one of my favorites...

This picture was so fun to take. Carissa, my sister, was sitting on the stairs for a portrait I was going to take of her, Sarah sat down on the other side by the wall waiting for the next picture, and then a lightbulb flashed... I would pose Sarah just like Carissa and create a "mirror" look. I love the finished product. It is a great form of symbolism for me. I love it.

So here it is, my mirror with two faces... (yes i know that sounds cheesy). I love this picture!

Brooke

the triplets...

This was my final session, this year, with Matt, Sarah and Mark. They have been so great to photograph and how can you not get fabulous pictures with so many beautiful kids (young adults). This is just a sample of how great their pictures turned out... you would be looking all day if I posted them all.

I promised Debbie, their mom, that I would take a good close-up of the boys.

And this would be Mark's close-up.

Again, great, great people to photograph. They are very photogenic. Thanks!

Brooke

beautiful...

ok, ok i may have put a few too many pics for one entry, but i had such a blast taking these pictures. it's my sister... what can i say, she is my favorite subject to photograph. not only is she gorgeous, but she has become very photogenic. yes it is true, there was a time in the beginnings of my 'career' that she did not take the best of pictures. but now we are past that, and it is encouraging to know that with practice comes perfection... on both ends of the camera! carissa and i have gotten to the point now where i can just give her an idea and she can go with it... or i can pose her and she can make it natural. i love it! it is almost like having my own personal model... she could be... she should be... maybe i should look into that!



on this one i actually caught her laughing... i love "action" shots where you really just get the person in mid laugh. she can be such a goob sometimes... have i said that i love her yet?

this one is one of my favorite abstract shots. it isn't completely abstract but it is very different, not so traditional...

i think we are going to blow this up and use it for decoration in her room. she has a real different sense of art and i think this is just cool... plus it would go great with her decore.

last but not least, she was posing for another picture here, and then heard something and looked off to the side, it just looked so relaxed and unposed... i had to capture it and make it one of my favorites!

i am so thankful for such a wonderful, loving and well down right beautiful family... God has made my job easy... he created the beauty and i just attempt to freeze it!

brooke

a rewarding day...

so last night i had my final photo shoot with the triplets (individually, i still have the one i am going to do with all three of them)... and well sarah is gorgeous and so easy to photograph. it was really hard to sit back and try to chose a few to post on here. she is great. we really had a blast. as i was taking her pictures, it really made me realize WHY i do photography. i love capturing beauty... in all shapes and forms. i love capturing life's moments... i love preserving time. we all wish that we could go back in time and relive certain moments and well for me... you can. just look at the picture. it is wonderful. well that is enough introduction... meet ms. sarah. and just so you know... she is only 17! i know, i know, she doesnt look it at all.

i love days like these where the lighting is phenomenol, the subject is gorgeous and the weather is perfect... it makes my job one hundred times easier... sarah i love you!

brooke

the challenges of child photography...

ok so i have just recently began taking pictures of kids. and man oh man is it a challenge... some are busy bodies... like this little girl paige. she would much rather play and stay busy than have her picture taken. and although it may seem like i am not getting the job done, after looking at how precious these are... it all seems ok.

and then there are those that will just look into the camera blankly... as if to say i hate you and please get that huge thing out of my face. thus bringing you mia. she was a friend of paige's and came to say hi. paige wanted to play and mia, well she just wanted a cookie... (i have learned bribes work pretty well with kids! meet mia...

i am hoping to get a nack for all of this soon... it is challenging, but you can't have a better subject than a child... they are adorable, unpredictable and pretty much the pictures can be a bust or breath-taking.

brooke

dazed and confused...

so i spent last night "pondering the meaning of life"... and all i found was that i dont know it. ha! seriously, i was sitting at my computer messing with my myspace (yes i am aware that i am addicted) and i was listening to my profile song... Bad Day by Fuel. I love this song... for me it is filled with memories, good and bad, and it is nice to listen to when i want just a good song that will cheer me up (it reminds me that my life isnt so bad... not like it used to be). anyway... mikey went bowling with an old friend last night, which i was super supportive of, i think it is good for him... so i had plenty of time to dwell in my thoughts... and i found good and bad... happy and sad... i saw scars that are still a little sensitive and found triumphs that i never thought i would have come over. so my yesterday was a good one, pensive, but good. and i thank God for the ability to remember our victories and our losses. he brought me through so much and we have so much work to do...

here are some pictures that i love that i have yet to post...

family portraits part two...

so this is piper and dani... they are adorable. piper is a little diva (she is the oldest of her family and all the bjerk kids). again, absolutely adorable. she loves having her pictures taken and knows all her favorite poses... dani on the other hand... well she is adorable, sweet and onery. she doesn't like the concept of sitting still long enough for pictures. she sees it as pure torture. these pictures were taken last night and i was having a MAJOR creative block. i got chewed out at work by my fantabulous boss and so i wasn't really in the mood, however, i decided it would be a good learning experience and opted to do it anyway. plus, i find myself in my photography and i figured it would be a good way to unwind from my crazy schedule at the church. so, let me introduce you to my blonde nieces... piper and danica!

they are absolutely all great kids... piper is the oldest, danica is next, then lauren and then topp. dani and lauren, not so interested in aunt lyndsey taking their pictures... but they are SO cute, how can you resist? you can't.

brooke

family pictures...

so this monday my sister-in-law asked me to take pictures of their newborn Topp Beckett and a few family portraits... i was super nervous, i have never taken kids pictures before and little did i know what a challenge it was. all i know is i better be prepared more in the future. but here are a few pictures that i just loved the way they turned out... meet matt, melanie, lauren and topp.

yes, i know i have a gorgeous family... just wait until i post the pictures of piper and dani. then you will really know how pretty my nieces and nephew are...

brooke

mundane mondays...

as much as i would like to put on that mondays are all mundane in my life, i cannot do so. today is an even busier than usual monday. i have to take my boys (the puppies) to the vet, shots are due, go get a filter for my lens for tonight, take proofs over to deb and jim from their boys photo shoot and take pictures for my sister-in-law. WOW too much for this chica.

here are some pics from my most recent photo shoot. i like these...

this is mark... he is one of the TRIPLETS... can't even imagine

and then this is his brother matt... i am taking sarah's pictures this weekend...

and those are my favorites... i have to make time for studying soon...
brooke