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Des Moines Wedding Photographer | Spring Fever

Amanda — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:25:15 +0000

I have spring fever very badly. I can hardly stand it, my husband can hardly stand it and my kids can hardly stand it! My son Austin, who is 3, kissed me with excitement the other day because I explained to him that within the next 2 months spring will be here and reminded him of all the fun stuff we can do again. He literally kissed me as if I am making it happen. Poor guy, there just isn’t a whole lot to do in winter. We are getting tired of games, movies, crafts and going to the mall to play. I just want to open up my windows and let some fresh air in. I want to go outside and not come back in for a while! We LOVE camping in my family. This winter has been THE WORST I have ever seen in Iowa (that I remember, anyway). Every week has been an ice or snow storm. It needs to be nice again! I promise, I won’t complain about humidity! I can’t promise I won’t complain about mosquitoes though. But that’s understandable, right?

Something else I ADORE is photographing flowers. I just ordered a new macro lens for this very occasion (and shooting detail shots at weddings, of course, which is one of my favorite things to do at weddings aside from capturing emotion and in between moments). I can’t wait for it to get here! I also love gardening, although I haven’t been able to keep up as much as I’d like because I am so busy. But I love it! Justin got me beautiful azaleas for valentine’s day and they just make me ache for spring to get here. I love doing outdoor photo shoots whenever I can. Here are a couple photos of the beautiful azaleas and one photo from last spring, in hopes of bringing it on sooner!

It also seems I will be rescheduling my surgery on Friday. I am not getting better, but worse again. Yuck! It’s just a darn lingering sinus infection. It needs to go away! Pretty please!?

Alright, I will post some more beautiful people photos tomorrow. Just wanted to give everyone a little dose of spring fever!

Des Moines Newborn Photographer – Nathan

Amanda — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:56:02 +0000

I photographed this beautiful little guy this morning. I just LOVEEE his hair and his skintone, just perfect! I am just going to post a couple of quick sneak peaks because they are ADORABLE! I will be gone most of the weekend so I won’t be able to blog. I will post the full session on Monday or Tuesday.
Enjoy your weekend everyone! I had a great start to mine!

Business Portraits I Wendell

Amanda — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:42:00 +0000

These are business portraits of my father-in-law. I think they turned out pretty nice. I was mainly doing headshots of him, but did a couple casual photos as well.

Spring has sprung!!

Amanda — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:29:00 +0000

Spring is always so exciting for me. I get to rake out all of my flower gardens and see all the new life popping up around me. I love it!

Gardening is another one of my passions and it is great when I can combine my photography with my gardening! Spring also offers a lot more photographic opportunities for clients and lets me showcase my creativity!

Here is a photo of some sort of cherry blossom bush in my backyard. Enjoy & Happy Spring!