Emily has been telling me, for some time, that she would most definitely need ME to photograph her senior portraits.  So when Emily and her mom Tammy heard that we were relocating, her mom was on the ball and scheduled a session before her junior year was even over! Unfortunately, rain and illness forced us to reschedule several times but finally we had a HOT, sunny day to photograph this beautiful, upcoming Siegel High Senior!  Enjoy.

Summer

If you could see HOW many images I took at this session, it would be a good showing of just how much fun I had shooting this fabulously gorgeous young girl.  Katie is a sweet, gorgeous, FUN young lady who will be graduation from Seigel High next May.  Both her and her mom were just so much fun to work with.  I don’t know HOW many times her mom and I just gasped, we could just SEE just how beautiful these images were going to be!  Even better, Katie’s mom Laurie contacted me as soon as she heard that we were relocating.  She just HAD to have ME photographer Katie before I left and I couldn’t be MORE honored or more flattered! Enjoy.

Summer

There is something you might not know about me.  I have an older sister and two young brothers.  There are four of us, two boys and two girls.  We’ve had our ups and downs, like all siblings do. But without a doubt, we all love each other.  We might fight like crazy sometimes but we’d fight harder FOR each other.  Always have and always will.  My sister and I are quite a bit older than our brothers.  In fact we were 12& 17 when the youngest was born!  And now, somehow, the youngest is a senior and about to graduate.  In all honesty, I don’t believe its really possible – I mean didn’t I just graduate myself (ahem over 10 years ago actually!)?!?!  Alas, here we are, about to send the baby out into the world.  Taking his senior portraits was a bittersweet time for me.  I know he’s excited for all the new paths before him.  I’m just in shock that it’s here so quickly!  Enjoy.

“When you’re down and troubled
and you need a helping hand,
and nothing, whoa nothing is going right.”

Close your eyes and think of me
and soon I will be there
to brighten up even your darkest nights.

You just call out my name,
and you know wherever I am
I’ll come running, oh yeah baby
to see you again.

Winter, spring, summer, or fall,
all you got to do is call

and I’ll be there, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You’ve got a friend.

If the sky above you
should turn dark and full of clouds
and that old north wind should begin to blow

Keep your head together and call my name out loud now
and soon I’ll be knocking upon your door.

You just call out my name and you know where ever I am
I’ll come running to see you again.

Winter, spring, summer or fall
all you got to do is call
and I’ll be there, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Hey, ain’t it good to know that you’ve got a friend?
People can be so cold.
They’ll hurt you and desert you.

Well they’ll take your soul if you let them.
Oh yeah, but don’t you let them.

You just call out my name and you know wherever I am
I’ll come running to see you again.
Oh babe, don’t you know that,
Winter spring summer or fall,

Hey now, all you’ve got to do is call.
Lord, I’ll be there, yes I will.
You’ve got a friend.
You’ve got a friend.
Ain’t it good to know you’ve got a friend.
Ain’t it good to know you’ve got a friend.’

You’ve got a friend.

Congratulations Zachery Scott.  Love you.  Always here for you.

Summer

(Lyrics are copyright of James Taylor, I take no credit for his musical skills!)

So this blog post is a two parter.  First I wanted to update all of my clients and fans.  Whitehill Photography will, in fact, be relocating out of state.  My amazing husband got the offer at an amazing church and we just couldn’t turn it down.  We are so excited for our new journey in life.  ALL of our family does still live here in the area, however, so we will be making frequent trips home.  If you’d like to try to still book Whitehill for your portrait needs, just send me an email and I’ll let you know when we’ll be in town.  ALSO, if you are down on the FL Gulf coast and looking for a photographer for beach portraits/vacation portraits.  Please be sure to give me a call!

Now on to the session.  Imani and I have been discussing her senior session for quite some time.  It finally warmed up enough to make it happen!  Imani is a gorgeous girl with a fabulous life ahead of her. I can’t wait to see where this girl goes, she’s meant for big things!

