{cam's first photo shoot}

First I want to keep you updated on the goings on of my business. I'm working on a new brand! I can't remember if I announced that already but now I know I have. I should be done and able to present it to you all by the end of next month! I'm so excited! Other than that I really don't have too much free time between school and my other job. I'll be graduating in early May, though, so I'll have more free time in the summer, I expect. I can't wait to see where that leads me! I hope you're all having a wonderful March, as I am! :)

Cameron Porter, born February 10, 2011, got his first photo shoot with me done last week! He was very cooperative at first but throughout the session he realized he doesn't like cameras very much and didn't want to cooperate at all. We still got plenty of good ones out of the little guy. Here are some of my favorites! :)

♥ Elly B ♥

{valentine's session}

It's definitely time for an update. A lot has gone on so far this year for me, I've gotten some new equipment and I finished making my camera bag, I've set up some important bookings over the next month and I got to do a themed photo session for some friends' babies last weekend.

This was fun, the babies are so cute in their special outfits! I wanted to go for something simple but adorable for the babies since someone finally had a little girl. So Twyla and Cameron were my models and they did a marvelous job with it, so cute.

School is going well and I'm working two jobs again so I'll be quite busy this year, which excites me. I wish I had more to say but I don't want to get blabby, so I'll end here with some photos of the kids. I hope the start of the new year has been as good to all of you as it has to me!

♥ Elly B ♥

{my go-to girl}

Cassie is my go-to girl, this year, at least. She's my model for me to try out new ideas and such. Which is what we did yesterday, we tried out a downtown look in Ybor City. I really like Ybor, it's a beautiful place. We had a lot of fun and the photos came out even better than I had hoped and I even got her boyfriend in a few of them. So, with little else to blab about, here they are. :)

♥ Elly B ♥

{lisa and joe}

First I want to say a little something about a special I'm running due to the fact that I just love photographing children. If you book a children's portrait session by Christmas I'll discount your session by 20% and throw in a free 11x14 print. I'm so excited for the bookings! :)

In session news, this cold weekend, I had the pleasure of shooting a fellow photographer, Lisa of Lisa B Photography. She and her husband, Joe, wanted some portraits together and wanted a few with their babies for Christmas. Considering the overcast and temperature, I must give them both kudos because I'm quite pleased with the way the photos came out! Anyhow, here they are! :)

♥ Elly B ♥

{shasta's family portraits}

First, I wanted to be sure to blog that the winner of my 500 fan appreciation giveaway is Miss Shelby Patton. So I'll have a session up here for her in the new year. Thank you all for participating, I really appreciate your support! :)

This weekend though, I had the pleasure of doing two photo sessions, one was experimental and the other was for Shasta and Jesse - a mini family portrait session. Their daughter, Hailyn, turned 2 in September and she's the most adorable little girl! I don't have to tell you though, just look at these photos!

♥ Elly B ♥

{linda's portraits}

This was such a fun photo shoot! We intended it originally to be a maternity shoot for Linda's first daughter, due November 15. It turned into basically a family portrait session, for the most part. I got some amazing shots of her sons Jayden, 2, and Zachery, 1. The more photos of children I take, the more I absolutely love doing it!

It was also much harder to do a photo shoot (and edit the photos after, of course!) with a broken finger than I'd anticipated! It's still kind of fun to wear my finger splint so I don't mind much, ha!

I don't have much else to say about the photos except that I'm really happy with how they came out. I can't wait to meet Baby Girl Jones (her name is going to be a surprise to all of us!) next month! :)

♥ Elly B ♥

{jerica's family photos}

I am falling so far behind! I did this photo shoot last weekend also and it was a great time. Jerica wanted some photos with her brother and sister and though Glen wasn't always completely cooperative, it went very well. They are a fun group, apparently in love with the Gators (booo!). Glen plays football and soccer; Jocelynn is a cheerleader, she plays soccer, and she's on her school's yearbook staff and Jerica is a full-time college student and she makes it a point to go to all of her brother's and sister's games.

So on that note, here is a preview of the session. :)

♥ Elly B ♥

{matt's portraits}

This weekend I did photos for a good friend of mine and I am very pleased with the results. We had a great time and spent more time talking than taking photos. I wasn't as... focused? in this photo shoot as I typically am in others, mostly because friendship comes before business. I very much enjoyed how calm and how easily Matt listened to my direction - it made everything so much easier for me.

And as we walked through the park, a gentleman stopped me, asked why I was taking photos and when I told him I was a photographer, he asked me to take a few photos of him and the two kids he was with. I'll definitely post a photo of one of the kids here, he was adorable and the photo came out fantastic! Plus it made me feel pretty awesome. :)

So, without further ado, here are some of my favorite photos from the shoot, including a little camera-shy boy, for whom I do not remember a name. I hope you enjoy them!

♥ Elly B ♥