the becker kids

Can you call a senior a kid? Not so sure with this one. Meet Jared and Audra. They go to school at Cooper and Jared is in his LAST YEAR. Did you hear that world? LAST YEAR EVER OF HIGH SCHOOL! He has to be feeling so ultra cool.

We spent a good part of Monday night getting to know each other and enjoying the great sunshine and bugs, and biting flies that mother nature let loose all over West Texas. :)

ENJOY!

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for you photographer freaks/geeks, I shot these in RAW on the 5d only because I wanted to try out Lightroom 2. There are so many pros to shooting RAW, which I used to do for years with the 20d's, and Lightroom is wonderful. HOWEVER, and this is a huge however for me. With the 5d the files are ginormous and it's just not a fast enough processor to keep up with my mode of shooting, which is very fast. So, the buffer fills up and you are waiting. Which isn't a problem with portraits of older kids and families, brides, couples, etc. But for photojournalistic wedding coverage? Forget about it! NO WAY can this mode of shooting keep up with me during a wedding.

So, do I spend $8000 for a faster, better camera? Or just stick to my guns (5d's) and shoot jpg.

Hmm....

on the patio

CYBER sistas! Eat your heart out!

My good friend Julie and I, wandered on over to Abuello's on a Friday afternoon and didn't leave until almost midnight! OMG! Our hubby's joined us after they got off work, and I texted Jennifer and Eric to meet us too. I'm so glad they did!

We had a great time! Probably a bit too great and I paid heavily in the hot sun on Saturday at the Send Off, but it was so much fun to listen to good music, good conversation and good laughs.

Oh, and Stacy and Champ showed up too! Fun night!

Julie and I enjoying the sunshine and watching the band set up.


Jennifer arriving. Watch out! A few more drinks and our tongues start sticking out. :)


Julie and Heath. Don't worry, Heath, I'm not blogging ALL the photos I took of you. :)


Drink of choice for a while. I've been loving these since Jamaica.


Jennifer and Eric. Too cute!




What Heath does between drinks.




I love it when Eric laughs. It's infectious!!!

drinking Lonestar again

When Devin is at the Roadhouse, he drink's Lonestar beer and they have these cool puzzles on the bottle caps. You can search for the answers HERE.

send off

I spent the day at the Lubbock Civic Center with lots of other people, volunteering our time to a great cook out/picnic for the area troops. Good food, good people and even some good music. You can't beat that! Above is Andy and Abby and they sent me the email that started this ball rolling.

Here's a few from the day. :)

friday night lights

"simply one of the best-acted, best-written, best-produced shows on television."
~ Robert Blanco, USA Today

I totally agree.

All this late night editing is hard. So, I usually have a DVD running such as Friends, Gey's or Gilmore Girls. I've seen every episode of all of them and it's just the writing of these shows that I love. So, when Grey's went on Hiatus last year, on of my friends suggested this show.

I got hooked. It's an awesome show! Go watch an episode HERE. Let me know what you think. My favorite character is Landry. Witty, sweet, total heart stealer in my book.

sunflowers

Inspired by Linda, I went out Sunday evening and photographed our field of sunflowers growing here on Bednarz land. I wanted to photograph them as the subject instead of as a backdrop for a session, so I used various lenses and experimented with different distances and composition. Even when I felt I was finished with each lens, I pushed a bit further to see if I saw something different. You'll have to let me know what you think.

:)

a sick day

I've been feeling "puny" all day since church so this evening I went out and shot a bit just to take my mind off the headache I'd had for 48 hours. I'll share more tomorrow.

Grandma's raising card sharks

We ate at Texas Road House last night and look what the girl's do.   LOL  Playing cards!

Jaw dropping

You know when we are little?  And we dream of the man we will marry someday?  Well, my dream of my handsome young fellow always involved us sitting in fluffy white bathrobes in the morning, sipping coffee on our patio, reading together.  If you know my husband, Devin, he does NOT like to read.  

