Portraits by Angie Lane Celebrate Life Blog

I just wanted to put a little reminder out there that there are only three days left to vote for your favorite Little Angels pictures!

To view and vote, go to www.collages.net. Type in the username "angels" and the password 23535. Wait for a few moments while it loads, and then enter the required login information. Click on Group 1 and you will be able to see all of the thumnails. To vote on an image, click on Order Prints and then in the drop down menu for size/price, select the number of votes you wish to "buy." Each vote is $1 and all of the proceeds to go The Leukemia Lymphoma Society. Voting will be active until August 31. At that time, the 12 images with the most votes will be made into our second annual Little Angels Calendar, which should be ready in October. If you have any questions on how the Little Angels program works, or if you have any problems voting for your images, please don't hesitate to call me at (209) 607-2768 or email me at portraitsbyangielane@comcast.net.

So a couple of months ago I thought it might be a good idea to give Kayla a haircut before she started kindergarten. Her hair was almost down to her waist and was pretty much messy all of the time — she wouldn’t let me do anything cute with it (or barely even brush it!) So we took her to Zoopaloop for her first “real” haircut. She did fine — I was the one who had to try not to hyperventilate as they took the scissors to her 11-inch ponytail. But I love it! (and a funny little story — we decided to give her hair to Locks of Love. So I was explaining to her a few weeks before we cut her hair that we were going to send her hair to a place where they would make it into a wig for a little girl who is sick and doesn’t have any hair. She seemed fine with that until a week or so later, we were practicing her letters and talking about kindergarten and she said, “Mommy, I don’t want to go to kindergarten and cut my hair and wear a wig!” )  :)

So here are a few pictures from a little mini shoot we did to celebrate her new haircut. (and a couple of Kaden since for once in his life he wanted me to take some pictures of him.)  

Recently I’ve had several sessions on farms, dairies, ranches etc. and I love it! There are always little nooks and crannies with old “stuff” — the sides of barns, old rusty tires . . . it gives the picture a lot of texture. So here’s a sneak peak of my latest “farm” session. And I can’t wait to go back in a few weeks to do her cousin’s pictures!

I was made aware of a little glitch in the voting for Little Angels. If you've logged on and tried to vote, you may have noticed that when you try to "purchase" a vote, it automatically adds in $7 for shipping. This has been fixed, so you will NOT be charged shipping (since you're not actually receiving anything) :). Just wanted to let you all know it's been taken care of.

This was such a beautiful wedding: great location, great details, great weather (eventually), and are they a great looking couple or what?! There’s no way for me to post just a few of such a beautiful wedding, so I’m just going to post a bunch! Thanks for letting me be part of your special day, and I hope you’re having a GREAT time on your honeymoon!

So this isn’t really a sneak peak since this couple has already seen (and ordered) their pictures, but they were so fun that I just had to post a few on my blog! By the way Ms. N, I just LOVE, LOVE, LOVE that you chose the silhouette as a wall portrait! I can’t wait to shoot your wedding! Congrats again, guys!

 

 

I’ve been taking portraits of the M family for a couple of years now, and it’s so much fun to see these boys grow! And now they’ve got boy #3 to add to the family! I can just imagine how tired you guys must be! But mark my words, these three boys are going to be little heartbreakers!

 

These little cousins were so cute (and such troopers in the horrible heat we had last week!). 

Meet little Miss M! She was only 7 days old when we took this pictures! And she was the most happy at the end of the shoot when she found her toe. She’s got a couple of proud big siblings!

I just love pictures of little boys out on the farm with rustic, old looking stuff! This was such a fun shoot! They let me get as creative as I wanted (and I’m sure they weren’t expecting me to say — hey, it would be fun if you guys got IN the river for a family picture!) But they were troopers!