HAPPY HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!

…Well, where do I begin?  I can HONESTLY say that today is the first day I’ve been able to speak in about 10 days!!!!!!  Yes…my family has really enjoyed the peace and quiet, but I’ve been busting at the mouth to speak!  My kids haven’t been yelled at since before Christmas.  I have tried to self diagnose the entire 10 days and have determined that I must have had the flu…

…I hope everyone enjoyed Christmas!  I have a tiny gift for everyone of my dear clients that came in to the studio last year.  You should be getting it per United States Postal Service by the end of this week or beginning of next…just a little token of my appreciation for giving me the privilege of photographing your family…sorry about the delay…I’ve just been so ill!  So thank you, thank you, thank you… for an extraordinary year…an extraordinary Christmas season…and for the gifts and baked goodies I  truly loved receiving! (for some reason the flu didn’t take my apetite).

…NOW’S THE TIME TO SQUASH A RUMOR!!!!!!!!!!

…No, I regret to inform everyone who has asked me or help spread this glorious rumor…I WILL NOT BE PHOTOGRAPHING FAITH HILL AND TIM M. !!!!!!!!!   Don’t get me wrong…if Annie Leibovitz doesn’t take care of them, I’ll gladly just hop on down to Nashville and give them an original "Suzanne" experience…but I’m not counting my chickens…in one of my own clients words, "Suzanne…you could really go places if the people in your own town didn’t keep you so busy…" 

But you know what?  This place…Eastern, Ky…is exactly where I WANT to be.  I love to travel, no doubt, but there’s no place like home.

We have an exciting year planned…or…ummm…will get to planning tomorrow!  New products, new sessions, new things at the studio, new stuff on the website, new ways of displaying your ART!  I will be doing some mentoring next week with a photographer from Holly Hills, NC…her name is Michelle and she’s driving all this way just to visit my neck of the woods and learn more about natural light.  She doesn’t need my help, but I can’t wait to meet her and see what I can learn from her!   I’m in the mood to vamp it up, ramp it up, kick it up a notch…do something unruly!  Could just be all the coffee I’ve drunk this morning.

I’ve already got a NEW customer wanting to schedule for Christmas 2008!  Can you imagine that?  I owe it all to my great clients who sent out a bazillion Christmas cards all over the country! 

I have to post a few images from a newborn session I did…this will kick off my New Year’s resolution of blogging about every single session…what a WONDERFUL way to start off a year…with a tiny little baby girl that was as beautiful as could be…and I could hand her back to her mama after I got my fill…

meet Sophia…parents are Kristi and Greg Reynolds of Lexington, KY…she was about 15 days old at time of shoot.

   

   

…and last one…Kristi said I could do whatever I wanted…and she trusted me completely with her little princess while I worked my "baby magic" …so, I had my eye on this little frog footstool all day…anyway, my interpretation of the "Princess & the Frog"…