Yesterday, killing time between basketball games in Plainview, Macy (Keri's little girl) gave Devin a book and he actually read a chapter!  LOL  Had to grab a shot, cuz this is few and far between folks.  LOL

Found some grub

Yum!  Have you tried this place, yet?

A Saturday with the family

I tore myself away from the computer today.  Summer is playing in a BB tournament in Plainview and I get to go!  YIPEE!  

a nice one

This session is from a bit ago and I'm finishing up all my sessions, weddings, albums, dishes, laundry, HA! etc. and wanted to share. Total yumminess. In my personal opinion, besides the obvious moment between these two, the heels make the shot. :)

wink wink

total YUMMINESS

All mail travels to

kristinbednarz@me.com

So use this email addy, use my various others. Doesn't matter. All comes to one place.

I'm doing the happy dance. :)

YUM

Heavy into editing mode these next two weeks to get out all the weddings and session that are "in the can" sort of speak. I can't share the bridals, but surely the veil is OK, right?

LOVE THIS!

traci + john (the wedding)

I've made a dent in the laundry and even managed to return a few emails and phone calls.  It's been raining the past fews days in Lubbock so the weather is bearable, but the house building business has slowed, so I managed to crunch out a few edits today to share with you from my Jamaica wedding!

Here's Jodel.  The light at the lobby bar was simply amazing!  We were waiting for our couple.  :)  Thanks, Jodel for being my traveling buddy!   I had a great time! 

And thanks Traci and John for a fabulous summer vacation!  I so needed a break in the middle of my wedding maddness!  As much as I absolutely LOVE my job, sometimes, you just need to sit on the beach with a friend and some rum.  :)

View more of their photographs HERE.

traci + john (the engagement)

Jamaica was beautiful. It always is. Rain or shine, it's a paradise. A hot, humid paradise, but a paradise all the same.

My good friend Jodel went with me and we had so much fun catching up and playing lazy for a day or so before the wedding. I read two books while I was traveling and there and really enjoyed the beach. ALOT.

The wedding was quite lovely, but the day before we met Traci and John before dinner that night and just spent a quick 20 minutes grabbing some PDA's in Jamaica mon! LOL

So much fun.




I love this shot below! Traci has beautiful natural wavy hair that was loving the humidity and this is John helping her straighten her hair for the photo. LOL We also had our "all inclusive" bracelets on, that the resort gave us that we were constantly trying to shoot around. Didn't matter. These two were just so easy with the PDA's you don't notice them.







I'll get the wedding sneak peek to you soon.

eric + jennifer (the wedding)

First, we have to have a vote. For the prettiest toes! These two have been debating forever about who has the prettiest toes. So leave a comment and let us know. OK?

So, I'm back from my wedding in Jamaica, which I will blog this week, but first, I have to blog Eric and Jennifer's wedding in Austin. So much fun! And even though I've had the sneak peek up on their gallery, there's something about having your wedding BLOGGED that makes you feel ultra special. (and it satisfies my need for chronological blogging)



Kim is such a gifted woman to have around. Especially when it comes to opening champagne bottles. :)

This is Jennifer's Mom. She has a "beauty morning" as well.





I LOVE this macro shot of Jenn's eye. Too cool!

Great hair! BIG sexy bride hair! LOVE IT!


But does she?

YEP! She does!

Now on to the guys. Eric was full of smiles, vim and vigar. Umm...yeah.



So were his groomsmen. :)



Windy day in Austin, fitting for a West Texas couple. And it was awesome because it blew the heat away for just a bit and since the wedding was outdoors, we were very thankful.







I LOVE this shot of Jennifer and all her girl's prodding, poking and rubbing. So funny!

Absolute stunning bride!



And sure, Eric thought so too. I won't tell you what this picture is about, but something about a 50's housewife. LMBO




Beautiful couple! Inside and out!!!