So, as of this month, it will be five looong years since I graduated from college. Muhlenberg College to be exact. Actually, those five long years have just about flown by and I can’t believe I’m that far out of college. Blink and you’d miss it. On some nice spring days I still feel like I should be heading over to Parent’s Plaza to meet the girls or cruising around Allentown. Classy…

Anywho…this ever important anniversary has made me a bit sentimental for those less stressful days. Something about college…there were just more hours of fun and excitement in a day I think. So I thought it would be cool to share some of my photo 1 experiments in the studio doing portraits of my college friends (don’t judge too harshly…ha ha). Honestly though…these are still some of my favorite photos that I’ve ever taken because they totally take me back.

~~Note…I stole some of these from frames and all over…so forgive the ratty edges.

Incidentally…in these photos you are looking at a current photographer (Lauri), doctor (Rebecca), psychologist (Kira) and veterinarian (Becky). Crazy! I’m so proud of my friends!

This was definitely my first experience of really enjoying photographing people and finding it rewarding. I think that’s mostly because it was just people having fun and getting their photo taken. Can’t beat it with a stick! ha ha.

Mmm…and can’t do a ‘5 years since graduation…sigh’ post without a little cap and gown action.

I hope this trip down memory lane wasn’t too boring, but a little nostalgia never hurt anyone.

The day before leaving for Vegas, this engagement album came in the mail and I’ve been meaning to blog about it ever since. This particular engagement album is special not only because the photos are of the awesome couple, Danielle and John, who are getting married in May, but also because it doubles as a guest sign in book! I think this is one of the most exciting ways to incorporate your engagement photos into your wedding day that I have come across. It is something that I will definitely have when I get married. This way your sign in book becomes a really special keepsake that you will want to pull out and look at for years to come.

Of course you could also get this book as a standard album without all the white space, if you’d prefer to not use it as a sign in book. Either way, I just love it.

On a totally unrelated topic…well, other than the fact that they are both books…I wanted to share info about a book that I’ve been reading that I’m absolutely OBSESSED with. It’s one of those books that I want to tell everyone about, so I figure I might as well blog it. Right? The book is called The Brain that Changes Itself and it is written by Norman Doidge, M.D. Now, let me include the disclaimer that I was a psychology major in college and so I generally love anything that gives insight into how the mind works. Kind of nerdy…I know. haha. But if you are at all interested in that sort of thing, I highly recommend picking up this book. It gets into how we learn and how our brains are plastic and always changing and to be honest, it’s really inspirational. So…go get it. (I just felt the urge to write “but don’t take my word for it”…like old school reading rainbow…that’s really nerdy, huh?)

So this morning I am leaving for Las Vegas to attend the Wedding and Portrait Photographers International Convention and Tradeshow. I am going to be taking lots of classes and meeting lots of new photographer people and hopefully learning A LOT! I am soooo excited!

While I’m there I can’t be sure what sort of internet connection I will have available, but if you need me you can always call or email and I’ll get back to you as soon as possible. I’ll be back Friday, March 21st.

Oh, and if I do have internet, expect a post of a very cute Josie, 6 months, session #3, plus hopefully some Vegas excitement.