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Changes

As you can see, it has been a long while since I have posted. Officially, my Noteworthy Studio photography business has ended. My husband and I are in the process of moving to another town because he has been called to a new church. This is a GOOD thing! I will still be doing photography, but I will need to find my niche in this new town; figure out where I fit in. I will likely start a new blog/website with a slightly new direction. When that is up and running, I will post a link here.

Until then...

Book now for Senior Photos and Weddings!

Did you miss having your Senior photos made? Were they just too ridiculously expensive? Book an appointment with me for March thru Mid-April to get them before graduation! Click on today's blog title to go to my website to see my portfolio and to view my prices. You will receive professional portraits that will last a lifetime.

Getting married soon? I LOVE to do weddings! View my portfolio and give me a call. My summers are always busy, so call early!

I also shoot other events such as engagements, proms, family reunions, anniversary parties, and birthdays.

I work very closely with my clients and do my very best to give you the kind of portraits you will LOVE!

Well I see that it's been quite a long while since I posted to this blog! I must admit that it hasn't been top priority lately.BUT, I'm actually at HOME during the Christmas holiday (that NEVER happens!) so I'm trying to update everything.

So, you may wonder what I've been up to. There are many answers to this question. I have spent much time working as
the ministry assistant for the Bartholomew Baptist Association. It is a part-time job that I LOVE! I have also been the Interim Minister of Music at church since August. This has also taken a lot of my time, especially as we approached the Christmas season. Preparing a Hanging of the Green play with music and an adult musical was quite time-consuming but a lot of fun. The Lord just continues to challenge my creativity. He says, "Here's something that needs to be created. YOU create it!"  He never fails to give me the knowledge and skills needed for a project and sometimes it just amazes me. Now, on top of those two jobs, I taught a Secondary Vocal Methods class for UAM last semester. That was a new and fun experience! I was honored to be asked to teach the class and am hopeful that I will get to do it again in the future. That's three jobs. Now let's add in music lessons two afternoons per week and doing my photography every chance I get. That has been my life for the last several months!

So what's in store for the future? Even though I haven't had a lot of paying photography jobs lately, I did do a wedding and a banquet, as well as many church-related photo shoots, and I have had several photos published in the Arkansas Baptist News;  two of them were on the cover. I also won a state-wide photo contest! So, I have been encouraged to continue my photography business in the hopes that it will survive, even in this poor economy. My list of jobs is shrinking this semester so, hopefully, I will have more time to promote my business and find new avenues to sell my work.

SO, now you are all caught up!

May you have a New Year full of blessings from our Heavenly Father and may you give Him your whole life -
heart, mind, body and soul! (and just as important - your TIME.)

Summer Travels -I

This summer I had the opportunity to travel to Hungary and Austria!
Here are just a few photos from our day in Budapest.

                                                               BUDAPEST is a truly AMAZING city!

Long time-No See!

Wow! I can't believe how long it's been since I've posted! Sorry. I guess I've been busy. I am currently working on photos from my mission trip to Hungary. I takes a while to go through over a thousand photos. Once those are done and I get some of them posted, I have even more photos from Austria! I haven't even uploaded them to the computer yet. Anyway, I'm working on it.

Stock Photography

My latest adventure in photography involves submitting photos to a stock photography site. This has been another learning experience.  I recently read an article written by a man that makes quite a bit of money selling photos this way. He said that he often submits 20 or 30 photos and only a few of these are accepted. He also said in the article that, in time, you learn what the company is looking for and begin to get more and more of your work accepted.  So, I finally took the plunge, not realizing how much time it would take! Each photo has to have at least 10 descriptive key words. Sometimes that is a real challenge! It's also a challenge to find a photo that they don't already have. I submitted four photos the first time. They were all rejected and I was a bit dismayed, but I tried again. This time, I submitted 10 photos! ONE, count 'em, ONE was accepted! Hey! That means there's hope!! I have since spent some time looking at the photos they have available already. Maybe that will help me in selecting photos for future submission. No matter what....I LOVE taking photos!

