And now...The Brady Bunch (aka Tim & Renee Fisher Family)

After the fabulous wedding we had the pleasure of photographing, we were given the opportunity to photograph the new, very large, and happy family of Tim & Renee Fisher. These are two truly beautiful people and we feel very blessed to call them friends!

Showing the love!

The bro's.

Must See...Have Your Kleenex Box Handy

I found this while killing time at totalaxxess.com (I was supposed to be paying bills...yuk) and just had to share it. Now, very much unlike Sheena, I am not an overly emotional person...except when it comes to my kids. But this even made me sniffle a time or two. This is from www.tangle.com...kinda like YouTube for Christians. After you watch this be sure and check out the other videos they have.

God Bless Our Troops!!!

And now we present to you...

Mr. and Mrs. Allan Summerfield!

Today our family got a little bigger as we added a brother in law and his large family to our clan. June 26, 2010 marked the day when our sister Shera Lawrence (of American Idol fame) and Alan Summerfield (soon to be the next Michael Waddell...Google it for you non-hunters out there) were joined together in Holy Matrimony. It was a beautiful ceremony and the perfect way to start a lifelong journey together.

Alan & Shera, we love you both very much and pray that God grants you both many years of happiness together. May your hearts remain soft, your love remain strong, and your faith never die!

Below are a few pictures from an engagement shoot Sheena did for the happy couple. They are truly two beautiful people. But always remember, no matter what, your babies will never be cuter than ours :)

Memorial Day Followup

To those of you who were expecting a special slideshow to honor our military personnel on Memorial Day, as you already know, we were not able to create and post anything as we had promised. We apologize for this as we really wanted to do something to honor our military. Unfortunately we did not receive enough pictures to make a slideshow (we actually only received 3). Not to be deterred, we scoured the internet in search of images of military personnel, conflict photos, basically anything we could find. Again, unfortunately, there must be quite a marketplace for these type of pictures as just about everything we found came with a price tag :(

With that we would still like to keep the invitation open to send us photos of your friends, family, yourself, or anyone who is active or retired. We are going to try this again for the 4th of July and this time we are determined to get something posted for our troops. Please help us out by sending us anything you have. Of course you will retain all copyright ownership of the images. We will only be using them for the slideshow. Thanks in advance.

God Bless,
Michael & Sheena

Summer Vacation and a Few Special Deals!

We wanted to let all of our friends know that we are taking a little break during June and July to get caught up on pictures and get some much needed family time! We will be back in August ready to go full blast to work for you. Of course we will still be honoring all of our current bookings. Also, since Sheena has an inherent inability to say no to anything, if you have a once in a lifetime opportunity you would like us to capture in June or July (military family home on leave, out of town family visiting for a short time, etc), just give her a call and I'm sure she won't be able to say no.

With that said we would like to announce a couple of special deals we are initiating:

• Effective immediately we will be offering a 10% discount off of all of our services and products to active military personnel. We feel that this is the least we can do to honor and help out our armed forces who risk their life on a daily basis so that we can enjoy the many freedoms we take for granted.
  Military Wives (or husbands) - This applies to you as well...we would love to provide you with photographs of yourself, your children, or both so that you can share a little taste of home with your loved one who is in a distant land. Imagine his or her surprise and delight when they receive professional quality images in the mail to cherish and show off to their fellow servicemen and women. Just give us a call and mention our military discount when booking. We can also upload your custom slideshow to the web so that he or she can enjoy it while deployed.
• We are also accepting appointments for Fall Portrait Sessions. Aside from spring, there is no better time to capture your family alongside the beauty of God's creation. As an added incentive all portrait sessions for September, October, and November booked on or before July 9, 2010 will include a 20% discount off of any portrait order totaling $200 - $299 or 30% off of any portrait order totaling $300 or more. If you are interested give Sheena a call at 270-791-2175 or you can e-mail us at contact@sheenabrownphotography.com. Please don't delay as the available slots will fill up fast!
  
  
  God Bless,
  Michael & Sheena

Calling All Active Military, Veterans, and Families of Veterans

To honor all of our brave military men and women who are serving or have served for our country, we would like to create a slideshow which will be displayed on our blog for Memorial Day. But we need your help! We are asking that you send us any and all photos you have of active duty soldiers or veterans. The more the merrier as we would like to create something big to show our love and support for all of those who are and who have sacrificed for our great nation. Please send anything you have to contact@sheenabrownphotography.com by Saturday, May 29 (yeah, we know, short notice) so that we can have the slideshow ready to go up on Monday. Thanks in advance for anything you can send as we really want to make this happen.

