Just shouting out

CLICK HERE for a great place to view AMAZING work by the BEST in the industry. Some of my favorite photographers are members and they have a great blog and cool section called "Real Weddings".

WARNING, picture overload

I realized I never finished blogging Alexandra's Grad Post. YIPES! I'm at my video store today,
working a shift and it's so slow. PAINFULLY slow. I should work every Saturday down here and get so much done. LOL

Alexandra is a Senior at Cooper and is a fantastic Senior Model! She worked it like a true ANTM champ!

Thanks girl!

trying this again

GO HERE

Great place to be inspired and keep up with action photographers.  

a teaser

I'm heading out the door at this moment, but had to blog this one of Alexandra.  There's more on facebook, but for now, this is all I could blog.  

SHE ROCKED IT!

If the link above does not give you permission to view, you need to become a "fan" of my work by going HERE.  You should see a link on the right to "become a fan".  

Coronado Softball 2009

How cool is this?  Not the shot but the girl 2nd from the left.  I took one of her first photos playing sports way back "in the day".  She's a senior this year @ Coronado and it just felt really cool to be the one to photograph them this year.  My girl's play softball and that's all you ever hear is the buzz about Coronado and how good they are.  There's a softball tournament this weekend that they are hosting and so far, the buzz remains true.   

Coronado?  The gallery is up and ready for ordering.

CLICK HERE

The gallery is password protected.  Your coach should know the password.  :)

Dr. Sloan Broke a "bone"

I've watched all year.  All year I've watched, hoping for a glimpse of my show.  The show I love.  LOVED.  All year long, I've waited and watched for Grey's to become what it was in season 1 or season 2, or hell, even the horrible season when the STOPPED for weeks due to the writers strike.   And tonight, it came back.

WITH A VENGEANCE!

I just finished Grey's tonight when I got home from Summer's BB game and IT's BACK!  I have that GREY's feeling and I LOVE it!  Christina and Mere are friend's again and the Heaven and Hell theme was perfect.  

It's still over the top with the Denny "I'm here for you CRAP", but now that Christina and Meredith are back together, thanks to my Mc Dreamy, I have faith that my show will be good once again.

Key CRY moments for me:

• Dr. Bailey losing it when Chief touched her right after the transplant.   AWESOME acting!
  
• Meredith not understanding herself.
• Denny and Izzie's kiss!  WOAH!  

Now on to private practice.  :)

my godson turned 5

Time has totally FLOWN by!  I can't believe he is 5?  We left our BIG girls at home and spent part of the afternoon with Reagan at his 5th birthday party.  He's into airplanes and still likes his trucks and cars, and still loves to give me kisses.  :)

because you asked

Cooper Pirate Cheerleaders

For a short time, you can order your favorite Cheerleader's Photographs!  I've had many parents ask, they just plain didn't have time at the first of the year.  So, here they are again for a short time only!  Click the link above.  

FYI?  Jr. High Pictures are there, too.  :)

Magic Jack

Mr. Starkey, a HUGE diet coke customer of ours at our store, talked to me about Magic Jack.  We are moving into our new home soon and I really wanted to be able to take our old phone number, which we've had since I moved here in 1989.  I thought Magic Jack could do that, but it can't.  But that's OK, because I got to pick which area code I wanted my number to have.  How cool is that?  

LA?

New York?

Seattle?

Where?

Well, I thought it would be cool to have an Austin number so we choose 512.  All this just to brag on Magic Jack and give you our new home phone number.  We pondered even getting a land line with everyone using their cell phones anymore, but I'm pretty old school when it comes to the HOUSE having it's own phone.  We even though about adding another line to your ATT Wireless for just $9.99/month, but instead after hearing Tracy talk about the Magic Jack, decided to go with them.

For only $19.95 a year, yep... A YEAR I have everything my phone company was doing for me and BETTER.  Oh, and they don't pay me to say that.

So, all this to give you the new number.

512.704.6929

FYI

I didn't announce it, but many of you knew, we have a new Client Online Proofing Area for all your photos.  CLICK HERE.

If you have images at the Previous Client Online Proofing Area, CLICK HERE.

January 15, 2008, the Previous Client Online Proofing Area will no longer available for viewing and ordering.  Please contact me by email, kristinbednarz@mac.com if you wish to have your images uploaded to the new area and I will fill you in on the details.

