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Dawn and Leland // NW Arkansas Portrait Photographer

Erika — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 05:37:12 +0000

If you are a facebook fan of ours (if you aren’t you should be sure to go look us up!!! ) you most likely noticed that I made a post of how pathetic I thought it was that my parents don’t have good pictures of themselves and I am a professional photographer…….problem solved!

Introducing my parents! :) I know they will be so excited!!! ha ha ha ha ha ha

I might be just a bit biased but I think my mom is beautiful! :)

One thing I’ve learned from my parents is that as husband and wife it’s important to show affection to one another in front of your kids. The reason I think this is so important is because it proved to me that my parents loved each other! Simple as it may sound I know several couples that don’t show affection to one another and you wonder….. Thanks you two!

My stepdad (AKA “Papa” which is short for “Papa Coach”) was so proud of his Jack Purcell’s which is pretty much an old school version of our Converse. In fact he special ordered these to wear to his 50 year high school reunion! Mom said he wasn’t going to wear them unless the tip was navy blue color! Wow talk about exact!

This I think is my favorite shot of the day! My mom looks great!

LOVE!

I hope you two had fun on our little session! I know it was a memory making experience! I just want to say thank you so much for being great parents for me and also grandparents for little Titan! I’m so proud of you mom for going back to school! You really are amazing! I love you guys so much!

Enjoy!

-erika

Something BIG happened last night!!!!

Erika — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:30:16 +0000

And like I promised…………something BIG happened last night!!!!!!!

He set everything up prior and went all out with flower petals, tons of candles, and a cabin at Devil’s Den!!!

Then blindfolded her the entire way there!!! Perfect!

SHE SAID YES!!!!!!! SHE SAID YES!!!!!! (She also said “Oh my G, Oh my G, Oh my G about 20 times!!!) Well she said the full word but I’m editing it for my blog post! :) Congratulations you two!!!!

TANJA IS ENGAGED!!!! TO AN ENGLISH BOY!!!! (if you didn’t know Tanja is our associate photographer!!!!)

I’m super excited for them!!!! I hid with a friend who was video taping and I was shooting. It was super super super dark and not the best conditions but I’m sure she’ll be excited to have something!

Monday Favorites

Erika — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:43:02 +0000

I think I may try to do a Monday Favorites weekly!!! Bear with me! Also today is the start of my 365 so be watching for that later, I’ve got to plan what my first image is going to be otherwise no one will be interested and it also needs to be in it’s own category I believe.

So everyone knows I love love love Etsy. I found this sellers site today and fell in love so I wanted to share a few items with you!

Any kind of headpieces are so cute and super stylish right now! They show a cute idea to have a bridal one as well as ones for each of your bridesmaids!!! Super Cute!!!! I love when my clients take the time to plan for little details like this! The more you go out of your way to be original the better photos you have!!!!

She can even match a set for the bride and groom!!!! How sweet is that!!!

Wow this girl is rockin! She even makes shoe clips!!! What a great idea to jazz up some shoes for your wedding but still be able to wear them after the big day!!!!

I love her shoulder wraps here! What a great idea for a winter wedding! Well any season this would be so romantic and gorgeous, it’s just a little extra warmth for our winter brides!!! :)

These little stickers are super customizable and quickly and easily jazz up your party favors!!! Super cute! Again things like these make your wedding photos that much better!!! :)

These shoe clips are really fun too! These have more of a feather feel than the earlier posted ones! I like how they again add some flair to some plain shoes!!!

Arkansas Senior Portraits

Erika — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:09:45 +0000

Heyyyyyyy everybody it’s Tanja!

First off I’d like to start off with saying what a gorgeous day today was, fall is so amazing isn’t it?

I had the pleasure of being a second shooter for Senior Portraits with Erika. I learned a great deal of new tips and tricks.

Meet Chase our Senior from Huntsville. He wants to major in Psychology and he’s almost narrowed his choices down to UCA, UAFS and UofA. Good luck Chase we all know how hard it is to decide. We know you’ll choose whats best for you though. As once famous psychologist Carl Jung once said :

” Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”

Thanks for being so much fun and easy to shoot and extra thanks for the patience. Looooved the hat!

Here’s a sneak peak at what Erika has taught me so far ….

Erika WOULD find this cool place you can see my yard from here and I would have never thought of this. Once again lesson learned.

Erika being awesome and finding this cool chair for starters and then Chase being silly and showing us the hole in his shoe.

Hope everyone is having a great week.

Keep checking the blog. We’ll keep you posted

Peace & Love

-Tanja