More beautiful Cameo models! At the beginning of the session, they turned to me and asked “can we take some trampoline photos?” Obviously my answer was a “yes!” :) How fun?

 Just a note on availability: April is currently booked (barring cancellations or moved shoots), and May is booking. I’ll be starting to shoot on limited weekdays starting May 18th.

 For photographers: a new actions and design site will be launching soon, with new action sets and some very fun (animated) design options for your website and blogs!  Check back for updates. :)

Until next time,

MG

 

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The most beautiful sister duo! Joya is a Cameo Kids model, and Clara is her budding-model little sister. I had so much fun photographing in their amazingly decorated home, thanks to their equally beautiful mama. :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 More to come!

xo, MG

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Finally, the models! And these are only a few- I have so many images of our other kids that I’ll have to save them for another post! Thank you so much to everyone that came, and to all the kids that let us photograph their beautiful selves. You may recognize a couple of them from previous blog posts… :)

 

 

 

 

…and that is literally just the beginning. I didn’t make it around to absolutely everyone, as I was instructing, but I made it to most of you to grab a few shots- more tomorrow. I have a couple gorgeous model shoots I have to blog as well, so this will be a busy posting week :)

Until Next Time,

MG

Until Next Time,

MG

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Thanks to everyone who has emailed about the mini sessions! Were you all poised at your computers ready for the announcement? Because the first and second weekends are totally booked solid- and were booked from the first week that I announced them! The remaining weekend is still open (October 18th), and I may open up another date before November to get everyone in that needs portraits. Email me soon to book your slot, or to book a full session, as these are very limited from here on out, to accommodate my modeling clients in my schedule as well.

 

In other news, I’ve been tagged! Excuse my lack of knowledge in this whole blog ‘tagging’ business, as my good photog friend Amanda actually had to GChat me to let me know I should DO something about her tagging me, haha. She’s a fellow photog out in Cali whom I adore for her always being online for me to bounce ideas off of, and to share recent work with! Check out her 5 interesting things- one of them is the fact that her hubby learned Portugeuse (having only spoken English) so that he could speak fluently with her family (she’s from Brazil). He learned a whole ‘nother language, people. I think he earns husband of the year award :)

 

So here goes, I have to come up with ‘5 Interesting Things About Me’:

 

1) I eat my cereal with Orange Juice in it. Oh gosh, did I just admit that? I was made fun of at breakfast mercilessly by my college rowing team as, every day for breakfast, I would pour myself some Kashi ‘Heart To Heart’, and skip the milk, beelining straight for the orange juice dispenser. I still have my H to H with OJ, and don’t drink a drop of milk with anything. Even brownies.

 

2) I have a collection of National Geographics from the 1910’s and 20’s. Something about looking back at the ads for Ford family cars for under $1000 makes me very happy.

 

3) I have a thing for family albums and photographs. No really, stay with me on this one! I know it’s hard to believe that I actually like pictures. ;) But seriously- anyone’s house that I went to, and still do, my favorite thing is to look through their family albums and watch their home videos. I love making family connections, piecing together the history of a family by the moments that they have chosen to keep. Give me a family album of someone I don’t know and I’ll be entertained for hours. :)

 

4) I am one of the few people that I know that drives a minivan, with no kids to put in it (yet!). :) The mileage may drive me insane, but the room in the back for all of my props and equipment is priceless. The Honda Civics are miiiighty tempting to me right now though, as are these. Imagine me showing up to sessions in one of those! Ha!

 

5) My dream is to live on a farm, when all is said and done. A farm with acres upon acres of fields to photograph in, a farmhouse with a wraparound porch, and horses, cows, sheep, goats, and chickens that I can take care of while not photographing in my state-of-the-art natural light studio on one of my many acres. Gosh golly, a girl can dream.

 

And the second part of being ‘tagged’ is tagging back! Right? Maybe one of my interesting things should have been that I’m “tech-culturally challenged”, haha. I tag:
Heather- Fab photographer down in Maryland. She’s traveling up to Boston to help with the workshop, and I’m making her asking her nicely to take some new website headshots of me :)
Erika - My fabulous painting friend and new business partner. Clients can look forward to their images painted on canvases in her signature, whimsical style this season and beyond. I also love her blog- she JUST moved out to CO and got married, so wish her well over there! Oops- did I just give away some of her interesting things? ;)
Stacey - Besides being the master of black and white emotive images, this is one of the sweetest people I have ever met. She’s from Florida, and I suppose one of her interesting things might be that she JUST had a baby girl! Head over there and wish her some congratulations!
Amy - Also one of the sweetest- and busiest- photographers I’ve had the pleasure to meet. I stalk her blog like none other, haha. It’s okay if you don’t have time to tag back, Amy :)
Kyung - Her style is so fresh, fun, and lovely. And I absolutely adore her branding. She’s coming out with a new photo album line, so stay tuned for that, fellow photogs!

 

Okay, and here are the rules of the tagging:
* Link to the person that tagged you and post the rules on your blog
* Share 5 things about yourself that others might not know
* List 5 random people at the end of your post and include links to their blogs
* Let each person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blogs

 

And a post is not a post without some images. More of Baby B:

 

Until Next Time,

MG

 (I just thought of those ‘interesting’ things I put up there, and realized they consisted of Orange Juice, National Geographic, Family Albums, Minivans, and Farms. Lord. I am absolutely the most interesting person you know.)

 :)

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You begin this way:
this is your hand,
this is your eye,
this is a fish, blue and flat
on the paper, almost
the shape of an eye
This is your mouth, this is an O
or a moon, whichever
you like.  This is yellow.

Outside the window
is the rain, green
because it is summer, and beyond that
the trees and then the world,
which is round and has only
the colors of these nine crayons.

Once you have learned these words
you will learn that there are more
words than you can ever learn.
The word hand floats above your hand
like a small cloud over a lake.
The word hand anchors
your hand to this table
your hand is a warm stone
I hold between two words.

This is your hand, these are my hands, this is the world,
which is round but not flat and has more colors
than we can see.
It begins, it has an end,
this is what you will
come back to, this is your hand.

-Margaret Atwood, “You Begin This Way”

 

I love that poem. Its heartbreaking simplicity carries such a profound message- that the world is so big to hold such a tiny, precious, loved life. It illustrates a parents’ job so eloquently: this is my hand, this is your hand, this is the world, this is my hand again and always. This is why we capture it.

And man, that sweet, beautiful poem made me tear up when I first read it. So, to keep things upbeat over here, here’s a song that, well,  Makes Me Happy. :)

Until Next Time,

MG

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