I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but there are some changes taking place around here (and over on the website, too).
Please excuse the mess while I spruce things up. :)
Don’t Quit | Jonesboro Arkansas Baby Child Family Photographer
I’d like to take credit for finding this, but I can’t. I saw it this morning on one of my favorite blogs, The Creative Mama, and I thought I would share it with you.
In the universe’s perfect timing, it was just what I needed to see today. Winter is always a hard time for me professionally (and personally, for that matter). Work slows down. I don’t have as much to do. The phone is not ringing off the hook. I start doubting that I’m good enough to this for a living. I lose my vision. I feel like an amateur all over again.
To keep my creative fire alive this winter, I am embarking on a journey with one of the photographers I admire most, Deb Schwedhelm. This journey starts Monday, and I could not be more excited. I hope to come out of it with renewed vision and expanded horizons. I hope to become a better photographer and artist.
If you’re feeling this way too, remember that you are not alone. Find some way to push through it.
Keep dreaming. Keep working. Keep the faith.
January 26, 2012 - 1:53 pm - Love this print Heather! As I get my business started and feel like I'm spending an awful lot of time figuring out some of the technical things it is nice to know I'm not alone. I look forward to the day my work is as good as my vision and ambitions :)
12 in 12: Me | Jonesboro Arkansas Child Family Photographer
Last year, I was part of a creative group called 52 on Friday. Each week, members of the group were given a theme and had to take a picture interpreting that theme. One post linked to the next so that we all made a circle. It was amazing to see how each of us had interpreted the theme each week . . . these ladies are wicked creative!
This year, our group is doing a similar project called 12 in 2012. We are only posting once a month, and we’ve given ourselves loose monthly themes that we can follow . . . or not. However, we do have an overriding theme for the year that we will be following: family. We are focusing on our families this year because none of us take enough photos of ourselves or our families. When you take pictures of other people for a living, some times you just forget (or don’t have time or are just to tired) to capture your own life. We are all making a concerted effort to document our own families more this year.
Our first task was to document ourselves.
This is me. A self-portrait taken yesterday.
Next up is central New Jersey photographer Kathy Guzman of Roses & Rattles Photography. Please click on over and see what she has come up with for this first post of the year.
Be sure and click the links in all of the posts and make the full circle. And, leave us some love, too!
January 25, 2012 - 11:41 am - Gorgeous! LOVE the lighting on this!
January 21, 2012 - 1:52 pm - This is just gorgeous! The light is amazing!
January 18, 2012 - 4:33 pm - LOVE THIS!!!! Beautiful light and I loved how you framed this image. Just lovely!
January 18, 2012 - 10:08 am - Simply beautiful. The words "tender" and "peaceful" come to mind - love the softness and incredible light!
January 18, 2012 - 9:26 am - Hi Heather! I was so excited to see this lovely picture of you! I get all your posts via my inbox because I am subscribed. You taught me how to shoot in manual in 2010 with those lessons/posts you had. I will always credit you for that and follow your work!
January 18, 2012 - 9:26 am - Love it! Gorgeous!
January 18, 2012 - 3:37 am - Love it Heather! Gorgeous light!!!!!!!
January 18, 2012 - 3:54 am [...] on over to the talented Heather Owens Photography to see her first 12 in 2012 post. Be sure and click the links in all of the posts and make the [...]
Today | Jonesboro Arkansas Child Photographer
This is what it looks like at my house today. Right now.
The girls are out of school for MLK, Jr., Day, so we’re still in our pajamas.
The 8yo had a friend sleep over last night. They’ve only communicated via text. And, played Temple Run.
We *might* have one (or three) too many electronic devices in our house.
Sigh.
And, no, I have no idea what is on the 8yo’s forehead. Hopefully, it wasn’t caused by sleeping face-down on her iPod.
Twenty-Eleven | Jonesboro Arkansas Child Family Photographer
Even though I own a ridiculous amount of expensive picture-taking equipment, my favorite way to capture images of my family is with my iPhone. I always have it with me, and isn’t that the best kind of camera . . . the one you have with you?!?!
Aside from being handy, I am in love with the grainy, not-quite-in-focus images with wonky exposure that my iPhone produces. I love the images even more when I process them with the Instagram app. I swoon over Polaroid images (ahem, gift idea anyone), and with Instagram, it’s almost like having a digital Polaroid in my pocket.
Here are a few of my favorite iPhone captures from 2011.
Enjoy.
If you don’t have Instagram yet, do yourself a favor and get it. I promise you’ll love it, too.
Samuel, Beau, & Jewels | Weiner Arkansas Child Family Photographer
Loved this session . . . loved this family!
Winter Minis | Jonesboro Arkansas Baby Child Photographer
Baby, it’s cold outside! Which is why I’m offering very limited indoor winter minis . . .
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