Scavenger Hunt Sunday

Oh it has been WAY too long since I have done a scavenger hunt! I am so excited to be back at it!!  I have missed it! :) I love Ashley and her blog and I have missed her while I have been gone! and I can't wait to participate more in her link ups! :)


So here we go!


1. Hidden

The rest of my little girl is hidden behind all those ruffles! :)





2. Plain

OK there is nothing "plain" about my baby girl except that she is "plain" naked! :)








3. Left

she is on my left shoulder)

A selfie while hanging out in her nursery

4. Fast

She is 1 month old on Sunday! Seriously she is growing up WAY TO FAST! :)







5. Peace

She is so peaceful here. :)




Ok so I had to stretch for these. but I just love taking pictures of my beautiful baby girl! :)

Im going to be an aunt in a few weeks!

I'm not sure how much I have talked about my sister, Randi, on the blog, but she is my best friend. Her and I are super close! She struggled with infertility for 5 years, and I struggled for 2 years. I got pregnant, and about 5 weeks later my sister found out she was pregnant!! It was AMAZING!! Something we knew was 10000% God!! Only God could have planned something so perfect! Well my sister is now 2 weeks away from giving birth (well roughly-she is 38 weeks!) I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!! 1. that means Adeline is 4 weeks old (OMG!!) and 2. I GET TO MEET MY NIECE SOON!!! I CAN"T WAIT!!! I know I am going to love my niece so much and I cant wait to hold her and to see what she looks like! (PS right now I am bouncing my daughter in my lap, typing and trying to "shhhh" TRY IT! IT IS EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO TYPE WORDS AND SAY "SHHHHH" HAHA)

Anyways last Sunday I took her maternity pictures at my house, and I couldn't be happier with how they turned out!! It was perfect! It started snowing! We couldn't ask for anything better!!


Here are a couple of my favorites!

I am going to be updating and actually uploading my work to my professional TGBphotography blog soon, where I will post more of her session! So you guys should totally follow TGBphotography.blogspot.com if you like to see my photography work! :) I am really hoping to grow my photography business and make it a great source of income for my family! Wish me luck!

PS- on a totally random note, I really struggle with title names!! man!!

lately

A few pictures of what I have been up to lately...  

I started a professional blog (is that what you would call it??) or official blog for TGB photography. I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE YOU FOLLOW ME!!  www.tgbphotography.blogspot.com

Senior session

I haven't been sharing my work on here as much because I have my website up www.tgbphotography.com  and I also post a lot on my facebook page 

A lesson personal lesson in pricing photography

As my business grows, as my experience has gone up, as my ability has improved, as my confidence has improved I have raised my prices.


 I am not 100% at where I want my prices to be, but I am well on my way to eventually making it there! I am also so much closer to where I want to be than I was a short year ago!

Every so often I will offer discounted prices to people, in different forms.

I never saw anything wrong with that, until lately. I have realized that the less I charge, the less people trust me. The less I charge the less people trust my ability as a photographer and the less they appreciate what I give them.

 I didn't really think that was true until I have experienced it for myself several times. I know it isn't the case for everyone, but a few experiences especially lately has really driven that home for me.( I do have a good friend, that really appreciates the pictures I do for her and her family, and I can see and feel that.  I am so thankful for that! And love taking photos for her because her and her family really do appreciate me and my work)

 I had a session where I felt it was spiralling out of control. I couldn't figure out why.I got to realize they didn't trust me as a photographer. Replaying everything in my head, the whole scenario, hashing it out with someone close to me, I came to realize they didn't respect me. but it was my fault, I didn't charge them what I was worth. I was cheapening myself. Cheapening there experience.


It was a huge eye opener for me. I need to know my worth, and embrace it. When I do that people will have a better experience, they will get better photographs, they will have better memories, they will treasure the portraits more.

I heard another photographer say something like this ( I may have put in Target and Macy's but same concept)  if you buy a shirt from Target for $10 and you buy a shirt from Macy's for $80, which shirt will you treasure more? Which one will you take better care of? Which shirt will stay engrained in your memory?

I feel this was a great lesson for me! After spending a lot of time thinking about these scenarios I have never felt more confident about my pricing,  I am proud of my pricing, and the photographs and products I produce!

I will not be offering such big discounts anymore. It is cheating myself and my clients.

wordless wednesay

Isn't she just the cutest! I have been lucky enough to follow this little girl! I have taken her moms maternity pictures, her birth pictures, newborn pictures and 6 month pictures!! She is just too precious!

photography lately

I haven't been posting  very many of my photography sessions , I have decided to make this blog more about my life and less about my business. Of course a big chunk of my life is still photography, but with the pregnancy it isn't the main focus anymore! I will be opening up a professional photography website and blog soon! :) So you can always follow my work there if you would like to see more of my work! Also I have a facebook page you can see my work as well!

But...

I thought it was time to share some! :)

July wasn't been very busy for my photography business. Part of me is ok with that since it allows me some free time, but another part of me worries and that I need to start working on expanding my business and reaching more people. But when do I do that? Do I wait until after the baby comes?

wordless wednesday

a workshop experience

I went to a photography workshop with one of my favorite photographers  (she was teacher) Michelle At the end of March. It was so much fun! There was so much that we covered and so many awesome stories shared! I can't even begin to talk about it, but we basically started from the beginning and worked through through post production. I LOVE watching other photographers in post production, not because I want to copy them, but I taught myself. 100% the first time I started editing, it would take me 4 hours to do one photo, and I always ended up undoing everything I did, and restarting the 4 hour process over again, ON THE SAME PHOTO!! haha. So to see what they do, and compare to what I do, and get validation that I do it the same way they do, well just makes me feel good about myself, and gives me conformation that I am doing it right. :) 

Sometimes I have a hard time in groups of people,  I get nervous, I fear that once I leave they will talk about how dumb or annoying I am. Weird I know. I am better off with like one or two other people.  I just get shy, and instead of involving myself, I back off and hope I am invisible. This is such a new thing for me, I never used to be like that. I used to LOVE being center of attention. I actually think it all ties in with my lower self esteem I have been struggling with lately, because of my weight gain. 

It was a lot of fun to be a part of a group photographing the couple. It is such a great experience! And I look forward to doing many more workshops, and hopefully developing friendships with people from the workshop! 

Here are some pictures that I took during our photo walk with a "live couple" :) :