tugged on my heart strings... I LOVE THIS... I want to do this... it is on my list of things to do... set design... for photography!!! WHAT??!>!?!?!?!?!?
This tear-sheet is from Design Aglow's issue #7... so yummy and so rich... so inspirational...
Can I just tell you that I have been DOG SICK since Saturday?
First the hubster was sick, then me, now we are waiting for the kiddo to catch this monsterous cold! And it is raining... oh and I burnt myself with steam... STEAM!! Being sick and not paying attention to which way the kettle is turned is a bad move.
But you know what, I got a lovely surprise today! Something completely unexpected, and it was great!
I have been not-so-anonymously following my cousin Rachel's blog here, http://myfirstheadache.blogspot.com/. She is renovating a lovely Spanish style home {so jealous} and I have been poking around to see how things are going. Our family dynamics are not one of "closeness" but that's ok - because we're mover and shakers and we do what we can. Well, she is so sweet! Because when I got up and noticed that my RSS feed for her had a new post - it was about me!
AWE. {sniff} She is adorable. I could probably talk for days about our childhood at our grandparent's house, her cats, and her cutie-patootie daughter. But let me just say that it was such a sweet thing for her to post about me :)
And YES Rae, I will take pictures of your awesome house when it is through :)
Ciao Bellas!
PS My other cousin, and Rachel's sister Beka is a fantastic wedding planner in Philly. If you are planning a Philly wedding or not and want someone who is stylish, fabulous, and detail oriented take a look at her website/business http://www.innoveevents.com and blog http://innoveevents.blogspot.com
First the hubster was sick, then me, now we are waiting for the kiddo to catch this monsterous cold! And it is raining... oh and I burnt myself with steam... STEAM!! Being sick and not paying attention to which way the kettle is turned is a bad move.
But you know what, I got a lovely surprise today! Something completely unexpected, and it was great!
I have been not-so-anonymously following my cousin Rachel's blog here, http://myfirstheadache.blogspot.com/. She is renovating a lovely Spanish style home {so jealous} and I have been poking around to see how things are going. Our family dynamics are not one of "closeness" but that's ok - because we're mover and shakers and we do what we can. Well, she is so sweet! Because when I got up and noticed that my RSS feed for her had a new post - it was about me!
AWE. {sniff} She is adorable. I could probably talk for days about our childhood at our grandparent's house, her cats, and her cutie-patootie daughter. But let me just say that it was such a sweet thing for her to post about me :)
And YES Rae, I will take pictures of your awesome house when it is through :)
Ciao Bellas!
PS My other cousin, and Rachel's sister Beka is a fantastic wedding planner in Philly. If you are planning a Philly wedding or not and want someone who is stylish, fabulous, and detail oriented take a look at her website/business http://www.innoveevents.com and blog http://innoveevents.blogspot.com
This year was a light year for the Easter Bunny. He brought eggs hidden round the house full of money, 3 of them were special soccer ball eggs containing a dollar a piece! Of course, there was some snickering as to how the bunny managed to poop them out...
{notice the tag still on the cake platter...}
the girl didn't wake up until 930... which was amazing really considering her treasure trove waiting for her.
then grandma appeared at the door bearing a gift of a vibrating midget bunny doll thing that played music.
Of course the bunny had to come with her to the Imax viewing of Monsters v. Aliens. We think the bunny made it fine.
At first dear girl found the floppy eared bunny box to be disturbing, until she peaked inside and found chocolate covered potato chips.
And here is the money lined up for counting that the Easter Bunny left for her.
She has a tooth that just won't budge and we were hoping that the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy would bring her multiple gifts early Sunday morning. But no such luck. Apparently though we did learn something interesting about the relationship between our dentist and the tooth fairy, seems like there may be some kick-backs happening...
Hope your Easter was terrific!
{notice the tag still on the cake platter...}the girl didn't wake up until 930... which was amazing really considering her treasure trove waiting for her.
then grandma appeared at the door bearing a gift of a vibrating midget bunny doll thing that played music.
Of course the bunny had to come with her to the Imax viewing of Monsters v. Aliens. We think the bunny made it fine.
At first dear girl found the floppy eared bunny box to be disturbing, until she peaked inside and found chocolate covered potato chips.
And here is the money lined up for counting that the Easter Bunny left for her.
She has a tooth that just won't budge and we were hoping that the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy would bring her multiple gifts early Sunday morning. But no such luck. Apparently though we did learn something interesting about the relationship between our dentist and the tooth fairy, seems like there may be some kick-backs happening...
Hope your Easter was terrific!
http://www.uusc.org/blog/entry/1877/rape_law_afghanistan
This is seriously disturbing.
A few months ago a friend and I were talking about all things political, and we spoke about some marches that she had attended years and years ago. I told her I had always wanted to raise a banner somewhere but was fearful for my family if I did so. Fearful because my husband is not from this country and because I share my daughter with her father and wouldn't want him to take her away.
Am I doing my daughter or the causes that need so much help any justice?
I lead a good life; I pay my taxes, obey the law, even waited in line to receive word that my husbands' residency had been approved, I don't lie - cheat - or steal, I believe everyone deserves the benefit of the doubt, and I don't judge. But is this enough? Should I be punished by fear to not do the right thing?
When I was younger I ran an enviromental club. I was the only active member. Others in our group wanted the credit to put forward to colleges, and I'm sure it helped. But I did all the grunt work. It was very satisfying and made an impact in a low-key way.
I'm here to do that again.
