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God, I cannot wait! I go to Maine every summer...each summer staying a few weeks longer. I love it there and if it didn't snow - I would live there. But I am a reformed Northerner used to my Southern ways, now. If we get snowbirds from the North --what do you call people like me, who go North to escape the heat?
Anyway, I'll be in Maine July 28-August 18 this summer. I am currently accepting bookings for weddings and for portrait sessions. Because of my limited time, I am only able to accept one wedding (already have one on the books) and 10 portraits sessions.
Please let me know if you are interested and pass this around to your friends. Maybe next year, I can stay all summer!
Here is a peek at the Fletcher family from Auburn, ME I did last summer. I have photographed William and Matthew before and this was my first session with the sweet, sweet Lauren since she's been walking. Love those kids!
WARNING: LONG POST
Tonight I am in Philadelphia. I LOVE PHILADELPHIA! And tonight I am going to go out on a limb because I love all of you who follow my blog. You know, when I blog, it is like walking a tightrope for me. I want to share so much but what person in their right mind doesn't question 1) the danger of recording for infinity --for the world to see -- your personal thoughts on the INTERNET --good God my kids will read this one day and 2) who cares what I think - right? and well 3) sometimes and somedays, I just feel irritable and life isn't so perfect and I want to complain and oh, what if someone takes it the wrong way.
But day after day, people mention to me that they follow the blog and each day I feel a stronger pull to go beyond the images... to share what I think about random things in life. Really, I think, aren't you all ready to gag after reading some the posts. Don't you want a little more...just a little more depth?
Here is the deal, I am saying yes to the idea that this blog is much more than a tool to touch current and potential clients (oh yea, and so my friends know what city I am in what week) --at least it is for me. I keep thinking of all the times I maybe hesitated but then, trusted my gut and said YES! All those "yeses" have built the life I love to lead today.
So back to Philly. I am here to lead the final meeting of my Presidency for Delta Phi Epsilon. Oh, I've got five months left to serve, but this is the final --fly the whole board in - check the budget and goals --makes some plans kinda meeting. This has been four years of my life --and my husband's life. It is all volunteer --that is right --I volunteer over between 20-50 travel nights a year, field dozens of email and calls daily...to lead an organization of 40,000 women. Call me crazy.
Four years ago, my good friend Dawn McNulty called me to ask if I would serve as President. I said no. I had a lot going on --a 20 month old and a one month old...a full schedule of weddings...seriously, who in their right mind would say yes? Between two babies under 2 --I hadn't slept through the night in months!!!! I knew, too, to do the job the right way would require great personal sacrifice. I also knew that to do the job right --to be a real leader --would require a thick skin --because being a good leader is knowing that you aren't always winning a popularity contest.
Dawn persisted because she knew the job ahead required a steadfast vision and the ability to embrace risk. But It was Louis who talked me into it. He 100 thousand million times supported me during this time and he is the one who said "the boys are too little know you'll be gone a lot --later you'd miss baseball games --that is when they'll notice"; "you are the one who can manage this change"; "you have the vision"; "we can manage the commitment together". Amen for him.
Yet, I resisted. I couldn't see how I could do it and looking back I don't know how I did it. I found a place inside me that was still and I sat and listened --and in my gut, I knew I had to say Yes.
Sitting around the conference table tonight reviewing the accomplishments was so fulfilling. I am so proud of the work we have done and the future we have created for this organization. We took a floundering membership organization and gave it vision and a commitment to its founding values. We moved a Headquarters Office (thank God for craigslist), hired a whole new staff, ripped apart business systems, budgets and challenged theories and thought processes...questioning everything and along the way we lost a lot of people...the people who said NO. We surrounded ourselves with people who said YES. And I, well, I had the hardest job of all, because I could never, ever show that I thought nothing but YES --yes, we can. I believed it to the bottom of my soul --even when the road got tough.
Today, we have more money than we ever have, we have a new brand, new website, new communication systems, new headquarters, a new staff, and the list goes on....but what we really have is a new confidence and belief in our motto, "esse quam videri" - to be rather than to seem. God, it is better than I could have ever imagined.
Tonight, the board members presented me with a Tiffany's eternity necklace to commemorate my upcoming birthday and to thank me for my commitment and leadership. It was the an unexpected moment of recognition and a true suprise. And tonight I finally feel like saying Yes was the smartest thing I ever did. I am crossing the finish line.
And so, I wanted to reflect with you - my blog readers --a little success based on my personal motto: live with intention. I have said it before on the blog --if you live with intention --surely your vision will come to pass. You know, begin with the end in mind.
I know the journey is hard, full of potholes and challenges and naysayers...but if your soul and your gut tell you yes. You have no right to say no. You've got to believe.
What could you accomplish if you would just say yes?
Guess What? For the 2nd time in a year, Weddings Unveiled has featured my photography in a "Real Wedding" article. I am thrilled! It is a fabulous magazine that highlights wedding style in the South.
They chose the fabulous wedding of Erin and Jasun I photographed last September...you remember, the Elvis couple.
I know they are on the blog somewhere...so you can check out the images up close.
I know, I made you wait. I am so sorry. Karen and Tim are in sunny, warm St. Maarten and you are shivering here in this cold Savannah weather with me. Life isn't fair, is it?
I know I said it once, but Karen and Tim are absolutely marvelous...cute, in love and all that, but their attitudes are the best. On what was, by my standards, one of the crappiest days in the past year, they didn't even mention the weather. Can you imagine? Didn't even mention it. I am not kidding. Karen went with the flow as we created images and Tim was just happy to get married...rain or shine. And their families were so darn nice. I mean, really, my job is a piece of cake some Saturdays (which is good, because it makes up for the Saturdays when, well, family dynamics, weather, dress disasters - you name it -- well, make it not so much easy street if ya know what I mean.)
My gorgeous bride....
my cutie groom - did I mention he was funny. I mean downright hilarious. I totally see why she is marrying Tim.
He is going to make life so, so fun!
The only place to take pictures that was remotely warm and dry...the trolley. Thank goodness for Old Savannah Tours.
Love this image! Tim saying goodbye to his sister and sister-in-law...eyes full of tears.
Makes me want to cry right now.
One final shot....in the bathroom of The Savannah Yacht Club. Hey, it was cold and rainy out! I do the best I can.
Now - on the personal side, I am off to Philly again for the very last of my International Governing Board meetings. Four long years, I have led a fabulous group of women who have pushed me - challenged me and always, always supported me. Ah, the end of an era as they say.
I will return calls when I get back...and geez, hopefully it is warmer in Philly than SAV!
Cold and rainy...did I say cold? What a way to kick off a jam-packed year...kind of like God putting me up to a challenge...letting me know who is in charge:) Cold as it was - Karen was a bride who wouldn't let the weather get in the way of great images. Here are just a few to wet your whistle. The rest will come tomorrow.
Sorry - I know how you hate to wait.
-DVB
