A Little Business...

Good morning everyone! I hope this Christmas season is feeling merry and bright! We've at least got bright covered, thank you seventy degree weather in December...

I wanted to give you a few important updates:

1. Thank you to Lauren and Nikki, our Facebook Fan contest winners! Stay tuned for details about our next contest. We need to reach 500 fans to keep the goodness flowing.

2. If you need to reach me without actually speaking, please use my email address, brandi_burkett@yahoo.com as opposed to texting. This will ensure your important message doesn't get missed.

3. New packaging, a new blog and finally...a website are in the works! I'm also in the process of designing new packages and a complete product line that will give you lots of beautiful ways to display/use your images.

4. Finally, new blog posts are coming. It will be awhile yet before I return to slide shows. In fact, I'd love to hear from you guys about slide shows! Does anybody watch them??? Would you rather see a show every quarter with images from several different weddings or do you like seeing one wedding at a time??? Do you care, haha???


Instead of an image, I give you the second-best (sorry Joe) Christmas song ever :) Happy Friday!
B.

Making Tracks

Good morning! I will be out of town until Monday, December 6th. If you need to reach me during this time, please message me at brandi_burkett@yahoo.com. I will be traveling to Chicago via train so my coverage may be spotty but I will return your messages as soon as possible.

I know lots of you are anxiously awaiting your completed work and I thank you for your patience. Please be assured I will be working while I travel; in fact someone will get their wedding processed in the Ozarks, haha!

And for a little icing on the cake: one of my favorite frames from Pam and Shawn's engagement session...

Cheers!
B.

C'est Fini....

I've officially closed out my 2010 season! For the rest of the year I will be meeting with new clients and working hard to get all of your images processed and delivered.

I would like to thank all of the wonderful couples I've met and worked with this last year. Some of us will see each other again in 2011 and some of us will only meet again in passing. I'm really amazed at the number of times I've come home from a shoot this year and marveled at how awesome the people I just photographed were. It's been a pleasure and a privilege to experience your love for each other through the lens of my camera.

And because all posts are better with pictures...please enjoy my favorite image of the year. I think it might be my favorite image of all time... Ever.

Cow says "moo"...

In the last week I've learned something about cows. They're nosy :) I've had two engagement sessions on ranches in the last week and was entertained and at times slightly disconcerted by our bovine audience. It's a little weird to be standing with your back to fifty or so cows, all staring intently at you...at least for a girl from California anyway :) Here are a few pics from my adventure Friday at Rattlesnake Ranch.

Happy Mooonday :)
B.

Bliss Baby!

Last month I had the opportunity to shoot Kati and Tyler's cover image for the November/December issue of The Wedded Bliss. I didn't shoot their wedding, but I had a great time hanging out with them, The Wedded Bliss staff and the nice guys at the Gilmer Fire Department who let us crawl all over one of their trucks. Hopefully that won't be the last time I get to shoot a picture from the hose bed of a firetruck! Here are the three shots that were considered for the cover and two more of my favorites from our session (of course one is a shoe shot!).

Thanks again to Sandra and J.C. at The Wedded Bliss! The magazine is on news stands now all over East Texas. Go get one!!!

Have a great weekend!
B.

Nikki and Jonathan's Engagement

It's weird to be sitting here in a sweater, freezing, while I post this July session. It was hot...and so were Nikki and Jonathan ;)