Happy 2012 everyone! It’s good to be back…I love the fresh start of a new year. Maybe it’s the crazy 50-degree weather we’ve been having in Wisconsin (oh yes, oh yes!), but I have actually been enjoying this season rather than getting the winter blahs. I know, I sound like a crazy person! If only this can continue through March/April, right?? My 30th is coming up in February, so if anyone important is reading this…let’s make 50 degrees and no snow happen around the 21st…thanks!
Head on over to show some love to the sweet Britt and Jenna over at A Northwoods Wedding, where you can see the fantastically romantic Door County wedding of Kate + Phil today! I’ve probably said it before, but I am and always will be a Midwestern girl. I love to travel and see new places, but it’s always the best to come back to the Midwest, where the people are the nicest + the scenery can crush you in so many different, beautiful ways. Wisco winters are usually the worst, but I like to believe they’re what make most people here the way they are. And I will happily shoot along the shores of Lake Michigan again and again.
So excited to see another beautiful Midwest wedding blog! Thank you for the feature, ladies! You can check it out here and see Kate + Phil’s wedding on my blog right here.
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Congrats on the beautiful feature! My 30th is coming up soon, too. I’m definitely wishing for some 50 degrees :)
I feel like every blog post of mine is a collection of random thoughts to an extent! I love to blog, love to share my work, LOVE hearing from friends…but I feel like I’m always squeezing it in between baking a half-million cookies and raising two tiny humans. (Okay, so the cookies thing was today at least.) Things weren’t always this way but I love my life + what I do, and wouldn’t have it any other way!
In the coming weeks, I will be off enjoying holidays/squeezing my family/believing in Santa again, then working overtime to welcome my ‘third child’ in 2012, aka launching the completely new, completely me Carly McCray Photography!!! I am BEYOND excited to show off my new website/blog/everything, which have been in the works for over a year now to really be more me. The most reassuring thing for me that has come from this majorly intensive, time-consuming-labor-of-love process is the realization that I am not even doing this for business reasons. This has come out of just wanting to be myself, blog when I want, shoot + share when I feel like it, and just overall doing it for me! I want my little corner of the Internet to feel like mine, and if you don’t feel like visiting it, that’s totally cool. I’ll hang out by myself. :) It feels so good to get to this point in my career. It’s been so much hard work to get here and sometimes I have to take a step back and remember that I’m the boss and I’m doing what I love. So if don’t love something, I can change it or get rid of it!
2012 marks my FIFTH year in business…I could go on about all of the incredible people that have asked me to photograph them and share parts of their lives with them, but seriously, Google would probably penalize me for too much text or something, and they’d probably take away my English degree considering how top-of-my-head I write on here. (I think the sugar cookies are starting to do the talking.) I’ve been honored to have my work published in some pretty cool places like here and here among others, and I’m continuing to live my dream personally AND professionally, since they’re wrapped up together. So for now, Merry Christmas + happy, healthy holidays, everyone! 2011 has been a good friend, but I think 2012 and each year after will continue to be even greater. Big XOXOXOs from me. :)
*Here are some scans I just got back, testing out my Christmas present around my house! Seriously, crap expired Kodak from Walgreen’s, and it’s STILL fun.
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Hey Carleon! I’m so happy that you’re so happy :-) It doesn’t surprise me one bit that you chose this career path for yourself, nor does it surprise me that you’re so good at it! You’ve always been creative – your notebook cover collage thingies were always the best! ;-) Merry Christmas! xo
Really nice job!
As I’m posting this, Zoe is on the monitor talking to her teddy (instead of taking her nap). Soon enough, Gray will start chiming in. I love to sit and listen to the things they’re saying…their conversations. They’re quite in-depth, profound, enthusiastic, dramatic. I can’t wait until I know more of what they’re telling those teddies. I shot these images a few months ago on one gorgeous yet random October 75-degree day. Zac and I plan on savoring them all winter, as well as forever and ever. :)
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MOST ADORABLE kiddos ever! :) Love their smiles and their shoes! :) SO SO SO CUTE! :)
I absolutely LOVE seeing your sweeties. They are SOOOOOO flippin’ cute! How much fun you all must have. :)
Oh look at those babies! We loved spending the day with all of you last week. We only wish we could have stayed longer!
It’s hard to believe that they were so tiny when they first entered the world. Now look at them! They are beautiful. It makes me sad that we haven’t seen you guys, in what feels like, forever! Miss you & love you much! Xoxoxox
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Michelle Kosloske - Perfect. Beautiful. So much fun. Carly, you captured this amazing family so well! I love them all!
Lynn - What a cute family! Great shots, Carly!