Christmas in...August

I like to use any excuse to do something different or have a fun sale so to celebrate the birth of little Laila and me coming back to work I am having a Marathon Session Weekend on September 1&2! If you have no idea what i mean when I say that- I will be booking mini, 30 minute sessions all day long for just $50 a slot. You'll get to view your photos just days later on your own private gallery and order as little or as much as you want! All sessions are welcome, call or email to reserve a slot,the only thing is sessions must be booked at a location within 15 miles of 21401 (Annapolis), I know plenty of spots if you don't!

If you want a full session- Premium Sitting sessions will be available for $299 until 9/1/07 and can be booked for anytime!

(CLICK HERE TO BOOK A SESSION)

This is whats REALLY going to make you want to book- 2007 Holiday Card designs are now available! Get your session done now while you can get such great discounts, and then before you know it the holiday season will be here and you're going to need to order your cards (pay no attention to the names)...

All the information you'll need for the Marathon Session Weekend and Holiday Cards can be found at www.shelbyleigh.com/907promos.pdf

More Laila

Today Laila is 10 days old, I still havent managed to do a REAL shoot with her but I still have lots of snap shots to share.

Here's from the hospital...

She came out screaming- photo coutesy of my mom!




Riley was a little overwhelmed




Her first days home!


I used this photo for her birth announcements


I love baby feet





Thank you for all the emails and comments from everyone!! I'll be updating with lots of fun portraits of Laila and Riley soon!

Laila Leigh

Its a girl!

Laila Leigh Martin came July 24th at 11:08am, weighing 6 lbs. 6 oz!



We are doing a mini shoot tomorrow, hopefully I will have more photos up soon!

Riley's Day

With all my work finished up I thought it would be fun to try and document a Riley day, its alot harder to do this with your own kids. I have been too busy taking pictures for other people lately that I haven't taken any for myself, I thought it's be nice to capture Riley pre-big sisterhood!

Well this is the look she gave me when I swept the curl out of her eye, she told me "no" and put it right back.


Then mommy made lunch aka I heated up a leftover cheeseburger.




I swear I have the smartest 2 year old becasue she can work a computer like nobody's business!


Later, "Gammy" had to watch Riley's cousins so we decided to all go downtown. In this picture they were all stomping, hence why Riley is flashing me.


Kayla looks exactly like her mama here.





And to end the day we all had delicious icecream from Storm Brothers!

Just a reminder- I am now on maternity leave until 9/1! If you send me an email you will receive my auto-response, although I will reply, expect a very delayed response. No phone calls, at all, will be returned, unless it's in regards to an *urgent* matter. Orders placed through any galleries will still be processed but expect delays on that as well.

Keep checking the blog for baby updates!

Can't blog without a photo....

Me & Ry.

08' Senior!

Remember when I said I shot my last sessions? I lied. I photographed this beautiful senior yesterday!











Oh yeah, and we trashed her dress! :)

6/30 Wedding

9 months pregnant, Strep Throat? Apparently it takes more than that to get me to not show up at your wedding. I second photographed for another great photographer and friend, Becky Waurio of Toute Ma Vie Photography, yesterday. This was my first "seconding" experience, my job was to basic capture all the candid, detail moments.













Of course the ceremony was at a beautiful church...that allowed NO photography during the ceremony.




The only thing that was allowed was to photograph the processional and the recessional, with no flash at all. I got a lucky shot of Sally walking down the aisle with her dad.



A few highlights from the reception...