Clouds at Sunset Collection

This is a collection that I have started. I'm calling it "Clouds at Sunset".
I just love to see and try to capture the beautiful ways God paints the sky
with light!

Winter Beauty

Here are a few photos from our February Snow.
I think the first one is my favorite...or maybe the barn...
I'm not sure. What do you think?

Winter Blahs

Wow! I haven't posted in quite a while. I am finding that winter is just too BLAH.I have found very little that I want to photograph. I will have a bit of free time this weekend, so maybe we can get a few recent photos posted.  But, I am looking forward to the spring and summer, especially summer. My husband and I are both going on a mission trip to Hungary and then plan to stay an extra week to tour Vienna and Salzburg, Austria and Venice, Italy. That should bring a host of beautiful photos!

Noteworthy Studio's Christmas at Garvan Woodland Gardens

        I have the privilege of going to Garvan Woodland Gardens in Hot Springs, AR to see the Christmas lights display. It was beautiful! Here are just a few of the photos I shot. I hope you enjoy them!

The Blue Bridge

One Swan-a-Swimming

Dancing flowers and butterflies

One Drummer Drumming

The Gingerbread man

Hummingbird sipping nectar

Noteworthy Studio Photography at Christmas!

Can you believe it? Christmas is right around the corner. Have you thought about Christmas cards? I would love to provide you with some lovely photo cards. It is such a wonderful gift to send a photo card to friends you haven't seen in a long time or to family who lives far away. It's a great way to stay in touch, bring to mind pleasant memories and, as gifts go, it is relatively inexpensive! SO....call me to get your photos done SOON!
870-308-2599

Traveling for the Holidays

     As I traveled for the holidays, the camera went along for the ride. I took a very few photos of the family,then I got a NEW CELL PHONE! Well, my attention was turned to setting it up and trying to learn how to take a decent photo with the phone's camera!
     Upon trying to photograph myself, my head always looked POINTY!! I varied the angle several times, but my head was still pointy and flat on one side!!! If anyone out there has had this experience and overcome it, please let me in on the secret.

Noteworthy Studio Photography Updates

I have added a new page to my blog and will likely add more in the future. This page is entitled Fall Foliage and is just a few photos taken this fall in Arkansas and Missouri. I will add to this page and create new ones as time allows.

If you want to have a family photo made for your Christmas cards, give me a call!  879-308-2599

Catching up!

Well, some of you may be wondering what has happened to me. I haven't posted anything in a few weeks! That's not like me. I have just been very busy. I have started working at the Bartholomew Baptist Association office part-time, as a ministry assistant. One of the things I have done is to create a blog for our association of churches! Bro. David, our Association Missionary, needed a way to keep everyone informed about activities in our area, mission needs and opportunities and of course, keep us informed about meeting times and locations. He wasn't quite ready to tackle a full-scale website, so I thought a blog would be just the thing. I have added pages with photos (my photos, of course!) of mission activites in which our association has participated.

So...go to the Association's blog and check it out. You'll need to poke around a bit to see the photos.
                        http://www.bartholomewbaptist.blogspot.com/

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Fall Harvest Festival Photos

Fall Harvest Festival Fun

Today I enjoyed shooting photos at our church's Fall Harvest Festival. This was an outdoor event which included catching apples that were hanging from a tree, balancing pumpkins on the kids heads walking on stilts, a hayride, a bonfire and LOTS of food! We all had a GREAT time and I will be loading the photos on the computer in just a few minutes! Hope to have a few of them posted soon!

A Few Travel Pics from Noteworthy Studio Photography

Here are just a few recent pics...             

                                                                ...a cabin in the woods...

                                                           
         ...fall ornamental vegetables from Mercier Orchard in Georgia...

            ... and white water flowing over the river rocks in                                                     southern Tennessee.