thank you to everyone who entered the giveaway! i’ll be tabulating the entries and will announce the two winners tomorrow morning! how exciting!!
in the meantime, if you’re interested in booking a session, don’t forget that if you book by August 31st, your session will be half off! that’s a $75 savings! i know i could think of a few things to spend the extra $75 on these days! 
ttfn!
my wonderful sister in law renee got married this past weekend to a great guy named lewis. it was such a beautiful ceremony and i was so glad to be able to witness it. and not only that, i got to photograph it as well! i had the most fun time! i love photographing weddings.
and i’m going to warn you, this will be a very long sneak peek, as renee is family and i want everyone to be able to see LOTS of shots. (of course, it’s just a smattering of the over 2200 that i shot, so there are more to see, renee!) hope you enjoy!
*one of my favorites from the day. such a tender daddy/daughter moment.
the gorgeous pair! we actually did their couple shots later that day, so we don’t have a ton from the temple. but a few had to sneak in!
can you tell he’s excited to be married to this wonderful woman? i have to agree with him.
another one of my favorites from the day
this is my little guy doing the ‘robot’. it was quite the funny little dance he learned that day.
and here is corr, eli’s little buddy. his sister, remi, and eli are going to get married. it’s a fact.
guys, thank you so much for a really fun day! i hope you are enjoying the last little bit of vacation before heading back to school. good luck packing and getting all those gifts stuffed into the truck!!
love you!
ever since i started working on this blog, i have had the idea to do a fun giveaway here that really means a lot to me. let me explain.
i have been taking photographs almost my entire life, with a much more focused study of it just in the last few years. i’ve been blessed with some really generous family members, which have given me the opportunity to own some great equipment, and i’m constantly trying to learn as much as i can about the various items i have.
but in all the effort that i had been putting into learning more about photography, there seemed to be something that i just wasn’t able to grasp. i felt comfortable using my camera, i knew where most of the buttons and things were, but i just couldn’t wrap my head around shooting in manual and getting the right exposure for each photo in order to make it turn out the way i wanted. don’t get me wrong, i did take some amazing shots — but i had no idea what to do to replicate them a second time.
then came my birthday this year — my photographer sister gave me a book that i had been gravitating towards for a few months, but just hadn’t had the opportunity to purchase yet. little did i know what this gift would do for me. the book is called ‘understanding exposure‘ by bryan peterson.
let me tell you, this book changed my photographic life. while reading through it, every piece of the puzzle that i had been chasing around and trying to force into this big picture finally fell effortlessly into place and it all made sense. i can’t tell you how grateful i am to mr. peterson for writing such an easy-to-understand guide that helped me immensely. not to mention my great sister for giving it to me. thanks em!
so, to celebrate this new adventure that i’m taking, and this new blog, i’m going to give away two copies of this book to two lucky readers of this little ol’ blog. and trust me, you have a very good chance if you’re reading this right now because it’s so new!
here’s how to enter:
you can earn one entry for either commenting on this post, following me on twitter (@laurellakeypics), re-tweeting this giveaway, blogging about this giveaway, or posting about it on facebook. for each action, comment here and link to your post or facebook link, etc., and you will be entered once for the giveaway. please make sure that you enter your email address when you comment so that i can notify you that you have won.
all entries need to be received by midnight PST, august 24th. once the entries are all received, i will randomly select the 2 winners and promptly send you your prize.
so please, tell everyone you know who is interested in improving their photography skills, that this is the contest for them!
good luck, i can’t wait to see who wins! ttfn!
all images copyright laurel lakey photography
all images copyright laurel lakey photography
in the last few weeks, while i’ve been hard at work preparing this blog, i have spent quite a bit of time going through my photo archives looking for pictures to use on the site and such. little did i know that i was embarking on a trip — but instead of traveling through space, i was traveling through time. i don’t often go through older photos just for the purpose of reminiscing, but when i do, i always feel a little more nostalgic. kind of sad because i know these moments have passed and will never happen again. but also so happy that i was able to capture these moments in time, on film (or digital card, whatev) and now am able to really take time and pore over them. because heaven knows when you’re in the midst of raising young kids, you don’t have time to pore over much!
and it’s also so fun to see how much my kids have already grown. here are some older photos of my now-3-year-old big boy. he used to be a cute little chunk of a baby!
don’t you just want to reach out and pinch those adorable cheeks? i know i do. he was just over a year old in this picture, still mastering the whole walking thing with his little push toy. he loved that thing. we’ll have to get it out here in a couple of months when little brother starts to walk on his own.
all images copyright laurel lakey photography
oh my goodness, he was such a little cutie. and here he is today:
all images copyright laurel lakey photography
things just move along and i’m doing my best to keep up.
anyone have any suggestions (besides taking thousands of photos) to save these memories?
welcome, welcome, welcome!
it’s official! the launch of http://laurellakey.com as well as the launch of http://blog.laurellakey.com is finally here! i have been working on these for a good few weeks now, and i’m so excited to be able to share them with you! this is where i will post sneak peeks of recent sessions, giveaways, and even some tips and tricks on how to get better photos of your own!
and because this is such a momentous occasion, i want to celebrate by giving you an opportunity to save some cash. that’s right, any session that is booked before august 31st will receive a 50% discount on the session fee! so instead of paying the standard $150, your session would only be $75! this includes portraits, bridals, engagements, families, and children.
the session does not have to take place in august, it just has to be booked in august. so you could plan ahead for the elusive family christmas portraits and get ahead of the curve while saving money! but you have to hurry because spots have already started filling up, and i only take a set number of sessions per month (i do have a family and want to be able to spend some time with them, ha!).
also, if you want to keep up with all that we’re going to be up to here at the blog, please subscribe to the RSS feed by clicking on the black and white icon at the top right. and i love to hear from you — the good, the bad, and the unflattering. so leave a comment if you’d like.
and as always, if you’re interested in seeing more of my work, you can check out my website!
ttfn! (which, if you’re unfamiliar with the term, means “ta-ta for now”!)
this is my sweet little boy, who is now a big 6-month-old! where did that time fly away to? i swear, every time i turn around, i’m faced with another example of how fast my life is going by and while I’m excited that things are moving along and i’m accomplishing a lot in my life, i also get a little sad and pensive, thinking that these days will never come back around again. this is my one shot.
and so it with this mindset that I am driven to create photographs of my little ones before they slip out of babyhood and childhood and into the craziness of tweendom or even [gasp!] teenager-land! because i am sure it will be here before i know it. so please enjoy some images of babyhood — before it slips away.
have a great monday everyone!
