About Me
- Kateri
- Transplanted to Texas from Oregon seven years ago, I almost immediately met my future husband and have been here ever since. Married five years with 2 adorably crazy boys, photography has become a great outlet for my creative spirit. I LOVE Photography (obviously!) Art, Live Music, gettin down & dirty outdoors. COFFEE SHOPS. Antiques. Small towns. Big hearts. Vintage anything.I have a passion for people, a soft spot for babies and lovers, and drawn to all things art. For me, I feel photography is an amazing expression of life- captured forever to remind us of all the beautiful moments that make us who we are.
A party custom designed by Donovan: Pizza joint. Lotsa games. Hey dad, gimme the money.I just can't believe we have a FOUR year old.
4.
Four.
Yep, that would be all your fingers minus your thumb, four. Wow. We are proud, amazed, sad, and wondering where the time went! He is no longer a baby- just our big, independent doing, thinking, talking, little man.
So, at his request, we descended on Peter Piper's Pizza with our throng of family for some good old fashioned token-enhanced fun:)
Little man's dream world. Lights & buttons....and LOTS of them!!!!
Avery is great at bopping things. Just ask Donovan. And our cat.
Cool mom....there's dinosaurs on my cake!
Ok...this is the funny part. My little man is such a good sport! In my frantic last minute gathering of decorations, cake, plates, gifts, etc.....the one thing that didn't make it to the car was the candles. Donovan is the KING of candle-blowing, with this huge family celebrating bdays every other week, he sneaks in a takes care of everyone's candles for them. So when we got ready to sing and I realized we were candle-less....I did all I could to come up with them on the spot....scanned the room at the other little parties....dang it, they used number candles (I don't think a 2 would have looked as cool on his cake:)Anyway, he looked at the cake funny and asked for the candles.....I was just honest with him, telling him I forgot them at home. I guess by now he is used to his mom's blondeness and shrugged it off like it was nothing! I still felt guilty so I asked..."can you just pretend to blow out candles??" Well, he did, with the same pro finesse he always has;) Ahhhh. So big boys really don't cry:) Crisis averted. Imaginary candles blown out. Wishes granted.
New crisis: Brother at 3 o'clock. He's in, he's out. He got a good chunck of frosting. If candle-blowing is Donovan's thing, taking big obtrusive licks of cake icing is Avery's. Everywhere we go, weddings, showers, birthdays, doesn't matter what or where, but he makes sure he gets the first taste of every gooey topping:) I love Donovan's expression tho....its just like, "c'mon man, gimme a break - I only turn four once!"
I don't see any remorse on this face.....do you???
Its present time.....and it looks like Uncle Sam picked the right gift from the right aisle in Toys R Us!!
Grandpa showing the boys how its done.
And then they take matters into thier own hands. I never realized this was a team sport!
Four years old.....but every bit a boy. There is more than one way....to ride a carousel!
New crisis: Brother at 3 o'clock. He's in, he's out. He got a good chunck of frosting. If candle-blowing is Donovan's thing, taking big obtrusive licks of cake icing is Avery's. Everywhere we go, weddings, showers, birthdays, doesn't matter what or where, but he makes sure he gets the first taste of every gooey topping:) I love Donovan's expression tho....its just like, "c'mon man, gimme a break - I only turn four once!"
I don't see any remorse on this face.....do you???
Its present time.....and it looks like Uncle Sam picked the right gift from the right aisle in Toys R Us!!
Grandpa showing the boys how its done.
And then they take matters into thier own hands. I never realized this was a team sport!
Four years old.....but every bit a boy. There is more than one way....to ride a carousel!
Daddy brought home some foam from work for mommy- she needed it to line her camera gear trunk. Turns out she didn't need the pieces with the stars cut out, so we got to play play play with them to our hearts content! Daddy tells us these are what the Blackhawk modules are packed in.....but we don't care, we think they have TONS of uses.....as we exhibit below:
A: Juggling
B: Confinement
Woops....
Ok....new plan...
Starrey Eyed...
C: Modern Art...
No joke. They built this one and called it: "Potty a la Mod." My hopes that they will be successful engineers are fading with the realization that they may just be eccentric artists;)Okay, so I am working with my assistant, April to teach her techniques so that she can step it up and be a reliable second shooter for my weddings. She already has an impeccable creative eye and together we read eachother's minds! So I decided there was no better opportunity to get her comfortable behind the camera than to get me in front of it. I need new headshots and blog/site ready images for my profiles, so this really was the perfect opportunity to have a great time and get some much needed material.
We decided to go for the edgier/high fashion side of things...I did not want anything "typical" in a headshot...but just anything that screams edgy, artsy & fun...because that is the style of photogrphy I am aiming for in this business, anyway....little by little.
Here's a few of my favorite shots. Kudos to my wonderful assitant.....rockstar work, A!!!!
We did not plan this shot...we were at an abandoned building downtown and turned a corner to find the message there as if it was written for us. Love it. Too bad though the original "artist" was off by a vowel:)
We did not plan this shot...we were at an abandoned building downtown and turned a corner to find the message there as if it was written for us. Love it. Too bad though the original "artist" was off by a vowel:) The final plus to doing this was getting a fresh take on the other side of the lens...reminding me of what you- my clients- endure to get "the shot." Heat....bright sun in eyes....heat....trying to get my body & mind to cooperate to get a pose right...heat....flying cows.....FLYING COWS????.....oops, no, that was a mosquito, my bad. Anyway, it was an experience likened to that of a surgeon having surgery...a bit hard to let go of control at first, but an experience that will only help me identify with clients during upcoming shoots.
What a team....thanks April!
PS....A: You are next:)
Cindy & Mando July 19, 2008
Its rare I get to photograph a non-wedding event...but this past weekend I had the priviledge of lending my photo talents to a friend's baby shower to document this amazing time in her life. Of course at a baby shower there are ineveitably BABIES....and this wee one in particular was just irrestistable. Thats momma kissing her while a doting Auntie cradles her. Priceless. 
Well, thank you all for being so patient with me this week as my site has been down due to the brand new web design transfer! Your patience was well worth the wait I hope. You should experience a faster more streamlined website with easier client logins and faster preview uploads. I can't say the site is anywhere near "done" but it is functioning and that is the most important factor. The actual design I am still playing with. I haven't fully "hit it" but am getting closer in the branding dept. So the site is up and running for good- but you may log in from time to time to experience color & style changes.
All current client proofing galleries are up and running. If you can't login to yours, forgot your password, etc- please contact me right away and I will help solve the problem.
Any suggestions as I mentioned before are more than welcome. This is certainly a work in progress.
I know it is silent right now, but I am working on tracking down some royalty free music to enhance the ambiance.
All in all....this new website building business was nothing short of a space shuttle launch....I hit one glitch after another (generally self-inflicted in my less than adequate comp savviness:) - but finally through the wonderful one on one help of my template provider I was able to launch.
We have liftoff. Just in time for this Saturday's wedding.
Hooray!
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