LIGHTS - Chicago Area Photographer

The lights at the club last week inspired me to do a photo project with lights. This is the perfect time because we all have lots of lights inside our home. The following photo's were taken of my Christmas tree lights. Happy Holiday's!

"I gotta feeling..." - Chicago Area Event Photographer

... That tonight's gonna be a good night"

-Black Eyed Peas I Gotta Feeling

And it was a really good night at A's 15th Birthday party. Here are the highlights:

What did the highschoolers have at the club to eat and drink?

I want to know who these kids are texting if all their friends are at the party?

"Tonight we're going hard

Just like the world is ours

We're tearin' it apart

You know we're superstars
We are who we are!"

-Kesha We Are Who We Are

"I've had the time of my life

And I've never felt this way before

And I swear this is true

And I owe it all to you"

-Black Eyed Peas The Time

Winter Wonderland - Chicago Area Photographer

Winter in Chicago is no joke... brrrrr.... and just 5 more months to go. HA! We were spoiled in the south for 6 yrs, at the mere mention of snow everything shuts down.

It sure is beautiful there is no mistaking that. For these shots I bundled up and went out to capture the beauty of this winter wonder-landscape.

This will be the first of a series of snow blogs to come.






"When snow falls, nature listens." - Antoinette Van Kleeff, dutch artist







"The color of springtime is in the flowers, the color of winter is in the imagination." -Terri Guillemets, quotation anthologist

"A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water." - Carl Reiner, actor

"Winter is the season in which people try to keep the house as warm as it was in the summer, when they complained about the heat." - Unknown

"At Christmas all roads lead home." - Marjorie Holmes, author

"The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if that is not enchantment then where is it to be found?" - J B Priestley, English novelist

Little Hands & Little Feet Prepare - Chicago Area Photographer

Little hands and little feet prepare for the holidays... I was inspired by a friends blog for these sets of pics. Her blog was reflecting on what it would be like to experience the holidays through her child's eyes. As I thought about my own children, I thought maybe they can't tell me what they "see", but just maybe I can capture what their hands and feet have to say about it. :) So the day after hubby and I set out the tree and lights, I brought out their own mini tree and trim. I stayed back with camera in hand ready to click away and "see".

"Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children they are 30 feet tall." - Larry Wilde, author

"And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes, or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps means a little bit more." - Dr Suess

"It is good to be children sometimes, and never better then at Christmas when it's might Founder was a child Himself ." - Charles Dickens

"There is nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child." - Erma Bombeck writer

"The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other." - Burton Hillis poet

"Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time." - Laura Ingalls Wilder