I’m a planner.  I like to plan things.  I like to plan for sessions, I like to plan birthdays, I like to plan vacations.  I like to make lists.  I REALLY REALLY like crossing things OFF my list.  I like the KNOWN.  I like having a plan and knowing what path our life will travel on.  So when I started this business, I had a 5 year plan for Whitehill Photography.  So far, things were going great along that plan and were moving even a bit faster than I planned.  I prided myself on what I had accomplished as a NEW photographer here in Murfreesboro.  I prided myself on every gorgeous smile, every ray of sunshine, and each and every home that had my portraits hanging in it.  I never would have imagined that in such a short time, I would have been voted Best of Parenting 2010, Favorite Children’s Photography.  I never would have BELIEVED that I would have been voted Rutherford County Ruthie’s, Best Photographer 2010.  I was in awe and amazed by the path that God was leading me on.

Then sometimes things change.

And then sometimes things change ALOT.

As of June 2011, Whitehill Photography will no longer be located in Murfreesboro, TN.

Its a simple matter really.  My husband’s job is moving.  And where he goes, I surely will follow.  As of right now, we don’t know the full details of WHERE we’ll be moving.  It could be as simple as a short move northwest – to Nashville.  It could be as far as moving states away.  But what I do know is, our time here in Murfreesboro has come to an end. In a few weeks we will know the full details and I’ll be sure to keep my fans and clients in the “know”.  If we are moving to Nashville, then I can certainly still have sessions with my clients here in Murfreesboro!

So what does this mean?  Well I have an email inbox full of requests for Spring, Summer and Fall sessions.  As it stands, I only have 2 months to try to fit everyone in and with full sessions and ordering prints, I just don’t see how I can manage (especially considering how much rain we usually get in the spring)  So for the first and probably only time, Whitehill Photography is offering mini all digital sessions, at a very very affordable price.  These sessions will be 30 minutes sessions (not themed for any season, etc) of your choice and with the price of the session, you will receive a disk with all of your digital proofs and rights to reprint those images!
The sessions are only mini sessions (30 minutes).  Therefore they will not be available for Senior sessions, infant (babies under 6 months) sessions or extended family sessions.  There is just simply NOT enough time to try to attempt any of those sessions for a mini.  IF you are really wanting a session with me before Whitehill Photography moves and you would like a regular full session then I do have a small handful of full session dates available.  Please contact me quickly, however, I do believe they will go quickly!  All full sessions will be allowed a discount of $50 off the session fee.  That only applies to full sessions booked.

Below is the flier with the full details.

Meet Caroline, one of my last seniors for the season!  She’s a gorgeous girl and I think we got some images that really represent HER.  Good luck with your senior year Caroline!  I know you’ll do wonderfully.  Enjoy.

Th Sutherland family is a cute, sweet family filled with gorgeous brunette daughters that were just a joy to work with!   The weather was perfect, Cannonsburgh Village in the fall is just BEAUTIFUL and even though a Saturday there means LOTS of other people, we had a great time finding nooks that would be just perfect for their family.  Their oldest daughter Marissa, is a senior at Lavergne High School this year so we took a few extra of just her to highlight that!    Enjoy.

Another beautiful senior girl from Siegel High. I’m beginning to think that I might be the luckiest photographer in the area.  Its quite possible that I am getting ALL of the beautiful girls from Rutherford County as MY clients.  Kelly was a ton of fun to work with, the weather and light was just perfect and despite a “busy” day at one of our locations, we were able to really find some beautiful spots for Kelly that, I think, really highlighted this awesome young lady.  Enjoy.

Okay so you might remember that we started Eva’s session about six weeks ago.  We had a great session with lots of fun things planned and then about half way through it, thick heavy rain clouds rolled in and nixed the rest of the session.  So we rescheduled and it rained AGAIN.  So here we are again, finishing up her session with some AWESOME images.  Enjoy.

Lauren is a beautiful, self assure young lady, who knows exactly what she wants out of life and is out to get it.  We tossed around alot of ideas for locations for her official senior session.  Lauren loves antiques, loves church (and God), and loves all things Ag (as in agriculture) and she’s really just an All- American girl.   So we finally settled on some locations and some ideas that were really fitting for her.  She also wanted some portraits done in her formal FFA (Future Farmer’s of America) dress because FFA is a huge part of her life as she’s a local officer in the organization.  I think we really succeeded in capturing Lauren and I’m excited to share!  Enjoy!

I seriously had SO many I wanted to post but I had to hold myself back a little.

Summer