Prairie Lady Studio Blog

Lunar Eclipse December 21st, 2010

2010-12-22T06:03:00.000-08:00

I stayed up all night and it was worth it!

Hello Kitty!

2010-11-26T13:47:00.000-08:00

Playing with my Macro.
Our Kitty David.

Amazing how well you can see me in his eye!

The Heaven's Declare...

2010-11-22T17:50:00.000-08:00

Welcome Fall!

2010-10-06T08:53:00.000-07:00

And the winner is...

2010-10-04T16:36:00.000-07:00

Thank you to all the people who came to my booth at the Arlington Fall Festival. It was a lot of fun to meet lots of new people.

The winner of the Free Portait Session was Loretta Miller. Congratulations to you. Looking forward to doing a session with you and your family.

Facebook Profile Party Images

2010-09-20T20:15:00.000-07:00

It was a lot of fun at the Facebook Profile Party. I got to meet lots of people I didn't know. The lovely ladies at "The Village Place" did the ladies hair and makeup. Then I did a mini session for a headshot of each lady. We gave away lots of fun prizes and ate tons of CHOCOLATE and fruit. Lovely evening indeed.

Here are the images of each lady.

Angela

Destiny

Emily

Jerri

Melinda

Leigh

Devany and Katie

Twins

2010-09-03T19:01:00.000-07:00

I got to do my first Twin Session. They were precious indeed.

Facebook Profile Photo Party

2010-08-31T23:47:00.000-07:00

THe Lovely Ladies from The Village Place

2010-08-26T11:56:00.000-07:00

I will be working with the ladies at the Village Place Salon in Arlington Ks. We will be having a Facebook Profile Photo Party Sept. 8, Wednesday. Where you can come to the Salon and have your hair fixed and help with your makeup. And then I will do some photos of you for your Facebook Profile photo. I will choose the best 1 to give you. To prepare we took a group shoot and some of the ladies got there Facebook photos done also.

Here is the staff.

Rhonda, Marilyn, Tammy, Kelly, Katie and Chrissy

And a few of the profile photos. These ladies are a lot of fun to work with.

And the ad I created for them to hand out at there business.

We would love to pamper you a little on September 8th. Snacks will be provided.

Kay Scott Individual Session

2010-08-16T22:41:00.001-07:00

Senior Session with Allie

2010-08-16T22:40:00.000-07:00

Beloved Session with Kay and Mike Scott

2010-08-16T22:38:00.000-07:00

Part 2 of Nicoles Session

2010-08-16T22:33:00.000-07:00

Nicole's Glam Session

2010-08-03T21:01:00.000-07:00

Cuteness Overload Turkey and Kittens

2010-06-22T21:19:00.000-07:00

I love Roses

2010-06-12T17:42:00.000-07:00

All the Precious Parts of Haddon

2010-06-09T18:15:00.000-07:00

Baby Haddon

2010-06-02T20:55:00.000-07:00

2010-05-30T16:42:00.001-07:00

Keepher and Hal

2010-05-24T06:40:00.000-07:00

2010-05-24T05:44:00.000-07:00

A Guy and His Dog

2010-05-24T05:42:00.000-07:00

Something Different

2010-05-24T05:40:00.000-07:00

A Different Perspective

2010-05-24T05:36:00.001-07:00

Spiderman

2010-05-24T05:27:00.001-07:00

Roses in Bloom

2010-05-24T05:26:00.001-07:00

Roses growing on our property.

Kittens

2010-05-24T05:25:00.001-07:00

2010-05-24T05:24:00.001-07:00

I still desire to capture one of the two owls that live on our property. This is my latest Capture.

A Chicken in Studio

2010-05-24T05:23:00.001-07:00

Her Name is Hawk. She is my son's and she lays us green eggs daily.

What your getting with your Session...

