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Precious Katy & Houston Babies...
Last week I had the opportunity to photograph baby Baxter and his mom. This was Baxter's first professional photography session. Just shy of six months, a perfect time to have your baby's first portraits done if you missed the newborn time (0-3mo). Six months old - curious expressions and melt your heart smiles! Not quite yet sitting up on his own (capture that time around 9 months) but he loved standing in moms lap. Check out those litte cubby legs - love it!
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We gave Baxter a work out and he did fall asleep so we could capture those beatiful baby portraits of him sleeping cuddled up to mom. Generally speaking, I love to photograph the babies at 3-4 months so we can get the sleeping portraits as they stay asleep longer and you can manipulate them without waking them. The closer your baby get to 6 months we may or may not get the sleeping baby photos. We were blessed that we tired sweet baby boy Baxter out!
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Important times to capture your babies first year - Newborn Portraits, 3 month portraits, 6 month portraits, 9 month portraits and the One Year Portrait session. See my Resources page on my website for more information.
I like to think of it this way...
Newborn - Mom & Dad included
3-4 months pushing up & sleeping shots
6-9 months sitting up on their own
1 yr standing & eating CAKE!
Enjoy the photos of some of my babies from the Katy & Houston Texas Areas by viewing my baby section on my website!
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Last week my daughter Brianna and I had the opportunity to go camping at Enchanted Rock. This is one place that we have wanted to go hiking. Packing up our backpacks with all the necessary gear - we headed off for a two night adventure camping in the back country at this state park. We put in almost 15 miles exploring the area, hiking the trails and enjoying lunch at the top of Enchanted Rock.
First night no problems. The second night - was an adventure! Now anyone who has camped in the back country know you have critters that are looking for an easy meal. Experienced campers we are no food in our tents - hung our food in a bag hanging from a tree. High enough off the ground and low enough that a critter in the tree couldn't get into it.
It's about 11:30 pm - Brianna in a deep sleep and me just about to nod off hear a large thump on the side of the tent. It almost sounded like a rock was thrown at the side of the tent. Night vision - I sat up to see the face of a racoon peering inside! The rain flap on our tent is only about 3 inches from the ground - that curious fat critter crawled under the flap hence the loud sound! I hit the side of the tent and hissed at this critter and thankfully he left. With our hearts pounding we lay close to one another bundled up in our sleeping bags. We listened to him try to get into our hanging bag of treats - he was unsuccessful and after about an hour - we were back into a peaceful slumber.
Here are a few shots taken from my lightweight Cybershot. Enjoy!
-Sherry
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What a great Portrait Special! Now through November, I am offering a free upgrade to a Masters Canvas on all wall portraits 20" and above. Book and pre-pay your session fee by November 2009 for Fall 2009 or Spring Portraits 2010 and you only pay ½ session fee! Pre-pay by the end of November for 24" and above wall portrait and get 20% off! What a deal and potential Gift to give Mom for the Holidays! Call today for more information 281.660.5532.
What a busy fall! Realizing that I haven’t posted anything to my blog since August and it’s almost November, I knew I was way overdue to update my followers.
September was pretty busy here at PICHE photography. I am happy to announce I now offer custom framing! Something I’ve been working on for a few months.
I also kept busy the past two months with a few Pregnancy sessions, several high school seniors, Eagle Scout Portraits, and a few baby and newborn sessions. Throw in some volunteer work for Taylor High School Choral Department and the Taylor High School Band Department - two months flew right by. Here are just a few sessions that kept me busy.
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Here is a poster that I photographed and designed for THS Expressions. They are a show choral group and their performance was awesome! What a great group of kids to work with.
That's all for now. I'm working on a new project and joint marketing program for a comercial client that has me really excited. If all goes well, I'll post that info later! Enjoy this beautiful weather!
Wow, I can't believe we actually took a month long vacation. That is the first time ever we had the guts to take that much time off. We headed out on our wonderful adventure July 14th and finally returned home on August 15th. Over 4800 miles were logged on our 1996 Ford 250 Van.
Our first destination was to head to the mountains to find some cooler air. We ended up at Queen Wilhelmina State park in Mena Arkansas. It is the second highest mountain in AR and it was great to escape the blistering summer heat. The next night, we camped about 1 hour away from Memphis. It was hot and we were blasted by hungry mosquitoes as we set up camp. After putting on the trusty "Off", we were serenaded by our daughter Melanie as she played her guitar. Great night sleep in our air conditioned tent. Only one night there then off to our next destination "Graceland" in TN.