God Bless,
Michael & Sheena

Lydia Barks Senior 2010

We finally finished with Lydia Barks' Senior pics and we are very pleased with how they turned out! We love all of our models but Lydia certainly made creating awesome looking pictures very easy. Below is a sampling and the full shoot can be found on our Facebook page. Thanks, Lydia, for letting us take these special pictures for you and we hope you enjoy them!

Tools of the Trade

Ok, so when we first started this blog, we said that it wouldn't all be about sharing pictures. So...it's time to live up to that promise.

One of the most frequent questions we are asked is what tools or software we use to create our awesome, spectacular, truly brilliant images. Ok, maybe it's not exactly stated like that but you get the point. So with this post we are going to give full disclosure on everything we use, how we use it, and why we use it. Or something like that.

Let's begin with a bit of history. When we started this thing we had a Canon S5 (I think), a flash, and big dreams. We thought hey, we'll start taking picture professionally, how hard can it be?                      Ok, the long pause there was me picking myself up from falling out of the chair with laughter. Looking back IT'S NOT THAT EASY!!!! Not to discourage any aspiring photographers but we had no idea what we were getting into. So anyway, with that said, click on the link below to see the official, quintessential list of what we use to do what we do (in no particular order):

Mother & Daughter Day 2010

And the results are finally in (or at least the pictures are done). Merle Norman Cosmetic Studios and Sheena Brown Photography would like to sincerely thank everyone who made our first annual Mother & Daughter Day event a huge success. We had a great time and we hope that you enjoyed the experience as much as we did!

For everyone who participated your complimentary prints are available for pickup at Merle Norman. Along with your pictures you will also find a special gift from us and a card which includes your unique username and password. You can use this to login to the special Mother Daughter day page accessible from our homepage at www.sheenabrownphotography.com. Here you can view all of the images from your session. Should you choose to order any additional prints instructions are included on the card with your username and password.

For those who did not have the opportunity to make it this time around or if you are considering taking part in our next event, we've included a sample of some of our favorite pictures from the day...or at least we tried to include our favorites. There was just one problem...we liked all of the pictures so much that, by the time we narrowed it down to what we thought were our favorites, we had included every picture :). So we decided instead to include a somewhat random sampling from the day.

We would like to include a special mention to our resident supermodels for the day shown immediately below. These three lovely ladies were absolutely a treat to photograph. Of course at first they tried to be humble as to not show up all the other ladies but we saw through their games and, after a little coaxing, they showed us what true professionals can do in front of a camera.

More pictures from the day can be seen by clicking the link below the pictures.

God Bless,
Michael & Sheena

Ms. Tarryn Bridges at 3 months

If anyone out there doesn't believe in God then one look into this little angel's eyes should make them a believer! We had a great time photographing this little cutie and this session came with an extra added bonus...she rolled over for her first time and we got every step of it in a sequence of 3 pictures. Talk about capturing memories! Below is a sample. See more of our favorites by clicking the link below the picture.

What's in a name?

Last week Sheena and I came upon quite the conundrum (yeah I know, big word). We needed to order some business cards and decided that we needed a slogan to put on them. The ensuing debate was nothing short of a classic Perry Mason show. We couldn't decide on anything and everything we came up with sounded 'cheesy' and just didn't represent the message we wanted to get out about who we are. Then we figured out we didn't really know who we are. (Of course I've been trying to figure Sheena out for almost 7 years now. It's mostly like working a million piece jigsaw puzzle without knowing what the end result is supposed to look like. But I digress...)

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Beginnings...

Welcome to the officially official blog of Sheena Brown Photography. We want this to be a somewhat unique experience relative to other photography studio blogs in that our posts will be about more than just pictures. Of course there will be pictures (probably lots of them :) but it will also contain a personal element. First of all, as Sheena Brown Photography is not just Sheena Brown (yes, there is a Mr. Sheena Brown), the posts could come from either Michael or Sheena. Whenever one of us has something on our mind, new pictures, or other content such as photography or Photoshop tips, it'll get posted. So subscribe or check back often as you never know what you might find!

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