2010-05-24T05:22:00.000-07:00

Here's a little cutie named Caspian that I got to do a session with. She's pretty adorable SOOC, I did sharpen for web.
And here's the final edit. Each Photo is edited before you see it on the Proofs.

Behind the Scenes at the Studio

2010-05-24T05:20:00.001-07:00

I decided to set up my studio in my barn! The doors are very old from our home. Before renovation.
A friends children with a pullback.And what we did to get some smiles!

The final image

Baby Caspian 6 months now

2010-05-24T05:19:00.001-07:00

I did a session with her when she was a newborn. You can see it here... And here
She is now 6 months old.

Baby Natasha wearing the Hat I made her...

2010-05-24T05:18:00.001-07:00

Darling Boy

2010-05-24T04:57:00.001-07:00

Fun hat at the library.

Renaissance Princess

2010-05-24T04:56:00.001-07:00

Feet

2010-05-24T04:55:00.001-07:00

Happy Feet

Mom and Baby Feet

And these are from 2 weeks ago but my favorite images I have gotten of Baby feet. They are my Dear Friends baby, 6 week old Natasha K.

Princess

2010-05-24T04:54:00.002-07:00

First Steps

2010-05-24T04:54:00.000-07:00

Spring

2010-05-24T04:53:00.001-07:00

Keller Family

2010-05-24T04:52:00.002-07:00

Sneak Peak for Keller Family

2010-05-24T04:52:00.000-07:00

Another Session

2010-05-24T04:51:00.000-07:00

Cardinal

2010-05-24T04:49:00.002-07:00

Moon

2010-05-24T04:49:00.000-07:00

Tonight's Moon was a Wolf Moon
Tonight's full moon will be the biggest and brightest full moon of the year. It offers anyone with clear skies an opportunity to identify easy-to-see features on the moon.
This being the first full moon of 2010, it is also known as the wolf moon, a moniker dating back to Native American culture and the notion that hungry wolves howled at the full moon on cold winter nights. Each month brings another full moon name.
But why will this moon be bigger than others? Here's how the moon works:
The moon is, on average, 238,855 miles (384,400 km) from Earth. The moon's orbit around Earth – which causes it to go through all its phases once every 29.5 days – is not a perfect circle, but rather an ellipse. One side of the orbit is 31,070 miles (50,000 km) closer than the other.
So in each orbit, the moon reaches this closest point to us, called perigee. Once or twice a year, perigee coincides with a full moon, as it will tonight, making the moon bigger and brighter than any other full moons during the year.
Tonight it will be about 14 percent wider and 30 percent brighter than lesser full Moons of the year, according to Spaceweather.com.
As a bonus, Mars will be just to the left of the moon tonight. Look for the reddish, star-like object.

The darker areas are known as maria (singular mare, Latin for sea), though they have never seen a drop of water in the last four billion years. The lighter areas are mostly cratered highlands, where relatively recent asteroids have crashed into the moon's surface, exposing bright rock beneath the surface.
The largest dark area on the moon, on the left side, is actually called an "ocean": the Oceanus Procellarum or Ocean of Storms. Just above it, and almost as large, is the Mare Imbrium or Sea of Showers. Opposite Imbrium on the right side of the moon is a triangle of three smaller "seas": the Mare Serenitatis (Sea of Serenity), Mare Tranquillitatis (Sea of Tranquility) and Mare Crisium (Sea of Crises).
Although there are smaller seas, most of the rest of the moon's near side is highlands, covered with hundreds of craters. By far the most prominent of these is Tycho, named for Tycho Brahe, the greatest astronomer of the sixteenth century. This crater is brilliantly white, and is the source of a huge system of rays: bright linear features which encircle the globe of the moon. The Tycho ray system, along with several smaller ray systems, are best seen when the moon is full.

Baby Boy

2010-05-24T04:48:00.000-07:00

Winter Fun

2010-05-24T04:47:00.000-07:00

Winter Wonderland

2010-05-24T04:46:00.001-07:00

More Winter Images Here...