I was young when Elvis died and thought at the time he was old. It struck me to learn that he was only 42 when he died. We toured the mansion as we listened to all the facts and information given to us via recorded headsets. My favorite room was the Racquetball room that had all of Elvis’s awards, gold records, guitars, and costumes. Truly amazing how this one man gained so much popularity in a day and age where there was only three main TV networks and there was no such thing as the internet. He accomplished so much only to leave the earth at such a young age.
From Memphis, our next destination was Nashville. We had every intention to hit some touristy sites but with the long drive and after visiting Graceland we decided we’d save that for the next time we’re in the area. We found a private campground on Percy Priest Lake in Nashville. This camp was really awesome. A cold front came through and lucky for us as there was no electricity for our air conditioner. The camp site was right on the water and it was so beautiful. We felt like we were there all by ourselves albeit the campground was quite full. Best campsite so far. Melanie was so inspired by this location she composed a new song about camping in Nashville. Again, only one night there and off to some real mountains – The Smoky Mountains.
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What an adventure…trying to get to the Smoky Mountains was hilarious. Driving through Pigeon Forge was something else. Guy referred to it as Penguin run. I think we hit every red light. Seemed like it took forever. Gatlinburg was almost the same. I never thought this would be so touristy. Every other street corner was a restaurant with "Pancakes" signs. Melanie made the comment that people must eat a lot of pancakes in Gatlinburg. Finally we plowed forward and ended up at Smokemont National campground. All sites full, except for the handicap site we had reserved for the following night. Sweet, we were in! It was so much cooler, about 68 degrees from the normal 80’s. We actually were a bit chilly! We explored a bit of Gatlinburg on day 2 but couldn’t wait to get back into the mountains and visited some of the overlooks in the park. We totally were relaxed now but also were looking forward to spending time on the beach. Off to Topsail, NC.
A long drive from the Smoky’s to Topsail, but so worth it. Meeting up with family in this great rental home with a beautiful view of the Atlantic ocean. So beautiful! We took one day out and went to some local wineries. Muscadine wines. I now know I do not favor Muscadine wines. In Topsail I also had the opportunity to photograph my niece Kelly for her high school senior portraits. She also was with her best friend Molly so we did a few "friends" shots. Sweet girls and we had so much fun! Here are a few shots from that session.
We left Topsail on a Saturday and headed to Yorktown, VA to visit with more of Guy’s family. We visited Colonial Williamsburg and old Yorktown. So much history all around that area. Again, we took one day and went to some wineries in Charlottesville, VA. My favorite one was Jefferson. Loved how they had the wines displayed and they had an awesome Chardonnay. Beautiful area and great wines!
Not letting any dust settle under our feet, we were off again headed to Northern Virginia, Fairfax Station once again to meet up with family. We celebrated Guy’s birthday at the local watering hole "Fat Tuesday’s". It reminded me of "Cheers". All the locals come gather to share a cold one or two. We were welcomed there like we were family. Really nice people and a great hangout. We also made a few day trips to our Nations Capitol and Annapolis, MD.
On a Sunday morning we packed all our gear and headed to another family vacation home on Smith Mountain lake. This was an absolute blast as Guy and his three brothers were all together on vacation. The first time in many years. The home has about one hundred steps from the house down to the lake but the guy’s carefully brought Guy down so we could all go on the boat. Guy took the captain’s seat and off we were for a seven hour tour of the lake. It was awesome to see Guy really relax driving the boat and smoking a cigar.
Three days on Smith Mountain lake and our journey back to Houston has now begun. We really wanted to spend two more nights in the Smoky’s so we chose a camp that was really out of the way. Cataloochee National campground. Driving through 12 miles of curvy dirt roads and white knuckles later, we arrived about 3pm to find only three of the 24 sites open. Within hours of arriving, the site was full. This was on a Wednesday too. A lot of the locals like to come camp at this site because not many tourists go there. The people were so friendly offering us dry wood for our fire. We stayed for two nights and explored the area and saw beautiful Elk and even a baby black bear. The park ranger told us all about the Elk community and how successful introducing Elk to the Smoky’s has been. Beautiful animal.
As we said our goodbyes to the Mountains, we were off once again on a twelve hour trip headed to Baton Rouge - LSU. Brianna found a ride back home so we had the opportunity to visit with Justin and get him set up in his new apartment. We arrived back home Saturday night and were greeted by Brianna’s smiling face. She and I turned around on Sunday and headed back to LSU to get her set up and settled in her apartment. Boy that was exhausting.
In reflecting back on our trip, we had so much fun camping and visiting with family. We now wish we took more time out when the kids were little to camp. We realized how inexpensive it can be when you have the right gear. We are already thinking about our next adventure. Definitely we’ll pick the mountains again. Perhaps it’ll be Yellowstone.
