The last post ... here

We're so excited to announce that this is the last entry here at http://maryrosenbaumphoto.blogspot.com!!


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A Little Something

We are home once again from a whirlwind trip ~ Nashville, Chattanooga, London, Paris, rain and snow, photo shoots and family time ... it was a little crazy but so much fun! Lots of new stuff to show you all!

Here's a little something from Missy and Andrew's wedding to tide you over until the rest are ready to go! What a fun night!

WPPI 2009

Last week, Adam and I spent our week working REALLY hard ... in Vegas. I know, I know ~ our life is so tough. We were actually there for work, though we found a few minutes for a little play as well!

Hanging out at the Bellagio:


Every year, the Wedding & Portrait Photographers International (WPPI) conference is held in Vegas and this year it finally worked out with my schedule to attend! We stayed at the fabulous MGM Signature which we would highly recommend ~ and spent several days attending workshops and checking out the newest products available.

Our view from the Signature ~ not bad!



Our little industry is so full of fabulous artists and wonderful people. It's always awesome to see old and new friends, and, let's be honest, the sub-culture of the "famous" photogs, the newbies, etc. is always entertaining! We got to hang out with the guys from A Bryan Photo and saw a sneak peak of their WPPI Top 10 which I'm sure will not disappoint ~ be sure to watch his blog for it in the coming days!

So we are home and back in the loop. And, while we unfortunately won't be adding woven photo blankets to our product line, our heads are packed full of new ideas for our clients in 2009 ~ it's going to be an awesome year!!

Talking Tweet

So I was hanging out with some of my favorite people last week when the topic of Twitter came up. I've been pretty resistant to it thus far but my buddy Jonathan from Matchbook Creative convinced me to take the plunge ... so now I'm in and kind of excited about it!




See right there on the right? You can read what I'm up to on a smaller scale than my blog.

For those of you who don't know what Twitter is (aka mom), it's a constant update of what I'm working on, where I am, what chocolate item I'm trying to pursuade Adam is good for me ... you know, the usual!

Here's my link if you want to follow me (is that what I'm supposed to say? still figuring this out!!):

www.twitter.com/maryrphoto

Hope that you are having a great week!

Sweet Caroline

So I've been out of the office for a couple of weeks for a very good reason ~ I have a new niece, Caroline!


My older sister Anne had her first child a little over a week ago (time flies!) and I was so lucky to get to go out to Birmingham for the anticipation, birth, and first few sweet days of her life!



Here are a few favorites from my time there ~ isn't she great?
















I'm sure she'll be making many return trips to this blog, so look out for more of this sweet little one again soon!

2008 ~ wow!!

2008 has been such an amazing year for Adam and I both personally and professionally. We have been working the past couple of days on all of our year-end stuff to get it all ready for Mr. IRS. And while that's not very exciting, it has been so fun to think back through each client that we've worked with over the last 12 months. What a year! Thanks for being part of our lives!!

Alive and Shooting!

I'm alive! I promise! And I'm shooting ... and shooting and shooting and shooting! Whew!


I'm planning a blogging frenzy that will be starting very shortly to show you what all we've been up to. There's lots to look forward to ~ check back soon! Happy Thanksgiving!

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This weekend Adam and I celebrated our second wedding anniversary. It's been such an unbelievable 2 years.




We're so grateful to our friend Jason Wallis who shot the photo above and all of the amazing photos from our wedding that we just cherish. Every time I look at our pictures, a different one grabs my heart like this one did tonight. That's the beauty of photos - they take on new meaning and depth with time.

I hope the images we create do that.

To my amazing husband and best friend - thanks for helping make my dreams a reality and for jumping into this with me. Thanks for your patience and encouragement through the long nights, early mornings, the "just one more email"s, and everything else that comes with this job. I'm so glad my clients/friends get a chance to hang out with you too! We are lucky!

Tired but happy

I am tired. But it's so worth it because we're just finishing up another amazing shooting spree in Nashville. 3 family portraits. 1 engagement session. 1 bridal portrait. And oh, yeah - one totally totally amazing wedding.

We're not even home yet but I've already started editing - I'm just so excited about everything we captured over the past few days - I have so much to share with you!

I'm not sure if this photo from a session on Friday is embarrassing (I don't exactly look very graceful!) or just plain funny but either way, it makes me giggle! Can you tell we've had fun?


Also - stay tuned for Holiday Session information (Southern California and Nashville) that will be coming your way shortly. Feel free to drop me an email if you'd like to be included on the email blast that will be out in the next two weeks or sooner! Can you believe it's already time to start talking about that?

Annie and Jeremy's Wedding: Lake Tahoe, CA

Last week we got to go to Lake Tahoe for Jeremy and Annie's wedding - I know - isn't my job just awful??? Since we aren't CA natives, we took a couple of extra days to drive up and see some parts of the state that we haven't been to - I'll spare you all of the photos but here are a couple of favorites from our drive up Highway 1 all the way to San Francisco before we headed inland to the Lake - it was awesome!

Near Big Sur:


The jellyfish display at the Monterey Aquarium:


We had such a great trip up and what a great way to finish off our week with a beautiful Lake Tahoe wedding!!


Annie and Jeremy picked a gorgeous spot on the northern shore of the Lake. I love this dress shot with the mountains and water in the background:



Annie was SUCH a beautiful and classic bride, just as I knew she would be!




The super-fun wedding party - I have to say that Annie's girls were working it in their pink dresses!!



I always fall for the little ones - these fairies were precious!


A sweet ceremony moment:

There were so many fun spots to shoot with Annie and Jeremy since they picked such a great location and it was a beautiful night! Beach, water, trees - gorgeous!





**Favorite!!** ( I loved this one so much that it's already on the website - did you notice I updated?)

The reception finished off the evening with an awesome party!

A sweet dad and daughter moment:


And just a couple of the many great dance shots that we got thanks to the awesome DJ who kept the party going and everyone on the dance floor!




What a great night of celebration and a great trip. Annie and Jeremy, thanks for letting us come and be a part of such a special day. Everything was so great and big congratulations!!

Mike

Happy Easter!

I wanted to post a couple of quick shots of another of my brother-in-laws, Mike! He's in town for his Spring Break and we ran down to Laguna last night to snag a few shots, hang out around town, and get some pizza at BJ's - yum!


Oh, and guess what? I got a new toy!! What do you think?