First Boy Newborn Session

2010-05-24T04:45:00.001-07:00

The B family

2010-05-24T04:44:00.000-07:00

First Birthday Session

2010-05-24T04:43:00.001-07:00

Second Session with Caspian

2010-05-24T04:41:00.002-07:00

Can she be any more gorgeous!

First Newborn

2010-05-24T04:41:00.000-07:00

Thank you Nichole for the honor of capturing your family.

Sisters

2010-05-24T04:40:00.000-07:00

BabyJ

2010-05-24T04:39:00.000-07:00

Mary the Beagle

2010-05-24T04:38:00.000-07:00

Childhood

2010-05-24T04:37:00.001-07:00

Farmer Sunset

2010-05-24T04:36:00.001-07:00

Maternity

2010-05-24T04:35:00.003-07:00

This is one of my dearest and best friends who is expecting her 6th. Doesn't she look absolutely beautiful!!! Can you believe she is almost 40?

Also tried converting to black and white and sephia.

Watching the Rain

2010-05-24T04:35:00.001-07:00

Sunrays

2010-05-24T04:34:00.000-07:00

The trees are barely changing color in Kansas yet. I have no fall decorations up. But then I remembered my little patch of Golden Rod near our field. So I decided to go during the twilight hour and see if I could get anything.

Getting covered from the waist down in 100's of stickers....
Definetely Worth it!

Woodworks

2010-05-24T04:32:00.001-07:00

This is a clock that my oldest son is making. It is very close to being done, but it doesn't stay running quite yet. But I love it's look and the shadows it casts. I tried to use my reversing ring but you basically have to have hign noon sun to get any kind of photos with it. And I had time to take the pictures at night.
I used my 50 mm and then cropped in in Photo Impact.

A Beautiful Young Lady

2010-05-24T04:30:00.001-07:00

Shapes in Nature

2010-05-24T04:27:00.001-07:00

I started off with this. I loved that many shapes were in this one object. Then I was taking photos and my son got attacked by this.
You can't see it but my son is holding his tail with a glove.He was HUGE. The length of my sons hand. He bite my son with his huge jaws. So I decided to get his photo up close if I could.
But when I was looking at the close ups I was noticing the shapes on this guy. The ovals, squares and rectangles. These Macro photos were brightened in PhotoImpact to see the details better.
The awesome intricate squares on the wings.
My 10 yr old said they looked like stained glass windows.
Here is a photo of the dragonfly with my sons help. We could not let go of him or he would attack us. So my 12 yr old son wore gloves to help me with the photo shoot. I just cropped him out of the photos. The dragonfly kept curling up and biting my son over and over. But the gloves kept him safe.

Baby Fingers

2010-05-24T04:25:00.001-07:00

Macro

2010-05-24T04:23:00.001-07:00

Blue Dragonfly

Garlic seed head

Bugs (I think they are lightening bugs but not 100% sure) on a Purple Coneflower

Bee Balm

Purple Coneflowers

Summer

2010-05-24T04:22:00.001-07:00

Summer is a lot of things. My beautiful Momosia (sp) tree gives me it's wonderful firecracker blossoms.

The grass grows green and lush. Of course then it needs to be mowed.

My sons playing with frogs and toads. (This one is a frog)

Wanting to see them fly! LOL

And another view for my son! :)

(I won't say how many shots it took to catch him BLURRY at that, jumping!
But best of all we get to catch Fireflies every night.

You Capture/Summer

Generations

2010-05-24T04:21:00.000-07:00

Kitten

2010-05-24T04:18:00.000-07:00

Roses in Bloom

2010-05-24T04:14:00.000-07:00

I thought this was a dapper little fellow...
Why do little men so love the feel of a toad?

Just had to add this little fellow my son found. What a difference in size from that first guy.

A Different Perspective

2010-05-20T16:49:00.000-07:00

F 1.4 For more DOF see Beths Site.