Thank you for visiting my blog! I'm Ashley, a lover of photography, reality TV, chihuaha's, and fancy iced coffee. I'm a wife to my wonderful husband Jordan and a mommy to my beautiful little girl Sophia...and we can't forget my little furbaby Lola. I was always "that girl with a camera" and I think anyone who knows me can vouch that I've pretty much grown up with a camera in my face. I fell in love with taking photos and I've been so blessed to be able to actually call this my job!

I am a natural light photographer in the Dayton, Ohio area. Thank you for stopping by!

 

Thursday
10Dec2009

Recap

The blog's been looking pretty lonely lately! Not because things have been slow...but because I have been so busy that I don't even have time to blog! I promise there's lots of fun sessions from the past month coming soon.

What a year 2009 has been! It's been filled with the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. The birth of our daughter definitely tops the list of high-highs :) I can't believe I haven't posted one picture of her yet!

I have learned a lot this year and a lot of changes have been made. For one, my husband Jordan is now my offical second-shooter. Not to make you gag, but we make a great team :) Secondly, we did increase prices a bit. People have been practically begging me to raise my prices. I hesitated because I was worried that other's wouldn't think that I was worth it and no one would want to hire me. It's turned out to be the complete opposite and I feel really good about this change!

I'm *really* looking forward to 2010. So much fun stuff in store! And because I hate having posts without pictures, here's a quick photo of a very handsome little man from one of our recent sessions:

Wednesday
02Dec2009

E-mail

Me and technology don't mix lately! I've come to find that for some reason I am not receiving a lot of e-mails. If you have e-mailed me within the last week or 2 and haven't received a response, please try again! I'm not sure if it's my website contact system or my entire e-mail system...but something's up! Sorry for any inconvenience!


Thanks :)

Oh...and I don't like to have posts without pictures so here's a picture of my bestfriend and her husband. He is in the Army and had been away at training for the past couple weeks. He came back home a little early and surpised her at The Greene's Christmas tree lighting ceremony. It was pretty darn cute! I snapped this of them in front of the humungo tree:

 

Monday
30Nov2009

The Fugate Fam

Okay, so...Maycie is probably the happiest little baby I have ever met! Seriously, she grinned and giggled the entire session from start to finish. We got to try out my brand-new mini studio and I'm pretty pleased with the results! Here are a few from our session:

Tuesday
24Nov2009

Hilary + Dustin

Man do I have some blogging to do! October & November have been the busiest months that I have *ever* had! I'm so so so thankful that I am able to meet such awesome people all of the time, seriously.

Hilary & Dustin had us laughing from start to finish. You guys were great :) Hilary has been anxiously waiting to see a sneak-peak, so here you go! I hope you both have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Sunday
15Nov2009

Kelly + Adam

Kelly & Adam tried to tell me that they're not very photogenic...I have to disagree! We really had a lot of fun with you two! Gotta love clients who don't even blink an eye when I asked them to sneak into some areas that we probably shouldn't have been in :) We had some pretty incredible light, here are a few of my favorites: