Just had to share this fun shot we made at the end of Meg and Scott’s wedding … in case you doubted that we love what we do!

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My sister joked with friends from Boston, her hometown, about coming up to visit the farm. Or maybe they suggested in jokingly. That must be it. She took their funny idea and thought about it seriously and asked me. I said “of course!” We love having visits to the farm and including friends and friends-to-be … as well as siblings, of course.
So our new friends, Lee and Ann trekked up to the farm with my sister, Ashley in tow – AND their wonderful furry companion, Violet. On their last morning up in Vermont I asked if they wanted to go have a quick shoot around the farm with Violet and then go “downtown” to Enosburg to get some more urban shots. They were quick to say yes – Violet needed a morning walk … and they said they’d been here long enough to not mind having their rumpled version photographed. I don’t really think they have the rumpled look … they hadn’t been here THAT long

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The blog has been quiet, huh? We’ve been busy busy busy and more busy with the farm. We currently have 400 birds (chickens, guineas, and turkeys), about an acre in garden (flowers, herbs, vegetables, and fruit), five pigs, and a couple of bee hives (which led to much stinging two days ago so I’m not so happy with the bees right now). Our muscles becoming more defined, our farmers tans are darkening (despite our faithful sunblock applications), and we’re enjoying the flow of farming.

People keep asking how photography is going … when I’m not pulling the camera out to a dew covered garden or sunbathed chickens I’m still off shooting seniors and babies and we’re busy with weddings. Kelly and Pat‘s wedding yesterday was incredible! I can’t wait to show all the fun images we got with these two and their fantastic wedding party! But first I need to collect eggs, weed a little (okay, a lot!), and pick some strawberries.

All this to say: we’re still here! We’re loving working with our awesome clients this summer and giving pigs head scratches, bringing flowers and produce to the local farmer’s market, and even weeding.

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Brown Eyed Photography has previously offered online proofing for the viewing of your images after your session or wedding.  We originally thought online proofing and ordering would be most convenient for clients, but after some very helpful feedback we’re switching gears and offering in-person proofing instead.

With online proofing, it can be overwhelming looking through such a number of images and trying to determine your favorites.  The ordering system was often confusing.  Plus, hosting images online requires a relatively small file size, and when viewing on other monitors that may not be color calibrated, your small images will simply not look their best.

With in person proofing we’re able to better serve you.  We will meet at an agreed upon location (your house? Convenient. Your favorite coffee shop? Yummy.) with all the gear in hand to present a personalized slide show of your images!  You can invite family and friends to your proofing session if you’d like – or surprise them later with their gift prints!  Then we can walk through the process of ordering your prints, your cards, your digital images, and more, finalizing everything before we part ways.

We’re excited about this change and the clients we’ve “test driven” this change on have loved it! If you have questions please contact me or leave a note in the comments section of the blog.

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Curly hair comes up a lot in my world. I have heard this from countless people: “I know someone who has curly hair, not as curly as yours but….”
Imagine my surprise when we were getting ready for Rachel and Justin’s wedding and the hair stylist said: “Meghan has curly hair – even curlier than yours.”

That was the moment all the curl girl advice came tumbling from my voice box. I couldn’t help it. A fellow curly girl?
Must share curly girl advice!

Here are the things that have changed my curly life:

A) Reading Curly Girl
B) Removing shampoo from my life completely
C) Using enormous amounts of conditioner – with no cones in the ingredient list (these are any ingredients that end in -cone … they cause buildup)
C) Never ever brushing, only finger combing in the shower with conditioner filled hair
D) A big handful of clear gel
E)Plopping – seriously changed my life and only a recent discovery

That’s my secret (but, being the extrovert that I am … well … I don’t really have secrets). I still have crazy hair days but overall I’m always pleasantly surprised. It’s easy and I feel comfortable wearing my hair down. Amazing. I know.

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Photography Conference
After a trip to Vermont that included meeting Cormac(!!) followed by a week and a half of down time, we were off to San Antonio, TX for Imaging USA, the Professional Photographers of America conference. We left right before the huge snow storm came to RI. Which one? Oh, the first one.

The conference was stupendous! It was so refreshing to talk focal lengths and f-stops freely! The classes were informative and the trade show was exhausting but rewarding. It took hours to walk through over multiple days!

Website Changes
We had some ideas in mind of updates we wanted to give the website but held off until after the conference. When we returned with notes galore filled with ideas we were ready to tweak the site. Go peek at the site and let us know what you think!

Moving Date
In other pressing news we arranged a pick up date for bees and ordered chicks to be delivered to our new-to-us post office which lead to us nailing down a moving date. The official move date to Vermont is April 23rd!! We’re excited about the relationships already forming with clients in Vermont and about all that awaits us in Vermont.

Before the big move we’re especially looking forward to Rachel and Justin‘s March wedding in MA!! We’re thrilled that Rachel and Justin have invited us to be part of their day that is sure to be beautiful with wedding planner, Heather, of Simply Inviting Weddings.

Limited wedding dates available
We only have four wedding slots open for 2011 – that’s right – FOUR! We’d love to hear from you if you’re looking for a wedding photographer in Vermont!

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I think the kids had their moments too – but mostly they were on the go. Lots to do to prepare the perfect “flying race car” complete with seaweed horn in the steering wheel and superb comfort in the seat area thanks again to seaweed – oh and it is essential that all seaweed be wet. To achieve wet seaweed simply retrieve the greenery thrown into the water by your sister as she attempts to rid the beach of all seaweed left by the high tide.

View from our back deck at the beginning of the day and at the end of the day:

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These two have grown so much since last year! I really try and resist posting pictures of these two (despite the temptation!) but the cute factor combined with the opportunity to see how much they’ve changed (and how much they haven’t changed) was too much. Once a year it’s okay to succumb to the temptation…. at least that’s what I’m telling myself

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Chelsea mentioned that she’d like a dress like the one Taylor Swift wore in the Love Story music video and my mother in law said she could probably make it…. uh yes, did she ever!

On to the park!

Cousins!

Baseball team!

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