Ok... how about "Unforgettable Images"??

With Hope's suggestions, I kept thinking and came up with "Unforgettable Images"? What does everyone think? It's short but sweet and then I could use "You're Gonna Miss This" as my catch phrase.

And does anyone have suggestions for registering a domain name? If I finally get a name picked out. I'd love to get a web address registered for it if it's still available out there.

You're Gonna Miss This Photography

Okay, after I finished task #1 today I started thinking about what I'd like my business to be called and I came up with "You're Gonna Miss This Photography"... so far it's just an idea but tell me what you think. I was reading on another site someone that was trying to think of a name for her photography business and someone suggested using song lyrics...

The song "You're Gonna Miss This" popped into my head at exactly that moment. I love that song and the emotion it makes me feel whenever I hear it... I really do take pictures so that when I'm missing the things that happened in my past, I can take a look at the pictures and still feel that connection to it. So what do you think? Is it too long of a name? Is it too different? Does it sound funny if you don't know the connection to the song? Give me your honest opinion. I'm not totally set on it yet but I do really like it.

Here's the song if you've never heard it. It's absolutely beautiful.



Thanks in advance for your help!

Why I take pictures...

Task #1. I want you to think really really hard about why you want to take pictures. I want you to write down in point form on a piece of paper all the reasons photography appeals to you. You aren't being judged or marked on this, and you don't even have to share your list if you don't want. Dream big, be brutally honest with yourself about what you consider the benefits of taking pictures are; whatever it is, write it down.

• I love being able to look at a picture and remember the feelings and memories of that time in my life.
• Capturing a special moment.
• Getting to see my baby growing and going through all of life's beautiful ages and stages.
  
• The feeling of awe when something turns out just right.
• Doesn't take a lot of time. I could never sit down and paint or draw or anything like that (even though I've tried) because I just don't have the patience.
• I can take 30 pictures at a time and I know that one of them will turn out beautiful. If you wreck a painting, you have to start all over from scratch and it takes a lot of time to get back to the point you were at when everything went wrong.
• People amaze me... I love capturing their expressions and emotions.
• Babies... Babies... Babies... I'm a baby stealer and have been since I was small. With photography, I get to play with babies and don't have to worry that their parents will think I'm weird for wanting to.

Do you plan to make an income from it and have it as your new career?

• I would love to make an income from it but I don't ever want to price myself out of the family market. I know some people can afford a bazillion bucks for the perfect photo shoot but I know how I felt when I thought I couldn't afford to capture those beautiful first weeks of my babies life.
  
  I was so jealous of everyone else's pictures and thought there was no way I could afford having such beautiful moments captured without going broke and then I found Tasha. She took beautiful pictures of my baby and our family when she was 6 weeks old. Marrah was crying the entire time and I thought there was no way we would get anything good but Tasha got beautiful pictures anyways. I want to be there and do that for another family who thought they couldn't afford something so beautiful.
  

Do you plan to enter contests so that you are internationally recognized?

• I don't know if I ever will enter contests... it would have to be an amazing picture before I would feel confident enough to even send it in.
  

Are you wanting to be a boutique photographer or do you think you see yourself as more the studio type?

• Probably more of a boutique photographer. I think at some point, I'll invest in some good lighting and some backdrops just for variety's sake but not yet.
  

If you become wildly successful as a photographer, what will that look like for you - a studio, professional designations, and $berzillion gigabuck workshops?

• A billion beautiful pictures of beautiful children... other than that, everything else would icing on the cake.
  

Are you planning to photograph people or things?

• Mostly people. I think photographing things would just be spur of the moment as the mood arises thing for me.
  

Do you fantasize about a small home-based business with just enough income to stabilize your income or offset your mortgage or maybe even just a humble hobby that pays for itself?

• I would love my photography to at least pay for Marrah's daycare so I can work part-time comfortably and have time for my daughter as well. For now, just having a hobby that pays for itself would be great since I've made no money so far... hehehe.
  

You would be wise to explore the photography of others already established in the industry - who inspires you?

• I love Anne Geddes! Even though they are not candid's in the slightest, I love the idea of such adorable ideas for different ways to see a baby. I think eventually I'll have a whole room full of different cutesie things for the babies and kids to play with just to make things more interesting.
  

What is it about those pictures that you admire? Are they technically perfect? Are they effective at drawing an emotional response? Are they breathtaking or mind-boggling? Are they seriously fun? Funny?

• Other than that there are babies in them, I don't know what exactly it is that I admire. I love that they are all different and there are so many interesting things to look at in them. I love that all these neat ideas are out there for me to look at and get ideas from. I read her biography and why she does what she does and it inspired me. I love the images of the mothers and their newborn babies and how they look almost a part of them. I love the colours she uses and the emotions they evoke in people that see them.
  

After all is said and done, you should be able to answer this question for yourself: WHY do you want to take pictures?

• I guess I want to take pictures because I want to experience all the emotions life has to offer. I want to meet families and see their children grow from teeny, tiny babies to wonderful little people to adulthood with children of their own. I want to capture moments that take my breath away. I want to capture those special moments in my own children's lives. I want those memories to look back at when I'm old and gray and to say that I did something important in more lives than my own.
  

My poor baby has a cold...

Well, so much for my picture a day idea... my daughter has a horrible terrible cold and/or is teething (don't know whether one created the other or not) so she hasn't let me put her down for more than 5 minutes at a time if that. My dishes are overflowing out of my sink. She won't eat anything except Baby Mum Mums and wants to drink pretty much 24/7 so mommy is a very tired lady...

I have a headache to top it all of since I haven't drank enough water today and haven't eaten anything good for me since I can't set her down to make something... Thank goodness, my dh went and bought A & W on the way home or I'd still be starving.

Marrah in her jumperoo when she thought I was coming to pick her up:














And about 2 seconds later when she realized I was taking her picture instead... poor grumpy-puss...

Our Event didn't quite work out...

Well, my "Event" didn't really work out the way I planned it... everything was just too rushed and then I was worried about taking my camera with me on the run since I forgot it's case... so I got a few good ones but nothing spectacular but here they are since I promised I'd post em...

Okay, I'm going to try to post more...

I know I've been pretty lax on my posting so I promise to try to post more... I just have a hard time finding time to sit here and go through my pictures and find something I deem worthy of posting (I'm very critical of myself)... I got Cara's family done because she needed them right away for a Mother's Day present for her family but everything else takes a back seat lately...

I'm going to try to do my "event" tomorrow with Marrah since we are starting jogging with our friends tomorrow and it'll be the first time we have done it together so it'll be a good thing to document for her baby book too (I get two birds with one stone...) to show her that we didn't stay inside the house for the whole first year of her life!

AND I'm going to go out sometime this week and buy myself a good card reader for my computer since I hate searching out the plug in for my camera and then precariously balancing my camera on the couch arm (my laptop's home is on my end table) while it transfers all the pictures and defending it against my DD's curious hands... Hopefully, this way, I will be able to try another suggestion that was mentioned in class and to post a picture a day... we will see if I can keep it up! Wish me luck!

P.S. Here's a few pictures you may not have seen yet (bad flash shadow, I know, but she's too cute in these not to share)...