L Renee Studio

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Float Wrap Sale

Attention all current clients! Float Wraps will be 20% off today (1/19) through Saturday (1/23). If you are interested in ordering one, Email Me or give me a call (419-551-6252).

Float Wraps are a great way to display your special moments because they become a focal point by standing out from the wall. They come in multiple different sizes and come completely ready to hang. Contact me for more information!

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Here's to Three Years

Our story. It is not only a story about love but mostly about faith. We always had love, from the very beginning, but faith is what kept us going; faith in each other held us together. Faith in you, faith in me, faith in love itself. Faith that God was holding us together for a reason.

I wrote this to Trevor three years ago. Three years ago we made a commitment to love each other forever, to have faith in each other for a lifetime. Every single day, I love him more than the last. I never knew it was possible to love someone so much. I am so thankful to have him by my side in this world.

He is my best friend. He believes in me when no one else does. He supported me before we even knew if this business would work. He thinks all of my crazy ideas aren't so crazy. I don't know what I would ever do without him. So, here's to three years with many, many more to come! Filled with laughter, stories, and love.

I love you Trevor!

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

A Better Story in the New Year

There is nothing that I would love more this year than to work on making my story better. The story of my life, my everyday. I am reading a book right now that unexpectedly is the absolute perfect book to read at the beginning of a fresh new year. It is called, " A Million Miles in a Thousand Years" by Donald Miller.

If you look back on your life so far, are you living a great story? Great, not just average. Living a great story encompasses my entire list of resolutions or goals for 2010. But it is much more that that to me. I have been trying to figure out for the past three days how I would write about this, how to explain it. I have all these big ideas in my head of how to live a better story daily, but my mind spins so fast that it is hard to explain it into words. And then this morning, I read this quote from the book that described exactly what I've been trying to say the whole time.

... he didn't think we should be afraid to embrace whimsy. I asked him what he meant by whimsy, and he struggled to define it. He said it's that nagging idea that life could be magical; it could be special if we were only willing to take a few risks.

We all feel it, that idea that just keeps coming into our head. Some ideas are small like you should be helping that person that is struggling, or that you could be reading a great book but it's easier to just watch some mindless tv. Or the ideas could be huge like a trip that you have always wanted to take, or a race that you would love to challenge yourself to train for, or even a career that you would much rather be in than the one you are in now. Every single day we get these little (or big) thoughts in our head. I know many times, I ignore it. I push it back and tell myself that someday I'll do it. But when is someday? Why not now? I want to be able to look back at my life and know that I lived it to its fullest, no excuses.

So, while I sit here with a long list of goals for the new year in front of me, I know they all will help me live a better story. It will not be easy. I cringe just reading some of them knowing I will be completely out of my comfort zone. But, I am going to embrace a little whimsy into my life.

And because I want to have something pretty for you to look at too, I was trying to think of an image to show you and thought of this moment last year that describes this all perfectly. All fall, I would drive past these absolutely beautiful corn fields that would just glow in the fall sunlight. I kept saying in my head that I needed to stop sometime and photograph them, but I never had the time or was too busy to get where I was going. It was finally the middle of October, and I still had not done it. I was on my way home from an early Saturday morning photo session, when the voice kept telling me to stop at a corn field to take some pictures. I had my camera already in the back seat and the sun that day was gorgeous. But I wanted to get home so badly to spend the rest of my Saturday with Trevor so I kept ignoring it. Finally, all of a sudden I just pulled off onto a country road and took these images. Now, honestly, it took me less than five minutes to do this. Why hadn't I done it sooner? Why can things like this be so hard sometimes? Why don't we just do it? I am so glad I finally did. Now, I don't have to say, "I'll make sure to do that next fall", and I have these beautiful images to look at. Enjoy!

Monday, January 4, 2010

Best Image of 2009

Wow! This was a really close contest, and the image that won only won by one vote. The winner is... Elizabeth and Justin, image #21!

Thank you to everyone that voted! Elizabeth and Justin will be receiving a 10x10 Canvas Gallery Wrap! Congratulations!

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Best of 2009 Contest

This past year has been amazing and unbelievable because of all of you! I have been honored that so many of you have chosen to invite me into your lives, not only as your photographer but as your friend too. I wanted to pay homage to this year by selecting the best images from all of 2009. It was difficult to say the least to narrow it down this far.

And because I know you will be able to decide way better than me, I want you to choose the The Best Image of 2009! The winner will receive a 10x10 Canvas Gallery Wrap (a $175 value) of the image that wins or an image of their choice from that session! To vote, leave a comment on THIS post, and the image with the most comments wins! Contest ends SUNDAY NIGHT AT MIDNIGHT! Only ONE comment per person choosing up to 3 different images. You are welcome to ask anyone you want to vote for you! Good Luck!

#1 - Elizabeth