Progress is sometimes painful.  (at least to the person uploading all the images!  LOL)

dalton + kate

They have a full time nanny now, so I haven't even really had the chance to see them.  I keep up with the "family news" and know how they are, and caught a glimpse of them back in December, but not really SEE them.  You know?  Well, Garett (their daddy) was playing golf with my daddy, so they needed a ride home from school.  So, I kidnapped them for an afternoon and loved every minute of it!

They are growing up so fast.  And they are so cute you want to serve them with animal crackers and eat them with pudding.  

Dalton has a BB game this morning that we are headed out to.  He told us we can't yell too loud and when Kalyn asked him if we could do the wave, he laughed.  We are so doing the wave.  LOL

cooper vs levelland

Just a quick blog post to let you know BB pictures are up on the Cooper Gallery.

CLICK HERE FOR THE COOPER GALLERY

Emily + Hayden

I've known Emily and her family all the years I've been a Texan.  20+?  I can believe she's getting married, sure.  She's a beautiful and lovely girl inside and out.  I just can't believe the "little Emily" I remember is getting married!  LOL  

A July wedding is planned and Emily wanted me to "work Hayden" over early so by the time I was photographing bride and room,  Hayden would be a pro.  He hates to have his photograph taken.  I'm sure there must have been an acid accident or something during a previous photography session that tainted his view on photographers.  

Lucky me, he didn't come off that way at all in his photos.  Dude can rock a lens, don't you think?  Of course, snuggling up next to Emily for sure helped.  :)

Congrats you two!

Happy New Year!

2008 came to an end with a great Christmas Party for the Bednarz Clan. We started with Mass, then had a wonderful dinner, (thank you Emily!) presents, and then toasted in the New Year! 

David and Davida gave me a video camera and I LOVE it!  Terry Campbell got me thinking about them a few weeks ago when he shot that awesome game Kalyn played to win 3rd Place in the City Tournament.   We have one, but it's still on film and the process to get it archived on DVD is just gruesome, time consuming and just plain NOT FUN.  

So, last night I recorded some fun stuff, played around with angles, composition, but mostly just let it roll and then put it in my macbook, played around a bit in iMovie, and what do you know!  I'm a MOVIE MAKER!   YIPES! Watch out world! I'm on the lose! 

It was so cool and easy to do.  Really, it was.  I created my first movie using iMovie and loved the process!  It's so cool what you can do with still images and video clips.  I realize the new 5d has this capability, but it also has it drawbacks and I love how small and easy this fits into your had to start capturing life around you.  

Best thing?  Apple makes things so freaking easy and understandable, I literally only spent less than 1 hour creating, while under the influence of champange! Try that Windows Vista!

I have my FIRST FEATURE FILM uploaded to youtube, but I think the video is still progressing.  I'll share it later, but in the meantime, enjoy some stills from New Year's Eve.  So much fun!

These 4 always have a good time together.  The girl's got ugg boots and Brooke and Jack got a wii!  Speaking of the wii, I'm sure when I step on the next time, my trainer will yell at me.   I've been walking on my own, but not on the board.  YIPES!  I'll keep you posted what she says.  Hey, maybe I'll even video it.  Oh, boy!

We all chipped in and gave Ida Lee a new TV for Christmas.  Her TV is on of "those" that will quit working in just a few weeks.   She had a great time last night.  :)

Kalyn picked up my camera for quite a few of these last nights.  She's getting so good at this!  I love having  her around to take over from time to time.  Especially since I'm a MOVIE MAKER now.  LOL

Davida got a new robe/pj set from Jason and Emily and it was so soft and pretty.  She kept asking folks to "feel her" and as you can imagine with this bunch, it quickly went "south".  LOL

David got a new jacket.  He's lost so much weight (getting fit) over the last year, much of his wardrobe needs to be replaced.  

Emily and I opening our "video cameras".  The race for the BEST MOVIE is on.  :)

Hey, how do you charge these puppies?

Kalyn took the shot above and I used it in the MOVIE THAT IS COMING SOON!  LOL

Jason got a new mini computer so he can quit stealing his kids laptops.  LOL

I''ll post my FIRST MOVIE EVER down below.  So fun doing this stuff!