A Picture's Worth | Photo Blog » published http://apwphotography.com/blog wedding photography in West Michigan and beyond Fri, 31 Dec 2010 18:49:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 looking back and moving forward http://apwphotography.com/blog/2010/12/31/looking-back-and-moving-forward/ http://apwphotography.com/blog/2010/12/31/looking-back-and-moving-forward/#comments Fri, 31 Dec 2010 18:49:21 +0000 kristajean http://apwphotography.com/blog/?p=705 As I look at all the beautiful couples below and think back over the past six years, I have so many wonderful memories. I have been so overwhelmingly blessed to be part of all of their weddings – some family, some friends, some strangers who I now call friends. Taking the leap to start my photography business was so scary, but it was one of the best things I ever did. I set out to do something and I did it. I wanted to shoot weddings and I did. Lots of them. All along, I have said that I truly believe God brought each and every couple my way and I’m so thankful for that, because I have worked with some of the most special, kind, thoughtful, beautiful people in this world.

Over the past couple of years, though, the business has slowed way down for me and I have spent a lot of time searching and praying and asking God why. This year, I have put a lot of my focus on my family and spending time with my kids, who really took a backseat more often than I’d like to admit because of all the time devoted to editing photos. I have felt for a while now that this little business of mine may have run its course. This post has been such a long time coming, so here it is … I am officially stepping back from A Picture’s Worth photography. I’m embracing my kids, my husband and our life as it is right now and turning my attention to other things. There will always be a love of photographing weddings and I’m leaving that little place in my heart open to the possibility of doing this again someday, but I truly believe this is the right decision for me at this time.

THANK YOU so much to all of my wedding couples. Thank you for choosing me to capture your most important day. And to the dozens of families whose pictures I took along the way, too. It’s been such fun getting to know all of you. THANK YOU all from the bottom of my heart.

I will be keeping this blog up indefinitely since so many couples’/families’ pictures are here, so feel free to browse through all the posts. I may check in every once in a while, so keep me on your RSS feeds and Google Readers just in case. :)

Happy New Year!

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]]> http://apwphotography.com/blog/2009/10/01/featured/feed/ 0 Brides Michigan Magazine http://apwphotography.com/blog/2009/03/10/brides-michigan-magazine/ http://apwphotography.com/blog/2009/03/10/brides-michigan-magazine/#comments Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:56:08 +0000 kristajean http://apwphotography.com/blog/?p=285 Something exciting arrived in my mailbox a couple weeks ago. The latest issue of Brides Michigan Magazine with one of my favorite 2008 weddings featured – Lesley and Anthony. Their wedding was just beautiful and we had a wonderful time with them. They are the sweetest couple and their families are the nicest people you’ll ever meet. I was so flattered when Brides Magazine contacted me about featuring their wedding and I’m excited to finally see it in print. I scanned the cover, the contents page with one of their first dance pictures, and the feature page to share with you. And congrats to Lesley and Anthony for having their big day published. :)


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One of the editors from Shutterfly contacted me a few months ago. They had seen my Year In Review album that I made for mom last year in their gallery and wanted to feature it on their site. I thought it would just be a picture of my album on the front page of the gallery section with a link or something, but they actually did an interview with me and everything. Click on the image above to go to the Shutterfly webpage and there is a whole article there. So fun! I was actually surprised to see it on there today because I didn’t think it was going to be up there for another couple months, but it was a happy surprise! I’ve been dying to share this and now that it’s online I can. :)

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I have always been inspired by the photography in scrapbook magazines – people capturing the everyday moments in their lives especially – and it made me want to improve my photography and document my children’s lives in photos and scrapbooks. Now, I scrapbook about just about everything, including weddings.

Today, this month’s Digital Scrapbooking magazine arrived in my mailbox. A few months ago, I was notified that one of my wedding pages had been chosen for publication. Seeing this really brightened my day! :)

I made this page shortly after shooting Reem & Greg’s wedding in September of 2006. We had a great time at the wedding and I loved that they had belly dancers to share Reem’s heritage with their guests. Click here to see their slideshow.

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