Spring is undoubtedly my favorite season in Michigan.  The early crocuses and tulips, leaves making their return, and pink cotton-candy trees flourishing everywhere!

The past few weeks I have kept my camera close, collecting pictures week to week watching the earth wake back up.  These are just a few of some lovelies I wanted to share.  Many from various walks with my pup Tanner and some from my parent’s woods.  I’m keeping my fingers crossed that my next trek through the forest results in finding morel mushrooms…a tradition I’ve loved since I was little with my family.

What is your favorite part about spring?

For nearly two and half years straight I used to publish a Picture of the Day. A challenge to myself to stretch myself creatively and pick up my camera daily.  I played with lighting, composition, and looked for beauty and unusualness in everyday objects.  As my business picked up more and more, once a day slowly became maybe once a week and I eventually stopped posting all together.

I finally decided to challenge myself to do this again…pick up my camera every day and shoot for myself.  Find something interesting, or maybe not interesting at all.  But to be consistent in stretching myself.  I decided to finally start a Flickr account and use it to post my images.  If you’d like to follow along, you can view my photo stream here.  If you’d like to join me in the challenge, I’d love to follow yours!

Periodically I may be posting an especially lovely image here on my blog (it is winter and a bit of a hiatus for us Michigan photogs).

Happy day all!

(the two images posted are my first two submissions)

It has been a long long while since I’ve blogged any personal pictures, or actually, even had the time to take personal pictures.  I adore birds and every time I head out to visit my parents I love to take my camera along and enjoy the many birds that visit my mom’s feeder.  They hop from feeder to the nearby little tree and happily pose for the camera. Just wanted to share a few pictures of the little feathered lovlies that were out and about that day!

It has been a loooong time since I’ve had the opportunity to post anything personal…pictures I take for myself…on this blog.  And frankly, I think it’s long overdue.  I feel so so so blessed to have such wonderful clients and a lot of business.  But I am also ready for a slower winter season. A time to breath. To regenerate my creativeness.

The other day as I was driving out to a session, I had to take a detour and ended up spotting a field full of horses grazing against an ominous grey, cloudy sky.  I was running early so stopped to pull out my camera and take a few shots.  To enjoy the beauty of one of my favorite animals.  It immediately reconnected me to my absolute love of photography and that I’d like to take a few more detours off the beaten path soon.