This law that Afghanistan has passed is an abomination to the sacredness of the female body and those rights we have to our bodies. For *ANY* country to pass laws to the affect that we are NO LONGER in control of our body and that any man or woman has the right to make that decision for us, is also an abomination to the sanctity of Human Rights. Whether it be the difficult choice to make in regards to giving birth to the option we have when it comes to what does and does not constitute rape. NO ONE has the right, no one. And to be completely honest it breaks my heart and pains me in such a way that it is almost indescribable to fathom how anyone could allow this.
I can't make a huge change, I am not in a position to do that. I am in a position to make a small change. I can make a difference because I believe that what has happened in the past and is happening now is a travesty to the human race.
This is seriously disturbing.
A few months ago a friend and I were talking about all things political, and we spoke about some marches that she had attended years and years ago. I told her I had always wanted to raise a banner somewhere but was fearful for my family if I did so. Fearful because my husband is not from this country and because I share my daughter with her father and wouldn't want him to take her away.
Am I doing my daughter or the causes that need so much help any justice?
I lead a good life; I pay my taxes, obey the law, even waited in line to receive word that my husbands' residency had been approved, I don't lie - cheat - or steal, I believe everyone deserves the benefit of the doubt, and I don't judge. But is this enough? Should I be punished by fear to not do the right thing?
When I was younger I ran an enviromental club. I was the only active member. Others in our group wanted the credit to put forward to colleges, and I'm sure it helped. But I did all the grunt work. It was very satisfying and made an impact in a low-key way.
I'm here to do that again.
This law that Afghanistan has passed is an abomination to the sacredness of the female body and those rights we have to our bodies. For *ANY* country to pass laws to the affect that we are NO LONGER in control of our body and that any man or woman has the right to make that decision for us, is also an abomination to the sanctity of Human Rights. Whether it be the difficult choice to make in regards to giving birth to the option we have when it comes to what does and does not constitute rape. NO ONE has the right, no one. And to be completely honest it breaks my heart and pains me in such a way that it is almost indescribable to fathom how anyone could allow this.
I can't make a huge change, I am not in a position to do that. I am in a position to make a small change. I can make a difference because I believe that what has happened in the past and is happening now is a travesty to the human race.
I love fresh design that kicks arse. This place makes me wanna drive to miami and sign my fat arse up!
http://www.crunch.com/ They even have LIVE DJ's playing while you workit. Um hello, yes. But noooooh we can't have that 'round these parts! We have to drive to miami... we should walk. Because by the time we get there, we'll be so skinny we'll want to be in the gym because face it, gyms are for skinny people - like Trix is for Kids... Gyms are for Skinny B*tches. :)
Ciao Bellas...
http://www.crunch.com/ They even have LIVE DJ's playing while you workit. Um hello, yes. But noooooh we can't have that 'round these parts! We have to drive to miami... we should walk. Because by the time we get there, we'll be so skinny we'll want to be in the gym because face it, gyms are for skinny people - like Trix is for Kids... Gyms are for Skinny B*tches. :)Ciao Bellas...
Coming soon!!
2009 Baby & Child Portrait Contest!
Jus Cowland Photography and a top professional photo lab, Miller’s Professional Imaging, are hosting the 2009 Baby & Child Portrait Contest.
First, Second, and Third places, as well as two Honorable Mentions, will be announced for each category! Cash prizes for these winners include $2,000 for First, $1,000 for Second, $750 for Third, and $500 for each Honorable Mention. One portrait from the Final Round will also receive the highest of accolades — Grand Prize Winner. The cash prize will be $5,000 for this lucky winner! All cash prizes will be given to the families of the winning portraits. Categories for this year’s contest include Color, Black and White/Sepia, Special needs, and Humorous.
Appointments will be available soon! If you are interested in entering your child in this amazing contest, please send an email to info@juscowlandphotography.com. Each participant will receive a $25 print credit toward any package purchase.
Entry fee is $40 per child or $75 for two. Each additional child from the same immediate family will recieve an additional 5$ off entry fee. Session time lasts approximately 20 minutes and may be held on-location or in studio. Each child is allowed 1 outfit change
Cash Prizes are awarded by Miller’s Professional Imaging.Only children, infant to age 12, are eligible for this contest.
Print purchase not required for entry. Model release must be signed prior to session to be eligible for contest. Prints may also be used for Jus Cowland's next photography book.
2009 Baby & Child Portrait Contest!
Jus Cowland Photography and a top professional photo lab, Miller’s Professional Imaging, are hosting the 2009 Baby & Child Portrait Contest.First, Second, and Third places, as well as two Honorable Mentions, will be announced for each category! Cash prizes for these winners include $2,000 for First, $1,000 for Second, $750 for Third, and $500 for each Honorable Mention. One portrait from the Final Round will also receive the highest of accolades — Grand Prize Winner. The cash prize will be $5,000 for this lucky winner! All cash prizes will be given to the families of the winning portraits. Categories for this year’s contest include Color, Black and White/Sepia, Special needs, and Humorous.
Appointments will be available soon! If you are interested in entering your child in this amazing contest, please send an email to info@juscowlandphotography.com. Each participant will receive a $25 print credit toward any package purchase.
Entry fee is $40 per child or $75 for two. Each additional child from the same immediate family will recieve an additional 5$ off entry fee. Session time lasts approximately 20 minutes and may be held on-location or in studio. Each child is allowed 1 outfit change
Cash Prizes are awarded by Miller’s Professional Imaging.Only children, infant to age 12, are eligible for this contest.
Print purchase not required for entry. Model release must be signed prior to session to be eligible for contest. Prints may also be used for Jus Cowland's next photography book.
