Showing posts with label Personal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Personal. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

change is good | it's personal


Life happens, time changes things, mostly it changes you. You might fall in love, get a job, have goals, enjoy hobbies. You are blessed with children, life changes, you change with it, you move forward. Your desire to create things that are tangible and meaningful never changes but the means by which you do so sometimes does.

I'm turning 30 this Spring. In the last thirty years, my desire to make beautiful things, and create with my hands has only grown. I used to sit down at a desk, outside on my back porch as a teenager, and dip my paintbrush onto my canvas and create for hours, only to come in for dinner and bed. I would sketch during school, write letters, poems, songs. Then I grew up. Now I dip pine cones in white paint with my children, clean green marker off of dresser drawers, scrub crayon out of grout. Now I'm raising artists.

And these artists need their mama.

For this reason, Adele Photography has decided not to change itself but to pace itself. I still want to thrill in the birth of your new babe, laugh with you and your children while you tickle each other in an open field, have tea parties and picnics and fly kites while the sun sets! I want to photograph you as you nurture the baby in your womb and announce it to the World. To do these things and to keep the reigns on my little artists, I must pace myself.

CHANGE IS GOOD.
  • I will be accepting clients just as I always have, but will only have limited spots available each month. When they fill and I'm not able to squeeze you in, it will break my heart. But I must do it for my little ones.
    WHAT THIS MEANS FOR YOU: 
    Book at least a month maybe two in advance. When you email me about next week, the answer will most likely be that I am booked. Believe me, that I am sad about this but it must be if joy is to stay in our home.
  • I will be adding prints to my current packages!!! These 4x6 prints will be chosen by me and will be included in your package with your disc. So many times I serve families that love and give and go go go! Like me, all too often those memories remain tucked away on a little cd or flash in a back corner of mom's dresser drawer.
    WHAT THIS MEANS FOR YOU:
    These will be included in your package so that you can have beautiful quality prints to stick on your fridge, mail to Grammy and Auntie Lou, send to work with the one you love. And that makes my heart so happy just thinking about it. :)
  • I will be serving the following areas excitedly from here on out: Maternity, Birth, Newborns, Families and In The Home.
    WHAT THIS MEANS FOR YOU:
    Making time for my family means honing my craft. While I enjoy doing event photography, high school senior photography and the occasional wedding, these are areas I must cut down on in order to do the type of work I feel I am adapt at and giving my absolute best to my customers.
  • I am offering something *new* called, In The Home, in addition to my other services because I believe that some of the most beautiful and most memorable moments happen when you are at home, having fun and not worried about dressing, hair bows, gas in the tank, traffic. Ya know, the moments when the kids are eating cereal for lunch and they start playing toesies under the table. Or when the dog comes in and your little guy decides he wants to dress him up as his deputy. These are the moments that will live in our hearts forever. They are the most important and yet most often neglected.
    WHAT THIS MEANS FOR YOU:
    An In The Home session is a relaxed, fun-filled, normal day, where you're free to lounge in your pj's and have pillow fights on the bed, get dressed and go for a walk with the dog, build a fort in the living room and watch a movie, have a tea party dressed like a king or queen with your princess, making an after-nap dessert...the list can go on and on to be as beautiful, bold, or restful as you make it. You dream it, we do it. No stress. It's not allowed
    ;) You tell your story, I'll journal.
There you have it!! Lots of changes. Good changes. Fun changes. Hope to hear from you soon!

Saturday, February 2, 2013

A long time coming...DFW Birth and Beyond Resource Guide 2013

Anyone who knows me, knows I'm a little more than obsessed with the topic of birth. I love everything about it, the excitement leading up to it, and the warm newborn fuzzies afterward. 
Back in September, I was doing a little thinking and a whole lot of praying. God has blessed in so many ways. To even have the opportunity to use this camera for anything other than my own family was an unexpected gift. But after a bit of a hiatus shortly after the birth of my daughter in Feb '12, the business wasn't doing so hot. I had been mothering my newborn (which is exactly where I needed and wanted to be) and Adele Photography was basically sitting out on the sun deck (if I had one) sipping lemonade and reading every issue of BHG from the year 2011.

I needed a sign. And I honestly didn't mind whether it said, "Stop" or "Go". Just to be told what to do by The One Who knew best was more than enough for me.

While on a trip to Virginia to visit my extended family, I received a standard email (along with other photogs) from the Tarrant County Birth Network, asking if I would be interested in having my work featured on the front of the new DFW Birth & Beyond Resource Guide. I was super pumped about it, but knew that many other more than qualified photographer's would probably jump at the chance to be on the cover. So I waited. And prayed. I received another email. And I waited. And prayed again.

I waited two whole days.

Then I called and said, "YES!"

This beautiful couple happily agreed to be a help to us by lending us their sweet bump ;) and we shot the night away around the downtown area of the great city of Fort Worth, Texas. 

Fast forward to January 2013, and we have the resource guide with my first work in print!! So excited for what the future holds for us as we enter into this new year full of promise and clean pages!
Props to Yvette from Paradigm Creative Studio for the beautiful ad for my business in the front of the Resource Guide, to Hannah Reasoner from Intuitive Mothering and all the other rad chapter leaders at Tarrant County Birth Network. Also to Vlad, Danielle, & babe, for putting the frosting on the cake!
So blessed to be a part of something so big, it's literally changing lives and taking the nation by storm.

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Burleson Family Photographer | {Johnson's} Together

I love this family. I love my friend, Rachel. I love her sweet children. I love that they're always smiling. Rachel is such a servant and hard worker. She's responsible, trustworthy, and my very best friend. We keep secrets for each other, pray for one another, and help in any way we are able. Speaking of secrets, she lets one out of the bag later on in this post. Be happy to have a looksie. :)

Thanks for the memories, Johnson Family.
:)Tori


Saturday, October 20, 2012

Burleson Portrait Photographer | {Tim & Lauren} together

Hey there!

I've missed you guys. How much, you ask? Well about as much as I've missed this cute little couple I'm about to display. And you know why? Cuz we're friends. Not just friends that check in occasionally and give a nod and a quick, 'wassup' but real tried and true blue besties, you and me.

And that's pretty much how I feel about this lil' cutie. And not only are we tight like that.

She's my sister.

But before you start jumping to conclusions, let me add...she's my sister...in law.

Even though that has no bearing on our sisterhood, like I said, true blue besties. And I'd do anything for the sweet chickadee. Including, do her hubs/wife, Fall/Christmas card session every year.

So anyway.

Thanks for the memories, Tim and Lauren.
:)Tori

Friday, July 6, 2012

the most important things... {personal}

Things have been a little slow around here and honestly, that's ok. I was a little sad when I came back from maternity leave and people didn't jump all over me for sessions, but then I remember a little prayer I prayed when I first started my business.
"Dear Lord, help me to do what You want me to do, how You would want me to do it, and only as much as I can handle." 
I'm pretty sure He knows that better than I do...

So, I'm moving ahead with my life and photographing the most important things...

...like superhero's in my backyard.

There goes that superhero, schmoozin' the crowd by kissin' babies...

Thanks for the memories, sweet boy.
:) Momma