What fun to be featured on The Creative Mama today! Have you been following their 2-week photography series?  Wonderful! Check it out. :) There is also a big WordSmith giveaway there today.

Did you know that there was a contest to win a seat for July's extraordinary workshop on the Photographer Cafe blog?  It ends today at 5pm so go comment now!

I had a wonderful weekend with all of the talented attendees of workshop #2 and man, am I tired!!!  I promise that I'll be back for a full recap and also sneak peeks from this week's sessions!

Here's just one from our "real house" shoot on Sunday . . . Georgia, our bonus "model" and one of her best pals. :)

I had such a wonderful time with the talented ladies who attended the first extraordinary workshop last week.  I can hardly believe that the next workshop is just a few days away as well, with one more in July (if you are questioning my sanity right now, you are not alone!).

Not only did I talk more than I ever thought possible (and I am chatty), I also photographed more children than I ever thought possible in such a brief amount of time. We had our shoot at the "real home" with N. and E., but almost at the last minute decided to add a bonus shooting opportunity for the attendees.  Many, many thanks to all of the clients who came by on remarkably short notice and participated in the pandemonium!  I will have prints made for you as soon as I receive more images from the attendees, but here are a few peeks at what I captured in 2-3 minute spurts whilst explaining my settings to everyone.  Not my normal way of shooting, to be sure, but so much fun nonetheless!  What a thrill to catch up with so many clients too--your sweet darlings have grown so much! Sniff, sniff!

Prepare yourself for the best. cheeks. ever.

Here's Miss E. near the same window at 5 days old and 3 years (and just a few weeks from welcoming a new baby brother or sister to the family!).

Thanks you once again to the lovely attendees--we simply did not have enough time together!!!

Susan Asaro

Laurie Wood

Elizabeth McCormick

Allison Hoffman

Melissa Deakin

Tracy Larsen

Sue Cooper

Cindi Fatzinger

Jennifer Griffin

Stacey Woods

Angie Capano

LAURIE WOOD!  Come on down! (or up, or over!)  Congratulations to Laurie and many thanks once again to all who entered!  My super scientific random method included putting all of the comments that came in into a separate e-mail folder, making duplicate entries for those of you who tweeted etc but forgot to put an extra comment in, and also throwing in the names of those who have already registered for the workshop (just in case!). Add a random number generator and a five-year-old helper and there you are!

Laurie, send me an e-mail with your choice of date and I will get you all set up!

Thanks again to all who entered and all who will be attending.  You are the best!

UPDATE: Yay!  Everything seems to be working fine yet again.  Thank you for your patience!  For the record, I am using 1% of my bandwidth, so I don't think we were overrunning the server.  I say this, however, as someone who really has no idea if one thing relates to the other.  ha ha!  At any rate, we are back on track and all comments through 4:30 were accepted into the contest. Going to the Random Number Generator now and will be back at 5pm with the lucky winner AND a special time-sensitive announcement.

Comments for the workshop contest will be closed in one hour at 3pm EST. Enter now!

Be sure to check back at 5pm to see who has won AND for a special time-sensitive announcement for those who did not win but who still wish to attend.

Thank you! I have been thoroughly humbled by all of your kind remarks and appreciate them more than I can express.

Good luck, everyone!

p.s. Just in case this blog starts acting up again, I will post the winner + announcement over at the WordSmith blog as well (different hosts/servers).