Today is going to be a 2 part day. Right now I want to share my favorite bridal sessions and my favorite engagement session images. I will post my favorite wedding images from 2009 at 7 p.m.! Stay tuned and enjoy.

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Here is part 2 of the best of 2009. Today I am going to share some of my favorite high school senior sessions from this year. I love being able to shoot a high school senior session, they are always so fun and unique. Each of these girls were fabulous to work with and they each have amazing parents. I look forward to shooting way more senior sessions in 2010! Enjoy.

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Let’s be honest, it is scary to follow your dreams or to pursue something you love to do. It is scary because it is not always the most logical or safest thing for you to do. I wouldn’t consider myself much of a risk-taker, I am a play it safe kind of a guy. If there is a possibility of failure or getting hurt, there is a good chance I won’t do it. But two of the biggest things I have done with my life up to this point have been huge risks to me and they both have one thing in common, love. The first big risk was the day I (finally) decided to pursue my wife, it took me a long time to work up the guts to ask out my wife on our first date, just because I had that big fear of rejection and not wanting to put myself out there and risk getting hurt. But I did it, after much prayer (and the threat of not being allowed back in my home or being beaten with a hammer by my college roommates if I didn’t ask Jessica out) and confidence building I asked her out, and now we are married and in our first home. The second biggest risk was the day I decided I would quit teaching and pursue my love and passion for photography. It is by no means an easy decision to say goodbye to a nice and steady paycheck, but Jessica and I decided it was a risk we would be willing to make together and just see what God has in store. God would be the underlying foundation in all the huge decisions and risks I have taken up to this point, because his son Jesus Christ would be the ultimate example of risk and love. Coming to earth knowing he would die on a cross in order for us to have the chance to be seen as guiltless in the sight of God, solely on the act of love. Because His sacrifice was done out of pure love and faith in God, there ended up being no real risk involved at all, because God was in complete control. I feel the same way about my decision, since I am pursuing what I love and have put my trust in what God wants, I have faith that He knows exactly what He wants for our life and whatever happens is in His will, which makes this big risk seem much more manageable when it is not in my own hands.

With all that to say, 2009 has been an exciting year for my wife and I. 2010 will be the first full year of business and I can’t wait to see what is in store. I am continually amazed and blessed to see my business begin to slowly grow each month, I love getting inquiries for weddings and portraits and just amazed that more and more people find my site daily. Just that simple idea blows my mind. To close out the 2009 year I wanted to share some of my favorite portraits and weddings from 2009. Today I am going to share my favorite families, kids, and babies. Stay tuned for seniors, engagements, and weddings. Enjoy!

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Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and enjoying their weekend! I just wanted to take a moment and share some information with you. We had Thursday Therapy, which is our monthly wedding professional gathering hosted by Kelly Simants of Sweet Pea Events, a couple of week ago and I volunteered to take pictures of everyone mingling. It was a couple of weeks ago and I never got around to sharing the photos with everyone, but Kelly shared some images I sent her on her blog. So I wanted to give everyone the chance to go see them for yourself by visiting her awesome blog. If you are a wedding professional in the Dallas area I highly recommend you come out and visit. Why? Because it is great to network with your colleagues and not feel like you have to treat others as enemies. By taking this approach I have made great friendships and have been given opportunities I would not have otherwise been offered. Go visit Kelly’s blog by clicking the image below and let her know you want to join in on the fun.

Time to share another great family session with you! I had the pleasure of having a family session with Blake, Kristin, and baby Cade Clickner again during the holiday season. Here is the post from last year from our session together in their home. It is crazy to see how much can change in a little baby over a year, Cade is such a big boy now. The Clickner’s go to church with us and we are all in a bible study together, so I see Cade all the time and don’t see the change so dramatically until I look back at our old pictures. Cade is one of the happiest babies I know and I love being around him, I actually rarely even call him just Cade, it is actually more like Cade-erific or Cade-oroni. I may be confusing him for the rest of his life? Ha. Alright, well enjoy our session we had together at the Dallas Museum of Art.

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