Trying out the Sr. Photos

Well... as fun as weddings can be, it was really nice to sneak in a Sr. Photo shoot this past week. A couple of my lifeguards are getting ready to turn seniors in high school and I'm coming in handy for them, as they are coming in handy for a nice bunch of models. Crazy, how we were once seniors and now here it is, done with high school and college. HA! But to be honest...it was really fun! We had a blast... but we got rained out about 30 mins. in, so we will have to do more again. She was a bit shy at first, but really started to warm up. I'm adding just a couple... I haven't had much time to work on them due to all the wedding editing we are still working on before our big overload coming August! Agghhh...

Tyler and Rachel

Sunday was my productive day, not only did I get our new logo done... but I also had a photo session with Tyler and Rachel... plus I worked on all their photos! I was probably the laziest ever though... sitting at the computer almost all day long. Yikes... good think I'm working out the rest of the week!!! ha! But we went to the place where we got our wedding photos done, so we were somewhat familiar with the location. It was quite toasty outside though, but we had a great time. Tyler and Rachel are getting married in August and Todd and I went to school with both... Tyler actually roomed with Todd his last yr. at IWU. Fun times! But we had a wonderful time, and it's always nice to see old friends. We are excited for their wedding!!!

New Veldman Photo Logo

Well... I worked really hard yesterday (Sunday) on a ton of stuff to get caught up. One of the projects was to make a new logo for "Veldman Photo" our new business name, so we could make business cards and put it on our site. I was picturing a really cool logo, possibley with a signature, similar to how A. Faunce Photography was.... but no luck. Could not get one that I liked. Sooo... I played around with some other stuff and to be honest I'm not exactly a wizzzz at Adobe Illustrator so I had to just play with the fonts and came up with this.....



Let me know your thoughts. We put it on our website, but it's just a little different due to some problems we kept having.

Balloon Fest!

I forgot to post this a few weeks ago, but we've been super busy lately that to be honest I haven't had any spare time to. But Todd is running late from work so I have a few minutes before the big fireworks display tonight in Birmingham. Anyways... a few weeks ago Todd and I went out to this Balloon show, or whatever you call it. There were like 40 different balloons, each of them were so unique. We had a great spot we parked at and just watched them lift off.... one after another after another after another... we didn't know how many their were at first. I was imagining maybe 5 or so... but turns out it was more towards 40 than 5. Haha! Here are some of the lovely photos. It was a gorgeous evening as well... so the sky was awesome! But I realize how hard it is to take some photos from down below. The one with the cat face was my favorite... so cool!



That's me being funny, of course...haha!

Matt and April (Tanner) Vassau

We got the oppurtunity to shoot another good friend of ours wedding. Boy was it nice to see them. We actually haven't seen April (Tanner) and Matt since our wedding back in November. That's been awhile, but it was a great day! Their wedding was in the suburbs of Chicago at this beautiful mansion. The ceremony was outdoors, and a morning wedding @10am. It was ABSOLUTELY gorgeous! The weather was perfect, and so was the couple. They were so happy, and it was nice to see another one of our friends get married. I was double excited to not only photograph a friend, but with my NEW LENS. I was amazed by the difference a piece of glass can make. I am attaching just some random shots that I took. I'm still overloaded with two other weddings, busy with my job at Lifetime since it's summer we are super busy, plus working on our front room, and trying to keep up with daily household tasks, PLUS... trying to keep my garden up. Agghhh... I don't have time for it all. But soon enough I hope it all slows down so I can actually feel like I'm accomplishing things. Ha!... anyways... all in all it was a great day!