We’ve moved…

just the blog!  It is now residing on my own server, so from here on out… please go to:
 
http://www.willowdawnphotography.com/blog
 
or you can still click on the blog link from my home page.

If the Snow Doesn’t Come to You…

Go to the snow! Yesterday we surprised the kids with a trip out to Wintergreen for some snow tubing. Neither girl had ever done it and we all had a great time. The temperature was COLD and the wind was HOWLING!

It was fun, if still very cold day!

Playing with a new toy…

 
If only I could keep it!  So I am test driving a new Canon 5D Mark II for a friend.  One of the greatest new improvements on this camera upgrade is it’s ability to shoot in dark situations with little grain (looks like sand and makes your pictures look yucky – how’s that for a [...]

The only shopping I do on Black Friday…

is for our Christmas tree!  So off we went to Belmont Tree Farm in search of two different, yet equally important trees.  The first (and most fun to find!) is the Charlie Brown Christmas tree… or rather, the saddest tree on the farm.  The one that has no hope of being chosen by a family. [...]

Wordle.net!

Quoted from their site:
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.
 
Here’s the wordle that was created using this blog…
 
Go check them out, they are really cool.  At least I think so!
I also did one for [...]

Wow, I’m a bad blogger!

I had no idea it’s been so long since I’ve updated.  My apologizes.  I’m sure you have all been sitting on the edge of your seats, chewing your nails in anticipation of my next post, so here you go.  You’re welcome! )
I had the distinct pleasure of taking friends out for an engagement session… [...]

Pumpkin Picking – one of my favorite activities.

Each year, our family heads out to Sneads Asparagus Farm to pick pumpkins, buy hay bales and play on the rope swing.  It is an amazingly beautiful location, and run by the nicest folks.  Definitely head on out there if you are looking for a fun fall activity.
 

specialty pumpkins

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the big pumpkins are in the back field

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Plenty [...]

Market in the Park has passed…

But it was a great day.  Perfect weather, we met lots of great and interesting people!  Got to talk about photography and even where to buy shoes when you’ve got big feet! (I wear a size twelve… it’s OK, you can feel sorry for me!) But the best news is that because I met so [...]

Do you see what I see?

 
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Fall in Virginia is the perfect time for portraits.  The air is cool and crisp, the colours are stunning.  But since the trees are starting to turn, we are on a race with the calendar.  Email me (my phone is being difficult!!!) for available dates. Let’s take advantage of the beautiful area in which we [...]

Brand new album option!

You might have seen this on my senior blog, but these albums aren’t just for seniors!  Gorgeous hand made albums with either 10 or 20 of your favorite images from your session professionally printed on photographic paper (samples are on metallic – to die for!).  The 5×5 size is perfect for carrying in your purse! [...]