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My photography career....success!
I'm on cloud 9 right now!
 I don't know how many of you know this already, but I am a full-time wedding & portrait photographer. Yesterday evening, I had a bridal shoot with my biggest client of my career thus far. (They bought my $5K+ package!  ) I was so nervous. I mean, super-super nervous. I almost posted on here yesterday about how nervous I was.....but I was too nervous!  lolIt turns out that I produced some of the best work of my career yesterday! In fact, the bride, her parents, two cousins, and an aunt came in this afternoon to choose which to order as her canvas portrait to put up at the wedding....and they loved my work so much that they were all in tears b/c they were so emotional about the 'perfect' pictures of Shelly (the bride). The attached photo is the one they ordered as a 24x36 canvas. The rest of the photos from her shoot can be seen HERE (the password is "murphy"...they had to password protect so the groom wouldn't sneak a peak!)
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04-06-2007, 02:34 PM
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You took some really great pictures of her! I love the one that they picked out to put on canvas!! Good job!!!!
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04-06-2007, 02:50 PM
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Thank you so much, Diana!
I've been doing this professionally for just over a year now, and I know I'm in the perfect career for me. I'm still learning, though. This was one of those shoots for me where I have to do a double-take at the screen and say...."did I take that? Wow!" At my studio, we call it the "post-shoot buzz".
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04-06-2007, 06:45 PM
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Gorgeous Val!!
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04-06-2007, 08:42 PM
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Val, you do such beautiful work, as usual!
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04-07-2007, 02:25 AM
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What a breathtaking picture. You are very talented! Congratulations on your success.
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04-08-2007, 07:18 AM
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wow..you did GREAT. I got married in Nov and had a horrible photographer. I was sooooooooooooo upset. I wish I had done more research but my hubby's aunt was our planner and since we were doing it out of state where she lives and works, i trusted her judgement. The wedding was amazing and she did GREAT but the photographer left a LOT to be desired.
I am so glad they were happy with your work. Wedding photo's would be the most nerve racking pictures to take, cuz it is one day you cannot "do over". Congrats on the success, you have done GREAT!! 
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04-08-2007, 09:11 AM
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04-08-2007, 04:07 PM
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Wow..your pictures are amazing..do you do out-of-state gigs?? Haha DO MY WEDDING! Ill let you know when it is..well..Ill let you know when I get engaged first haha
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04-09-2007, 08:34 PM
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 That REALLY stinks you had a terrible photographer!!! I think too many brides don't do enough research - and photography is the most important wedding vendor to pick (but maybe I'm biased, lol.) Perhaps I am even more passionate about what I do because I also didn't do my research.  My regret in this area is part of what inspired my turn to this career field (and God who really just blessed me with the right opportunity at the right time.) Anyway, after I'd been married a while and worked at this new studio a few months, the other photographer took me and my husband out to the spot where we got married and we re-took our wedding portraits! They're AMAZING and I did my hair, etc the same way, and of course I wore my dress! To me, those shots ARE my wedding portraits, and it means the world to me to have them. - So in a way, we had a "do-over".  But generally speaking, the once-in-a-lifetime chance is part of the rush of being a wedding photographer to me. I know I have a chance to capture moments and emotions that, once gone, will never happen again. Doing that WELL is such a rush, and it's so rewarding to look back at my work and go...wow...did I really take that picture? 
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06-04-2007, 09:12 AM
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Well, that bride's wedding was this past weekend and it was another success! I am very excited, so wanted to share it with you ladies. :-)
Everybody went nuts over her bridal portrait!!! :-)
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06-04-2007, 09:22 AM
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Awww what a cute photo, glad it was a succes!
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