Friday there was a high school rodeo, and Sunday there was graduation for my niece; but Saturday, oh Saturday, was SO MUCH FUN!

I love taking photos, even if they’re the set up photos like you see from graduation, but when you get to put two awesome, good looking individuals together, well there’s NO way that can go wrong! And it allows my more “creative” juices get to flowing (though the rodeo photos I took this weekend are pretty creative too, I think. But you’ll have to wait to see those).

Saturday had me doing engagement photos for Jessica and Jayce. They’re getting married this fall, and they’ve been kind enough to ask me to photograph their wedding too! It’s always an honor to be asked to capture that special day!

I’m telling you, I had a super hard time narrowing down my favorites from the evening. The light was gorgeous, the bride-to-be is gorgeous and the future groom- well he has a smile that is infectious.

I’ll let you be the judge so you can decide which ones are your favorites, okay?

I wasn’t lying, eh?

There’s plenty more where these came from on my Facebook Page.

Happy Trails!

Also, don’t forget that you can now shop my photos right from my Facebook page, and until the 20th, I’m offering a coupon code, “1500fans”, that will give you a 25% discount when you spend $25 on my photography site (due to time constraints, I simply cannot combine it with the above offer).

Happy Trails! Have a great weekend, everyone!

Gumbo Lilies

I thought we’d do something fun this month, so here goes…

I’ve created a gallery, especially for you all to upload your photos.

For the remainder of the month of May upload your favorite photo (limit three per person, please)- for now it can be of anything! But it must be a photo you’ve taken, and at the end of the month I’ll pick my favorite, critique it, and the winner will be given an 11×14 of their choice from any of my photos.

Eventually we can choose a theme for the month if we think that’s a good idea!

We can all leave comments/critiques on the photos in this gallery, so it will be a good learning experience all around! I know a lot of you that ask for photography help, and this is one way I think I can help!

Who’s excited?

Use the link below to upload your photo. Be sure to include your name/email so I can contact you should you win!

http://www.smugmug.com/photos/guest/h4Ct64/MayFanPhotos

Now scurry off, you! There’s photos to upload!

I figured I could take you on yesterdays ride, so here goes! (Photos compliments of a cooperative Siri)…

Gumpy and I heading out of the saddle horse trap to find them:

There’s some of the girls! I love Gumpy’s ears. You can tell when he sees the cows because his ears always go forward!

And there’s more on our way to the dam:

There’s the dam:

The dam seems to be in good shape. Or should I say, there’s no cows stuck in it, so the cows are in good shape?

After we checked the dam, we rode up another hill to find the cows we hadn’t yet seen:

Everything was quiet and happy when we headed home:

I love riding through the cows when they nap in the sun. Oh wait- I like riding through the cows period!

Happy Trails!

Happy trails and happy weekend!

Brittni Drennan
Kayla
Erika
Laurie B.
And….
Sunnie!

So you girls, need to email me, via the contact form or find my email on FB (I don’t need spammers grabbing it here), and claim your prize. The FIRST person to email me, will get their choice of prize! Please use the email you used when entering the contest so I can verify identities!

To those that didn’t win- never fear, there’s sure to be another contest, near!

Happy Trails, and Happy Weekend!

One of my cute kids checks me out to make sure I don’t have something yummy for her!

There was fencing to be done!

And of course, gorgeous views!

And let’s don’t forget Shuttle, my due any-day-now mare!

Happy trails!